Denali Team 3: May 23 – June 12, 2010
Guides: Angela Seidling, Alaina Robertson
Climbers: Paul Rose, Joan Clofent, Paul Watkins, Carol Masheter, Simon Boaz, Bob Sullivan
Saturday, May 29, 11:17pm Pacific time
Lead Guide Angela Seidling called at 11:17pm and said:
“This is Angela calling to say ‘hello.’ We moved from camp 2 to 3 today. It was a good hard day. We had all sorts of changes in the weather – we had a little bit of everything: sun, wind, snow, white out conditions, and more sun. And here we are, safe and sound in our tents at Camp 3.
We worked hard to build a good camp when we got here. The cook tent stills needs some work.
Our plan tomorrow is to do a backcarry of our remaining gear from Camp 2 up to this position.
Yesterday the phone cut out before we could give you a clue to the meaning of our expedition name, Celebrations of Joy.” The clue is the average person has 18 celebrations of joy per day. We’ll let you work on that for a day or two before we tell you the meaning. We hope you’ll post your guesses on the blog so the folks at the Institute office can tell us what you are thinking. It’s fun to hear your comments.
OK. That’s our news for now. We’ll call you soon with an update. Bye for now!”