Guides: Mike Pond, Dustin Byrne, Tad McCrea
Climbers:
Jim Bonadonna (New York), David Wain (UK), David Pritchett (UK), Todd
Fletcher (Australia), Peter Menne (Germany), David Martin (Australia),
Mark Mueller (California), Philip Mace (Bermuda), Brian Knowles
(California)
Mike called at 7:45 pm PST on 6/14 with the following dispatch:
Hey folks this is Mike Pond from Denali team 6, and things are looking
good! Right now, we are sitting pretty with a really good weather
window ahead of us. It’s Thursday evening. Today we did a back carry
and tomorrow we’ll be moving up to high camp with intentions of resting
on Saturday and on Sunday we plan on attempting the summit. Things are
going well and we are really optimistic. We’re really hoping that the
weather window that has been forecasted holds on. This has been a
notoriously bad season for summits so I hope it works out for us and
we’ll be able to sneak one in.
Other than that we’re doing really well. We appreciate all the cheers
for us. I know you’re all rooting for us out there. Its been super fun
to hang out here at 14 with all this rough weather we’ve be having the last few days.
Ya, we’re just getting psyched! Right now we’re finishing up some fixed line
practice. Tonight we are going to have some awesome mac and cheese with
sausage for dinner and we’re going to have some guests over and have a
little dinner party – it’s going to be great! It’ll be a nice send off
for us from14. Really hoping for the best. Of course we’ll keep you
posted as we make our progress up the mountain. So good bye for now,
Godspeed, and we’ll talk to you soon.