
I woke up at Camp 1 the first morning that the crew was at High Camp and looked up in almost horror at the upper portions of Denali. The pioneer Alaska explorer and climber Bradford Washburn would have described the cloud covering the upper mountain as a "Lenticularis Sonofabitchicus." I don't mean to offend, but what he meant was that the lenticular cloud is representative of extremely high winds. When I saw this, I didn't even bother trying to raise the team on the radio, as I knew they weren't going anywhere. This is the sort of weather that Denali can throw at a team, and this crew is to be commended for hanging tough for a week in this sort of wind.
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