Decision to Move Up?

Yesterday the team had a good rest day, complete with bacon cheeseburgers for lunch. Excellent food like that gives the team mental and physical energy and motivation to keep moving up the mountain. With clear skies and colder temperatures the team was making plans to move up today.

Lead guide, Dave Staeheli, called this morning for a quick weather report to help make his decision on whether or not to move up to 17,000'. The report suggested that the next few days were going to be partly cloudy with a little bit of snow and wind. All the guides have learned over the years to take these reports with a grain of salt. But accompanied by a good survey of the clouds and wind around them on the mountain they can make educated decisions for the team.

Stay tuned for an update on what the team ended up doing today.