Return to Mt. Princeton

Matt and I returned to the Mt. Princeton road again, but this time with Denali teammate Melissa Archey. She was trying out her Mountainsmith sled for the first time and of course Matt had his Mountainsmith. All I had was Old Blue--the Wal-Mart special. The weather was not quite Denali-like. There was little wind and it was warm.







Matt lounged at Beach Camp (10,890 ft.) after our climb of the Princeton sub-peak "Tigger." We did not summit Princeton or Tigger, but the training and team building was highly valuable. Melissa's dog, Haley, made the trip with us. Too bad Haley cannot come to Denali. It was fun having a dog around.







We enjoyed the two-day trip as we dragged our loaded sleds up the road. The snow cover is shrinking quickly and soon it will be hard to find places to drag our sleds for training. I guess we will have to drag tires through our neighborhoods!