I haven’t had time to sort through the 1,200+ photos and hours of video from this two-part trip, but here are a few highlights. Detailed trip reports to follow.
Light provisioning, Alaska style. Three full mega carts at the Anchorage CostCo get ready to be flown into the Ultima Thule Lodge.
Planes spoken here. Ultima Thule Lodge
Reto Ruesch, aka "The Man in Black." Like the Stephen King novel, there is no escaping him.
A very small slice of the very large Wrangell-St.Elias mountain pie.
Aria and Eli's impromptu wedding on Iceberg Lake, presided over by Paul Claus.
Deep Powder Airlines. Coffee, tea or a rawhide bone Sir?
Welcome to the Revelation Mountains where everything is bigger, steeper and scarier than it looks.
Courtney checking out the tail end of the Alaska Mountain Range.
A rare moment of mellowness in the Revelations.
Uhmmm, sure I'll have one. Can you put some pants on?
Noah and Jim climbing out of the crevasses and clouds in the Revelations.
Rocky revelations.
A the bitter end of the Revelation glacier.
Cruising out the Big River.
Noah crosses a stream and glances back at the Revelations.
A moment of moose appreciation - bushwhacking through brush with a big rack on.
Alaska ski rack - Rob Jones loads 'em up on his Super Cub.
Hehee...
More photo galleries and trip reports to follow. Thanks to Mountain Hardware, Backcountry.com, Dynafit, Scarpa and K2 for making it possible!
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Looks like a killer trip…can’t wait to see more!!
nice Andrew, looking forward to more….
looks like an awesome trip. would be stoked to sign up if you do it again next year. glad you had some good weather – or at least it looks like you had good weather.
c00l! a wedding! really? hooray!
Yep, a wedding worthy of a post in itself as it was so fun, cool and spontaneous.