Denali Expedition: Haugen & Team’s Creativity Soars at 11K Camp
Posted by: Mike Haugen, Jenny Konway, Grayson Swingle
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Denali
Elevation: 11,200'
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Friday, June 21, 2019 - 10:18 PM PT
We are sitting in the sun at 11K Camp. Happy Solstice! We have over 19 hours of daylight and it never gets dark anyway.
We had a great climb up here from our last camp. The team is really performing well with all of the hard work it takes to climb this mountain.
We have our submissions for the haiku contest. If you would like to vote for your favorite, please leave us a message on the blog. As most climbing trips tend to do eventually, many of our conversations and most of these haikus center around the clean mountain cans (CMC's) that we use to collect and remove our human waste from the mountain. What these lack in elegance and beauty, they make up for with creativity!
1)
Loners crevasse it
But all guides and their clients
Leave no brown behind
2)
Dinner so spicy
Feeling it burning my insides
CMC lookout
3)
Sleep eat hike eat sleep
Heavy load and extreme temps
All to make the top
4)
Mountain CMC
Thank you for taking our crap
You're a team player
5)
When I'm not at work
I crap in cans; hope for sun
Still better than work
6)
Scaling Denali
Be sure to use riser bars (on snowshoes)
Unless you are Grayson
RMI Guide Mike Haugen & Team Siete
On The Map
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Comments (13)
#3 - Go get it guys!
Posted by: Will Ellis on
#1 and #4
Great job team. So fun watching this adventure.
Posted by: Russ Williams on
Correction….I decided that #4 seems appropriate!!
xx
Good luck all!!
Posted by: Lisa Miller on
#2 #4
Go Meghan Go!!
I love you!
Your sista from another mista
Muah!!
Love, strokie
Posted by: Lisa Miller on
Love them all. #1 is my vote. Tell side salad we miss her!!!!
Posted by: Shannon Henn on
“Everyone” loves you!!!!
Posted by: Victoria Buchanan on
#1 seems like an Andrew Dahm original…so glad spirits are high on the mountain. For your amusement, our external submission:
Oh! clean mountain can
Your best friend on Denali
True “bucket” list trip!
Posted by: Denise Dahm on
Loved them all. Glad a sense of humor remains, in the cold temps and tough days.
Who said, “This is a heck of a lot harder than the gym!” Not the “A” Team!!
Hugs,
Tym’s Mom
Posted by: Kristi Kennelly on
I call a tie between #1 and #2 (how fitting! hahahaha I kill me!)
To see the beauty
In a can of foul horror
Is a true hero
I bid you good day.
-Vicki
Posted by: Victoria Buchanan on
#3 & #4. May the Weather & Mountain Gods look favorable on your climbing team.
Posted by: Carolyn Mason on
#4!
Posted by: Chris on
My vote is for #1
Wishing the Team good weather!
Posted by: Jon Jones on
I vote for #4. Great work getting to 11k! Just over 9k to go!
Posted by: Matt on