Denali Expedition 2012
I don't even recall if I kept a journal on this trip. I'm sure I have photos though. This blog post is a placeholder until I dig that stuff up.
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Denali Expeditions
Denali Expedition 2012I don’t even recall if I kept a journal on this trip. I’m sure I have photos though. This blog post is a placeholder until I dig that stuff up.A garage sale for your mindCurtis JonesDenali Expedition 2011The following is a compilation of posts related
Day Zero?
Day one of the trip, more or less. Flying Atlanta to Salt Lake on an international 757 with absurd first-class legroom, and noticing how quickly I become a snob about comfort I'm about to give up for weeks on a glacier.
Liftoff!
Final prep for Alaska: a fresh buzz cut (you can't wash your hair for a month), hauling the group food, ditching the iPad for an iPod Touch, and a fold-up chair with an actual back. The small comforts that matter at altitude.
T-Minus Seven Days
Seven days to takeoff. The rope is out of storage, the new pack is rigged, the topo map is marked up, and I'm itching to swing the new ice tools on a big mountain. Spot updates will be terse; blame the character limit.
Fooooood
Meal planning is done: twenty-two days of food stretched to twenty-five, no bacon-and-syrup breakfasts this year. Plus a confession about pee bottles and the slim chance of crossing paths with the Smiley team on the Cassin.
Linkers
A week lost to Node.js C++ add-ons, node-gyp, and linker behavior, learning the hard way that linkers only pull the object files they think they need. The fix lived in force_load and an Xcode-settings hack, captured in one binding.gyp file of pure suffering.
D-Link Life Expectancy
My D-Link switch started refusing to route packets every few days, which is a problem for a packet-switching device. After an RMA process that wanted proof of purchase on a lifetime warranty, I just bought a NETGEAR instead.
Denali and Hunter
Team Midnight Meat Train may tackle the West Ridge of Mt. Hunter after the West Rib of Denali, time permitting. Hopefully it all builds toward the Cassin next year.
Winter in Atlanta
A week in snow-covered New Hampshire, where people just function. Then home to Atlanta, where a few square inches of sidewalk ice get more salt than ice and two orange safety cones. Winter is a little different down here.