St. Elias Expedition: June 12 – 25 Dispatch #8 Flying Out

St.Elias Expedition:  June 12 – 25 

Guide:  Tom Kirby

Climbers:  Carmie Hull (Del Mar, California), Doug Wilson (Aloha, Oregon)

Tom Kirby called in with the following dispatch at 3:00pm on June 24^th:

“Hi! It’s Tom again. Today we flew out from the glacier atabout 11 this morning. It looked like a warm front was settling in, so wedecided to fly out today rather than risk the bad weather from missing ourchance out. Right now, we’re at the lodge hanging out until 5 – that’s when ourpilot will com take us back to Chintina. We’ll probably camp somewhere aroundthere or between there and Anchorage, then make the rest of the drive toanchorage the next day. In any case, we really had a great trip! Yesterday wasa great way to end it. We could see everything and it was unreal. Depsite thetrouble with warm weather and snow conditions, we made the most of it, andreally enjoyed each other’s company. I had a fantastic time. I’ll call againtomorrow just to confirm we’re home safe.”