In Talkeetna

The team all met yesterday and spent their last day preparing, and going thru their gear one last time.  Everyone's bags arrived, which is no small accomplishment, and they were very excited to get underway.  

Today they met early in Anchorage and drove to Talkeetna.  There they had their Park Service briefing, and prepared their equipment for the flight into basecamp.   The weather needs to be pretty good to fly into the Alaska Range in a small airplane on ski's, and today's is a bit marginal.  It is about 50/50 if they will fly today, or end up spending a night in Talkeetna waiting for the weather to clear.  You may get a last phone call from your loved one tonight.  

You can watch the weather live on a webcam hosted by Talkeetna Air Taxi.     Check it out at

http://www.talkeetnaair.com/webcam/index.html