I had set the alarm for 2:00 this morning, which was what we were told the night before. So Nigel, myself and two others woke up at 2:00 and got dressed and ready to move, only to be told that Brennan had said to sleep until 4:00 because of the weather. So we dressed down and got an extra hour of sleep.

It was almost 7:00 a.m. before we got going because of the need to pack the sleds for the carry to 11,200' camp. Pulling the sleds is not especially difficult but you definitely feel the weight and it slows you down.

We started off in a light snow with reduced visibility up Ski Hill. I thought the pace set by Brennan was just fine but someone else on our rope team was having difficulty. We were hoping to make it to 11,200' today to cache but because of the reduced pace decided to cache at 10,000' instead, right below Denali Pass, which is at 10,200'. It was snowing pretty hard at the cache site, and there were several other teams about, some going up and some coming down.

It is very difficult to layer correctly. One minute it is snowing big wet flakes and a few minutes later is is very hot with bright sunshine. The lightweight Capilene underwear is as close to the perfect base layer as you can get.

Back at camp we turn in about 7:30 and set our alarms for 4:00 a.m. I am doing pretty well on my hydration, drinking 4-5 liters per day. That pee bottle sure gets a workout during the nights. Tomorrow will be another long day as we break down our camp at 7,800' and carry all the way to 11,200'.

We can hear the steady drone of airplanes shuttling people to and from 7,200' camp, and also the constant sightseers flying overhead.

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	Fairly well dug in at 7,800' camp. We were lucky to find an area already dug out. Although it needed improvements it was better than starting from scratch. This is about as dark as it would get during the night. There are officially 22 hours of daylight at that time of year but it never really got dark during the other two hours.
	Making our way up Ski Hill, which wasn't tremendously steep but seemed to go on forever. Every stop we try to throw off our packs, sit down, eat and drink something and take a leak if you need to. Generally rest for about 10 minutes out of every hour. We are on our way to 11,000' camp to leave a cache, then return to 7,800' camp to sleep.
	Pictures just don't do justice to how long and wide this glacier is. At this point it looked like it must be about a mile wide.
	Moving up the glacier. The camera doesn't capture much detail in these conditions.