Safe at High Camp

We kicked off our day yesterday at about 10 a.m. carrying monster packs weighing around 55 to 60 pounds or more so it was pretty crazy. We managed to climb up the Headwall to the West Buttress (up to approx. 16,200) and then the rest of the way to 17,200 along a very narrow ridge. It was absolutely amazing but extremely hard. In fact, finally made it into High Camp around 7 or 8 at night in the middle of a storm where we were happy to hunker down in our tents at around 17,500 ft. Thankfully, we are safe and happy in our tents -- well, actually happy is something else as these tents are very, very small and there are three of us to a tent. You can't move a fingertip without disturbing the others in the tent which is kinda interesting. The other thing is that it is frightfully cold and while the close quarters keep us warm, the inside of the tents are completely iced up and then it starts to "rain." Now we just have to wait and see... we are hanging out, drinking hot drinks, and waiting for the weather to go. Then we will have a shot at the summit. It actually looks quite positive -- we are just waiting for the weather report to come in. If the weather is good, we could be up tomorrow and then we will head directly down to 14 camp (14,000 ft) where we would have a break before heading down to Base Camp. Cross the fingers -- we'll be back down in a couple of days!