Rest Day

The team spent yesterday relaxing at high camp, drinking rounds of hot drinks and eating a mix of heavy but delicious breakfast food (reportedly bagels with bacon and cheese) and standard altitude fare (Mountain House freeze dried meals). Eating at altitude is always a challenge, and there is a lot of dubious information about what a climber should and shouldn't eat at altitude, but it seems that the best menu strategy is the one that has lots of food folks actually want to eat. Decreased appetites make people think they're full before they have replenished calories, and bacon and cheese bagels sound much more appetizing than instant oatmeal packets. Zach opted to bring six days of food from 14 camp, so the group has food security while they sit pretty and dream of the summit push. The weather looks good on the Talkeetna Air Taxi webcam, but it is located in Talkeetna; what looks good from town often isn't good in the mountains, so we'll wait and see how things turned out today.