May 7, 2010
After several days of some pretty miserable weather here in Ashford the clouds finally parted long enough for guides Tyler Gimenez and Austin Shannon along with myself and apprentice guide Dan Zokaites to grab some skis and head into Mt. Rainier National Park for a quick “after work ski tour”.
At Paradise with skins and skis on by 7:00pm we made our way to the base of Panorama Point and called it our “high point” for the evening. Several reasons led to this decision – snow stability, darkness and general competence on skis – for me and Tyler anyways.
After a quick snack and some much needed pointers from Austin and Dan, we made our way down to the parking lot, some quicker and more graceful than others… Nevertheless we all had fun and got a dose of some much needed Vitamin D!
Tye Chapman
Everest – We had 14 sherpas carry to camp 3 today to finish building that camp and support the move up there by the Hybrid team today, for their overnight. The rest of the team has split into three groups and is also moving up towards C3. Greg moved to C2 today with the lead group, we have more climbers at C1 tonight going to C2 tomorrow, and Justin moves up to C1 tomorrow with the last group. (Full dispatch available on the 
Cho Oyu – IMG leader Eric Remza reports that after several rest days back at ABC after their last rotation, and several days of snow and wind, the weather is now looking better and the plan for the team now is to head back up to Camp 1. From there the plan is to try to go to Camp 2 the next day, and see how the weather looks at that point before making a decision to stay up and make a summit bid or come back down and wait. We’ll keep you posted! (
Ang Jangbu reports from IMG Base Camp that Greg Vernovage and many of the sherpa guided climbers went to C1 this morning, and the Hybrid group moved up to C2. We expect the rest of the climbers to be moving up to C1 in the next few days, as the first Everest rotations continue… (