{"id":30037,"date":"2026-05-18T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=30037"},"modified":"2026-05-18T17:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:31:53","slug":"teams-1-on-the-move-team-2-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/18\/img-news\/teams-1-on-the-move-team-2-waits\/","title":{"rendered":"Team 1 on the move, Team 2 waits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 18, 2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30041\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Group-Photo.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[30037]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30041\" class=\"size-tb_medium wp-image-30041\" src=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Group-Photo-620x465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Group-Photo-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Group-Photo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Group-Photo-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Group-Photo-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Group-Photo-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Group-Photo-940x705.jpg 940w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Group-Photo-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Group-Photo.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team 2 waiting to Fly! (Izzy Holmes)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a busy day here at IMG Denali! Here are the updates from the teams:<\/p>\n<p>Team 1 &#8211; Forrest Baldwin, Paal Bredal, Grace Kline, and Grace Coady<\/p>\n<p>After spending all day yesterday at Ski Hill Camp waiting for the weather to clear, the team finally found their break in the action to make their move to 11K Camp (Camp 2). The team had already completed one carry to 10,000&#8242; feet and cached some gear. As the weather allows tomorrow, the team will do what we call a &#8216;back carry&#8217; and go down to retrieve their cached gear and bring it back to Camp 2. Way to go team putting in forward progress even when the weather doesn&#8217;t cooperate.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-30037 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/18\/img-news\/teams-1-on-the-move-team-2-waits\/attachment\/team-2-bags\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Bags-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-30038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Bags-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Bags-130x130.jpeg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Bags-70x70.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-Bags-45x45.jpeg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-30038'>\n\t\t\t\tIMGD Team 2 duffle bags ready to go! (Izzy Holmes)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2026\/05\/18\/img-news\/teams-1-on-the-move-team-2-waits\/attachment\/team-2-training\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-training-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-30040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-training-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-training-130x130.jpeg 130w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-training-70x70.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Team-2-training-45x45.jpeg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-30040'>\n\t\t\t\tKevin Alexander doing a group lesson in Talkeetna (Izzy Holmes)\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Team 2 &#8211; Brad Swanson, Kevin Alexander, Tyler Nachand, Izzy Holmes<\/p>\n<p>Team 2 is in Talkeetna waiting to fly. After two busy prep days, the team is all packed and ready to go. All that needs to happen now is the weather to cooperate and the air taxi to give them the green light to fly. Until then, they will be waiting patiently in Talkeetna! Fingers crossed that this team can catch one of the later flights tonight. If not, they might be staying an extra night in town. Only time will tell!<\/p>\n<p>Team 3 is meeting at IMG HQ tomorrow to go through their final guide gear and equipment check, and to do their pre-trip briefing with IMG Denali staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 18, 2026 It&#8217;s been a busy day here at IMG Denali! Here are the updates from the teams: Team 1 &#8211; Forrest Baldwin, Paal Bredal, Grace Kline, and Grace Coady After spending all day yesterday at Ski Hill Camp waiting for the weather to clear, the team finally found their break in the action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-img-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30043,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30037\/revisions\/30043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}