Talkeetna Air Taxi

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Check out the cool motorcycle one of our customers drove up in from California. What will they think of next?

Follow updates from the British Moonflower Buttress Expedition based out of the Kahiltna Glacier.  They are able to update periodically from the glacier using a sat phone connected to a computer in the mountain range.  Exciting breakthroughs in technology.
Here is their blog so you can follow Jon and Matt on their climb.
http://moonflower-expedition.blogspot.com/

Hello TAT folks,

Thanks for another great trip -- this year brought us a stormy stay at Kahiltna base camp.

Two pictures are from our visit to what should be a new Kahiltna classic, "Bacon and Eggs" on the Mini-Mini Moonflower (ca 1,500 feet to summit, AI4, maybe 4 plus right now?), first climbed in 2008 by Westman/Walsh and Giambrone/Einerson, and at least once since by Billmeier/Vilhauer. Other climbers may be interested to know that we used only ice screws on the route, and that as of 5/18 there were large snow mushrooms threatening the last pitch to the top, where we descended using only V-threads and leaving no cord behind, making six 70 meter rappels. The other is a kind of cool shot of one of your planes flying out, taken from around "Tower 1" on the SW Ridge of Mount Frances.  

Thanks again, I hope you all enjoy the rest of the summer season, see you again next go round!

Adrian Bender

Anchorage, AK