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The Asgard Project 20-Apr-2010 At 12:03:57 PM singersmith

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Leo was actually well organized, except for timing because someone had to be at a wedding; they should have been 3 weeks earlier.

>We did double loads in haul bags from Overlord to Asgard base and it took
>5 days. That was lumping all our own wall gear and food for our 7 week
>trip. We then dragged it all out again at the end.

Which Asgard base? Up the Caribou or up the Turner? They are quite different affairs. Here on Chockstone you're quoted as calling your trip 5 weeks. Did you shuttle two loads, or run one in and come back? If you got set up at basecamp in 5 days what did you do for the next 6 weeks? Which walls/faces and how long did you camp on them? And again, we're talking about not just big wall gear for 6 (although one bailed, plus one photographer in basecamp) but also video cameras, lenses, batteries, solar panels, tripods (these things weighed a ton), parachutes, computers, sat phone and 15 year bottles of Glenfiddich.

>>The town to Overlord leg is actually a hideous tundra slog and not
>>at all like the lovely trail in the rest of the valley.
>errr not when I did it? It was a delightful 1 day flat walk with a bit
>of a river wade at one point.

Your talk (and video) of skidooing in, as well as your video/images, indicate that your trip was in early season (maybe May/June?) when any exposed tundra is firm, there is ice/snow to walk on (especially at the waterside), and the rivers are a trickle. In fact, the only reason to walk from town, other than to save 100 bucks, is because a boat can't get in because of the ice. The rivers change dramatically over the course of the season (and in peak melt off, over the course of the day) and suck quite a bit of time when you can't go splashing through in gaiters and have to take off your pants and ford every now and again. The bridge at Windy Lake has also washed out so you can't use that side of the river (with the trail) unless you're going to swim the Weasel like Sean did, which was a horrifying sight indeed.