Mister_Anderson

AIARE. Quickly becoming the American standard in recognized avalanche training.

Ken4ord hit it on the head. If it were 1975 then it would be ok to belay with a figure 8. Sorry, but there are a plethora of highly functional lightweight belay/rappel devices out there that belay and rappel better than any figure 8. At the same time some, such as the petzl reverso and BD Guide ATC allow you to belay two following climbers at once, etc. etc. etc. There's just no good reason to be using one of those clunky old buggers...

Looks like an awesome trip. Great photos! So how did you like Humanality?

If it were me I would get a pair of Nuptses and refit them with an intuition liner which you may find a bit warmer than the liner those boots come with. My preference on Denali is a double boot with really warm liner, lightweight shoeller gaitors for lower/mid mountain use, and a pair of 40 below overboots for high camp and up. If I were going on an early may trip I wouldn't think about skimping the overboots. If I were going on a late season trip I might think about ditching the lightweight gaitors and just wearing a supergaitor up the whole hill, sans overboots. But it all depends on how warm your feet tend to be, and how cold conditions are. If you get those integrated boots like the spantik, then of course you just bring those, done deal. Don't forget the baby powder-powder them piggies every night in your bag and you'll be a happy camper!

Nice work Markus. Looks like a fun one.