- Melissa Arnot
- Alex Barber
- Gabriel Barral
- Jake Beren
- Zeb Blais
- Katrina Bloemsma
- Katie Bono
- Anne Gilbert Chase
- Sean Collon
- Leon Davis
- Elias de Andres Martos
- Cody Doolan
- Paul Edgren
- Mark Falender
- Leah Fisher
- Eric Frank
- Steve Gately
- Josh Gautreau
- Thomas Greene
- Casey Grom
- Dave Hahn
- Walter Hailes
- Tim Hardin
- Mike Haugen
- Bryan Hendrick
- Andy Hildebrand
- Mike Hinckley
- Joe Horiskey
- Nick Hunt
- Tyler Jones
- J.J. Justman
- Levi Kepsel
- Mike King
- Adam Knoff
- Katy Laveck
- Ben Liken
- Josh Maggard
- Paul Maier
- Linden Mallory
- Lindsay Mann
- Andres Marin
- Jeff Martin
- Robert Montague
- Erik Nelson
- Chase Nelson
- Billy Nugent
- Brent Okita
- Logan Randolph
- Tyler Reid
- Dave Reynolds
- Kel Rossiter
- Geoff Schellens
- Shaun Sears
- Garrett Stevens
- Jason Thompson
- Mike Tomlinson
- Mark Tucker
- Mike Uchal
- Pete Van Deventer
- Alex Van Steen
- Ed Viesturs
- Maile Wade
- Mike Walter
- Seth Waterfall
- Solveig Waterfall
- Peter Whittaker
- Win Whittaker
- Bryson Williams
- Dan Windham
- Robby Young
Ecuador Volcanoes: Nugent & Team Tour Quito and the Equator
Posted by: Billy Nugent, Katie Bono | January 09, 2013
Categories: *Expedition Dispatches *Ecuador
Hi everybody and welcome to another series of dispatches from an RMI Expeditions’ Ecuador Volcanoes program! The majority of our team arrived scattered throughout the day yesterday with high spirits and great expectations despite being exhausted from a solid day of airline travel. We met up for the first time as a complete team this morning at Spicy, our hotel restaurant, and enjoyed a pretty good spread of food and decent coffee to boot. After breakfast we headed out on a very informative city tour with our veteran city guide Jorge. Jorge showed us around town while explaining much of the complex cultural past that made Ecuador the country it is today. Our crew climbed the towers of the Basilica, enjoyed sweeping views of the city from the top of the Panecillo, and got to experiment with different physical phenomena on the exact geographic equator. All of this while beginning our all-important acclimatization process. Cool! We plan on rounding out our first full day in Ecuador with a brief team meeting followed by a team dinner.
More to come as the adventure progresses!
RMI Guides Billy Nugent, Katie Bono, and the rest of the gang
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Hi Matt. This link is a great! We’re excited to follow your climb. Best of luck to you and your team.
Stay safe.
Love,
Mom and Dad
Posted by: Polly and Ed Blum on 1/12/2013 at 5:19 pm
Take Lots of Pix Kendra and Mike! You know the usual exhange rate! Dinner for the slide show! Have a Blast!
Posted by: Deb on 1/11/2013 at 3:32 am
Hi Matt, nice to see your photos at Latitude 0! Quito looks like a beautiful city—I wish I were there! I’ll check this blog daily to see what you are up to.
Posted by: Nisha on 1/10/2013 at 9:48 pm
Greetings from the Northern Hemisphere,
Congratulations to everyone for embarking on a truly EPIC Journey! Have a blast, double check your knots, take pictures and remember…
“It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves”
-Sir Edmund Hillary
Capre Diem :)
Posted by: Dwight Kurt Schrute on 1/10/2013 at 3:05 pm
Hi Mike and Kendra! We’ll be watching the blogs. Be safe.
Posted by: Debbie Henry on 1/10/2013 at 10:51 am
Way to go Billy ! Looks like a blast!
Posted by: Libby on 1/9/2013 at 7:21 pm
Fantastic! Have fun Billy!
Posted by: Kirsten on 1/9/2013 at 6:46 pm
Jealous! Couldn’t ask for a better guide than Katie.
Posted by: Greg on 1/9/2013 at 5:06 pm
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