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Categories: Expedition Dispatches Elbrus Southside
Posted by: Adam Knoff, Seth Waterfall
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mount Rainier
Elevation: 10,080'
Go Old Sheep! #WPStrong
Posted by: Eric on 5/29/2014 at 4:13 pm
Proud of each of you. Additional support and good wishes coming from east coast for Dave Johnson! Looking forward to seeing more photos.
Hugs.
Posted by: garymaryj on 5/28/2014 at 5:54 pm
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Way to go all y’all! Frank and all your new best friends. Be warm, be safe.
Fred T
Posted by: Fred T on 2/19/2014 at 7:52 am
Congratulations to all!
Posted by: Marsha on 2/19/2014 at 5:02 am
Posted by: Billy Nugent, Walter Hailes, Katrina Bloemsma
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Aconcagua
Elevation: 10,550'
On The Map
I love reading your updates! Wishing you all a happy, healthy, safe and harmonious expedition. Thank you for these postings! Sending lots and lots of Love, BB
Posted by: Barbara Lynn Bloemsma on 1/8/2014 at 9:19 pm
Mountain river swimming? What could be better! I hope you brought your snorkel gear for such opportunities.
Thinking of you with pan flutes playing. Jealous of your sunshine and glad to hear about the breezy weather. -k
Posted by: Kendra & Rocky on 1/8/2014 at 8:05 pm
Thinking of you all…looking good Linden!
Posted by: Hollyanne Samuelsen on 5/12/2011 at 11:42 pm
HI DAVE IF YOU MAKE IT TO THE TOP UPS IS GOING TO RAISE YOUR STOP COUNT. THEY FIGURE YOUR IN SHAPE TO DO MORE STOPS ANYWAYS KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
Posted by: NAVA on 5/11/2011 at 7:28 pm
Posted by: Dominic Cifelli, Ben Luedtke, Michael Murray
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Aconcagua
Elevation: 18,000'
Two things sprung to mind when I was asked to do this post. First what my wife would say “another rest day, you go on vacation and you need rest days?” The other was why me - am I the best rester, is that my speciality?
This put me to think about this. Am I incapable of discussing the climbing/trekking days? Is that just too technical for me - walking uphill on a pile of gravel and sand everyday - left, right, breathe, left, right, breathe. Yeah, that is super technical so I’m never going to be out in that brigade.
However, am I the best rester, what about the rest of the bunch?
Start with the guides. They are never going to be assigned as superior resters. Job security with RMI suggests they’ll never get the rester job.
What about Norm, my tent mate? Norm never rests. Whether it’s out shooting beavers to make his wife’s world famous beaver stew, or do DIY around the house - shelves and presses to keep everything in place (he could do with some shelves in the tent!). No, not Norm.
Mikayla , hmmm? No not her either. On rest days Mikayla is off negotiating world peace and post Cold War detente with any passing Poles or Russians Mikayla is too focused on world peace.
Chris, surely an option. However, Chris is the best dressed person on the mountain. As we crawl from our tents every morning, covered in dust and stained with the remains of last night’s dinner, Chris is like James Bond - clean, sparkling. I’m positive he gets overnight Amazon deliveries of new gear. But I digress, is Chris a rester? No, Chris spends his rest time searching for the latest gadget or piece of gear. What’s the next 360 degree camera? Also Chris is an inventor and an environmental evangelist- something we didn’t know at the outset of this trip. His latest “the Oop stove” provides instant sustainable heat in your tent and solves the blue bag challenge. Also, even when I wake in the middle of the night I hear Chris doing some wind experiments. No, Chris’s rest days are his busiest days.
Finally the three lads - Andy, Jon, Ben. (Ben has been a champion sleeper since he reconnected with his sleeping bag). Whenever I ask Jon how his afternoon sleep went he replies “I had a great sleep”. So the anesthetist, the pathologist and the unsuspecting patient spend their afternoons doing some macabre fiendish high altitude medical research. It’s important that science progresses
Yeah, I guess I am the obvious choice.
So the rest day was just that. A quick 90 minute saunter up a nearby hill, that we somehow completed in 45 mins - thanks Ben L. An afternoon sharing all the excess food we carried to Camp 2. A charcuterie board, dates, granola. It was truly a rest day
Climber Myles O'Neil
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Myles you seem to be the only team member that knows the importance of a good rest day. Mikayla does like to practice her Russian; who knows maybe world peace can be negotiated on the top of a mountain.
I’m excited for each days blog as you get closer to the summit! Ever onward, ever higher!
Posted by: Michelle DeMers on 1/27/2024 at 5:55 am
That was a fun post to read. I think I have your new team name after seeing this set of pictures. “The Blue Man Group.” (Sorry Mikayla, I did want to excuse you, so that probably doesn’t work). Arc’teryx is drone dropping new gear daily. You all are so close. Time to dig deep. One foot in front of the other and just envision how good it is going to feel at the top resting while celebrating with hugs and fist-bumps.
Posted by: Ed DaPra on 1/26/2024 at 6:20 pm
Posted by: Casey Grom
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Kilimanjaro
Today we visited the famous Ngorongoro Crater. The crater is roughly 100 square miles and is known for its abundance of animals that call the crater home, some estimates are as high as 30,000 mammals.
We hit the road early with hopes of catching a few of the big cats before the heat of the day.
There were many sightings today of hyenas, zebras, wildebeest, Cape buffalo, ostrich, and countless other birds. We managed to see several lions, including 2 up very close. Apparently it was date night, and things got a little exciting.
We also saw two Black Rhino not too far in the distance, which have become very rare due to poaching.
We wrapped up the day with a visit to a Maasai village not far from the crater rim. The Maasai people are a semi-nomadic tribe that exist almost entirely off of their cattle. The team spent time asking questions and enjoyed being shown around their small and simple village.
We have just finished another wonderful meal here at the Plantation Lodge
RMI Guide Casey Grom and crew
Wow such great pictures - you all look like you are having an epic time - once in a lifetime memories people xxx
Posted by: Deb Toft on 2/1/2023 at 7:25 pm
Best of luck all. Be safe and have fun!
Posted by: Ed Manigault on 7/3/2011 at 8:59 pm
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