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Posted by: Billy Nugent
Categories: Expedition Dispatches North Cascades
RMI Guide Billy Nugent calls in from the Shuksan Seminar.
Posted by: Casey Grom
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Kilimanjaro
Hello one last time everyone!
Today the team headed to Tarangire National Park know for its abundant animals and plentiful elephants, and it didn’t disappoint. Not sure how many elephants we saw, probably several hundred, possibly more than a thousand. It wouldn’t seem like we could get tired of seeing elephants, but there were so many that eventually we had to keep driving so we could see other animals.
There were lots of giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, Cape buffalo, impalas, monkeys, ostriches, and many others, including 6-8 lions which was a highlight.
We are spending our last night here in Africa at Nyikani Camp, which has beautiful tented rooms with screen windows to allow the sounds of the African night in. If you’ve ever heard the term “Glamping” that’s exactly what we are doing.
Everyone is doing great and we hope to catch a sighting of a few more cats on our way out tomorrow. Then we will head back to our main lodge near Arusha for a quick shower before catching our evening flights home.
I asked everyone for a single word that would best summarize their experience for this trip.
So in no particular order here are our words.
Overcome
WOW
Perseverance
Transformative
Humbling
Determined
Indomitable
Connection
Fulfilling
Simple
Transcendent
Come join us for an adventure sometime!
RMI Guide Casey Grom and the safari crew
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Friday, October 11, 2024
After our rainy summit of Volcan La Malinche, our team was pretty excited to see sun pop up in the forecast. We headed toward Volcan Iztaccihuatl (Ixta) excited for our next summit.
At our regular food and water pit stop in Amecameca (my favorite word) our local guide Allan had some bad news. The rains from Hurricane Milton had caused the park service to close the road, and we would have a 9 kilometer hike to our normal parking/basecamp area. This was sad to hear, as it made a summit of Ixta a hard proposition. But we quickly brainstormed and decided we would trek to basecamp, then get as far up Ixta as possible. This would give us great altitude training for our biggest goal, Orizaba at 18,500’.
The next day we hiked through pleasant tall grass meadows and pine trees and camped at our normal basecamp at 13,000’. In the morning we woke to a ‘practice’ alpine start at 3:00am, and were finally greeted by stars and the moon.
On our climb to 15,500’ we watched a colorful sunrise and Volcan Popocatepetl puffing away across the valley. All in all a spectacular altitude training day.
Trekking back through the pine tree meadows, everyone was excited to get to Puebla for pizza, a nice night in a hotel, then to our final volcano, Pico de Orizaba!
RMI Guide Joe Hoch
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Hello to Glo. I love that you are all so adventurous and brave.
Mom
Posted by: Michelle on 12/19/2018 at 5:40 am
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. T.S. Eliot
Keep on trekking!
Lynn
Posted by: Lynn Adams on 8/1/2018 at 4:46 am
Posted by: Dave Hahn, Hannah Smith, Avery Parrinello, Nikki Champion
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Mt. McKinley
Elevation: 11,000'
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Sue- we are with you on every step! We are there pulling the sled with you, hauling the pack, and climbing! You so have this!!!
-Lots of love, Your crazy tent mates from downtown Kahiltna 2017!!
Posted by: Patty Kudla on 6/26/2018 at 7:07 am
Margaret and Jon, Amy just told me about your climbing adventure and who it honors. What a special tribute to your father, Margaret. Wishing you and all of your team a safe climb. We are cheering you on from Melbourne! Go Go Go!!!!
Posted by: Kristi Darby on 6/26/2018 at 2:34 am
Posted by: Mike King, Jenny Konway, Nick Scott
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Aconcagua
Elevation: 22,841'
RMI Guide Mike King calls from the summit of Aconcagua.
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SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Dave Kestel on 2/5/2018 at 9:49 am
Congratulations
Posted by: Fred Street on 2/5/2018 at 9:01 am
Hey Jeff and Meredith! Hope you are having a great climb and managing to stay warm. The views are amazing. Can’t wait to hear all about it…Ruby and Wayne :)
Posted by: ruby on 12/31/2015 at 10:29 am
Wishing John Hughes and the entire climbing team a very happy, healthy and high-altitude 2016!
Posted by: Barbara on 12/31/2015 at 10:20 am
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