7/5/09 Hey! Sorry I didn’t write yesterday; I had to get to bed super early, and write my letter home. Yesterday was cool, because we chilled out all morning, and then did crevasse rescue training in a real crevasse! Some 4th of July! It was really fun, and my instructors said we all did really well! My favorite part was

7/3/09 Hey there! Well today was a fun, relaxing day. I didn’t really wake up when my tent mates went off to climb, which was nice, and woke up voluntarily around 8:30. After having some breakfast and saying good morning to John and Jake, I got to work carving out a water still* for my tent group. It works really

7/2/09 Hello again! We climbed the highest peak in Divide Basin today!! It took 2.5 hours of climbing, but the top was absolutely incredible. I was in the second rope team, so I was the sixth person to summit the peak. It was really tiring though, because the instructors let the students leading choose everything including when to have breaks,

6/30/09 Hello from the top of the Macklaren glacier, right outside of the pass out into Divide Basin! We hiked six miles and gained about 2,000 ft in roughly four hours. The route was hard, especially with the extra weight from the re-ration, but I’m getting much stronger. My legs are even visibly more cut! I was on the first