7/12/09 Hello from the East fork of the Susitna River! It was a long hard day, but I’ll admit I’m quite happy to see green plants and sleep on solid ground again. We started the day by waking up at 8:30am, and packed up camp after breakfast. Leaving around 10am, we walked down the glacier, losing about 2,500 ft in

7/11/09 Heylo! Well today was relaxing. We woke up around 8:30 and had some breakfast, and then had first aid class at 10:30. It was over by 11:45, so we planned to meet to go ice climbing after. I got packed up, but as I was packing noticed my right knee was in a lot of pain, so I decided

7/10/09 Hola! Well today was an exciting day from start to finish. First we woke up to almost no visibility, but since we have to get to the ration plane by the 13th, we decided to go anyway. So we got packed up, ate and right before we got into our rope teams the instructors called a meeting. With frozen

7/9/09 Today has been one of the hardest days, but it doesn’t have me down like it might have 2 weeks ago. Yay! Well that storm last night thundered, hailed, and raged on for about 4 hours, so I didn’t get to sleep until about 1:45am. I was upset since I thought we had to get up at 4 to

7/8/09 Hi there! Well today was great and incredibly relaxing. I woke up around 8:30 and had some breakfast, and then soaked up the scenery and read. I was so happy too since my tent mates were nice enough to leave some hash browns in my bowl for before they left. I soaked up Divide Basin one last time (we