6/26/09 HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIANCA! I know I’m not there to celebrate it, but hopefully it was awesome. Toady was pretty cool. We finally hiked onto the glacier, and walked about four miles up it. Along the way we found a bunch of deep crevasses, and these whirlpool tunnel holes we saw carved out by glaciers in Lucerne… crap forgot the

6/25/09 Yellow! Guess what? Today I climbed my first mountain! Also I didn’t forget to get a rock from the top! =) We woke up and had hashbrowns around 7:30am and got together our day packs. Mine probably weighed 15 pounds or so, so it was a really nice relief. Next we met up with the rest of our group

6/24/09 Hey! Today was incredible. I had kitchen duty, so I had to get up really early, bring the kitchen near our tent, and boil water for our morning hot drinks. Next we toasted raisin bagels and got ready to hike. We hiked four miles past a beautiful lake and mountain pass to the toe of the Macklaren glacier! I

6/21/09 Hey! So today was exciting since we finally got settled in the wilderness. First we woke up at 6am, and I got ready for the day and went to breakfast. While we ate we made our sack lunches for the bus ride to our first campsite in the Eastern Alaska Range. Then we packed our packs and loaded up

6/22/09 Hello again! Well today was exciting and it’s not even over. First we packed up our packs (which I’m getting better at) and hiked out of camp along an old ATV trail. We stopped and took a rest after an hour, so I ate some trail mix and a piece of Evan’s orange he offered. Oh yeah, we broke