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Good and Bad News
10:36AM 23 SEP 2000

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Hey, I've got good news and bad news – this is Hans, of course. The good news is that I did 10 14ers in 60 hours, car-to-car, the first 10. The other good news is that you're hearing my voice, so I'm alive and healthy. I don't know about healthy, I think I actually reached zero percent body fat, which was probably part of my undoing this morning.

I gambled and tried to do Langley at 2:30am this morning and got a little off route, not too bad. It was ultra, ultra cold up there and the cold just frickin' knocked the motivation out of me and I just wasn't going to be able to make it through all the 14ers and make it to my commitments Tuesday, Wednesday – oh, Hans back to work, well not really work, but just commitments to people.

So, someone's going to have to break that nine-and-a-half day record other than me. But I am psyched, I got 10 down in three days and something for someone else to look forward to. I hope you guys are all great, and the other good news is that you'll get pictures maybe as soon as Sunday morning. It should be pretty fun stuff. Catch you all later, bye.

Hans Florine, MountainZone.com Correspondent

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