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Long Summit Day Yesterday
Team 2: 17,000 Feet - Monday, May 27, 2002
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Morton
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Good morning, this is Dave Morton at 17,000. We've got a team here just rolling out of bed after a long summit day yesterday, the 26th, Sunday.

Everything went very well, we tried to get a call in from the summit but for some reason it wasn't working.

We summitted about 7 o'clock yesterday evening and had a beautiful climb all the way up to the summit ridge. Then we got hit with a little bit of cloud so some of the summit photos don't have much of a view, but it was beautiful as we approached the mountain, the summit ridge, and everybody felt very strong.

"it was sort of a bittersweet summit for the rest of the team not having Mike with us...."

Mike Rossi turned around right at the base of Pig Hill which is only a few hundred feet from the summit, but he gave it a good go, battled through a bunch of tough times on the way up and it was sort of a bittersweet summit for the rest of the team not having Mike with us.

What a great team. Everybody got along really well and we're really looking forward to getting back to Talkeetna to have some fun together.

We had a great team, it was a great summit day and we will give one more call before we fly out of here. So thanks for paying attention, and watching, and we hope that all these cybercasts have gone through and that you were able to follow our trip.

So we'll get on the phone here this afternoon maybe and everybody can give a message. And that will pretty much wrap it up. So bye-bye from the Sunshine Boys from Denali. See ya.

Dave Morton, Alpine Ascents International Guide and MountainZone.com Correspondent