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Preparing For The Summit
Thursday, May 27, 1999 — 10:54pm (PST)
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It's Vernon, we're at 17.2. We carried up to here yesterday after a long stormy night. The weather's cleared off; it's beautiful and we've spent the day resting — myself, Tom Bridge, my co-leader, Rob, who is coming with us as a diabetic, and Michelle, from South Africa, and Arash, who's an Iranian doctor. The five of us are going to set out tomorrow morning, bright and early, getting up at 6 o'clock, and hopefully climb to the top of this mountain.
We've spent the whole day resting. It seems like breakfast went all the way into, almost up to, dinnertime. We've just leisurely laid around and ate, drank, and just basically rested. Tanked up, so that tomorrow we'll be in the best shape possible.
The weather is cooperating, finally. People are saying that this is the best weather we've had the whole season and hopefully it'll last another 24 hours and by next call, will come from a very happy sumitting group.
So, thank you very much for giving this opportunity to talk with you once again and check in with you later. Bye-Bye.
— Alpine Ascents Guide Vern Tejas, MountainZone.com Correspondent
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