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Magnificent Views
Thursday, February 3, 2000
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Hi everybody at Mountain Zone, this is Todd. I'm at 19,200ft. It was a beautiful hike up today from 16.2. It's been a magnificent day compared to yesterday where it was windy and stormy. We are in our tents. We've cooked Ramen and melted some snow. Actually, if you get it during the daytime, there's some running water off the Polish Glacier so I was able to scoop up some of that and we had Ramen. Have to do a little bit of a back carry tomorrow to bring up some gear.
Both of us are very healthy and relaxing in the tent, it's about 8pm our time. So, I'll do a radio check with Base Camp and talk to Al who should be moving up to Camp I tomorrow. We're going to take a rest day here tomorrow and probably hike up the route a ways and check out the area. It's the first time I've climbed from this side, so it's kind of exciting. Beautiful views in all directions, you look to the east and see just miles and miles of rolling hills and mountains — realized that we are by far the highest thing around right now. We are doing great and we hope everyone's good in America. Talk to you soon, bye-bye.
—Alpine Ascents Founder Todd Burleson, reporting for MountainZone.com
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