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Carry to Windy Corner Breakfast was blueberries and poptarts. A rather light breakfast. It drifted quite a bit last night so we're sort of taking our time getting ready this morning - with the hope that some other group will break trail for us. We're loading

Stuck at Camp 3 The plan for today was to haul a bunch of stuff up past Windy Corner (called a "carry"), but, as usual, the weather sucks. In lieu of anything more entertaining to do, and since the weather is getting bad, we're going to

Camp 2 to Camp 3 The weather doesn't suck any more! We're pushing on. Breakfast this morning is more of that granola cereal and granola bars. Uggh. We're going to break down camp and head on up to 11k camp. -- Death becomes me.

Stuck at Camp 2 It snowed a lot last night - or maybe the wind just blew snow on us from elsewhere. Breakfast this morning is scrambled eggs (rehydrated, of course), which really aren't very good, but we also brought along some bacon. Everyone got five strips. Bacon

Stuck at Camp 2 I'm awake but very much still inside my sleeping bag. It sounds like its a nice day - I mean, the tent isn't blowing in the wind or anything. If its still crappy out, I'd prefer to just not get

Stuck at Camp 2 Whoa. So, a bit of a shock. Every morning the weather has been so beautiful - you almost expect to see birds chirping in the trees - if there were trees. This morning it is overcast and snowing. Snow! Such an inconvenience: it just gets on

Camp 1 to Camp 2 Second night on the glacier, and nothing terribly interesting to report. Sleeping on a foam pad with a therm-a-rest on top of it is surprisingly comfortable. Of course, I sleep on a couch when I'm not on mountains, so maybe I just don&

Fly to Base Camp 9am and we're all here at the hangar, ready to fly. I shoveled down my breakfast at the Roadhouse so that I could get to the airfield on time and now we're just waiting; and to think, I could have enjoyed those

Gear Checks and Orientation Met for breakfast at the Roadhouse. This place has the menu on a chalkboard on the wall. There are three choices for breakfast and each comes as either a "half" or a "whole". Everyone - and I mean everyone - orders the