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Banana Pancakes
Wednesday, June 9, 1999 — 3:09am (PST)
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It's Todd. We're in, again, we're in Base Camp right now. We're making pancakes with bananas in them. Kathy's out cooking. And it was windy this morning. We've got some big lenticulars up high. The pressure's come back up though, which is a good sign and the winds are dying down low. It's actually quiet now in Base Camp...beautiful, beautiful clear skies. We'll probably move out in two or three hours. We're busy packing up for four days of food. We're going to move up to a High camp and climb several peaks in the area.
We've been looking at the highest unclimbed peak in Greenland still and it looks good; it's just a ways away so we'll see if we can reach it. But our goal right now is to move to a high camp and climb Gunnsbjornfjeld tomorrow and maybe take a rest day and climb the highest unclimbed peak, Inko, but we'll carry the phone up with us and let you know how it's going.
Greenland's as beautiful as ever. It's amazing, the distances we're looking and the vast plains of ice—truly the high desert in the north.
The Finns came by yesterday and picked up their cache. They're heading off out onto the plateau, and they'll be out there for a week or so skiing out to God knows what their destination is.
We are all doing fine. John Dufficy's out building an igloo. We're trying to build a number of igloos this morning so that when we come back, in case the winds are blowing, we've got a place to jump into quickly, but the weather is starting to improve drastically. So I think a little bit of luck the next five days will be great, back to typical Greenland weather.
I've been looking around quite a bit. It really looks like the place for us to start a school. There's just so many good places to climb: easy routes, intermediate routes, hard routes, good training areas, and good weather. So we're excited about it. I love Greenland, and everybody's having a great time. So I hope it's good back there, and we'll touch base with you soon. Bye bye.
— Alpine Ascents Guide Todd Burleson, MountainZone.com Correspondent
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