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We awoke this morning to beautiful weather, perfect weather: absolutely still, clear skies, warm temperatures, and took advantage of that to climb to 2000', 6.5 miles, to High Camp for our ascent of Gunnbjornsfjeld.

Some of you may have already, you may be able to guess what is on our minds right now sitting here the evening of Sunday [unintelligible] in position. But we're all thinking that if we're lucky and things go well, we're looking to climb Gunnbjornsfjeld, the highest peak above the Arctic Circle, on the summer solstice, on June 21st, when the days are longest. So this could be quite a special event for us.

Watching some sky right now but have no big concern, and once again, as I said a few days ago, Greenland is a wind in your face kind of place, but we have a great High Camp here. Willi and I are [unintelligible] in the vestibule of our tent. We've got our tents dug on a platform, tied together, and we're in a secure, great high altitude camp here—great position to get a good early start tomorrow, weather permitting. We'll see what happens.

Yeah, so it's quite the news today to get up here and find that Willi stowed one of those rock samples he got on our peak the other day in his pack. So we sit around here at High Camp tonight and study our geologic specimens and ponder what questions they may bring up. I'm glad Willi brought them up here.

— Alpine Ascents Guide Wally Berg, MountainZone.com Correspondent

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