Thursday, 18 FEB, 2010

We arrived here at Lava Tower Camp, at 15,100', about 1330 hrs. after a five hour walk through the Alpine Desert climate zone of Kibo. As you can see, the weather is good, but we have snow less than 1000' above us.

We will remain here for about 36 hours, sleeping twice, and spending our daylight hours acclimatizing by hiking, climbing Lava Tower, and bouldering.

We hope to have good cell service while we are here, so expect photos and updates to the blog site. Meanwhile, everyone seems to be doing quite well. Judging from the lunch of fish, chicken, noodle soup, and cheese sanwiches we all wolfed down like jackals, appetites are good.

Until next, kwaheri.

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Jim Ronning