Aconcagua: Nugent & Team Enjoy Another Rest Day
Posted by: Billy Nugent, Katrina Bloemsma
Categories: Expedition Dispatches Aconcagua
Elevation: 13,800'
Ground control (RMI base) to Major Tom (our intrepid Aconcagua team)...
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on...
We are eating up on our last rest day here in Base Camp and making our last minute preparations.
Ground control to Major Tom...
Commencing countdown engines on... Check ignition and may god's love be with you...
Wish us luck as we blast off up onto the beast. Tomorrow's plans call for a move up to Camp 1 which has the team excited if a bit nervous. Lots of work lies ahead but we are poised and ready for the challenge. The weather has been stellar and we hope it continues to cooperate for us as we step out of the capsule that is Plaza Argentina not to return until our bid for the top has culminated. Of course we'll keep checking in along the way.
Bowie lives!
RMI Guide Billy Nugent
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Comments (10)
Doug S,
We are all pulling for you! CPLs and TRs send their best!
Arland
Posted by: Arland Fagerstrom on
HI, Craig,
I’m so glad the weather is good! All our thoughts are about the A-team having THE BEST CLIMB EVER!
Love, SAF
Posted by: Sally Falkenhagen on
Jake,
The crew at Crown are following your team, good luck and have fun.
Bob
Posted by: Bob Fiedler on
Branch,
Back from Denver. Can’t believe I missed another call! Hope you are faring well as you get higher… So great to hear your voice! Not sure why it cut out!! Be safe! Feel my love! K/
Posted by: Kat Branchflower on
for Craig Falkenhagen
Hi Dad!
I hope the trip’s going great! Good luck as you get to camp 1 and camp 2. I went to Yosemite Valley this weekend with DTD. Lots of snow and the waterfalls were flowing. Mom says hi too.
Love,
Sam
Posted by: Sam Falkenhagen on
Doug,
Wishing you and your team all the best as you make your ascent. So excited to hear how it goes. Missing you so, so much.
We went sledding with the Nettletons today! It was a blast! Have some good pictures we can’t wait to share with you. Had basketball practice afterwards. Needless to say, we were all pretty wiped!
Love you very much and miss you tons.
Loads of love and prayers,
Char, Addy and Leith
PS
Thank you, Billy for your awesome updates!!! This team is pretty fortunate to have you!
Posted by: charlyn sinclair on
Randy…so glad the weather has been great so far! I’m sure you are excited to take on “the beast”. It’s got to be funner than all those hours you spent running up and down flights of stairs carrying a backpack full of flour pilfered from my pantry. I hope the weather holds out and you have the climb of a lifetime!
I love you!
Lisa
Posted by: Lisa Irwin on
Rick your mom wanted me to send this to you ....
Good luck and hope you make it to the top. God be with you. Love you and cant wait to see you. Love Mom and Dad!
Posted by: Shannon on
“Allons! whoever you are, come travel with me!
Traveling with me, you find what never tires.
The earth never tires;
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first—Nature is rude and incomprehensible
at
first;
Be not discouraged—keep on—there are divine things, well envelop’d;
I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
Allons! we must not stop here!
However sweet these laid-up stores—however convenient this dwelling, we cannot remain
here;
However shelter’d this port, and however calm these waters, we must not anchor here;
However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us, we are permitted to receive it but a
little
while.”
Walt Whitman
Thinking of you Rob on your journey upward.
Love and Prayers, M.
Posted by: mary on
Following your progress Heather. Amazing pictures. Hope the weather is good and you all make it to the top! Brian, Mary Lou, David and Sarah
Posted by: Brian Macfaden on