Hello from Heidi, lead guide!!

Hello Everyone,

Thanks for following our progress on Denali over the last 2 weeks, as Shawn gets credit for stating very early on in our adventure, we were indeed a very "blessed expedition".

With a very fun, and very strong crew of climbers on the team, we got lucky with some excellent weather up there, as well as a team that stayed healthy though out the entire climb. As I like to say, it is sometimes better to be lucky than good. What a great climb!!!

Thanks to everyone on the team, Jaysen (aka Veggie!), Geordie, Mirek, Neil, Patrick, Scott, Sheri, Shawn, and Stina; for all of their hard work on the climb, their willingness to work as a team, and for really sticking together, especially when it came to the late night celebrations of the last two nights in Anchorage!!! Thanks to Geordie for his maturity in this case in particular, and at all other times as well. Mirek, you are the king of the shovel and the master of snow caves, and crevasses. Patrick thanks for all of the tid-bits of random information that you can uncannily produce at altitude, to bad I can not remember them all. To Neil for keeping Geordie straight, and to Scott for keeping him honest. To Sheri for climbing though the pain, without complaint. To Shawn for reminding us of our national holidays, aye. To Stina for keeping us on schedule and going forward, always. And finally to Veggie for eating the chicken and bacon, even after I forgot to keep it out of dinner, all with a smile on his face.

May we all meet again climbing somewhere, sometime!!!

All the Best,
Heidi