Failure to Launch Reaches Camp One

This is Steven checking in with Team Failure to Launch. We are currently at Camp One. We had pretty good travel conditions today, getting up here in up not too much snow. The weather was a little bit of a mixed bag. It was hot and sunny at times, cloudy and snowy at other times. But we’re here, about to eat some stir fried veggies for dinner.  There’s a few different ways we can deal with the next part of the mountain. I still haven’t quite decided. We’ll see what the weather’s like, but we’ll be moving up the mountain some distance tomorrow. We continue to make progress, which is good and we’ll let you know what we get up to!

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