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Elbrus part deux starts off with Metro run in moscow    28 July 2005
greetings everyone and welcome to Elbrus part deux!
The gang arrived today minus one, Tom Winter, who got delayed in Helsinki and should be here tonight.

Everyone else went out for a quic

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Good bye to Elbrus grupo uno    25 July 2005
Well bags are packed and the guys are outta here tommorrow. We have done a great bit of seeing the sights and are off to dinner as we speak. Please stay tuned for more fun and adventure from grupo dos

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Bright Lights, Big City    25 July 2005
What a day!
Our day has been non stop! But now we are back in the bright lights big city! Moscow is buzzing with summertime energy, and the boys really wanted to go hang out in Red Square, so we w

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Schedla Valley romp    23 July 2005
Today was anything but a rest day.

Heading up the neighbouring Schedla Valley, towards the border of Georgia, our first hurdle was not the terrain, but the Russian border guards waiting for

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Down in the valley wrestling with fish    22 July 2005
The beast lives!

It was a smooth transition down to valley living. Upon return to our hotel, some of the lads even went for a run! Guess the mountain charged them up so much they had a little

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Team vamos a la playa summits Elbrus    21 July 2005
There is something magical about summit days. The early morning wake up, the getting started sometimes by the light of a full moon, breathing, walking, waiting for sunrise...
Today was one of thos

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Prep for summit day    20 July 2005
Pack and prepare!

Today's rest day was spent packing, preparing, and trying on our summit day equipment, as seen with Colin here.
Our kickoff time, weather dependent, is 3am this morn

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Pastokov Rocks    19 July 2005
Up we went.

All the way to 4700m at a place called Pastokov Rocks. Some were feeling the effects of altitude, others went all the way up singing!
It was a 6 hour climb up today, and as i

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