Oh the weather outside is frightful    2 August 2005
Today's weather, while stopping all groups from summitting, did not deter us from getting to Pastokov Rocks.

All day the weather played with our climb. At times we couldn't see much f

Barrell Bound    1 August 2005
Amid rumbling skies, captain banana hands and the frolickers moved into the Barrells today.
After a brief lunch and rest, the crew headed up to stretch our legs for a few hours, but after 30min, t

Test drive on Elbrus    31 July 2005
You know how you test drive a car? boat? even a plane? Well today we test drove a mountain. We took the cable cars and chairlifts up to the Barells where we will be living for the next 5 days, then we

Up we go    30 July 2005
Todays cloudy skies did little to dampen our spirits set on getting out and up a little today. But even before we left the hotel, the skies brightened, and the sun came out for the rest of the day.

The gear game begins    29 July 2005
Everybody finally made it to the valley this late afternoon no worse for wear. Tom is still missing his bags but hopefully they will turn up soon, we say better to have Tom than his bags!

As

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

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

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