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Very interesting day today, another one of those days where at night, the morning seems like a different day. If that’s not too confusing…I like em. We packed up to go to the mountain, so enough for a few days. On the mountain we’ll be staying in huts, and we are planning on summiting from the bottom huts, so no tent needed. Getting up to the huts is a lot different than I thought. We first rode a gondola, then a mini-tram, and finally a sketchy, clinkity, one-man chair. Not too much work. The huts are pretty ramshackle--metal barrels with bunks in them. And here is where our walk will start. There are two camps higher on the mountain and there is also a terrain park, which has a Red Bull competition going on for the next week. We’ll start from here for the summit, so it will be about 6,500 feet of elevation gain. Pretty solid. So we decided to go to the park. I skied a little bit, Damian hit on girls. He was successful I guess, he got me an interview and photoshoot with one later. But skiing park was pretty rad in mountaineering gear--according to Damian I stuck out like a sick thumb. Back at the huts, we caught a bit of a surprise, Russians drinking mate! We were immediately friends. So we sat around all afternoon chatting and drinking mate. Hopefully we are going to go to Moscow a day early or so to meet up with them and hit up some rock gyms. We all had a big group dinner (we made everyone Denali burritos, and got them hooked), then went and tramped. As in trampoline. Theres one to practice tricks on up at the park. This was pretty unexpected, a terrain park, and now a tramp. Pretty cool, keep practicing even not at home.
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