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Feeling Long in the Tooth?
Thursday, June 1, 2000
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This is Alpine Ascents International trip one yet again, Bill McCormick speaking. We are having a glorious evening here, there's low layer of clouds, the shadow of Foraker on them, and a harmonic convergence: we're watching AAI (Alpine Ascents International) trip number two, with Tom and Charles and everybody else coming up the ridge. It is [Unintelligible] and we have Tim from our trip here [Unintelligible] and possibly a little, inspirational poetry that could have been the keynote of our successful climb, here he is:
Tim Lovelace
Hello this is Tim Lovelace, I summitted Denali yesterday with Alpine Ascents. I'd like to say hello to all my friends and family, it's so nice to [Unintelligible].
Bill McCormick
All right thank you Tim and [Unintelligible] it's been really great working with John; he's done a hell of a job [Unintelligible].
John Race
We all had a good summit day yesterday and beautiful weather today and with any luck we'll get a couple days good weather and be in Talkeetna drinking beer in 48 hours...[Unintelligible].
Bill McCormick
Thanks John that was kind of a sandbag, caught him unaware. I just want you to know that I am older than John's parents, so all you people out there long in the tooth that think your day has past for doing this kind of stuff, that is not necessarily the case. So that will probably be about it for us, we're going to pass the phone, I assume, later this evening to the other group that is probably going to be here pretty shortly. So this will be Alpine Ascents trip number one signing out.
— Bill McCormick, Alpine Ascents International, MountainZone.com Correspondent
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