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Pat Calls from Anchorage
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Well, the mystery is out of the bag, Dan Bull announced a mandatory layover is going to be on the edge of the Dismal Swamp, and the Dismal Swamp is well named, because it is a hell-hole of a flat place that the wind howls across. Forty-two of us are going to mosey on out there and pitch a camp, which will mean a bunch of little camps and hopefully, we'll get a big bonfire going. But it'll definitely be a cold night.

And I've got my bucket of KFC chicken, and I'm looking forward to the ride out. So stay tuned, next call will probably be from Nikolai. Restart is tomorrow morning at 8am, which will be a mass start, we'll go up through the Yentna Station, Skwentna, then start heading up the valley towards Rainy Pass and then hop on over, into the Black Hole. So, stay tuned.

—Pat Norwil, MountainZone.com Correspondent

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