Flight home! 

Up close and personal with Emily. 

Makin' myself a freakin quesadilla. 

Anodder pwetty picture. 

Mt. Hunter 

Em and Foraker at dusk. CCCOOOLLLDDD!!!! 

Mt. Foraker at 11pm. 

Our ski tracks above 14000 ft camp. I think I did four laps this day. 

The National Park Service tents at 14000ft camp: communications and cooking tents on the left, doc's tent in the middle, medical tent on the right (where we conducted our study) 

One of the moutain docs coming in from an afternoon of skiing. 

Chillin' in the tent, one of our favorite activities. 

Loading the chopper. 

Signaling in the chopper. 

A chopper flying in to pick up a climber with pulmonary and cerebral edema from high altitude sickness. 

Mt. Foraker from 14000 camp. 

Our camp at 14000 ft. 

The machine on the table is the cooximeter, which we used to measure alalyze the climbers' blood to quantify carbon monoxide levels. It also measured hematocrit, so Emily and I measured our blood levels every other day on the way up the mountain to see how our bodies were adapting to high altitude. My hemoglobin went from 16 to 19. 

This is a memorial to the climbers who have died on the mountain and its surrounding peaks over the years. Unfortunately, there will be two names under this year, two brothers who fell the day we got onto the mountain. 

Safely back in Taleetna, emjoying same a few beers with some of the other climbers. Can you spot the two who haven't climbed yet? 

Looking out the windows and seeing our first green plants in over three weeks. 

Back at the landing strip, cold beer and oreos awaiting us. (we'd buried the beer before ascending, and a friend had sent up the oreos- Thanks Kieara!) 

Me and all the gear... 

Looking back at the summit from below. The cloud on the peak means that there are REALLY strong winds on the summit. 

We headed out about 9pm, hoping to ski through the night back to the landing strip. However, we got caught in a white out and had to set up camp right on the trail. This is the next morning. 

These are the national park service climbing patrollers, including, from L-R, a climbing ranger, a volunteer, a doc, and another volunteer. Notice the matching hats which we gave them as a thank you for their help with our project. The hats has had a picture of a man in a gas mask in front of a mountain, with our team name "Gas Huffers 2005?" on the back.