The whole Christofferson crew is on the ground in Katoomba, Au getting ready to head to Mount Kosciouszko tomorrow to crew with Anders as he goes after his seventh of the seven summits! We are all very excited for this momentous day!
We left the afternoon of the 21st and all met in LA--Alex and Kara flew for JFK and Judy, Jen and I from PHL. Both of our planes were late so we had to scramble and got on board (as did our luggage) and joined Anders for the nearly 15 hour flight to Sydney. So we basically spent an abbreviated 22nd in the air due to crossing the International Date line.
We are in a small resort hotel near Katoomba and went out and nike a couple of times (for a total of 6-7 miles and probably about 1000 vertical feet) after flying in. The Blue Mountains (where we are) are pretty cool and quite scenic. The weather was clear and very hot--certainly in the 80s! Nice family dinner last night and we all crashed pretty early as we were quite tired to say the least!
Today (the 24th over here) we will do some more hiking, hang by the pool, buy some supplies for the climb, etc. On Christmas morning we are leaving around 2 am and driving the 300 or so miles south of here to the town of Thredbo, where Kosi is. We expect the roundtrip climb to only take bout 6 hours, we'll be sure to report back tomorrow on how things went and follow up with some pictures and maybe video when we get back to Sydney on the 26th!
All good now and if all goes well we will be submitting in less than 32 hours!
onward and upward!
rc
We left the afternoon of the 21st and all met in LA--Alex and Kara flew for JFK and Judy, Jen and I from PHL. Both of our planes were late so we had to scramble and got on board (as did our luggage) and joined Anders for the nearly 15 hour flight to Sydney. So we basically spent an abbreviated 22nd in the air due to crossing the International Date line.
We are in a small resort hotel near Katoomba and went out and nike a couple of times (for a total of 6-7 miles and probably about 1000 vertical feet) after flying in. The Blue Mountains (where we are) are pretty cool and quite scenic. The weather was clear and very hot--certainly in the 80s! Nice family dinner last night and we all crashed pretty early as we were quite tired to say the least!
Today (the 24th over here) we will do some more hiking, hang by the pool, buy some supplies for the climb, etc. On Christmas morning we are leaving around 2 am and driving the 300 or so miles south of here to the town of Thredbo, where Kosi is. We expect the roundtrip climb to only take bout 6 hours, we'll be sure to report back tomorrow on how things went and follow up with some pictures and maybe video when we get back to Sydney on the 26th!
All good now and if all goes well we will be submitting in less than 32 hours!
onward and upward!
rc
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