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September 23, 2006 Another Snowy Day at Base Camp
It’s the 23rd of September and this low pressure system to our east continues to produce precipitation here at base camp and now above base camp. When you sleep through the night in a steady snowstorm as we all did last night it soon gets very quiet. Our VE-25’s had a thick layer of snow them that insulated us from the sound and I think most of us slept unaware that it might be snowing. Jimmy commented this morning that is was quite warm and that is one thing that clues you in when it gets quiet and warm there is probably some snow building up on your tent. The other thing that clued us in was at about 4:30 this morning a crew of Sherpas were out shaking the snow off our tent and reminding us that is was almost morning and there was some snow to clear.
Regardless we are snug where we need to be here at base camp and the guys are keeping Camp 2 in good order, knocking the snow off the tents and we are just going to ride this snowstorm out and see what tomorrow brings and see how soon we can take a look back up the route past Camp 1 and into the Western Cwm. Meanwhile we are buttoned down here at base camp and doing well.
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