Saturday, May 30, 2009

Breaking Ground in Talkeetna!





Big News... Between mountaineering expeditions we were able to put our own foundation in.

In 5 solid hard days of work we cleared the land, dug twelve 4-foot feet deep holes, engineered them to the right distances, mixed and poured our own concrete....whew. We are tired. We are actually looking forward to our next Denali expedition, it will be less work then building our own house I think.

It is very exciting. We were able to get this project done a month ahead of schedule. Also, we were forced to install our own pump in our well so that we could have running water for mixing concrete...what we failed to realize until later is that we have our own running water now- Yipee.

Here are the results:


Thanks to family and friends for your support. Stay tuned for more updates on our progress. We should get back from Denali June 22- unless we summit early.