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Baffin Island:

Team: Hilaree O'neil, Ingrid Backstom, Meg Oster, Whit Richardson

“Some girls think they have to be one of the boys to be respected as strong and accompished.  i never wanted to be one of the” boys...climbing and skiing with this group of girls on Baffin Island has been over the top.  Talk about accomplished…"

We wake up daily, climb and ski.  We sleep on the Frozen arctic ocean.  massive granite walls rise on each side giving us endless long and steep couloirs to ski.  We carry guns on our backs in case we run into aggressive polar bears and cross massive expanses by kite.  We eat seal, arctic char, and caribou.