“Once you get, even probably in a few days from now, you get the slush as the water rises in there, then there's no way you can travel. You have to wait. And it's a long, long wait.”

“You get this expedition momentum, which is necessary. But you can't have it like a wild horse. You can't have it take over. You've gotta be wise... that quiet mind is real important...”

“Got out of bed here like I'm tarred and feathered—feathers all over. So I repaired [the sleeping bag]... and then, a much-needed soap down of this air mattress... I found some problems around the valve.”

“I got up this morning at 4 o'clock to get the crust... today I managed to make 17 miles, which was a pretty good day. One trip, three sleds, 200 pounds. And so that's pretty respectable..”

“I'm just always just watching and observing and beautiful, you know, presence. Regardless of how tired I am... observing the small changes now, especially in the springtime.”

“Setting up the tent was very, very tricky. It was taking 50 miles an hour at that time... in storm winds like this ... you can lose the whole tent.”

“It was the first time in, I think, 10 days at least, that I was able to see the ground when it did clear up... The last 10 days has always been a ground whiteout.”

“Everything changes... you have to roll with the punches and not try to, you know, push that and go with it. And that's where the expedition, the 'explorer's mind' is all, really all about that.”