I am writing thank you notes to all who contributed money to the Eden Fund. Checks are still arriving, but we are close to $5500!

I also want to thank all of you who wrote comments of encouragement on my blog, especially Karol, Ann, and Bob, who wrote nearly as many comments as I wrote posts! Your words were encouraging, motivating, and funny!

To my fellow hikers: Adam, Jacob, Caleb, and David, thank you so much. I don’t know if I could have made it without David, who climbed Monadnock for the fourteenth time.

To my sons, Matt, Ben, and Tim, I am thankful that you stayed with me the whole time on the way up. I know you could have climbed much faster, but you knew this was my goal, and that I wanted to share it with you. I know you’ll always remember the day you climbed Mount Monadnock with your dad. I hope you get to climb with your children when you are fifty years old. And I hope when you are seventy-five you tell your grandchildren that you once climbed it with their great grandfather. That would be cool.