Name = Leah Pileggi

Email = leahp1@gmail.com

File attached = samstone on beach2.jpg

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Hi John and Diane,
Larry and I were in Miami the other day. I placed a Samstone near the
ocean at South Beach, around 12th Street, a serene/breezy place during
the day in contrast to what goes on at night… The photo of the
Samstone in the sand is, well, just a photo. I actually left the
stone on the wooden fencepost. We think of y’all often.

Name = Lynda

Email = Vtmamacobb@msn.com

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I placed one of Sam’s stones in Panama, Costra Rico, Aruba and
Curacao on my cruise in Nov.
Thanks.  the stones were given to me to place by a friend of mine at
work.

Name = Lynda

Email = Vtmamacobb@msn.com

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I placed one of Sam’s stones in Panama, Costra Rico, Aruba and
Curacao on my cruise in Nov.
Thanks.  the stones were given to me to place by a friend of mine at
work.

Name = Lynda

Email = Vtmamacobb@msn.com

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I placed one of Sam’s stones in Panama, Costra Rico, Aruba and
Curacao on my cruise in Nov.
Thanks.  the stones were given to me to place by a friend of mine at
work.

Hey John,

Sorry it has taken me awhile to get these to you.  I just submitted one pic for each entry on the website, but thought you might enjoy a few more…

The pictures of the Martial glacier were taken while standing on the small rock ridge that I left the samstone on.  The picture with the samstone in it also has the town of Ushuaia at the bottom of the mountain squeezed between that and the water.  It is a really beautiful spot.

Name = Laura Kosbar

Email = kosbar@gmail.com

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This samstone was left on the peak of Mt. Demaria on the western side
of the Antarctic peninsula. In the picture, the first person has just
summitted, and that is near where Sam’s stone is. There is a
beautiful 360 degree view of mountains, icebergs, and glaciers…

Mt. Demaria is the only climb we ended up being able to do on Antarctica, due to the weather. But, it turned out to be a very memorable climb…. It is about 635 M tall, and is at 65 degrees, 17′ south and about 62 degrees 32′ west (this one is an estimate, as it was for a harbor we stayed in that night – the southern latitude is correct, however). It was the most southerly point of our trip. Going up was a snow slog (they had a lot of late spring snow down there this year), but with beautiful views all the way. Some of the people who did not climb got pictures of us as we neared the summit (I sent one of these to the website). I left the samstone right on the summit, but did not get a picture of it, as I didn’t want to draw attention to the fact that I was leaving something there (which is technically against the rules) and it is hard to hide things when you are with 14 other people in a confined area (it was a pretty small summit area). The descent is part of what made the climb even more memorable for me, though. We had three ropes with five people on each rope. I was actually “leading” the middle rope (which meant I was at the back of it on the way down). The deep, loose, granular snow made the descent difficult, as you sunk way in and it would break free pretty easily. The first rope line had just reached the point where we were all going to unrope and “bum slide” down the rest of the way one at a time when one of the people on the highest rope fell and started dragging the rest of the people with him. They caught our rope just behind the second person from the bottom and dragged us down, too. I am not sure who caught the lowest rope line, but all 15 people, 3 ropes, ~10 ice axes (lots of the beginners lost theirs early on), and 30 crampons went careening about 600 ft down the mountain to come to a stop about 100 ft from the edge of the water (read that short cliff into freezing water with rocks…). Amazingly no one was hurt worse than a slightly sprained ankle and some cuts and bruises. Even the person who ended up with one fo the ropes wrapped around his neck was OK! I have included one picture of the descent – see if you can pick out all 15 people (I call this my “Where’s Waldo goes alpine…).

I hope you enjoy the pics, and now you can add a little red flag on the Antarctic continent…
Take care,

Name = kathy valiquette

Email = kathrynvaliquette@yahoo.com

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My customer Natasha, found a SamStone under her booth while she was
eating at Papa Nick’s Restaurant and I was waiting on her. She gave
it to me and before I showed my boss, Voula, I felt it and held it
and it felt good and then we all started to talk about it and another
one of my customers who was paying up at the register,  knew about the
stones and told us about Sam.

Name = Kylie Nathan

Email = kylienathan@hotmail.co.uk

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Hello. I found a Sam stone on the wall of Westminster Abbey in
London. I was visiting with my husband and three sons who are 11, 9
and 6. We had just finished a tour of the Abbey and I found the
stone up on the wall outside and was curious to know what it meant.
We have been living in London for the last two years and I always
wanted to take our boys to the Abbey as it is such a beautiful place.
We are about to return to our home in Melbourne, Australia as our
time here is over. Our new found Sam stone will travel with us. Our
eldest son will be learning to play sofcrosse for the first time in
2008 (version of lacrosse) – curious! I thought you would like to
know how well travelled Sam stones are! All the best from our
family. x

Name = William Price

Email = Wcprice2@hotmail.com

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I’ve also placed samstones in Saratoga Springs New York at the Horse
Track and in Saranac Lake New York by a river.

Name = William Price

Email = Wcprice2@hotmail.com

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I’ve also placed samstones in Saratoga Springs New York at the Horse
Track and in Saranac Lake New York by a river.