Twelve of us started on this trip, but nine made it to the summit. One became very ill even before we reached base camp. That?s not uncommon; many climbers attempting to scale this mountain became very ill and many have died. But after this, nothing is too challenging. Especially after what we saw in the villages of Tanzania where many people have nothing and are just struggling to live. It?s given us a fresh perspective on life.

Once we reached the summit, we knew we wouldn't be able to stay there for long, in fact, we were only at the peak five or 10 minutes. So we knew that we wouldn't have any time for re-shoots. Whatever we shot, we shot. But this tape performed beautifully, the camera mechanism is rugged and, as a result, we got the footage we wanted.

You have to give Rapids a lot of credit, they took us out of everything we like to do. Early on they were disciplined and did what they wanted and we struggled. I'm proud of the way the girls battled and found a way to win a game we shouldn't have won.

It was a great non-conference win for us. We found a way to win on the defensive end even when things were not going out way.

I would say I'm probably tough on her, but I'd say Dad was tough on all of us.

[Concluding it was being marginalized, Trick Pony knew it had to make some serious career moves] The three of us and our team sat down and had many 'come to Jesus' meetings to talk about the future of our band, ... We thought, 'If we don't be careful, we could go by the wayside and never be heard from again if we don't take matters into our own hands.' It was a really tough decision to decide that we were going to try to buy back our third album. ... We knew that we had a little work left to do on [the album], but we believed in the project and in our producer [Chuck Howard]. And we really wanted this music out.