Tripling the thanks for offering your knowledge and experiences.

And Ditto-ing the above that I'm glad to hear things worked out for both couples in the end (and yourself, for that matter).

I am curious to know if you know anything about how the hike actually went; what was the purpose of the hike itself; if they actually did manage to raise any money (I notice the itsaboutpower.org website is gone). Obviously I'm inclined to believe that at least something went wrong, but at the same time the fact that I don't really see much anywhere about it leads me to believe that they were at least successful in that.