OT: 35mm Slide Scanners??

[climbgdh]

Anyone here have tackled the project of scanning their 35mm slides? I’ve got several thousand that I’d really like to digitize and currently researching just pulling the trigger and buying a scanner but wanted to see if anyone here has any recommendations? I have a lot of really important (to me) photos from late 80’s and early / mid 90s of climbing expeditions to South America, Alaska and the Himalaya’s that I really need to digitize. There is also the option of sending the slides out but I’d rather tackle it myself as a potential winter project. Any thoughts from PL would be greatly appreciated. I have made sure all my slides have been stored in archival slide box / sleeves so that they don’t deteriorate. TIA for any recommendations.