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  1. That is something of a fall. Here is a close up (shaddy because it's a close up) of the pryamid. I've skied the route several times and I couldn't imagine falling. I'm glad he made it. That's one hell of a fall.

     

    Here is a pic of the pryamid from a few years ago...

     

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    We were gonna ski the pyramid, the whole thing in one fell swoop, but the weather looked like it was gonna turn sour from the top of the North Shoulder. Of course, after only a few sprinkles above Price Lake, it was clear as we hiked the Nooksack Cirque Trail back to the car. That's all right, it gives me a reason to drag Fat Boy and Cool Guy up there next year.

     

    Rawk on! When I go though, I want a yellow like. Can I. Can I. cool.gifsnaf.gif

  3. First edition "snow sentitals of the northwest" (really cool book by hazard), the life of a western mountaineer (by CE Rusk, might have the book name slightly wrong), and a book on Sun Valley by oppenhiemer, signed (shows pictures of some cool skiing of skiers in the 50's or so). Lots of others, but I can't remember the names exactly. One book has a picture of edmund hillary glued in. I thought that was cool.

  4. Hey, I'm sick too. You gave this to me didn't you! Well, I otta...kick your &*&*****& **^%. You should try night time, stuffy nose, decongestent, cough kind. I hear that's the good stuff.

  5. As for Indians visiting stuff - I dunno. I kinda doubt the Indians were out there wandering around on some high ridge in the middle of nowhere. Why would they? - no food, shelter up there. Have you ever heard of any FAs by Indians?

    Of course not. It's not an FA unless you're a white guy and write it up someplace for other white guys to read.

     

    It's hard to imagine a population in an area for upwards of 12,000 years bothering to wander around on some high ridge in the middle of nowhere, far from 7-Elevens or anything useful.

     

    Finding out what the indians did/accomplished 12 thousand years ago when we don't even know what happened 100 years ago isn't really relevant to the discussion (though interesting wink.gif). I'm sure they did many things we don't know about. Indians are aid.

  6. The assessment of the risks inherent to kayaking are genuine. The article did a fine job (quite surprising really). When it comes to kayaking we often do make choices as the kayaker would. Looking at Klende's Big 4 story ( web page ) you see several examples that correlate with the kayaker analogy. We use our experience to justify our choices as wise decision making thus limiting risk. What we instead do is ignore the "log underneath the water" or in Klende's story "The chance that an avalanche would miss them". Risk assessment and chance? In life you balance the two and hope that fate doesn't bear down on you. Does familiarity limit risk? Not always. In kayaking familiarity can be your worst enemy. This familiarity allows you to justify not assessing your risk (not scouting the rapid or in climbing, not watching a weather report because you can find your way to muir in any storm and decide to leave your jacket behind). What does all this boil down to? Ha, I wish I knew. I guess, be consistent and don’t let familiarity justify faulty decision making.

  7. I agree timmy, a great thread!!! I think anyplace that comands the moment, is the place that I find most powerful.

     

    Where was I inside of my mind?

    Was I lost? Where was time?

    I stood still, I couldn’t feel

    and the THERE I will never know

    The HERE is my only road....JLH

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