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Thanks! Appreciate the extra details I can add in. The book needs to be sent off on Monday so I'll probably have some more questions like this over the next couple of days. It'll come back to me at the end of the week for revisions that will be due at the end of the month. And that's when I'll really have to make sure what I wrote is plausible/makes sense! Back to work!

Thank you! :kisss: Figured it might be a little different from the kids and I stopping to eat a bar and drink some water for a few minutes on the side of a run. Especially appreciate the jacket info because I don't have them wearing them on the way up!

Resort skier trying to write about bc. A couple questions: If you're back country skiing on a powder day and stop to have a snack/drink, would you put down a pad to sit on or just sit on snow? If on pad, is there a specific type of pad it is so the reader wouldn't be left wondering what this thing is. I wanted to add that one of the party is struggling from the uphill skinning and needs to rest so this might be a longer than normal break. Also anything they might have with them besides probe/beacon/shovel that I might not think of. Thanks!

Haha. Keep them coming! Never even thought of the shaking and slapping. So it might have been a couple of years ago, but I seem to remember someone on this site posting that they taped one of those emergency blanket packages inside their helmet and it really helped during an unplanned bivy one time. Does anyone remember that or has anyone done that? It stuck in my brain for some reason.

Oh, wow. Great stuff here. Thank you! Thank you! Fantastic link. So sweet, Gene. Love the proposal story so much! Now to figure out my heroine's scenario from all this. Thanks again! :kisss: You all are awesome!

Anyone have a really uncomfortable night they spent out on a climb? I'm looking for something for my mountain rescuer heroine. She's climbed throughout the Cascades and in Alaska, if that helps with her experience level. The night isn't described real time, but comes up in a discussion. I was thinking on a ledge in sketchy weather, but figured this was a good question for here. Any suggestions?

Happy Valentine's Day! :kisss: Found what I needed! Thanks!

Stefan - I actually have an idea for a helicopter rescue floating around in my head. Just not sure if it'll go in this story or the next one. I spoke with a PMR member who was lowered during a rescue on Hood (wasn't taking notes so need to find out more info as to when/circumstances), but I don't know if that's the norm and if not would need to figure out how one of my MRs would be the one lowered rather than military personnel. Again, it's fiction, but I'd like it to be at least plausible.

Just wanted to say thanks for all the help! My editor accepted my proposal today. The first 26 pages take place on Mount Hood in the scenario we worked out here so I was a little nervous since I've never put that much climbing/MR into a story before, but it went over well! I really appreciate all the help here and from those off list, especially those who put up with my phone calls and never ending questions that probably must have sounded so random! But it really helped me dial in these scenes and most especially characters! :kisss: I'll be back with more questions and to fine tune a few details I'm not quite sure about when I get to the next mountain rescue scene. Right now it's all fun and games and flirty stuff. Thanks again. This forum

Yay! My fave cc.com thread :kisss: returns! Thanks guys! :kisss:

Very cool. Congrats to all! Really looking forward to that TR!

Thanks Jay. Glad I asked since I had them being used interchangeably. This came up because my critique partner read the first chapter and she had questions about things/terms I'd used since in her words she and along with most romance readers "know diddly about any of this." So if they climb the north side of Hood (assuming ice and more technical than a slog) with plans to do a ski descent down the south side, would that be alpine climbing or still just a mountain climb? When they're stuck in the snow cave, his partner says he's sounding more like an alpinist than a rock climber. Just want to make sure alpinist is the right term to use. Otherwise I guess he could say mountaineer.

Would an experienced all around climber who is also a mountain rescuer use the terms "mountain climbing" and "alpine climbing" interchangeably? Or would they use one over the other?

Oh, that would be so creepy If I don't use the ceiling collapsing down in this book, I will in another one. That is absolutely frightening, but could be really fun to play with in a scene. Thanks for that, Matt, as well as chiming in on the stove and CO issue. Glad the guy had a lighter to prove his point. In the story, there is enough snow to build a snow cave as the storm develops around them. It's just two people so not that big. Could this be the slow settling snow then? Fiction is all about conflict, but this poor guy's going through enough already! Time for some romance!

I don't remember hearing that story before, Sobo! But I do remember you having some trouble when you took your ex up their on a date. Some sort of storm, right? At least I think that was you. About the stove, yeah, that makes sense. But if I get reader mail about it how about you respond

Question about using stoves inside snow caves. I've read climber blogs, TRs, etc. People use stoves inside snow caves and say they are careful when they do this. But I just can't see my firefighter climber doing this given how many things have already gone wrong for him and his partner on this climb. This might just be too much of my own personality coming through and my not wanting him appear Too Stupid To Live to readers. Anyone want to chime in about using stoves in a snow cave during a winter storm? Right now I have him melting water at the entrance of the snow cave so there's ventilation, yet some protection from wind. Does that make sense or am I totally off base and he wouldn't think twice about using a stove inside the cave?

Yeah, but I'm still recovering from being rear-ended on I-5 in March so no climbing for me until I'm better. Spine/neck issue affecting left arm and hand. But I plan on it! Maybe by the time I write the next book in the series. Fingers crossed! Appreciate you looking at the pics! Knowing that helps.

Been looking at a map of Mt. Hood and Old Chute TRs to understand the setting/terrain a little a better and imagine what my hero would see. I found some TRs from January and February, but none from December. If anyone has time to click on the links to look at the pics, if it was a snowy early December in my book, would it look similar? http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=868610 http://www.summitpost.org/old-chute-2010-winter-ascent/599397

Huge sigh of relief Love the accident summary. Thanks again, Alex :kisss:

Oh, I like that, Alex. Never thought of skis, but that makes a lot of sense and would be visible. Thanks so much So, I have them failing upward to descend on the south side after seeing a lenticular cloud overhead (weather moving in sooner than expected, but they're trying to beat it) Not sure if that's how a climber would assess and react to the situation though, so I may be taking some literary license here with my fictional ones. If that thinking is plausible, I'm hoping it will also work w/skis since a skiing descent would be faster. Any opinion? And then I could have the one fall on skis instead. Right now I have him falling in a chute on the way down from the summit and they end up in a snow cave on the Hogsback. Could a fall on skis put him in approx. the same location with similar injuries? I've got him with broken ankle, hurt knee, fractured wrist and various cuts/bruises.

I need a climber to mark a snow cave so rescuers can see it. It's stormy outside if that matters. In the scene I have the uninjured climber use his ice axe handle to clear the air vent inside and the packs to cover the entrance. They were climbing up the North side so not sure they would have carried wands (correct me if I'm mistaken about that.) Would his partner's ice axe work as a marker (and be visible enough) or would you use something else?

Thanks, Iain! :kisss: BTW, there's an orange coat in the prologue of the first book

The tagline of this you tube video is Team 11 digs into the hogsback. Any idea where on the hosgback this could be? Looking for general location and approximate altitude. Nothing exact. Thanks! [video:youtube]R_RjIxFe83c

Thanks DPS and tanstaafl. I'll use your posts to put together an itinerary of his travels. Some of these spots I've heard of. Some I haven't. Can't wait to research the new places

Need some backstory help. Not sure how much of this will make it into the book, but I need to figure out where my hero would have gone if he'd spent a couple years rock climbing and not really doing anything else (wealthy family so assuming money wouldn't have been an issue). I'm guessing he would have spent time in Yosemite. Joshua Tree, too? Anywhere else? Thanks. Forgot - not sure if it's possible, but could he have learned some technical rigging skills during this time? That would come in very handy storyline wise.