gregm

i can't believe this actually happened

this was on the seattle SAR page. it happened sunday: Subject reported that they had skied 1/2 down Granite Mtn and went back upfor another 'run'. From very near the top, they started skiing down, andthere was a 12-14 inch slab fracture, which carried subject down. Hereported trying to keep on top, and felt he was doing OK, but when he cameto rest, he felt 'lots' of snow continuing to come down and bury him. He'stuck an arm out' and put his other arm in front of his face. Then'quiet'. Subject's friend reported that he watched his friend being carried downentire face of Granite, from almost top to tree line, a couple of thousandfeet below. When his friend disappeared in avalanche debris, he thoughtthat was it. He worked his way down and began searching. He 'spotted anarm' sticking out of the snow, and yelling brought back his friend'sresponse. He then telephoned '911'. He was able to get his friend out, anddetermined there were no injuries. They then began walking out.

this thread has now gone to two pages. thank you.

quote: Originally posted by Nelly: Certainly, he has a far better chance of getting a talented and experienced instructor through RMI than say the Mountaineers or Mazamas. i've heard when RMI hires guides they have fairly little interest in how much climbing experience applicants have; that they are more interested in finding charismatic, out-going individuals who are in good shape and then spending a few days teaching them what they need to know to drag clients up the mountain. i'm sure guides who come back and do it for more than one season learn a fair bit from their experiences, but i wouldn't assume your RMI guide knows that much more than your well versed weekend warrior. they are not professional guides like in europe...

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There are strange things done in the midnight sunBy the men who moil for gold;The Arctic trails have their secret talesThat would make your blood run cold;The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,But the queerest they ever did seeWas that night on the marge of Lake LebargeI cremated Sam McGee. Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee,where the cotton blooms and blows.Why he left his home in the South to roam'round the Pole, God only knows.He was always cold, but the land of goldseemed to hold him like a spell;Though he'd often say in his homely waythat he'd "sooner live in hell". On a Christmas Day we were mushing our way over the Dawson trail.Talk of your cold! through the parka's foldit stabbed like a driven nail.If our eyes we'd close, then the lashes frozetill sometimes we couldn't see;It wasn't much fun, but the only one to whimper was Sam McGee. And that very night, as we lay packed tightin our robes beneath the snow,And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'erheadwere dancing heel and toe,He turned to me, and "Cap," says he, "I'll cash in this trip, I guess;And if I do, I'm asking that you won't refuse my last request." Well, he seemed so low that I couldn't say no;then he says with a sort of moan:"It's the cursed cold, and it's got right holdtill I'm chilled clean through to the bone.Yet 'tain't being dead -- it's my awful dreadof the icy grave that pains;So I want you to swear that, foul or fair,you'll cremate my last remains." A pal's last need is a thing to heed, so I swore I would not fail;And we started on at the streak of dawn;but God! he looked ghastly pale.He crouched on the sleigh, and he raved all dayof his home in Tennessee;And before nightfall a corpse was all that was left of Sam McGee. There wasn't a breath in that land of death,and I hurried, horror-driven,With a corpse half hid that I couldn't get rid,because of a promise given;It was lashed to the sleigh, and it seemed to say:"You may tax your brawn and brains,But you promised true, and it's up to youto cremate those last remains." Now a promise made is a debt unpaid,and the trail has its own stern code.In the days to come, though my lips were dumb,in my heart how I cursed that load.In the long, long night, by the lone firelight,while the huskies, round in a ring,Howled out their woes to the homeless snows --O God! how I loathed the thing. And every day that quiet clay seemed to heavy and heavier grow;And on I went, though the dogs were spentand the grub was getting low;The trail was bad, and I felt half mad,but I swore I would not give in;And I'd often sing to the hateful thing, and it hearkened with a grin. Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay;It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a triceit was called the "Alice May".And I looked at it, and I thought a bit,and I looked at my frozen chum;Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum." Some planks I tore from the cabin floor, and I lit the boiler fire;Some coal I found that was lying around, and I heaped the fuel higher;The flames just soared, and the furnace roared --such a blaze you seldom see;And I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal, and I stuffed in Sam McGee. Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so;And the heavens scowled, and the huskies howled,and the wind began to blow.It was icy cold, but the hot sweat rolleddown my cheeks, and I don't know why;And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak went streaking down the sky. I do not know how long in the snow I wrestled with grisly fear;But the stars came out and they danced aboutere again I ventured near;I was sick with dread, but I bravely said:"I'll just take a peep inside.I guess he's cooked, and it's time I looked";. . .then the door I opened wide. And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm,in the heart of the furnace roar;And he wore a smile you could see a mile,and he said: "Please close that door.It's fine in here, but I greatly fearyou'll let in the cold and storm --Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee,it's the first time I've been warm." There are strange things done in the midnight sunBy the men who moil for gold;The Arctic trails have their secret talesThat would make your blood run cold;The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,But the queerest they ever did seeWas that night on the marge of Lake LebargeI cremated Sam McGee. "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W. Service loosely relevant perhaps? i've always loved this one. [ 03-07-2002: Message edited by: gregm ]

quote: Originally posted by Dru: Just it wished to say that " you inhale " the individuals that smoke in the hut of the trepadores Saturday. I (this one is my opinion, and mine only) thinks that experience was very desconsiderado to ruin each one another one in such day to fill the hut of smoke of the crucible. I really enjoyed seating to me outside in the cold whereas you obtained your ignited furrow. True elegant people. I bet that he is great to be hummed for above in 10.000 feet. I watch outside towards for the paradise and the glacier of Nisqually in his way down ** Time-out ** to know I probable to be able to close of blow in this subject since I to be safe one great using amount in this card to be potheads, etc, (only one assumption since to be there much to thread class) but I to so have never to be pissed in 10.000 foot. you're not still talking about the original subject are you?

i can't help but feel a pain in my heart knowing this meaningless waste of bandwidth could be taking place over in "muir on saturday" - where all good spray belongs.

quote: Originally posted by Rainier Wolfscastle: 9.4mm X 70m hotline dry $1199.4mm X 70m hotline $99 do we really need 70m ropes? are we going to start seeing existing rap anchors spaced 35 and 70m apart? the main reason i see for carrying a 60 is you will find existing rap anchors spaced for these ropes and it can suck if you only have a 50. i don't want to be carrying heavy ropes around. can't we just have everybody use normal length ropes and stop the insanity?

quote: Originally posted by vegetablebelay: Last Spring on Whitehorse while coming down from High Pass, we saw a family headed up toward the pass and each was carrying a long (8') stick. They were wearing blue jeans and other odd mountainwear and they weren't very friendly no shit! i think i must have seen that same family right below lone tree pass the year before. my climbing partner was SAR and politely suggested they turn around, to which the oldest guy replies that he's "lived his whole life a couple miles from here." i still don't know what was up with those huge sticks, they were pretty thick too. and some of those kids were pretty young.

buy replacement straps for OR gators and sew them on. $2 and 5 minutes.

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quote: Originally posted by Dru: 4:20 comes at 3:56 today. bye. slacker!

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quote: Originally posted by vegetablebelay: We'll never make it to 25 at this rate you have to believe!

on my moniter at least it looks like when this thread gets to about 25 pages it will push the margins on the spray main page. i wonder if it will wrap or create a scroll bar at the bottom???????

quote: Originally posted by vegetablebelay: Hey, I finally get to contribute to this thread! we're waiting...

in netscape 6 the word "freshie" appears 3 times on the front page. do we have to wait for netscape 7 for that to be fixed?

i'm going to write a screenplay about caveman and adamson being missing. it will be called "silence of the hams". i don't know if jodie foster will be available so we might have to settle for drew barrymore.

quote: Originally posted by Dru: taz=trask=moron? dru + erik = taz?

the nuge posts on a telemarktips.com. i think this is interesting in relation to the "where are the greats" thread. http://www.telemarktalk.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=322&forum=1