Hikers Found

[barkernews]

The AP is calling the women "climbers."

Hmmmm.

 

AP-WA--Pilchuck Rescue (Tops)

 

Missing women found

 

GRANITE FALLS, Wash. (AP) - Two missing climbers have been found on Mount Pilchuck. Snohomish County sheriff's Deputy David Hayes says they are in good condition.

Rescuers are bringing the women down to a logging road where a vehicle can bring them the rest of the way out.

They spent two cold nights on the mountain.

The women -- 23 and 32 years old -- are from the Seattle area and work together at an Everett restaurant. They went for a day hike Sunday on the mountain near Granite Falls and lost the trail

on the way down. They called Sunday night by cell phone to report they were lost. They called again yesterday morning to say they were O-K, then the cell phone died.

About four dozen searchers and deputies had been taking part in the search.

[Plinko]

GRANITE FALLS, Wash. (AP) - Two missing climbers

 

 

 

[olyclimber]

Well, if they signed up for extreme sports, what did they think they were getting into? This Pilchuck must be a pretty difficult climb. I assume they survived by eating thier ten essentials?

 

Glad to hear these extremophiles made it out ok.

[Harry_Pi]

Hello capitalist!

Maybe they were climbers having a difficult day. Do any of you know them personally? It must feel great to be an authentic pacific northwest climber.

Thank you for allow me to post my opinion.

[barjor]

It's usally not a great idea to judge someone from the info in a news article.

[archenemy]

It's usally not a great idea to judge someone from the info in a news article.

Fer sure. Best to judge em by their posts.

[Thinker]

Hello capitalist!

Maybe they were climbers having a difficult day. Do any of you know them personally? It must feel great to be an authentic pacific northwest climber.

Thank you for allow me to post my opinion.

 

Yeah, maybe they were looking for that sweet Renton granite and made a wrong turn behind the school and ended up in Granite Falls.

[Alpine_Tom]

GRANITE FALLS, Wash. (AP) - Two missing climbers

 

If you call them 'climbers' in your news story, you can add amunition to the movement to charge climbers for rescues.

[olyclimber]

I see Harry Pi, the Ethical Genius of CC.com has wieghed in again. Another outstanding contribution Harry! But you seem to be taking yourself a little to serious these days. Ease off on the green tea, and sit some zazen. Let go of the anger inside, poseursan.

[Dru]

I found some hikers too

[Bill_Simpkins]

What? The place used to be a ski area. You just fall down the hill and land on the road. You can fall any direction.

Is it even possible to get lost up there? Did they even TRY to retraice their steps a little or did they jsut get away from the trail a bit a called in a rescue. At least these HIKERS are ok.

[mattp]

Have you ever been up there? If you hike downhill from anywhere near the top of the mountain you will end up nowhere near the ski area and you'll go a long way down the hill before you hit any road. Not that it is that hard to follow a trail or, in snow, your tracks leading back down, but people get lost up there fairly regularly.

[olyclimber]

Semantically, it is an interesting problem. There is a strange power in the word "climber" that sets it apart from "hiker". There is a boundary that people have set, and everyone seems to have set it convienient to their own situation. I call myself "olyclimber", but do I deserve such a lofty title? Am I a mere "olyhiker"? It has been said on this board that you must "climb" more than two time a week in order to be a "climber". Others might not call the DC a "climb". Still others tie "climbing" to fun, and an increase in fun is leads to an improvement in your climbing ablility.

 

Defintion:

 

climb

n 1: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't

make the grade" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise,

upgrade] [ant: descent]

2: an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in

altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) [syn: climbing,

mounting]

3: the act of climbing something [syn: mount]

v 1: go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever

climb up the hill behind your house?" [syn: climb up,

mount, go up]

2: move with difficulty, by grasping

3: go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were

lowered" [syn: wax, mount, rise] [ant: wane]

4: slope upward: "The path climbed all the way to the top of

the hill"

5: improve one's social status; "This young man knows how to

climb the social ladder"

6: increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed

steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"

[syn: rise, go up]

 

So, based on the true defintion of the word, they were climbers. Whatever you call them , I'm glad these people are ok, and that would be a heck of a time to spend two nights out like that.

[olyclimber]

I can't believe no one pulled up the Urban dictionary on this one. Of course, there is a definition in the waiting for "climber". However, mountain climber is already defined.