On the Glacier with a Fat Kid (was Mountaineers)

[DirtyHarry]

If you are travelling in a party of five or more and soembody falls in, as long as they didn't fall in unroped and end up wedged between ice walls you are almost certainly going to have sufficient strength/rope/etc. to pull them out no matter how little you have practiced any technical rescue skills.

 

 

That's why you should always cross a glacier tied to a fat kid.

Edited May 5, 2006 by Off_White

[Eerie]

That's why you should always cross a glacier tied to a fat kid.

 

Right. So the fat kid can pull you down a crevasse when he crashes thru a snowbridge diving for the krispy creme he dropped.

[DirtyHarry]

[RocNoggin]

That's why you should always cross a glacier tied to a fat kid.

 

Right. So the fat kid can pull you down a crevasse when he crashes thru a snowbridge diving for the krispy creme he dropped.

 

at least you will have a nice cushion to land on! and you know that the fat kid will get wedged between the walls of the crevase before you will so you should have plenty to room to climb out!

[Dechristo]

...and, should you need to await rescue, you'll have plenty to eat.

[DirtyHarry]

And since it'll be real cold in the crevasse you can cut always cut open his belly and crawl in, ton ton style.

[olyclimber]

That's why you should always cross a glacier tied to a fat kid.

 

Right. So the fat kid can pull you down a crevasse when he crashes thru a snowbridge diving for the krispy creme he dropped.

 

at least you will have a nice cushion to land on! and you know that the fat kid will get wedged between the walls of the crevase before you will so you should have plenty to room to climb out!

like a human chock stone

[Off_White]

more of an upgrade, like a padded, heated chockstone.

[olyclimber]

Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known. The fat kid sat facing him and waiting. The brief day drew to a close in a long, slow twilight. There were no signs of a fire to be made, and, besides, never in the fat kid's experience had it known a man to sit like that in the snow and make no fire. As the twilight drew on, its eager yearning for the fire mastered it, and with a great lifting and shifting of forefeet, it whined softly, then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chidden by the man. But the man remained silent. Later, the fat kid whined loudly. And still later it crept close to the man and caught the scent of death. This made the fat kid bristle and back away. A little longer it delayed, howling under the stars that leaped and danced and shone brightly in the cold sky. Then it turned and trotted up the trail in the direction of the camp it knew, where were the other food-providers and fire-providers.

[Off_White]

That reads like the kind of fantasy one might have while passed out in the middle of Lake Ozette.

[olyclimber]

if i had had a fat kid with me at ozette, i surely would have cut him open and crawled into his stomach for warmth

[DirtyHarry]

you could have lured him with the box of snickers.

[kij]

Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known. The fat kid sat facing him and waiting. The brief day drew to a close in a long, slow twilight. There were no signs of a fire to be made, and, besides, never in the fat kid's experience had it known a man to sit like that in the snow and make no fire. As the twilight drew on, its eager yearning for the fire mastered it, and with a great lifting and shifting of forefeet, it whined softly, then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chidden by the man. But the man remained silent. Later, the fat kid whined loudly. And still later it crept close to the man and caught the scent of death. This made the fat kid bristle and back away. A little longer it delayed, howling under the stars that leaped and danced and shone brightly in the cold sky. Then it turned and trotted up the trail in the direction of the camp it knew, where were the other food-providers and fire-providers.

 

Jack London's always so cheerful. And cold.

[G-spotter]

In Oregon, trees grow on the glaciers.

[foraker]

could you make that image a big bigger Dru, it's not fitting on my screen.....

[G-spotter]

 

Here in Canada, we don't need fat kids cause we have Sno Cats!

[foraker]

the locals ain't much too look at either

[G-spotter]

If you can't find a fat kid, this guy will happily rope up with you for Half Dome ski descents! Edited May 5, 2006 by G-spotter

[KaskadskyjKozak]

like a human chock stone

 

like a human snow-bridge.

[cj001f]

like a human snow-bridge.

no, those are french tourists in the alps

[EWolfe]

Hey, there's a cool new slab climb in the crater of St Helens!

 

Anyone seen it?

[Crux]

FA Fat Slab -- TR?

[Chaps]

GROW UP ALREADY! making fun of people who are gifted with extra body wieght is so immature.

[DirtyHarry]

are you a fat kid?