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Every day in the mountains is like opening a surprise gift.

 

Occasionally, however, you don't exactly get what you asked for.

BUT IF YOU CARRIED A PLU, THEN YOU WOULD GET EXACTLY WHAT YOU ASKED FOR.

 

Ooops, wrong Phil.

 

If Mr. James had carried a PLU and had activated it the day he was injured (Saturday, the 10th) he might have made it out alive.

 

 

Your statement is pretty meaningless.

 

There are thousands of things that they could have carried that *might* have been useful.

 

 

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Every day in the mountains is like opening a surprise gift.

 

Occasionally, however, you don't exactly get what you asked for.

BUT IF YOU CARRIED A PLU, THEN YOU WOULD GET EXACTLY WHAT YOU ASKED FOR.

 

Ooops, wrong Phil.

 

If Mr. James had carried a PLU and had activated it the day he was injured (Saturday, the 10th) he might have made it out alive.

 

 

Your statement is pretty meaningless.

 

There are thousands of things that they could have carried that *might* have been useful.

 

 

But where would we be without Phil here to enlighten us with his amazing power of 20/20 hindsight and ill-informed conjecture?

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The consensus from the climbing community on this forum seems to be that the Mt. Hood party was reasonably well prepared for their objective, which they attempted during a reasonable weather window.

 

Something obviously happened which delayed them until they were pinned down by one of the most ferocious series of storms in our history. No amount of electronic gadgetry would have changed the way events unfolded.

 

As for critiques of this party from non-climbers; frankly, who cares?

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The consensus from the climbing community on this forum seems to be that the Mt. Hood party was reasonably well prepared for their objective, which they attempted during a reasonable weather window.

 

Something obviously happened which delayed them until they were pinned down by one of the most ferocious series of storms in our history.

 

As for critiques of this party from non-climbers; frankly, who cares?

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