This one, on my first ever alpine climb: (Direct Exum)
http://www.summitpost.org/the-in-direct ... dge/379649
by Kai » Sun Feb 26, 2012 4:55 pm
by ExcitableBoy » Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:30 pm
Daria wrote:Yikes! I went to Mexico to do the volcanoes this past December, and I spent 3 weeks hitchhiking through Mexico. So many repeated warnings from friends, and family demanding that I don't go and high probability I will be kidnapped/not come home/die, etc. etc. But I did not have any incidents down there, except for a dude trying to steal my mountaineering boots in a large grocery store-they were resting in my shopping cart, but I was able to chase him off before he could do the deed haha. Only extremely hospitable locals willing to open their homes for us and even take us out to all paid dinner at Casa Blanca before our Orizaba climb. Maybe it was just my blonde aura, haha.
by lcarreau » Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:19 am
Daria wrote: But I did not have any incidents down there, except for a dude trying to steal my mountaineering boots in a large grocery store-they were resting in my shopping cart, but I was able to chase him off before he could do the deed haha.
by mrchad9 » Mon Feb 27, 2012 3:28 am
by The Chief » Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:02 am
Daria wrote:.....carrying a GPS usually solves this. Simply leaving a waypoint for trail or camp, makes it impossible to get lost.
by mrchad9 » Mon Feb 27, 2012 7:41 am
by mvs » Mon Feb 27, 2012 9:03 am
by mconnell » Mon Feb 27, 2012 12:53 pm
ExcitableBoy wrote:Hard for kids your age to understand, but I grew up before color TV
by lcarreau » Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:15 pm
mconnell wrote:ExcitableBoy wrote:... but using your brain is much more effective at avoiding unplanned bivies (which are almost always caused by a lack of planning or making poor decisions.)
by lcarreau » Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:53 am
by mrchad9 » Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:14 am
by The Chief » Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:49 am
by mrchad9 » Tue Feb 28, 2012 4:55 am
The Chief wrote:From what I have seen in the local hills (Eastern Sierra including the Whitney in a Day extravaganza) the last five or six years, so many are venturing into them hills with such a lackadaisical attitude concerning weather, navigation etc. They carry their cell phones and gps devices with the thought in mind those electronic devices will pull them through any situation that they do not have to use their brains concerning any vital decision making like navigation and pre-trip weather planning.
In most cases, the guys below get called up, end up putting their asses on the line and then going up there to save their asses via the last whisp of the charge on the victims cell....
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