1000Pks wrote:kevin trieu wrote:So your advice is that beginners should be secretive about their plans, not ask about road conditions, not venture into national forests/parks in winter and stay only in ski resorts.
If this is meant for me, never said that. Most astute climbers would have taken note of what's open in as local a National Park as Sequoia/Kings Canyon, suggesting poor observation or plain disinterest.
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Checking your profile, if you are being condescending here, given your SP log, I don't know why you are bothering with this. I'd be on my way, I rarely ask for such advice on the Net. The SKC rangers would be far more reliable and knowledgeable. Or that many times such requests are taken as potential suicides, plain-out ignored.
I wouldn't bother with waiting for any response.
In the original post, he already mentioned he obtained information from the NPS site, but the details there were not thorough.
I don't know why you would discourage someone from trying to obtain information from
any reasonable source, including this site -- or
especially this site. The Internet (including this site), with its gazillion users, is an amazing information source, and that is its
entire purpose (other than porn, of course). And even if some bad information happens to be posted, I'm sure KT is smart enough to sort that out as well.