| Even tho we've been banging back and forth between beautiful dry daze with very low humidity, and then torrential rain storms, thing are mostly dry. That's not to say that some climbs don't have some seeps, and some trails the occasionally muddy spot. But overall you can do almost anything you want to do with impunity! Especially if you can grab the nice day on short notice. [spell retired]
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| AVALANCHE DREAMS: A Memoir of Skiing, Climbing and Life |
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| Louis Dawson describes his life in six sections with each one representing a different era of his life. The forty-three short chapters flow smoothly and keep the reader wanting to explore one more episode at each reading. |
| Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught
without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the
happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step;
and from the beginning think what may be the end. |
| —Edward Whymper, 1865, the first ascent of the Matterhorn |
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Al Hospers climbing, Brian Post belaying on a beautiful fall morning.
Rapid Transit, Cathedral Ledge |
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| When I first began climbing I had no idea there was such a thing as climbing literature. A few years into it, I was hanging out with all these AMC types. It seemed they were all a hundred years old and knew a lot more than me. I made a fool of my self in a conversation when I admitted to not knowing who Fred Becky was |
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