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Thread: Missing Skier on Mount Adams
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07-10-2012, 09:30 PM #1
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Missing Skier on Mount Adams
Here's hoping this turns out to be a small communication breakdown. There were a lot of errant tracks heading to the cliffs SE of the lunch counter that day. We skied right up to one, had to climb a bit to get around them.
http://www.krem.com/news/Seattle-doc...161925775.html
Again, positive thoughts for the Seattle doctor."We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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07-10-2012, 10:26 PM #2
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Hope he just got lost and finds his way. You can easily end up 10 miles from where you intended if you ski down the wrong ridge.
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07-10-2012, 10:45 PM #3
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He's been found
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/seat...t-adams/nPqdP/Hugh Conway is my moral compass.
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07-11-2012, 01:22 PM #4
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Well that's good news. Thx S.
So many of these have turned out badly lately."We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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07-11-2012, 02:12 PM #5
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shit, I know some of the Wildsnow crew that ski'd the chutes a few days ago, everyone of these stories from up there recently has given me a moment of panic.
Very glad that this didn't end up being another Volcano tragedy in this year. With accidents on Hood/Baker/Rainier an Adams ski accident would've been so extra shitty.
All the bad news freaks out parents back home when they read about deaths on the routes they know you and you're friends are attempting/completed, makes them less supportive
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07-11-2012, 05:26 PM #6
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wow, that is great news that he was found healthy an un-injured. way to many stories with not happy endings. im from the EC but have friends that ski that area frequently, and my stomach sank when i heard this. very easy to get lost. he had a cell, i wonder if he had service and if he had a radio with him. either way glad this turned out okay.
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07-11-2012, 06:31 PM #7
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Glad they found him or he found his way out. This seems to happen a couple times every year on Adams, sometimes it makes the news sometimes it doesn't. Happened multiple times last year.
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07-11-2012, 06:40 PM #8
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Yup. It's pretty easy to get disoriented in that maze of moraines and ravines.
Originally Posted by Patarero
Glad to hear the guy is okay.
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