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  1. #76
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    It hurts so good! heh

    But seriously fellas, great journey, write-up and photos and thanks much for sharing.

  2. #77
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    kick ass summit. Luckily you didn't join the lost souls in el rio de las animas perdidas.
    .....Visit my website. .....

    "a yin without a yang"

  3. #78
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    Nice death march.

  4. #79
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    Awesome. Way to get after it.

  5. #80
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    Great trip report. I love trips like this, that are planned with maps and recon outings. These days it is too easy to just pick up a guide book and take off on a preplanned trip. Nice Work!


    Quote Originally Posted by McClelland View Post

    put your ego on ice
    Take your own advise kid.
    BEWARE OF FEMALE SPIES

  6. #81
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    Awesome TR.

  7. #82
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    Goals are good but don't let them kill you.
    Pussy.

    SAR groups exist because of people like you.
    Well, yeah, I guess your right about that. Good thing dudes like Summit are willing to sacrifice to ensure the safety of others. Good to know they do training like this for when they have to rescue my ass!
    Last edited by tone capone; 04-28-2009 at 12:30 PM.
    "The skis just popped me up out of the snow and I went screaming down the hill on a high better than any heroin junkie." She Ra

  8. #83
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    I vote McClelland for armchair quarterback of the year award!

    But seriously nice work, friggin' awesome TR, and thanks for the inspiration.

  9. #84
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    Nice McClelland. All this TR needed was a butt-hurt hater whose Mom bought him an Outward Bound trip for graduation.

    Serious question for Summit: if you were to do it over again, would you bring the cross-country set-up? I know they don't weigh much, but still.
    Do you by chance happen to own a large, yellowish, very flat cat?

  10. #85
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    This TR was definitely worth waiting for, Summit! What a nice distraction from biodiversity bullshit
    Added much needed smiles to my day...... especially this stuff:
    (i am laughing out loud.)


    Quote Originally Posted by Summit View Post
    Adimmen: (getting water for breakfast) “If I’d have fallen into the creek with my Jetboil, I think I would have had a psychotic break.”
    Summit: “Meh, I’d just mutter ‘figures’ and go catatonic.”

    Summit: “Besides, it really isn’t a normal trip for *you* until you fall through the ice.”
    Later that day, Adimmen fell through a snow bridge into the creek while filling nalgenes. I had been worried up until that point.

    Summit: “Wait, so exactly how many times have you woken up with your tent upside down.”
    Adimmen: “Uh… four… maybe five…”

    Summit: “Why are we here?
    Adimmen: “We chose this.”
    Summit: “What, like voluntarily?”
    Adimmen: “I think so…”
    Summit: “That makes no sense at all.”
    Adimmen: “We should seek professional help.”

    Adimmen: "Maybe a shop will have an extra crampon."
    Summit: "I need TWO crampons."
    Adimmen: "I thought you only lost one crampon?"
    Summit: "The other is not lost. I know exactly where it is. We had a little disagreement when it came time to put my XC skis back on."

    Observation: When you are pushing along and suffering like that, it certainly lets you process a lot of stuff. Catharsis through agony is the way of the warrior... or the idiot...

  11. #86
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    Very admirable vision quest.

  12. #87
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    mclelland = took a guided backpacking trip once

  13. #88
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    Quote Originally Posted by McClelland View Post
    Wow! There have been numerous comments that echo this but I am using "wow" as in I am amazed at how Darwinism has not caught up with you yet. Although I admire the determination, you need to take a Wilderness skills course (like one taught by NOLS) to learn how to pack your pack, carry less, and do things in style. What a junk show. Your feet...no excuse to let that happen in the span of 60 or so hours. SAR groups exist because of people like you.
    Again, I am impressed by the determination but for what? So you can write a TR with photos demonstrating that you have no clue how to pack a pack? (FYI: Expedition sized back packs are designed to have equipment inside of them. If you put everything on the outside, then they carry out of balance. Newsflash: All packs carry poorly with more junk strapped to the outside.) Cross icy, swollen rivers? Continue to go up as you post hole deeper? Do us all a favor and put your ego on ice and sign up for (and take) a NOLS Alaska Mountaineering course. Oh, the photo with the gallon jug hanging off your pack...that's really funny. It's spring! There is water every where. You do not have to carry it. Unless of course you want to look like Jed Clampett.
    Being strong, fit and determined only take you so far. It is good to have experiences like this so that you can learn and improve. Goals are good but don't let them kill you.
    Are you kidding me?

    I'm so tired of nanny state faggots like you I could puke.

    Did Lewis and Clark take a NOLS course?

    They went in, and got out without the safety bob douchebag squad aka SAR!

    Nice armchair quarterbacking pussy.

    People can walk around in the mountains and do whatever the fuck they want, how they want. Live and let live, douchebag.

  14. #89
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    that sounds supremely awful.

    well done.
    "The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money" --Margaret Thatcher

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    Quote Originally Posted by McClelland View Post
    Wow! There have been numerous comments that echo this but I am using "wow" as in I am amazed at how Darwinism has not caught up with you yet. Although I admire the determination, you need to take a Wilderness skills course (like one taught by NOLS) to learn how to pack your pack, carry less, and do things in style. What a junk show. Your feet...no excuse to let that happen in the span of 60 or so hours. SAR groups exist because of people like you.
    Again, I am impressed by the determination but for what? So you can write a TR with photos demonstrating that you have no clue how to pack a pack? (FYI: Expedition sized back packs are designed to have equipment inside of them. If you put everything on the outside, then they carry out of balance. Newsflash: All packs carry poorly with more junk strapped to the outside.) Cross icy, swollen rivers? Continue to go up as you post hole deeper? Do us all a favor and put your ego on ice and sign up for (and take) a NOLS Alaska Mountaineering course. Oh, the photo with the gallon jug hanging off your pack...that's really funny. It's spring! There is water every where. You do not have to carry it. Unless of course you want to look like Jed Clampett.
    Being strong, fit and determined only take you so far. It is good to have experiences like this so that you can learn and improve. Goals are good but don't let them kill you.

    Are you Mike Clelland or ST?
    Last edited by ^^^; 04-28-2009 at 01:33 PM.

  16. #91
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    wow, that looks like and sounds like it was hell. badass experience though that you guys will have forever

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    Quote Originally Posted by IrieRon View Post
    Serious question for Summit: if you were to do it over again, would you bring the cross-country set-up? I know they don't weigh much, but still.
    I would have, but I would have left the XC setup at the start of the plowed section instead of pointlessly carrying it for many miles in hopes the snow would return to the tracks. And we both would have brought hiking shoes. Hindsight is 20/20...

    Actually, if we had to do it again, we'd do (and Adimmen advocated) the trip in say Feb (if if *if* the avi conditions allowed) since then maybe the tracks would be snow covered all the way. I would have brought a pull sled for once we got through the first 4 mi of side hilling avi debris, then XC'd the tracks all the way to the ford (which should be super shallow then). That would have made the trip so much easier.

    Of course, with this 20/20 hindsight, coverage in the chutes would have been even shallower that time of year so... meh... sometimes you can't make everything fit. Oh well!
    Quote Originally Posted by blurred
    skiing is hiking all day so that you can ski on shitty gear for 5 minutes.

  18. #93
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    Sumit and Adimmen... Dam good work boys.

    Funny to track down this trip report as my buddy Tyler and I skied on Animas mountian about a month ago. We found and became abscessed with this area in the much the same way as you, good old Google Earth.

    We started by skiing from Molas Pass, off the east side of MT Snuffles and down to the river. Looks like we had more snow then your trip, but were plagued with many of the same problems. We did bring real shoes though, and dam that must of been tuff on the dry tracks in ski boots.

    I'm need to run to work so don't have much time to write. I'll be out of town for a few days after that too.

    Would love to chat more about your trip later on. You can see a small write up on ours at http://www.rhythmsofgravity.blogspot.com/.

    Cheers,
    Evan Ross

  19. #94
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    Hall of Motherfuckin' Fame.
    not counting days 2016-17

  20. #95
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eross View Post
    Would love to chat more about your trip later on. You can see a small write up on ours
    Awesome! Good work! PM sent!
    Quote Originally Posted by blurred
    skiing is hiking all day so that you can ski on shitty gear for 5 minutes.

  21. #96
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    I'm torn between the TR and the NOLS douche as to which was more entertaining.

    Nice work boys. I know that canyon up the tracks and that would suck worse than you described. Animas was worth it. Epic line in a place not many will ever see. Crazy how much awe is hiding back there.

  22. #97
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    Angry

    You guys must have some potent hydro to think that was fecible.

    You should have brought a raft to cross the river, running shoes for running the tracks, moleskin for summy, a 12er of coors light for camp or maybe just used the train.

  23. #98
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    bwahaha, "NOLS douche" ... definitely added a twist to this TR. Wait, how many TRs have YOU posted, NOLSie?

    As for the TR itself - AWESOME. Great writing, great pics, and cool story! Had been waiting for this for a while! Awesome job guys.

  24. #99
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    This has to be one of my favorite TR's of the year! Great work. P_Mcposer has the right idea about rafting in and rafting out. Next time find a friend with a raft. Better yet buy some giant old Dancers off Craigslist and slide the skis in and your boots. It'll be fun.

  25. #100
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    I just re-read this and felt compelled to post again. This TR is awesome. Pics, words, backstory, dedication, etc...

    In my short time as a mag, definitely the best TR I have seen go up.

    Nice work fellas.

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