Mountain climbing

[TheSportsPredictor]

I notice no one is wondering what happened to cisforkoke.

Was he the one with the Cookie Monster avatar?

Me know other thing that start with a C!

 

[TyWebb]

Was he the one with the Cookie Monster avatar?

Me know other thing that start with a C!

Has to be a coincidence? Right?

 

[Dick Whitman]

No 14er for us. Mrs. Whitman won't do it.

 

[MileHigh]

Huh. Too bad. I've never done Sneffels, but it has a reputation as being one of the easier ones, along with Grays and Torreys (usually knock both of those off in one day) as well as Bierstadt (I've done that one twice).

Sneffels isn't particularly long by 14er standards and almost every climb is safe, especially with a guide. Oh well. Her loss. Enjoy Colorado.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Huh. Too bad. I've never done Sneffels, but it has a reputation as being one of the easier ones, along with Grays and Torreys (usually knock both of those off in one day) as well as Bierstadt (I've done that one twice).

Sneffels isn't particularly long by 14er standards and almost every climb is safe, especially with a guide. Oh well. Her loss. Enjoy Colorado.

Thanks. She's just not having it. Says she wants to enjoy herself out there, "not defy death." She just kept looking up pictures and descriptions and kept calling me ("Um ... it says we need a helmet and harness") with the latest alarming find.

Just wasn't worth trying to convince her anymore.

 

[MileHigh]

You clearly know her better than I do and when to push. Probably best so as to make the rest of the trip enjoyable.

 

[Dick Whitman]

You clearly know her better than I do and when to push. Probably best so as to make the rest of the trip enjoyable.

Hiked to 12,000 feet today. Blue Lakes Trail in the Sneffels range. My God, my eyes have never seen such beauty.

 

[SpeedTchr]

My God, my eyes have never seen such beauty.

Don't say that around the Mrs.

 

[Riptide]

Hiked to 12,000 feet today. Blue Lakes Trail in the Sneffels range. My God, my eyes have never seen such beauty.

Great news, thanks. Hope you're getting some rest out there.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Great news, thanks. Hope you're getting some rest out there.

What's the point of this post?

Just being a jackass?

 

[KJIM]

Seems as good a thread as any to bring this up:
Swiss Couple Missing For 75 Years Found Frozen On Glacier | HuffPost

Couple gone missing in WWII era found frozen in the Alps. One of the stories I read led me to Google "dead bodies Everest," and the stories of all the corpses fascinated me to no end. Green Boots disappeared mysteriously, and Sleeping Beauty eventually was removed and got a funeral.

I read BBC's stuff:
Death in the clouds: The problem with Everest’s 200+ bodies
The tragic tale of Mt Everest’s most famous dead body

Familiar tale of tragedy as record numbers tackle Everest - BBC News

 

[Dick Whitman]

Seems as good a thread as any to bring this up:
Swiss Couple Missing For 75 Years Found Frozen On Glacier | HuffPost

Couple gone missing in WWII era found frozen in the Alps. One of the stories I read led me to Google "dead bodies Everest," and the stories of all the corpses fascinated me to no end. Green Boots disappeared mysteriously, and Sleeping Beauty eventually was removed and got a funeral.

I read BBC's stuff:
Death in the clouds: The problem with Everest’s 200+ bodies
The tragic tale of Mt Everest’s most famous dead body

Familiar tale of tragedy as record numbers tackle Everest - BBC News

I did the same thing you did one day, went down the Everest corpse rabbit hole.

 

[Dick Whitman]

One thing that struck me while I was out there in the mountains this weekend was how much we politicize something like conservationism. The people who live in places like SW Colorado aren't protective of the mountains because they are left-wing looney tunes. They are protective because they genuinely respect the mountains. (And the streams and the forests, etc.)

(Same with the way the left tends to view religious people.)

 

[MileHigh]

Hiked to 12,000 feet today. Blue Lakes Trail in the Sneffels range. My God, my eyes have never seen such beauty.

Nice. There's not much better scenery in the country than southwest Colorado.

One thing that struck me while I was out there in the mountains this weekend was how much we politicize something like conservationism. The people who live in places like SW Colorado aren't protective of the mountains because they are left-wing looney tunes. They are protective because they genuinely respect the mountains. (And the streams and the forests, etc.)

(Same with the way the left tends to view religious people.)

Agree with this, and it's mostly a statewide thing. We're very protective of what we have here -- and I certainly would not put myself in the left-wing looney tunes camp.

Anytime we put up a story on our site about damage to mountain areas in the state or people jacking things up, they get many clicks and many responses.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Nice. There's not much better scenery in the country than southwest Colorado.



Agree with this, and it's mostly a statewide thing. We're very protective of what we have here -- and I certainly would not put myself in the left-wing looney tunes camp.

Anytime we put up a story on our site about damage to mountain areas in the state or people jacking things up, they get many clicks and many responses.

I was sick two of three nights and still loved it. Night 1 I overindulged on the, uh, local culture. Night 3 got altitude sickness. Still had a great stay. I think next time we'll stay in Ridgway or somewhere different to get away from the Telluride "scene" a little bit.

 

[MileHigh]

Ridgway is cool. You can still get to Telluride in an hour. Ouray is 10 minutes to the south. Durango is another couple of hours south of there, but you'll want to stop along the way to see all the scenery. I've always recommended taking the Durango-Silverton train.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Ridgway is cool. You can still get to Telluride in an hour. Ouray is 10 minutes to the south. Durango is another couple of hours south of there, but you'll want to stop along the way to see all the scenery. I've always recommended taking the Durango-Silverton train.

Is it worth driving a couple hours over to Utah?

 

[User 11148]

Durango is another couple of hours south of there, but you'll want to stop along the way to see all the scenery. I've always recommended taking the Durango-Silverton train.

Was in Durango a couple of weeks ago for a golf outing. Played Glacier Club, just north of Durango ... hardest ******* course I've ever played (and I've played some biggies). Beautiful course, beautiful scenery, but dayumnation.

 

[MileHigh]

Is it worth driving a couple hours over to Utah?

Depends what you want to do. Moab is cool. You're pretty far away from the really sweet national parks. Utah is very underrated. Lots of incredible scenery over there but it's more central and west of the state. If you're going to stay in Ridgway and want to drive somewhere, I'd highly recommend Mesa Verde as well as the loop, from Ridgway south to Durango, west to Cortez, north through Dolores, Rico and Telluride and back to Ridgway.