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its been such a dry winter, hopefully this will help us stay out of high fire risk season this summer for 2 or 3 weeks longer than it is currently predicted.
espressoself wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 10:02 am
Thinking about posting a TR wherein I hike to the grocery store with flotation and my axe.
Hey it beats the 100,000 summer trip reports we get for grays, bierstadt, and evans.
I'm just hoping this storm actually means we get a couloir season, and that fire danger will be down slightly. I want that chicago basin train to actually run.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. -Nelson Mandela
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego. -Nietzsche
Trotter wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 12:35 pm
I want that chicago basin train to actually run.
I think it's much more enjoyable to backpack in from purgatory or up from Vallecito and have fewer people in the basin. Feels more like an adventure and less like a concert on the grass at fiddler's. To each their own.
RobLowe wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 11:01 am
Please include your round trip time to and from in that conditions report and number of people you saw along the way.
Absolutely, I'll also post my GPX and some waypoints for base camps 1-4. Wish me luck, I'm off to review the crevasse rescue section of Freedom of the Hills, which will undoubtedly come in handy.
RobLowe wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 11:01 am
Please include your round trip time to and from in that conditions report and number of people you saw along the way.
Absolutely, I'll also post my GPX and some waypoints for base camps 1-4. Wish me luck, I'm off to review the crevasse rescue section of Freedom of the Hills, which will undoubtedly come in handy.
"I felt as though I were plunging into something new and quite abnormal. I had the strangest and most vivid impressions, such as I had never before known in the grocery store. There was something unnatural in the way I saw the produce section and every fruit in it. I smiled to myself at the paltriness of our efforts, for I could stand apart and watch myself purchasing those Pop-Tarts. But all sense of exertion was gone, as though there were no longer any price tags. This diaphanous store, this quintessence of shopping - this was not the King Sooper's I knew: this was the King Sooper's of my dreams." -Espressice Selfzog, Annasoopa's, The epic account of a grocery conquest ~ and its harrowing aftermath.