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The panic when the first notes of the tune-up start and you are still outside the gates is real.

I have a reason to be on that land that day so aligning best for killing several birds with one stone. I leave for the West Coast early the next morning so I need to take what I can get.

Close enough for me....

Friends of ours have a couple hundred acres in Bethel, ME and is forecasted to be 99.42% obscured, so hoping for clear weather.

In the 90's we won tickets to the Museum of Science in Boston, where the Everest IMAX movie was being shown. I believe it was the first, or one of the first, IMAX theatres. There was a short film, that he was in the process of making when the '96 Everest tragedy struck. He abandoned his film...

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/02/20/hiker-describes-11-hour-ordeal-after-falling-on-mount-washington-admits-he-was-underprepared/ His side of the story. Let you read the entire story, seems to not dispute anything. Interesting, PB, the reason he declined the ambulance was just...

I was taken out at the knees on Hancock and never really been the same.

One could argue that people were less prepared then vs. now. I know I was. I was caught on top of Bondcliff in the pouring rain with nothing more than a pair of jeans, Timberland boots, a ratty backpack that contained a nylon (not waterproof) jacket, and apple, a granola bar, and a can of...

Sledding injury... What goes around comes around.

Haven't been by in years and assume it's overrun, but the Lincoln Woods area used to be good for introductory sites. Three Ponds Wilderness (Plymouth area) has some backcountry spots to set up and are easy to get to.

Meaning, if someone is lost and worried over costs to be found, there is a theory they won't call. Yet, their loved one has called. The "Search" for them is what is most expensive, not the rescue part.

The "Search" part of the Search and Rescue is the most expensive.

Of course, with no data to support it, I'd say 99% of inexperienced hikers complete their activity with no issues and nobody ever talks about it....

Keep telling yourself that

I understand, but I don't make the rules, either. Unless it's outside the climbing season, it would be impossible to climb Everest via the South Col route truly solo today.