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therelic
Apr 14, 2008, 4:49 PM
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Registered: Aug 11, 2002
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BrokenClimber, thanks for the essay it is well written. I am sure what you wrote will save someone somewhere sometime.
I started solo cross-country wilderness travel in the mountains when I was sixteen years old, I am now sixty five years old and still at it. I climb, scramble and try to go where very few if any people have traveled before. There is no cell phone reception and no helicopter rescue. In fact no one could possibly even know where I am or if I have had an accident. If I screw up I die and I know it.
One of the primary reasons I am typing this today is because people like you have told their story. Or worse their stories have been told after analysis of their demise. I have always kept these incidents in the front of my mind and done my very best to not make the same mistakes, so far so good. I have several more trips planned this year and I will make sure whenever the situation allows for it I will either have a knot in the end of my rope or that both ends of my rope are on the ground.
Thanks for telling your story. Good luck to you in the future.
Bill
(This post was edited by therelic on Apr 14, 2008, 4:53 PM)
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