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Re: Gore Range: South Fork Black Creek peak bag...
A loop above Bakerville.
Re: Two obscure 12ers on a smoky day
Re: My big Platoro loop - sometimes it pays to ...
Re: A rare visit to Memory Lane
The Annual Bierstadt Climb 6/23/26
Re: The Big Beautiful Loop rides again.
Re: Meet Me in Saint Louis
Re: A tough but rewarding day in the Raggeds
Re: Looking forward to a long day …
Re: Say Yes! to some amazing views
Re: (not) A big, beautiful loop
Re: Mt Trelease and a visit to airplane crash site
Re: Buck 'o' my eye
Re: Grenadiers: Wham Ridge, the Trinity's, and ...
“Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, or only the ridges or faces. We should refuse none of the thousands and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also to go slowly and to contemplate.
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-- Gaston Rebuffat
A young mountaineer was walking around a field in Long Island when he came across an old lamp. He rubbed the lamp and suddenly a genie appeared before him. "For freeing me I will grant you one wish," said the genie. "I wish that there was a bridge from New York to London so I don't get ripped off every time I go on vacation," said the mountaineer. "I'm sorry, but I can't do that," said the genie. "It would be too much change. Thousands of people would be put out of work. Government revenue would be reduced dramatically. It would mess up too many people's lives." So the mountaineer thought for a second and said, "OK, then. I'm a mountaineer and I'm tired of everyone making fun of me. I wish that mountaineers were as smart or smarter than everyone else in the world." The genie said, "Would you like two lanes or four?"