"Because it's there."

[veryblueeyes]

Well, Snowbear is here, as well. I shall let you men speak and sit back and admire. As I think you dudes are more into ascent and I am living into decent into the ocean.

 

[thør]

I'm still not convinced he's fully human. And yeah, carbon-fiber...Reinhold would say we're continuing to "murder the impossible."

Some guys are superhuman. It seems that today, all you need to get to the top of the big E is to be in very good physical shape and to have money.

 

[thør]

Well, Snowbear is here, as well. I shall let you men speak and sit back and admire. As I think you dudes are more into ascent and I am living into decent into the ocean.

If I had smoked salmon, you could sit on my lap.

 

[veryblueeyes]

If I had smoked salmon, you could sit on my lap.

See? Now if your wife likes sweetpea Bath and Body lotions, washes and sprays, as Del did; we could swap. Darn that smoked salmon was some good stuff.

I could send you up some really good surf wax. I am not sure if that works on your x-country ski's though.

 

[buck4944]

kay. wait...why?

very nice

 

[Byron In Exile]

I don't have quite such a hard time at altitude. Then again, I move really slow. I just tend to get really winded.

You get up to there, and you know what happens.

Your lungs are totally dry... you just can't get enough air, no matter how hard you breathe. We did it anyway, somehow...

We couldn't move slow, though. We were climbing a peak... having started out at noon to do it like complete idiots...

One magnificent sunset.

But we came down in the dark.

 

[thør]

See? Now if your wife likes sweetpea Bath and Body lotions, washes and sprays, as Del did; we could swap. Darn that smoked salmon was some good stuff.

I could send you up some really good surf wax. I am not sure if that works on your x-country ski's though.

I have plenty of sticky wax.....and the Mrs dislikes any product that has a scent to it.....

 

[thør]

But we came down in the dark.

That part bites. I hate going down (the mountain) in the dark.

 

[butters]

You get up to there, and you know what happens.

Your lungs are totally dry... you just can't get enough air, no matter how hard you breathe. We did it anyway, somehow...

We couldn't move slow, though. We were climbing a peak... having started out at noon to do it like complete idiots...

One magnificent sunset

But we came down in the dark

do you realise what you have written there?

 

[Byron In Exile]

One magnificent sunset.

I honestly have never seen anything in my life that made such an impression on me.

Maybe I didn't turn out so well. Maybe someone else can do better.

But, if you can stand on a mountain peak at 13,000 feet, watch the sun set...

That will change you forever. You'll have to be a dumbass... go up too late in the day, and come down with flashlights... but it was so worth it.

 

[butters]

there was the poem

did you experience afterglow?

 

[Byron In Exile]

That part bites. I hate going down (the mountain) in the dark.

You have to plan badly in order to make that happen.

And you need to have friends who are very reckless and totally fun.

I still have no idea why we did that.

 

[Byron In Exile]

there was the poem

did you experience afterglow?

I... guess I missed the poem.

Can you enlighten me?

 

[thør]

But, if you can stand on a mountain peak at 13,000 feet, watch the sun set...

That will change you forever. .

It doesn't need to be at 13,000 feet. It just has to be at the top.

 

[thør]

there was the poem

did you experience afterglow?

Alpenglow?

You have to plan badly in order to make that happen.

And you need to have friends who are very reckless and totally fun.

I still have no idea why we did that.

You did it because you could.......


After a lifetime of hiking in summer with no flashlight (up here in the north), I learned that a lithium battery powered LED headlamp is well worth carrying when hiking in the other states.

 

[butters]

I... guess I missed the poem.

Can you enlighten me?

finding our way

climbing a peak
having started out at noon
idiots

One magnificent sunset
But we came down in the dark

works as a metaphor for more than two scenarios: climbing/drugs/love

 

[butters]

Alpenglow?



You did it because you could.......


After a lifetime of hiking in summer with no flashlight (up here in the north), I learned that a lithium battery powered LED headlamp is well worth carrying when hiking in the other states.

that'll be the one, yup

 

[thør]

that'll be the one, yup

It's what dreams are made of........

 

[Peregrinator]

Well, Snowbear is here, as well. I shall let you men speak and sit back and admire. As I think you dudes are more into ascent and I am living into decent into the ocean.

Descent can be the most fun sometimes. I love glissading. And this pic shows me in the utter permagrin bliss of having slid most of the way down Mt Washington (NH) on a little inflatable sled-seat thing:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/Peregrinator/HuntingtonandLuge043.jpg

I don't think I stopped grinning for a week.

Some guys are superhuman. It seems that today, all you need to get to the top of the big E is to be in very good physical shape and to have money.

I'm not even sure about the fitness. I suspect someone out there would short rope you the whole way for the right price.

If I had smoked salmon, you could sit on my lap.

She could sit on mine without the fish...

You get up to there, and you know what happens.

Your lungs are totally dry... you just can't get enough air, no matter how hard you breathe. We did it anyway, somehow...

We couldn't move slow, though. We were climbing a peak... having started out at noon to do it like complete idiots...

One magnificent sunset.

But we came down in the dark.

I found if I hyperventlated consciously, I was better off. And I can breathe pretty normally at rest even at 15,000. Still, you're right; if there's any time constraint, it's a lung-buster. My abs were sore after that trip.

there was the poem

did you experience afterglow?

Alpenglow?

Beat me to it.


I love descending in the dark. It narrows your focus to however many moves you can see in the headlamp's little cone of light. So many accidents happen on the way down that I sometimes think it's safer if you're forced to focus on the next three steps.

That said, I bought a different headlamp, one with the battery pack inside my clothes, after the time my light went dead while rappelling off an ice climb at night.

Climbing ice at night can be magical as well. It's like being in some fairy castle, all blue-green and sparkly.

 

[iluvyou3638]

that is the cutest picture of you! haha. you're so smiley. <3

 

[butters]

Descent can be the most fun sometimes. I love glissading. And this pic shows me in the utter permagrin bliss of having slid most of the way down Mt Washington (NH) on a little inflatable sled-seat thing:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v649/Peregrinator/HuntingtonandLuge043.jpg

I don't think I stopped grinning for a week.

...

I love descending in the dark. It narrows your focus to however many moves you can see in the headlamp's little cone of light. So many accidents happen on the way down that I sometimes think it's safer if you're forced to focus on the next three steps.

That said, I bought a different headlamp, one with the battery pack inside my clothes, after the time my light went dead while rappelling off an ice climb at night.

Climbing ice at night can be magical as well. It's like being in some fairy castle, all blue-green and sparkly.

I have to save that picture because you simply can not look at it without grinning ear to ear to - which goes to show what strong emotional signals our features display. I'm even grinning as I type now!


And now
the grin's evaporated as my eyes have opened wider than my mouth was - because ice-climbing at night sounds absolutely awesome ... I can see it. I want to listen to the ice.

 

[Peregrinator]

that is the cutest picture of you! haha. you're so smiley. <3

It makes me smile to look at and remember it.

I have to save that picture because you simply can not look at it without grinning ear to ear to - which goes to show what strong emotional signals our features display. I'm even grinning as I type now!


And now
the grin's evaporated as my eyes have opened wider than my mouth was - because ice-climbing at night sounds absolutely awesome ... I can see it. I want to listen to the ice.

It was impossible not to be laughing so hard you flipped over in the snow.

I'd be happy to take you...it's nearly impossible to capture with photos.

This gives some idea (random Google image search):

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/138/372414135_ed3cab14d7_o.jpg

 

[Peregrinator]

Probably a better idea:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/3073121707_f81627c519.jpg

 

[butters]

what time of day/night does the lighting make the ice look the most fascinating, Perg? To you, since it probably differs for individuals.

And have you ever waked inside a glacier - ice tunnels hollowed out by sub-surface meltwater?

 

[butters]

Probably a better idea:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/3073121707_f81627c519.jpg

that looks so beautiful, and so slippery. glissade is an erotic word. A poet I know wrote a piece about hands glissading down to the jutting rock, stuff like that. lol