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Just got back from Sweden, where an attempt to summit its highest mountain, Kebnekaise (6,886 ft), was thwarted by 50mph winds with 100mph gusts. Every so often, the glacial streams running down the walls of the cirque would start flowing sideways and you knew you had about 5 seconds to get on the ground or risk getting blown off a narrow trail with high exposure. Climb mountains, y'all.
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Val Helmethead posted:I was sure Florida's was going to be a landfill. Palm Beach County's high point certainly is (jokingly referred to as Mt Trashmore). At least SD has Black Elk Peak. Jack poo poo between here and the Appalachians though. E. If you do Black Elk make sure to stop by Little Devil's tower on your way up for some scrambling and nice views of the peak.
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Val Helmethead posted:It's absolutely beautiful there. I don't think I've enjoyed a vacation like I've enjoyed Colorado. Do the states in alphabetical order
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Sep 19, 2018 05:52
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Do the states in alphabetical order 1st one: "Hey this is easy!" 2nd one: "gently caress gently caress gently caress gently caress"
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Sep 19, 2018 13:24
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A Horse Named Mandy posted:
Have you seen all of the dead people all over this thread? I will pass, thanks.
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Sep 21, 2018 14:31
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High Lord Elbow posted:Brace yourself for Delaware - it’s just on a street somewhere. (I thought it was the landfill in Wilmington but the internet says otherwise) Delaware native here -- it is true, the highest point (which I always thought was up near Mt Cuba Observatory; can't be arsed to look it up) isn't too impressive...maybe you could ascend it the way these guys tackled the Uxbridge Road: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U0tDU37q2M
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Sep 22, 2018 15:26
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Ms Boods posted:Delaware native here -- it is true, the highest point (which I always thought was up near Mt Cuba Observatory; can't be arsed to look it up) isn't too impressive...maybe you could ascend it the way these guys tackled the Uxbridge Road: 
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Sep 22, 2018 17:38
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Quick question... Delaware is a real place?
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Himalayan airports are no joke, bad rear end through and through. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/pakyong-airport-india/index.html
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A Horse Named Mandy posted:Just got back from Sweden, where an attempt to summit its highest mountain, Kebnekaise (6,886 ft), was thwarted by 50mph winds with 100mph gusts. Every so often, the glacial streams running down the walls of the cirque would start flowing sideways and you knew you had about 5 seconds to get on the ground or risk getting blown off a narrow trail with high exposure. Speaking of, Kebnekaise just killed a korean tourist. (wasn't able to find an English news article about it in one second of googling, but here's the article in Swedish.) It's not every day I see my country represented in murder mountain news. Still want to climb it some day though.
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Sep 28, 2018 00:33
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Gonna do something smaller and a bit closer to me for October. Now, I could just drive to the WV highpoint, but why do that when I can backpack 25 miles round trip over 2 days through the backcountry, and camp next to a waterfall? If I don't get killed by bears / banjo enthusiasts I will post pics.
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Sep 28, 2018 11:59
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Val Helmethead posted:Gonna do something smaller and a bit closer to me for October. Now, I could just drive to the WV highpoint, but why do that when I can backpack 25 miles round trip over 2 days through the backcountry, and camp next to a waterfall?  in advance
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Sep 28, 2018 14:26
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eh its fall, bears'll all be fat and lookin' for dens.
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Sep 29, 2018 00:14
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Small mountains are perfectly capable of killing people, the tallest one on this list is only 6,288 feet tall. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_died_on_the_Presidential_Range Pic from my ascent of Mt. Washington this March; 
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My dad is bad at life and got us lost while descending from Mt. Madison once. I remembered there's a river that we should hit if we continue in a certain direction, which intersects the trail we used on the way up, so if we follow it downstream we'll find that bridge and get back on track....or at the very least get to the bottom more easily in the riverbed than we would in the dense woods. There wasn't much room and my dad's fat rear end fell in the river at one point and by the time we got to the car he was freezing....but I was right and that led us back the way we needed to go. I only realized years later how unbelievably loving dangerous that situation was. Even small mountains are no joke, if not more so because you're only planning to be out for the day so don't exactly have supplies like a tent or a sleeping bag to hunker down in.
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People think I'm crazy for carrying a small pack with more water than I need, a few lighters, first aid kit, whistle, and a flashlight with fresh batteries on my day hikes. It's a little much, but that extra couple lbs naked me sure I can last through an unexpected night.
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Wasabi the J posted:People think I'm crazy for carrying a small pack with more water than I need, a few lighters, first aid kit, whistle, and a flashlight with fresh batteries on my day hikes. I would agree that you're crazy for carrying a flashlight instead of an actually useful headlamp.
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Yes I have one of those too but it keeps getting used in the garage
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LostCosmonaut posted:Small mountains are perfectly capable of killing people, the tallest one on this list is only 6,288 feet tall. That is no joke. Going to do that one next year I think, and make a sorta family reunion out of it seeing that like 6 different Connecticut family members said they want to go with me when I do it. I almost feel like I should start a new thread but this subforum doesn't look like it gets a lot of traffic outside this one thread.
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Honnold's movie is finally out https://www.nationalgeographic.com/films/free-solo/ surprised it took so long to release.
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LostCosmonaut posted:Pic from my ascent of Mt. Washington this March; 69 MPH? Very nice! No seriously I see Wikipedia says: quote:On the afternoon of April 12, 1934, the Mount Washington Observatory recorded a windspeed of 231 miles per hour (372 km/h) at the summit, the world record for most of the 20th century, and still a record for measured wind speeds not involved with a tropical cyclone.
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There’s a hut prior to the summit you can stay at. I had the luxury of staying in “The Dungeon” which is just an emergency storm shelter with enough space for 6 bunks. The howling wind was pretty cool throughout the night. The next day was pretty pleasant and lightly breezy just completely covered in clouds with about 5ft visibility. No one could even see me mooning the cog train!
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The first time I did Washington there was very little visibility and winds up to 75. People were struggling to even find the observatory. (After it started to clear up) The next year I did the presidential traverse as a day hike and it was absolutely perfect weather. Also, I said I hike Mt Elbert a few weeks ago, I found out a week after hiking it that I had broken my big toe pretty bad playing racquetball a few days prior to the hike. (I thought I had just stubbed it bad). So now I think I’m cool and my family thinks I’m an idiot for doing it anyways. 
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Noticed this today, it's pretty neato: BBC: Pipes, monks and glaciers: Climbing Everest, 1920s-style
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e: wrong thread
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barbecue at the folks posted:Noticed this today, it's pretty neato: BBC: Pipes, monks and glaciers: Climbing Everest, 1920s-style There's a link in there to a bbc article about the story of green boots that really goes into his history, has documents and pictures, family interviews, etc. Interesting read.
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The New York Times is doing a series on two men who are attempting Antarctica solo (on parallel routes). I'd put in the links if I weren't on my phone.
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Maera Sior posted:The New York Times is doing a series on two men who are attempting Antarctica solo (on parallel routes). I'd put in the links if I weren't on my phone. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/sports/antarctica-ski-race.html
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Why are they not doing this together?
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nsaP posted:Why are they not doing this together? Because it's a race to be the first to solo it.
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And we all know that Antarctica races have never gone poorly before.
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Both men have made it to the South Pole, about a day apart.
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So one is a great hero and the other is a big loser who cares
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Maera Sior posted:Both men have made it to the South Pole, about a day apart. Walk clockwise around the pole and cross the International Date Line so you can go back in time and achieve victory.
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I know this thread is about mountaineering, but let's face it. It's also about people decorating the earth with corpses in stupid and interesting ways. Here's an article about a frenchman setting himself adrift in a barrel: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/27/europe/barrel-atlantic-crossing-scli-intl/index.html
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Maybe I missed it, but they never mention what food he’s taking with him, aside from two bottles of wine and a block of foie gras. The video shows some tomatoes and bananas, both of which will be rotten pretty quickly if he doesn’t eat them first, but I wish they had gotten into the details of what he’s bringing with him to survive the 3 months he suspects it will take him to literally float across the Atlantic. I also couldn’t imagine how much that barrel constantly moves around, even in still water.
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Calling that thing a barrel is a bit of a stretch; he’s obviously got some solid ballast set up in there. He’s going to get his rear end rocked, but at those latitude meh. He should be mostly ok. Food wise he’s fairly obviously got some rations. I mean this isn’t a spur of the moment thing by any mean. Doubt he’ll make it all the way across though, ocean currents can be slow as gently caress. He did what, 15 miles so far?
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Rations are one thing, especially if they’re dehydrated, but that brings another question up: how much consumable water does his craft hold?
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Does he have solar power? Also, he could probably collect sea water and set up a solar still.
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empty baggie posted:Rations are one thing, especially if they’re dehydrated, but that brings another question up: how much consumable water does his craft hold? Radioisotope thermoelectric generator to distill saltwater?
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