Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
I did, but on the third day I was resurrected in fulfillment of the Scriptures of the OldSkool Testament.

You read my blog, not?

Well, dearest your birthday is coming up soon. The OldSkool Messiah.

Where is Fringey btw?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I worked with a GP who was on Everest the time all those guys died. The time when the one guy knew he was dying and called his wife. there was the book, etc.

GP was one of the ones who turned around about 300 feet from the summit- ( God that would be a bitch) -everyone who didn't turn then died.

Before that he was telling his goal was to climb the tallest mountain on every continent. He told me about the one in antartica. The mountain was so tall, but it was a week long snomobile ride to it, then back. He tells me his buddy had done it, and on the way TO THE MOUNTAIN a snow storm comes up. they are locked in their tents for a week. Finally the storm slows and they get on their snowmobiles and continue to the mountain.

Okay. Assuming you don't go insane after a week in a tent, can you imagine going on. I can't. but at least that guy had already invested the time and money to be there. My GP was still planning on going AFTER hearing the story.

I had a subscription to Outside magazine in 1996. They'd sent Jon Krakauer onto Everest to write a story about how conquering Everest was becoming simply a matter of money, and that safety and experience wasn't what got you to the top of the mountain anymore. Most of the people who died on the mountain that season had paid upwards of $50,000 for the pleasure, and there was a bit more pressure on the guides to get them to the top than to think "maybe this isn't such a good idea" and turn back even if they were, as you said, only 300 feet from the top. The editor of the magazine wondered in an editorial later if his sending Krakauer added pressure to the guides to get as many clients as possible to the top so they'd get a positive mention in the article.

I remember reading Krakauer's article when he got back, before the book came out, and thinking that it was amazing that anyone survived that season. I think 11 people died that year, including 8 on the day that he was writing about.

I don't have a subscription anymore to Outside, but when I was searching for the article, I saw that they had an anniversary issue earlier this year.

I have an extreme aversion to sustained cold. So long as I know that there's a hot tub and a roaring fireplace waiting for me at the end of each day, I can handle ski trips, but that's about it. I can't imagine climbing any of the major mountains, except possibly, Mt. Kiliminjaro.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I had a subscription to Outside magazine in 1996. They'd sent Jon Krakauer onto Everest to write a story about how conquering Everest was becoming simply a matter of money, and that safety and experience wasn't what got you to the top of the mountain anymore. Most of the people who died on the mountain that season had paid upwards of $50,000 for the pleasure, and there was a bit more pressure on the guides to get them to the top than to think "maybe this isn't such a good idea" and turn back even if they were, as you said, only 300 feet from the top. The editor of the magazine wondered in an editorial later if his sending Krakauer added pressure to the guides to get as many clients as possible to the top so they'd get a positive mention in the article.

I remember reading Krakauer's article when he got back, before the book came out, and thinking that it was amazing that anyone survived that season. I think 11 people died that year, including 8 on the day that he was writing about.

I don't have a subscription anymore to Outside, but when I was searching for the article, I saw that they had an anniversary issue earlier this year.

I have an extreme aversion to sustained cold. So long as I know that there's a hot tub and a roaring fireplace waiting for me at the end of each day, I can handle ski trips, but that's about it. I can't imagine climbing any of the major mountains, except possibly, Mt. Kiliminjaro.

I'd like to try Kiliminjaro and Fuji. And I would like to do the tallest peaks in New England. In summer of course.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
I'd like to try Kiliminjaro and Fuji. And I would like to do the tallest peaks in New England. In summer of course.

They had an Imax show back in the day about Everest and it was a really interesting movie to see in that type of venue.

http://www.everestfilm.com/

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
I'd like to try Kiliminjaro and Fuji. And I would like to do the tallest peaks in New England. In summer of course.

Kilimanjaro is actually easy. Hardly "mountaineering" at all.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
If true, he should be embarassed to include those for the press materials.

If some marketing intern got hold of his full resume, that's how it would be interpreted. But, if so, clearly he should be embarassed.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
If true, he should be embarassed to include those for the press materials.

I include my stint at Arby's on all my press materials. Are you saying this is wrong?

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Kilimanjaro is actually easy. Hardly "mountaineering" at all.

All the mountains on my list are easy and don't qualify as "mountaineering". Heck, you can drive to the top of Mt. Washington.

I'm perfectly content with hiking and long backpacking trips. No need for the added danger and stress of more technical mountaineering climbs.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Hey Old Skooler! john123 still makes an appearance now and again, but that's about it. Paigow and Patentpara retired. The Daintiest Petunia was banned. Most of the others have died. But maybe with your reappearance, we can fire up some of that Old Skool Magik!!!

Ha Ha ha, good times....I am still magikal so let's get that partay started...remember, I was OBE for a short time in the early days of NWN's GreedyAssociates on Yahoo back when the GA movement was still enthusiastically filled with vim and vigour about Revised Model Salary Codes and Revised Model Bonus Codes (the push to institute such righteous codes which has burned out over the years-much like many in the OldSkool Vanguard)

Anyhoo, ftr, on the odd occassion when I see happen back upon these boards, like today after I got back from Lanai, I am heartened to see the NewSkool posters, like nononono and cletus miller and pussycat and bad_rich_chic, and observe their fresh and hotpoppin' take on the way us OldSkoolers roll here and the blended sense of community between the factions. Not to mention the MidSkoolers, like Slave, Hank and TM, and their contributions.

Without this give and take of the GA generations I wouldn't keep coming back from retirement every few months.

So keep on keepin' on and even though a lot of the OldSkool lurks more than we actually post, remember, that's cool too, cuz, we are just having phun checking out the personalities and points of view y'all crazee kids have on just about everything under the moon and stars and firmaments and stuff.

Peace

Penkse

ps: does anyone have Paigow's IM?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
I'm perfectly content with hiking and long backpacking trips. No need for the added danger and stress of more technical mountaineering climbs.

Oh, same here. I was just being helpful, in case you thought otherwise.

It seems I am having communication issues with Anne Elk today.

[LessinSF]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
I'd like to try Kiliminjaro and Fuji. And I would like to do the tallest peaks in New England. In summer of course.

I will not be doing the two-day trek to the highest peak in Cuba - Pico Turquino (~2000 meters), despite a recent paper discussing the 37 species of butterflies located there.
There is a very beutiful, very large picture behind this link.

Edited by RT for margin fucking

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Kilimanjaro is actually easy. Hardly "mountaineering" at all.

And if you wait a few years there won't be any snow.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Are hot, semi-clothed chicks the newscasters? Because I'll bet thurgreed would make that part of the plan. If he ran the news.

Coltrane would do all the hiring.

TM

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
All the mountains on my list are easy and don't qualify as "mountaineering". Heck, you can drive to the top of Mt. Washington.

I'm perfectly content with hiking and long backpacking trips. No need for the added danger and stress of more technical mountaineering climbs.

I'm right there with you on that. I don't mind an ocassional tricky step or two to get up to a bluff with a particularly nice view, but I'm not interested in anything that requires more than general camping gear.

I've climed Emory Peak in Texas (10th highest at 7,825 feet), but not Guadalupe Peak (highest at 8,749). I know that they say it in all the marketing materials, but Big Bend is a huge park.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I include my stint at Arby's on all my press materials. Are you saying this is wrong?

Were you in the Arby's calendar? If not, then yes.