Gerry Roach's Book - Fourth Edition

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justiner wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 12:55 pm My Higher Power, in a very 12 Step way, is Green Mountain.
Doesn't she hold a lot of Rattlesnakes?
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XterraRob wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:52 pm Doesn't she hold a lot of Rattlesnakes?
Aren't you supposed to enjoy complete package until death do you part? Venomous blossoms, choleric fruit, violet nightshades included?
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justiner wrote: Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:34 pm Mountains can't love you back.
Wait, what???
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cedica wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:07 pm
XterraRob wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:52 pm Doesn't she hold a lot of Rattlesnakes?
Aren't you supposed to enjoy complete package until death do you part? Venomous blossoms, choleric fruit, violet nightshades included?

You don't date your Higher Power. I don't believe in God, so a mountain it is! Find your Surfer Girl, but don't find her in the mountains.
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justiner wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 6:50 pm You don't date your Higher Power.
Nor your therapist. Now I see the error of my ways.

Maybe we are almost ready to debate #8: "Never bivouac"? That one always looked controversial to me. I would understand "Never deliberately", but we have to plan for unplanned, right? So if it happens accidentally and we are ready to survive it, would that break the commandment?
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justiner wrote: Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:34 pm Surfer Girl is a song from the Beach Boys about pining for the perfect love. Don't fall in love with the mountains more than a real love.

Mountains can't love you back.
Thank you sir! That makes perfect sense. . . . Apparently, I'm not quite old enough to have Surfer Girl in my mental pop-culture catalog, but Jerry is (disclosure: I'm 64; so Jerry was old enough to go to Beach Boys concerts when I was a child.)
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RadioJay wrote: Sun Jul 24, 2022 11:07 pm 14ers.com is a better source and the app is useful when you are actually on the trail. Who wants to bring an entire book on the hike? Roach has some routes Bill doesn’t have, but that might be on purpose. Bill’s site is aimed at non-technical climbers which is a good way to go for safety reasons. I used Roach for years before joining 14ers.com in 2010 or 2011. I did get a kick out of Roach’s lack of detail as if he was bored, “... at tree line, pick your route.” This was in the old days when there weren’t always established trails. I remember those days.
I just xeroxed the relevant 3-4 pages from Roach. Those pages dont disappear when battery runs low. The more backup information, the merrier,
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peter303 wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:51 pm I just xeroxed the relevant 3-4 pages from Roach. Those pages dont disappear when battery runs low. The more backup information, the merrier,
Exactly -- this used to be the way when working at an office with a copy machine, and/or having a scanner+printer ("all-in-one") at home.
But "OK Boomer" (or "OK Gen Xer") is a fair response
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