[pct-l] Falls before Sonora Pass

[Jack Haskel]

Thanks Jim and L-Rod!

No, I wasn't planting the shaft, ie. doing a self belay. I'd been walking on
snow for so long and had become pretty casual. The slope involved a short
traverse above the rocks to get to an area where you could glissade. I was
more thinking about the excitement of the glissade than the danger of the
slope I was on.

On 10/22/06, Jim Keener <jlkeener at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> HI Jack,
>
> Thanks for this account and congratulations on your
> hike. I enjoyed reading your journal.
>
> Were you using your ice axe up-slope as a third point
> of contact? Like the German mountaineering step:
> plant, step, step . . .
>
> Best,
> J J
>
> --- Jack Haskel <hikerunion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > - I was the only one with my ice axe off my pack and
> > I successfuly self
> > arrested (my first self arrest ever). Good thing
> > because of those rocks.
>
>
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