[pct-l] paying for SAR

[marmot marmot]

The year I did my PCT thruhike,I paid a knowledgable person to spend the day with me in the snow. I knew I would probably be alone out there and had no snow experience. He taught me what to do and for hours I threw myself upside down,backwards ---any way I could possibly fall off steep snow covered slopes while he stayed with me. When I hear of people getting a few minutes of instruction and then heading out into the mtns ---I shutter. Two years later I slipped on a traverse on the CDT,was out of practice with a nice axe and the only reason I did not go over a cliff is that a tree stopped me. Self arrest has to be automatic and immediate. These hikes are no joke. I want everyone who wants to hike to go out there and do it because you really can.  But, don't be stupid and unprepared. If you can go skiing--you can take the time to learn what to do in the snow.    Marmot

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> On Oct 10, 2013, at 11:36 AM, "tskye" <methowskye at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Rocket llama's journal entry should be required reading for any future hikers. http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=436514. She is honest about her mistakes ( not prepared for snow, not enough food). But, even though she walked out on her own, her dad and her were prepared to have SAR come in if necessary. NO hiker should be out there without snow experience. Class of 2014- get out and hike in the snow this winter!!
> Skyward
> Winthrop WA
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