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[pct-l] glissading



Gosh, I did not know it was illegal to glissade on the mtn.....or I would
never have
done it........... -:)
Several years ago for my 65th birthday, my kids took me up via Camp Sherman
on Mt. Rainier and that is how we came down. After we climbed up the rocks
out of Camp Sherman and over the hill (there were too many crevasses the
other way)  we just sat down in the chute.  We also used our bodies to
control the speed (along with the ice axe)  either sitting straight up or
leaning back.  That was the most fun of the entire trip.  A Mountain climber
I am not, and I found the whole thing just one big long plod through the
snow. And never to be done again.
Cheers

Marge ( the old gal)