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[pct-l] Snowboard the PCT



um, monte, it's _G_narly.


----- Original Message -----
From: <Montedodge@aol.com>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 4:50 PM
Subject: [pct-l] Snowboard the PCT


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>  Actually no. Our local Olympia paper had an article about a Climbing
ranger
> who Snowboards off the summit of Rainier. ( He has climbed the mountain
150
> times) This seems like a very dangerous hobby where speed and crevasses
are
> in the picture.
>      Our Northwest loses several snowboarders a year either on our
mountains
> or in " Off Limits" areas of ski runs. Most are young teen and  early
twenty
> types with little knowledge of the backcountry or snow harzards. This type
of
> article is sure to bring trouble as Mt. Rainier is not a large version of
Big
> Bear or Squaw Valley. I can hear it now, "  Ya dude, I plan to do a narly
360
> over that 20 foot crevasse followed by a double flip on my way down the
> Ingrams Ice Fall!!""
>     On the plus side, the country always needs more organ donors.  (
> Snowboarding off the summit of Rainier is BAD)
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