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- From: AS.MSW@forsythe.stanford.edu (Marc Whitney)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Light Weight Back Packing?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 16:19:26 -0800
- Organization: Stanford University
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- In article <Jan26.205738.26003@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>,
- trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU (wayne trzyna) writes:
- >
- >I ran into Charlie Fowler one evening at the base of the Longs Peak north
- >face (about 13000 ft). He had no pack and was on his way up while the
- >rest of us were on our way down... said he was going to just "crawl
- >under a rock and sleep." He also said he had a snowmobile suit he wears
- >on colder nights.
- >
- I once camped near a climb with an immense Dane (a great Dane? :-))
- in our party named Olaf. He forgot to bring his sleeping bag.
- As the temperature droped into the high thirties he stayed warm by
- jogging up and down the nearby road singing something in german that
- sounded like: "Ya, wir sind alles lustiges Bergsteigern." His voice
- was pitched a octave lower than Pavaroti and the decibels probably
- violated OSHA regs. It was more like an earthquake than a voice.
-