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   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   Bill Shatzer  wrote:   
      
   > gatt wrote:   
   >   
   >> Hey, everybody.  I have a great idea.   
   >   
   >> Now that it's December, ball-shrivelling cold, windy as hell and the   
   >> whole ass-end of the area is closed because of washouts and inclement   
   >> weather, and search and rescue crews have just finished recovering   
   >> one dead man lost to hypothermia and isolation, and there's more   
   >> weather coming, LET'S CLIMB MT. HOOD!   
   >   
   >> Never climbed Hood before?  Since there's a storm forecast, let's   
   >> pack lightly so we're not bogged down with survival gear.  Then, when   
   >> we're stuck in the storm we'll wait for some other sorry chump to   
   >> come up and look for us.  Hell, the helicopters will do it.  They   
   >> LOVE hovering in gusting winds and mountain winter weather in low   
   >> visibility and I'm sure their families will appreciate the risk to   
   >> their lives they way they did when they augered that helicopter   
   >> rescuing dumbass climbers previously.   
   >   
   > Ya' notice that Hal Lillywhite's been missing from this newsgroup the   
   > last 36 hours or so?   
   >   
   > He's up on the mountain, looking for those folks.   
   >   
      
   Are there idiots out there as we speak?   
      
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