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   From: firstnamelastinitial@peaksky.com   
      
   In article <12nrkv1402av7fa@corp.supernews.com>,   
   LiveFromTheClocktower@gfy.com (gatt) says...   
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   > Hey, everybody.  I have a great idea.   
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   > 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!   
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   > 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.   
      
   You notice they are all foreigners, two from Texas and one from New   
   York.   
      
   I climbed Hood once, in February.  Winter is the safest time to do it.   
   You sure want to watch the weather report, though.   
      
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