XPost: alt.forestry, misc.rural   
   From: jimled@bellsouth.net   
      
   gatt wrote:   
      
   > Jim wrote:   
   >   
   > >   
   > > I'm getting tried of city people going out and pulling   
   > > these not so bright stunts.   
   > >   
   > > a bit of cruelty as a response just might go a long way in providing a   
   > > deterrent towards other city people attempting   
   > > to perform these attention getting acts of stupidity.   
   >   
   > Stupid as it was to climb Hood when they did, they'd done McKinley among   
   > others.  Not sure if folks are aware of what climbing McKinley means, but   
   > I'd bet good money most lowland rural boys couldn't hack it.   
      
   I'd be betting with you on that one.  flatlanders with no   
   experience, training or proper preparation have NO idea what   
   altitude can do ones ability to endure.   
      
   the mountains can be A LOT of fun, BUT one had better know   
   what they can face BEFORE they go there to play.   
      
   > To   
   > characterize them as "city people" is to ignore the fact that they'd climbed   
   > some seriously hardcore mountains already. Apparently, however, their   
   > previous experience made them feel invincible.   
      
   invincible as in overconfident?   
   like ten feet tall and bullet proof?   
      
      
   > Until you've climbed a mountain, it's hard to understand why people do it.   
      
   true.   
      
      
   > I'm not very good at it,   
      
   you're still alive and talking to me, so you must be good enough.   
      
   > but I've stood on the rim of Mt. St. Helens more   
   > than once and come to understand the purist meaning of the word "awesome"   
   > each time.  It had nothing to do with getting attention.   
      
   when one ends up on the national news then one will have the   
   attention of the tax payers who are funding the rescue.   
      
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