From: jrw@aracnet.com   
      
   On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:28:44 -0800, Larry Caldwell   
    wrote:   
      
   >In article <12nrkv1402av7fa@corp.supernews.com>,   
   >LiveFromTheClocktower@gfy.com (gatt) says...   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   >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.   
      
      
   The commentary I've been hearing at work (with friends and family   
   who've climbed Hood, some who've climbed Hood in the past, and some   
   who have folks up there searching now) runs along the lines of "WHAT   
   were they THINKING?!!"   
      
   jrw   
      
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