Not long ago, I was invited to give a talk on any subject of my choice to a Level 3 avalanche class with the American…
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Some of the following is true. It was late January. Overcast and lightly snowing. No hint of wind. Temperatures in the low twenties and dropping in…
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What is your Level of Acceptable Risk? How did you determine this? Some will center-punch Superior on a CONSIDERABLE danger while others feel happy going to Powder Park…
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Not long ago, I found that I was running late to a talk I was to give at Black Diamond in Salt Lake City. I…
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Scene 1. The Room. Jean Paul Sartre’s 1944 play No Exit depicts an afterlife where three people sentenced to Hell find themselves locked in a…
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(A Companion Piece to #nothingbadhappened) All too often, we find ourselves unable to predict what will happen; yet after the fact we explain what did…
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(photo credit: Mark White) I cribbed the name from an essay by Iain Stewart-Patterson, a mountain guide and faculty staff member of Thompson Rivers University…
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In his novel, The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy describes a scene where the two boys, having just crossed the border into Mexico, come into the company of…
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