So Dan, what else do you do, when we are not sharing memories from The Time Machine?
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : fleet, 20...wow...like...last...year I bet you imagined that you HAD SCALED MT HOOD. At your age I tripped up the Pathenon. I thought I'd walked to the Top of the World. Photo evidence shows me lying down getting tanned, near the start. Oh the mind, what dreams it spins. Your turn, then I 'm next, then you, then... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote : I did that once, when I was 20, LSD (and vodka) climbing Mt. Hood in Oregon. We certainly didn't summit, and doubt we made more than 500 feet vertically, up from the ski lodge. Great view though... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote : Thanks. I did take some Ibuprofen before going, since I read that if you get a headache while climbing, that aspirin, etc. can't stop, descend immediately. That's using your head. (get it?) Maybe they could offer little packets of coca leaves (indigenous chew constantly, i expect dental problems.)in the park gift shop, sold with a mandatory bus ticket, and/or armed escort, to the Mt. Lassen trail head: "Now Climb, Dammit!" Your self-motivation is admirable. I required hallucinogens to get going up, up... ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fleetwood_macncheese@...> wrote : It was amazing, and once is enough. That is a tough one, in the thin air. I did feel nauseated above 10,000 feet, and that lasted a little while. Anything over a snail's pace during the climb is impossible. Did the R/T in 3:15, even so. Started at 7:15-ish, with about twenty people on the trail, total. The final push is up very loose rock, with a bad fall a step away. The surprise was how cold it was - 50 or so - numb finger tips from that, and the altitude. Didn't need climbing gear, except a hiking stick, and good shoes. Nice description. I feel you. 40 years ago I went high altitude in Peru. Coca Now I walk at sea level along the Hudson.River or Atlantic Ocean. Although a couple of weeks ago I went 'up' to the Pacific.
