Tabs Open #13: Bursting Is Different Than Breaking
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There’s something about doing reckless things that makes you consider all you’d stand to lose if it went wrong somehow. Which isn’t to say it’s unhealthy to do—I’d argue it’s just the opposite, as long as it’s done in whatever passes for moderation in such a framework. I got the chance to engage in a little bit of that last week, on my way up to and down from the summit of South Brother, a mountain out on the Olympic Peninsula. A snow bridge went out from under my right leg when I kicked up onto it (the rest of me still mostly planted on a wet wall of rock, thankfully) and the ensuing cavalcade of f-words probably would’ve made a sailor blush. Later we walked up a snowfield tilted at 60°, just kicked our boots and crampons in to make steps right up the damn thing. I’m a coward; it was harrowing.
Tabs Open #13: Bursting Is Different Than Breaking
Tabs Open #13: Bursting Is Different Than…
Tabs Open #13: Bursting Is Different Than Breaking
There’s something about doing reckless things that makes you consider all you’d stand to lose if it went wrong somehow. Which isn’t to say it’s unhealthy to do—I’d argue it’s just the opposite, as long as it’s done in whatever passes for moderation in such a framework. I got the chance to engage in a little bit of that last week, on my way up to and down from the summit of South Brother, a mountain out on the Olympic Peninsula. A snow bridge went out from under my right leg when I kicked up onto it (the rest of me still mostly planted on a wet wall of rock, thankfully) and the ensuing cavalcade of f-words probably would’ve made a sailor blush. Later we walked up a snowfield tilted at 60°, just kicked our boots and crampons in to make steps right up the damn thing. I’m a coward; it was harrowing.