Summit Journal Chat

Had to call off my Century Climb of Grays Peak.

I was planning on celebrating my 100th climb of Grays Peak (14,278' ) with my SO, my brother, and his wife. However, when I called my brother, who lives in the mountains, this morning, the report was rain with the possibility of snow up high. The conditions might not have stopped me if I was going alone but I called off the climb because the others were not interested in a miserable day (nor very experienced with bad weather up high).

I may retry next weekend, albeit by myself, as both my SO and brother will be on trips away from CO.

Oh well - it's not like the Olympics where you only have one chance every 4 years. I guess I don't have to start over at 1 - just wait a few days.

Called Tim on the phone last night - he seemed to have fun on his climb even though the summit was a bust. I called to see if he was concerned about Frances moving in. He says every one came to his area to get away from the action - so, he's not worried.

// posted by Boulder Bob @ 4:49 PM

Received my b&w slides so I've finished the Peru album.

I got the hot link feature to work once, must have been blind luck. Will keep trying:


http://groups.msn.com/MountainPhotoJournal/peru.msnw?Page=1

note: there are two pages of photos.

thanks for the clarification, PBob.

hope that the nasty weather is confined to FLA this weekend and that BBob gets a clear shot at Grays.

Tim - Yep there is. "Acclimate" has to do with the significant other that you first met in a mountain hut and "acclimatize" has to do with the bodily organs that you spotted her with.

i've posted a few shots at the website for the folks on the trip (which y'all are welcome to take a gander at). I'll take some of them off and post more mountain shots and my black and white slides in the next week--that is if the lab in Miami ships my order before they board up for Frances!

left a message with the expedition folks at CMS and recommended 2 additional days of acclimatization for the trip I was on--Brad Johnson, who has an ace guidebook out on the Cordillera Blanca (and who we ran into while in Huaraz), recommends 3 nights in Huaraz after arrival from Lima. That might not be necessary for someone who is climbing on a regular basis in Colorado, but maybe it would have helped me. And Huaraz is a wonderful, cheap town to hang out, hike, bike, drink, or whatever other activity one uses to acclimate.

I've always wondered if there is any difference between 'acclimate' and 'acclimatize'?

Hey PBob - nice to see you

I enjoyed Tim's picture but waiting for more.

My Century Climb of Grays Peak (100th climb) is set for this Saturday - 04Sep04

Bruce - I read the story from your link with interest. With the Olympics just completed, we are all no doubt tired of hearing about rules. Still, the Games provide a fitting canvas with which to illustrate the strong aversion that most of us have for rules. It's human nature to want what we want and the willingness to avoid "proper channels" is near universal. The only difference in our heroes' case is that he has a penchant to tell about it. Rule breaking is especially common where there is a singular objective that is difficult to obtain, and there is competition for it. It's true in the high alpine as well as the high jump. Record breaking is a notorious rule breaker, if only because the general rule would state that a typical participant cannot run, swim, bike, row, jump, dive or climb that fast, high or perfectly. Rule breaking comes with the territory, especially when the goal is to set oneself apart from the group. Often, in striving to attain success, we forget (or sidestep) the biographical data that makes it a challenge in the first place; that is that we are merely human. By unfairly enhancing our prospects with either drugs, doping or guerilla tactics, we enter into a realm of delusion and, in effect, opt out of the competition. If we forge ahead anyway we may obtain a personal record, but not one that the world is going to respect.