(Not to mention the family! OMG! Just look at them!)
Finally, the Real Deal: when preparing for the High Country:
THIS IS HOW SHE DO IT!
If you are a mountaineering piggie,
you know that much is made of learning survival skillswhen out in the backcountry.
Things such as avalanches, falling into tree-wells, getting lost in a white-out, getting lost because you're with a guy who refuses to ask for directions,
getting lost because although he brought a compass...he never learned to use it,
beyond saying: "Well, it works! Look, everytime I move it, the red thing points in the same direction." Getting lost because the same guy raced up the mountain ahead of you in his crampons,
with no ice axe to arrest a fall, you don't have a clue where he is, dusk is rapidly falling as the pinkish alpenglow fades,
and he was too damn cheap to buy walkie-talkies, so you are already planning to return those
crampons to the store and never, ever
letting him have another pair!
And he's real lucky nobody
got an ice axe!
Not that any of those things have
EVER HAPPENED
TO MOM.
Although she now lives alone, with us...hmmm?
The snows have come early, our ski lodge is open, and this post is about mountain preparedness.
EDITOR: "LESSON #1: ditch the guy!"
Mom, not always about you...
(mom: yes, it is.)
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