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Posted by Fred on September 11, 2007 at 3:08:08 pm EDT
In reply to My first backpacking trip - Trip Report - 3/14/1969 - 3/16/1969 posted by Fred on September 11, 2007 at 7:26:47 am EDT

Bill - I doubt that I was 'supposed' to be on the tooth - but growing up climbing in either crumbling quarries or some of the wonderful, rotten natural cliffs back east it was a temptation that I just could not ignore. That beautiful clean rock, no "porta-holds", no glass in the cracks or on the holds, nobody at the top lobbing M-80's down at me - pure joy! I was wearing surplus "jungle boots" - that would have been in 1972 - for reference, Nixon signed my Eagle Scout papers .... my scoutmaster still get a bit pale when he talks about that incident.

From a safety perspective they were more worried about lightning strikes - I understand they lost a scout that year on tooth ridge when a storm rolled through.

One of our scoutmasters used to wander off and inhale mother nature to clam his nerves - great guy - he actually thought we were dumb enough to not know what he was doing ...

My parents weren't outdoors folks - not sure where or why I got the bug, but I'm forever grateful to whomever gave me the initial infection!

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