"Bob Crantz" wrote in message
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"Maxprop" wrote in message
We did 32 Fourteeners before moving out of Colorado, including Elbert,
Massive, and Harvard. Our intent was to do them all, but we ran out of
time. Oddly enough we only experienced electrical activity on Evans and
Uncompahgre. On Umcompahgre we saw a teen get struck and killed. He was
fascinated by his long hair standing straight out from his head. We
yelled
at him to get the *%&$*& off the peak, but he just ignored us. We did
Gray's and Torrey's in the snow, same day as most folks do. I was a pro
ski
patrolman at Breckenridge at the time, and part of our training was
mountaineering, which included climbing and skiing crud in untouched
snowfields. We climbed three Fourteeners to their peaks during our
training.

Have you skied Quandary?

Amen!

No. Actually one of our most arduous 'ski trips' was along the Divide just
opposite the Ten Mile Range above Breckenridge. We took a couple of radio
technicians up to a repeater on the crest. It had stopped functioning for
some reason. On the way down the snow was pure deep crud with a thick,
vicious crust atop about 3' of soft. How we didn't break a couple of legs
is one for the gods.

Max