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I just don't understand why...
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 10:02:35 -0500, KMAN wrote:
"RkyMtnHootOwl" wrote in message ... On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 18:30:07 -0500, Galen Hekhuis wrote: On 7 Dec 2005 15:17:35 -0800, wrote: snip It is a sad thing when people, full of enough life to determine to go on a paddling adventure in order to enjoy the beauty of the world around us, make a bad decision, and someone ends up dead. The others has to live the rest of their lives with the troubling memory, and the Guide will forever question his decisions which may put him out of a job, and facing serious legal consequences. This we can be assured of, this situation has many mitigating circumstances, but terribly sad none the less. Not to disparage the dead, but consider this, two people together, a 49 year old guy with all his attributes, and a 26 year old gal with all her uh "attributes" What the christ is taht supposed to mean? I wonder what I could mean, let me think about it! makes for a pretty stupid stew Please explain. Why does a 49 year old guy and a 26 year old gal make for a stupider stew than, say, a 22 year old guy and a 30 year old gal? Didn't say it did, just that this does! There are plenty of other recipes for stupid stew, that don't use MSG! Considering that he was married, the disparity of age, probable difference in rank, a long way from home, I expect they may have had other things on their minds. What the christ are you talking about? I wonder what I could mean, let me think about it! When the mind process is divided, the thinking gets muddled and stupid decisions follow. The guide may have recommended that they use the PFD, but was he in any position to make them put them on, or even hear his recommedation. The guide may have never said a damned thing. He may have, and that would be bad news, but then they may not have listened anyway if he had! Maybe they got in the kayaks, and paddled out on the water. Apparently they did, unless the guide was a super dude that carried them on the back of his kayak, and then knocked them off in the heavy water to drown, except for the 26 year old who just kept swiming back to his kayak! I know a 49 year old that was in a similar situation What situation??? Well since you ask, though I figured out how to be stupid by myself and without a guide. I went backcountry skiing by myself, not knowing what I was doing, where I was going, and I didn't tell anyone else to be watching for me! Nothing as glorious as an avalange, no, I just fell off the side of the trail into a treewell, where I landed upside down, with a fully loaded pack on. My pack straps were locked, and I could not get it off! My skis were still on, and would not release, and my feet had somehow got hooked together with a ski retainer rope. I was hanging there for quite awhile wondering what to do as I was slowly drowning in a fine snowfall of snow, and I could have hung there for alot longer, except that I finally grabbed my knife and started cutting ski retainer lines, and pack straps. Finally I dropped free into the well, where I was able to get reorientated, and dug my way out of the well, about a two hour ordeal, and luckily just a short distance from my car where I was able to get warmed back up. I can see the headlines now, "Backcountry skier dies 100 feet from his Car". Embarassing, stupid, lucky to be alive! I have a few other stupid moments I could share also, if you would like. I think the point of my sharing, is that we all do some dumb things, that when we look back, we realize how stupid and lucky we are! So when someone ask the question why someone would be so stupid, I believe we all could fill the bill. Add the feature of a couple of hot-blooded young adventurers to the mix, and things can get real exciting. I did not see the Discovery Channel special about the survival of some seakayakers, which is being discussed on Paddlewise. If they had been opposite sex, the story would have been on ABC primetime! and made similar bad decisions. Luckily, I lived to write this passage, but I realize in hind sight just how stupid, and lucky I was! RkyMtnHootOwl OvO You mean you used to be MORE STUPID than you are now?!? No, now I am just perfecting it! This is really stretching the imagination. Oh, sorry about that, overexertion is a problem, for some! Especially a nonentity cyberidentity who has never done anything really, but assimilate real people experiences. You can do everything, anything, perfectly, with no stupid moments! Must be nice! RknMtnHootOwl OvO |
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