Ever wonder what it would be like to be stuck inside a ping pong ball? The recent 6-day North Cascades mountaineering course found out what ‘partly cloudy means when you are inside the cloud part. As I have mentioned tough weather makes for a good learning experience and our crew on Shuksan saw water fall from the sky in almost every possible form.It was a strong crew with international flavor including two Russian physicists with a taste for kung fu and Cognac, a doctor from China, two Candians, eh smoked salmon scarfing Alaskans, a Brit, wnother Russian and a future point guard for India (when they get pro basketball off the ground over there) and, the most exotic, a Texan.
These folks were tough post holing to their, uh, thighs in "cascade concrete", putting up with a variety of weather conditions, most of which were uncomfortable. Despite all this these folks are prepped to rope up on a glacier, stop a fall, build an anchor and haul you out of a crevasse. Most importantly they can do it with style.
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