A piece of fiction: I was touring up in Mineral Fork of Big Cottonwood yesterday. Never liked it in there – spooky, full of ghosts. …
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Not long ago, I was invited to give a talk on any subject of my choice to a Level 3 avalanche class with the American…
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Salvation We were camped a few hundred yards beyond the perimeter of the Timber Carnival fairgrounds near Albany, Oregon. Lumberjacks competed in various events: speed…
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Some of the following is true. It was late January. Overcast and lightly snowing. No hint of wind. Temperatures in the low twenties and dropping in…
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What is your Level of Acceptable Risk? How did you determine this? Some will center-punch Superior on a CONSIDERABLE danger while others feel happy going to Powder Park…
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Not long ago, I found that I was running late to a talk I was to give at Black Diamond in Salt Lake City. I…
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Scene 1. The Room. Jean Paul Sartre’s 1944 play No Exit depicts an afterlife where three people sentenced to Hell find themselves locked in a…
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(A Companion Piece to #nothingbadhappened) All too often, we find ourselves unable to predict what will happen; yet after the fact we explain what did…
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