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cp0915
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:44 am Post subject: |
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tanya wrote: Iceaxe wrote: tanya wrote: Tim who will be filming us doing Lady Mountain
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Whats this???
tanya wrote:
There are also occupations that are very dangerous like fire fighters, cops, etc...
Yeah... those guys are dying all the time of heart attacks from to many donuts.... :roflol:
j/k
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Oh.. maybe I did not tell you. There is a guy that follows Bo and I around sometimes to film us for a local hiking show shown in the Southern Utah area. So...... don't have too big of holes in your pants or anything. :mrgreen:
You know that's true! Our diets are a big killer! But donuts and pizza are so good! :mrgreen:
Big holes in the pants???? What? I never said I was going... |
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tanya
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:01 am Post subject: |
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cp0915 wrote: tanya wrote: Iceaxe wrote: tanya wrote: Tim who will be filming us doing Lady Mountain
:ne_nau:
Whats this???
tanya wrote:
There are also occupations that are very dangerous like fire fighters, cops, etc...
Yeah... those guys are dying all the time of heart attacks from to many donuts.... :roflol:
j/k
:five:
Oh.. maybe I did not tell you. There is a guy that follows Bo and I around sometimes to film us for a local hiking show shown in the Southern Utah area. So...... don't have too big of holes in your pants or anything. :mrgreen:
You know that's true! Our diets are a big killer! But donuts and pizza are so good! :mrgreen:
Big holes in the pants???? What? I never said I was going...
Those are not holes! Those are character!!! You have no idea how impressed we all are that you and DP so all that climbing and scrambing in the tennis either! You are the Man! :five:
I may not have mentioned the TV camera thing to you either. :mrgreen: Tim is great! He use to be a climber and has no problem keeping up with us and lugging that huge thing around. |
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cp0915
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:59 am Post subject: |
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Speaking of big holes in pants, DB was doing laundry after our absurd thrash up Langston Mountain on Saturday when she discovered a gaping 15" hole in the ass of my pants. It was only 3" on Saturday morning. I, of course, refused to throw them out. So now she has to sew them! Fortunately, she got the home-economics kids at her school to do it!
Man, I'm a pain in the ass. |
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tanya
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:10 am Post subject: |
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cp0915 wrote: Speaking of big holes in pants, DB was doing laundry after our absurd thrash up Langston Mountain on Saturday when she discovered a gaping 15" hole in the ass of my pants. It was only 3" on Saturday morning. I, of course, refused to throw them out. So now she has to sew them! Fortunately, she got the home-economics kids at her school to do it!
Man, I'm a pain in the ass.
I am looking forward to seeing those Sunday. :five: |
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hank moon
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:14 am Post subject: Re: Staying alive beats dying doing what you love to do |
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Staying alive beats dying doing what you love to do.
Silly headline! Trix are for kids!
But seriously, it is silly. There is a certain lack of info on which to base a comparison... |
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greyhair biker
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:18 am Post subject: |
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:ne_nau: I guess I should be dead by now :haha: Between the mine and the biking...the endless list of whatever I want to try this week(ziplining is awesome!)...eating wild game :lol8: ....
...better to burn out than to fade away... |
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deathcricket
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
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Location: St George / Santa Clara
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:08 am Post subject: |
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denaliguide wrote: he has a tendency to be all over the place depending on what his topic du jour happens to be.
quoted for exactly what I was thinking. As I was reading the article, I was saying to myself "this guy has serious ADD, FOCUS MAN!" he goes off on so many tangents it was hard to stay interested.
That being said I don't feel his point is valid. He says something to the effect like "if you got hurt going down stairs 1 out of every 10 times" when really it's truly not that kinda statistic. If you flip a coin and it lands "heads up" 10 times in a row, the chance is it landing "tails" on the next flip is still 50%.
So if doing some sport and you have a 9 out 10 chance in dying, that really means it's 90% safe and there is only a 10% chance of failure. It doesnt mean that the 10th time you do it, you'll perish. Each time you do something dangerous, you mitigate the risk as best you can, and that makes it relatively safe each and every time IMO. To me the accidents occur because the person got careless or made some other mistake. And then they lowered their chances to 50% or some lower figure. What if there was water or ice on the stairs you are going down, what if the boards were creaking funny and you didn't look into it? What if the railing was loose?
If you are doing something and reduce the chance or harm to 10%, it's not going to fail, except for some freak accident which is out of your hands. The catch 22 though is that hindsight is always nearly perfect, and you don't get that option (to learn from your mistake) if your dead.
Of course this is coming from a guy who likes to push the envelope a little more than others. So take it with a grain of salt eh? |
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tanya
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:42 am Post subject: |
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greyhair biker wrote: :ne_nau: I guess I should be dead by now :haha: Between the mine and the biking...the endless list of whatever I want to try this week(ziplining is awesome!)...eating wild game :lol8: ....
...better to burn out than to fade away...
They have a zip line at the Zion Ponderosa here on the east side of Zion --- I am going to have to try that one day. I think that Paragon Climbing where Bo hangs out has one too?
Has anyone died in the mine your work in?
Bikers are as nuts as race car drivers. :lol8: |
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greyhair biker
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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[color=white]They have a zip line at the Zion Ponderosa here on the east side of Zion --- I am going to have to try that one day. I think that Paragon Climbing where Bo hangs out has one too?
Has anyone died in the mine your work in?
:five: Yet another reason to make a trip your way mandatory :2thumbs:
as for the mine thing, yes, we had a fatality in 1995 but it was caused by asphyxiation as a result of innundation of mine gases forcing out oxygen in the area the miner was trapped in...my interpretation, not the word for word MSHA account.
DO THE ZIPLINE!!!!! |
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sparker1
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| Here are some photos from Alyeska, where the summer is used for para-gliding. This beautiful country gets around 800 inches of snow per year. |
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