TR: A fall into King Ravine (Mount Adams, NH)

[lowsparkco]

Lynchdogger, thanks for the back up. Piling on, in and of itself has become the norm. I don't feel bad for Rt3 but it's why this place has the rep of being so fratty.

Naysayers, I won't spew on my skiing background, but I refer to the paddling because that's where I really ran into a culture of never going out alone. I remember when I first starting running a local section solo and some cliquey posers wouldn't even hoist a beer at the bar with me anymore.

It's vaguely humorous who piles on and why. To have some of you question my riding because I say I paddle stronger is also only slightly funny. Especially with the regularity that you JONG the fuck out of local conditions thread.

alpy, I don't doubt that there are some using tannerite or hand charges for private mitigation.

And if it's a troll it's world class. The bullshit about taking saline in his med kit is too rich. I hope you're right, yeti - but I doubt it.

[jono]

I too thought the most plausible explanation for all this was an elaborate troll as Yetiman described. Then I noticed that RT3 started posting his racin' skis here a few years ago and...sorry to spoil that for you. I wanted to believe it, too. The bunny! The news coverage! The face borrowed from bin Laden's (fake) corpse...what a thing of beauty--and a lost gun?!? Truth is stranger than fiction, but this time it would be so much cooler if it was fake.

[robrox]

That should be possible with a shotgun right?

Some revolvers can be loaded with 410 shells...only whimpy cornices would fall from 410 shots....

[robrox]

... Truth is stranger than fiction, but this time it would be so much cooler if it was fake.

+1, that would make it a class3+ prank?

[BigDaddy]

Agreed... would be world class and would assure RT3 an Allen Funt award.


Just too many events confirmed by news to be faked.

[ill-advised strategy]

Just too many events confirmed by news to be faked.

Aha, but riddle me this: Some maggot is sitting in the greater Vail area during mud season with nothing to do and sees this story linked from a friend-of-a-friend on teh facebookz. He then reads various news accounts of this and somewhere along the line realizes this is the same little numbnuts who put a TR up on Epic, he looks at the facebook page and sees the actual little numbnuts posting ridiculous shit like losing his pistol in the ragdoll. Bang! Like lightning striking the bubbling primordial soup a phenomenon was born...the guy who falls to the bottom will be named Rise to the Top. An alias is born!

This morning's foggy-day, bird-chirping, coffee-drinking moment-of-clarity contemplation is as follows: Perhaps it's just me. With any popular conspiracy-theory, true or not, there exists an underlying psychological need within the believing contingent to explain something in a way that allows for a palatable view of reality. Well, in this case I have a lot easier time going about my life thinking that some really smart guy somewhere (let's be honest, it's Vail) created this bullshit character for mud season shits and grins versus reckoning with the idea that some complete dumbshit is dumbshitting around scared to death of wolves and going to some prestigious University to prepare to be a medical doctor. Ugh, shoot me now. Shoot me now with your flying Beretta Dr. Douche and leave my carcass for the wolves to mangle.

[jono]

Exactly my thinking, Yetiman. So the next logical question is: when did this guy join TGR? Alas, 2009. Even talked about Epic early on. So if this is an elaborate troll it's 5 years in the making? That'd be almost sadder than the story as told. Even with the ice axe being 'torn from his hand.'

[ill-advised strategy]

[BigDaddy]

Aha, but riddle me this: Some maggot is sitting in the greater Vail area during mud season with nothing to do and sees this story linked from a friend-of-a-friend on teh facebookz. He then reads various news accounts of this and somewhere along the line realizes this is the same little numbnuts who put a TR up on Epic, he looks at the facebook page and sees the actual little numbnuts posting ridiculous shit like losing his pistol in the ragdoll. Bang! Like lightning striking the bubbling primordial soup a phenomenon was born...the guy who falls to the bottom will be named Rise to the Top. An alias is born!

This morning's foggy-day, bird-chirping, coffee-drinking moment-of-clarity contemplation is as follows: Perhaps it's just me. With any popular conspiracy-theory, true or not, there exists an underlying psychological need within the believing contingent to explain something in a way that allows for a palatable view of reality. Well, in this case I have a lot easier time going about my life thinking that some really smart guy somewhere (let's be honest, it's Vail) created this bullshit character for mud season shits and grins versus reckoning with the idea that some complete dumbshit is dumbshitting around scared to death of wolves and going to some prestigious University to prepare to be a medical doctor. Ugh, shoot me now. Shoot me now with your flying Beretta Dr. Douche and leave my carcass for the wolves to mangle.

I find this more likely than the guy being real, but sadly, too many things back the story up. The FB page is one and it would seem he really is an attention whore with a desire for cool scars.

Trust me, I want to believe, too, but there is a lot of supporting evidence. Besides...who here would ever do such a thing???

[wolfelot]

RT3 is a sign from Ullr just as the GSA was.

What do the archetypes mean???

The gun?
The wolves?
The fall?
Mount Adams?
The saline solution?
The attention seeking?
Pre-med?
The self-rescue?
The holster?

Pondering these things may drive many Mags insane.

[spook]

RT3 is a sign from Ullr just as the GSA was.

What do the archetypes mean???

The gun?
The wolves?
The fall?
Mount Adams?
The saline solution?
The attention seeking?
Pre-med?
The self-rescue?
The holster?

Pondering these things may drive many Mags insane.

i thought there was something about preinstalled boots.

[robrox]

I think it's clear an accident happened (http://www.unionleader.com/article/2...WS07/140409153)

The various silly statements after that are at the center of some lingering questions.

Another matter with lingering questions was Cesare Maestri's claim to have bagged the first ascent of Cerro Torre with Toni Egger... Maestri was so pissed he built a frigging ladder up the thing. The Compressor route is infamous and has been chopped now.

Who knows what the scaldings he has earned will inspire young Mr Luk to do?

[t-the-east]

Mr Luk

Your right, sorry, I spelled it wrong the first time... now with new and improved saline equipped first aid kit and boots pre-clicked-into skis, ready to drop in.

[NoPostholio]

I have wanted to see this movie poster fixed to commemorate this thread. Rawj and his hubris could only be played by Brad Pitt... RT3 on the far right and maybe wolf in middle -

[dark_star]

Can we sticky this thread? We could call it "A practical guide of what to bring into the backcountry."

[Jonathan S.]

Can we sticky this thread? We could call it "A practical guide of what to bring into the backcountry."

Conversation Tuesday with the Randolph Mountain Club's Gray Knob hut caretaker:

Me: "Where you involved in the recent fall in King Ravine?"
He: "Yes, another caretaker and I were asked by the Forest Service to try to find his gear ... including a 9mm!"
Me: "Did you hear why he had a gun?"
He: "No...?"
Me: "Gray wolves!"
He: "WHAT?!?!?!?"


Now who's going to photoshop into these pictures from yesterday a wolf pack about to attack poor "Moops"?

[Goniff]

[BigDaddy]

JS.... What do you think about pairing up a photoshop class with next years AVI workshop?! Maybe even have a section on proper handgun stowage and cornice shooting for skiing?

(Not that that didn't make me laugh!)

[Jonathan S.]

JS.... What do you think about pairing up a photoshop class with next years AVI workshop?! Maybe even have a section on proper handgun stowage and cornice shooting for skiing?

(Not that that didn't make me laugh!)

You may jest, but not that far off the mark (pun?): the USFS snow rangers used to try to shoot down the hanging ice before it would fall naturally onto Lunch Rocks.
(This turned out to be just as effective as packing heat for protection against gray wolves in King Ravine -- well, with the exception that ice really does exist in Tux...)

[Moeghoul]

I have wanted to see this movie poster fixed to commemorate this thread. Rawj and his hubris could only be played by Brad Pitt... RT3 on the far right and maybe wolf in middle -

HAHAHAHAA!! Nice, all I can remember about that movie is that Pitt seemed to have a perma butthurtz expression on his face the whole time.

[NoPostholio]

the USFS snow rangers used to try to shoot down the hanging ice before it would fall naturally onto Lunch Rocks.

Chance of ice or something hitting people who parked their carcass @ lunch rocks = 99.9%
Chance of being attacked by predator in same zip code =. 01%

[From_the_NEK]

Damn wolves are EVERYWHERE!



Edit: Because wolves like to have fun too.

[Jonathan S.]

Damn wolves are EVERYWHERE!

Love it, thanks!

[strawjack]

Damn wolves are EVERYWHERE!



Edit: Because wolves like to have fun too.

See, I've been trying to stay quiet, but I thought I had seen some around and now we have proof! Damn things are reproducing like bunnies. KTP here I come.

[gouldie]

I heard there was a pack of rabid wolves up at Gulf of Slides. They have an instinct to attack those who have hard ear race helmets and 160 lace up boots. They're everywhere now!