Glacier Sledding
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At age 11, during my first High Adventure trip to Cuchara, Colorado in 1970, many of the scouts decided to climb Mount Blanca (14,345 ft). It seemed like a good idea at the time, get a bunch of young kids who grew up at a relatively low elevation on the prairies of Oklahoma, and walk up one of the tallest mountains in the continental United States, I saw nothing wrong with that plan. About the time we hit 12,000 feet (still a half a mile UP to go) we would take about 5 steps, then have to rest for 5 minutes. This went on for about an hour until we got near the top which was covered in snow pack (in the middle of August). When we saw the snow we forgot about the effort required to walk, picked up a hollowed out log, carried it to the top of the mountain, and slid down the snow pack on the hollow log. There is a picture of that somewhere, if you have it, please upload it to this story. Dfrench 03:16, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
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