Re: list (CSAA) of must see animals.

Eugene Miya wrote:
> Ed Huesers wrote:
> I brought your package for mailing to work, ****rt, et al.
> A special situation came up.  I'll mail it Monday.
    Looking forward to it.

> Hey I got the title honorary glaciologist (professional).  That's just
> the qualitative stuff.

    What book would be good for me?

>>the rest of the glacier has a moat but not every time I've been 
>>there. I guess it's more prevolent in the springs deep snow.

> Spring is not a great time of year to study mass balance.

    Well, then it probably isn't a moat because it's the top layer of 
snow that melts because it is on the warm ground and rock at the top. 
What I thought was a moat melts down to where it is nearly flat stepping 
on the glacier from above.

> Movement is also sometime complicated.

    Yeah, It's not like I'm going to sit there and watch it move. I 
doubt they would like me sticking a marker in.

> Well post WWs you had lots of explosives around.  You got your Monty
> Atwater types and Jacques Cousteau types tossing hand grenades and
> shells.  People forget that John Hunt took a 60 mm mortar to Everest to
> deal with the hazard.  At the end, they didn't want to carry all that
> ammo back, so they used it all.

    Sounds like they had all the fun.
    My buds dad said they used to fish with gallon jugs with a little 
bit of carbide dust in them. Never played with it myself.
    Another bud tried charcoal and saltpeter with no luck.

> You had all those 75 mm pack howitzers, they ran out of ammo, so they
> went to 106 mm recoiless rifles and 105 howitzers (several people I know
> own these) and again little to no ammo now, so that's why they have to
use
> Avalaunchers(tm) now.  Hand charges have replaced grenades.

> Baker used to toss those.  Remember him?

    Don't think so.

>>   Mostly, stomp hard and let the snow sinter a few seconds before 
>>stepping up.

> Sharp edges.
> Distribute weight.

    When skiing, but I was snowshoeing on that trips. The 10 inches of 
soft was deep enough to give a mostly flat step when stomped hard on 
those few hazardous steps.

> I saw the flat.

    Not much of a slant downhill so it took more work to dig the door 
out but it all works.

> I saw last years' AAJ and people like to pitch tents on platforms
> chopped out of knife-edged ice ridges with 1,000s of feet of air on each
> side.  Always have 1 corner hanging in space.

    Depending on no microbursts.
    Doublely living on the edge.

> If you have enough snow,  Sure.
> You must have spacing between the boulders.

    Stay in the center of the snowfields, exit carefully. Stay on bare 
rock/tundra mix when not sure of the snowfield.

>>   Yes, I've learnt how some snow has holes and other snow doesn't. It 
>>don't take long to figure it out on each trip. Down in the canyon the 
>>boulders are the size of VWs and I'm a lot more careful there and stay 
>>on rock when booting it or on thick snow. There's lots of finger drifts 
>>where you can tell how thick the snow is.
> 
> 
> Chouinard in his Climbing Ice book did his Nov. Mendel ascent.  I know
> what he was talking about leg breaking postholes.

    We used to fall through in the early days. Experience helps

>>   Pictures looked to be mostly bare small skree with very little 
>>grass/tundra. Slippery slopes.
> 
> 
> Sandy.  Lapilli.  Some broken lava flows.

    Saw some waterfalls on the edge of some broken lava flows.

>>   I did see some ice sheets but was looking more at the mountains.
> 
> 
> 3 good sized ones.
> They have mountains buried in them.
> Future cirques.

    I'd like to travel to someplace where the freshly polished rock is 
showing. Eradics would be pretty unstable.

> Time for new cars on my side and servicing.

    Just serviced mine, new struts... ouch.

>>   This summer I took the time to figure out a way down the steep side 
>>of a glacial knob, no ropes required in dry conditions. I can now go 
>>over one knob and up and over the next one. Did 10 knobs in a row a 
>>couple weeks ago. 3,100 ft. of gain and about 8 miles round trip. Was
fun.

> RMNP?

    Yes, easy to get to and getting to know the area real good. Perhaps 
to good but I'm getting a deeper understanding and waiting to see what 
comes of it.

>>>When did you guys kill off your last grizzlies?
>>
>>   Just did a search and Ed Wiseman killed one in 1979.
> 
> 
> 79?  That late?

    By reading web pages, sounds like we might still have some...

    Ed Huesers
    Http://www.grandshelters.com