Mark -- Here's an interesting story of Mt Hooker North Face climbs:
http://jimdockery.com/climbaround/N.America/ShadyLady/ShadyLady.Hooker.html
and some further comments about Jim Dockery:
http://www.utahclimbers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=31443
And I thought we landspeed racing people were the sick ones........
I got a bit of a laugh about the innovative use of rocks (when all else
fails)
We gotta hear your side of the winter sojourn story. Dockery doesn't seem
to want to say much about it.
Ed Weldon (thanks, Google)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark J Bradakis" <mark@bradakis.com>
To: "LAND SPEED LIST" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Soy based plastic?
> Neil Albaugh wrote:
>> Ever climbed in the Wind River Range, David?
> You folks are lucky. This would be a great opportunity for me to go
> on and on and on and on about the 1977 Weird Winter Wall trip. It was
> a multi-week attempt to do the 2,000 foot north face of Mt. Hooker in
> winter. Had it been successful, it would have been a significant event
> in North American mountaineering. As it turned out, no one actually died
> it just felt that way before we got back to the foothills north of Lander.
> Enough for now. I really do need to write up the tale of this epic before
> memory fails me altogether.
> mjb.
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