I Cried Outloud For You! Backpacker Mag

“This won't stop me from going solo. There have been times I wondered what I was doing.....like the time I climbed up boulders and snow to see the lake above a ridge. I had flashes of twisting a ankle or falling, and no one finding me because I was off trail. I'm more careful about soloing, and make sure I can be found.”

“Just (finally) got my new mag today (change of address slows things down a bit), and as I tend to read magazines from the back to the front, what do I find on pg.99...A GIANT BOOST OF MALE VIRILITY!!!”

“Is anyone willing to admit that they need a giant boost of male virility?”

“I wonder what the heck's in those miracle pills to increase breast size? Someone clue me in.”

“Chicken hormones.

I'm glad they wont be allowing any more of those ads.”

“Sheeeeeeeyat...you'd think with all you guys in that area around the same time as Mike Turner, he would have been found right away. That area sure seems to get a lot of use for "one of the most remote places in the lower 48"!”

“The Winds do get some use, but there is 1.5 million acres of contiguous wilderness, plus adjoining forest, reservation, and public land there, so the idea of a person being very hard to find does not surprise me at all. And in some parts of that country, you could be 40 feet off the trail and never be noticed.”

“i just read the story for the first time. ROUGH. i hate to think about if it was me.
if it was me i would have had the benefit of being able to suck water out of my dog's fur. i've never been able to keep him out of the water. maybe he also could have written down how to find him and attatched it to the dog somehow? just a thought, i don't know..
at least he did have the dog with him. im sure it would make it a little better than dying alone.
the story makes me think about the risks i take going hiking in those places "normal" people laugh at me for wanting to go to. it's worth it, in the end, to me.”