Over four years ago, I read “Touching the Void” and I was always intrigued by situation hikers find themselves in and the incredible things they do to stay alive.

This blog is about learning from other people’s mistakes, so you don’t make the same ones.

“Better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat”

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Knock on Wood

I’ve been backpacking for four years now and I’ve escaped some semi-hairy situations unscathed – aside from the occasional sunburn or sore legs. I’m a lot luckier than some of the folks that find themselves spending an extra night longer than they expected in the wilderness.

Part of me started this blog because I find it fascinating how exhausted hikers find a way to stay alive and get rescued. The other part of me started this because it adds a little excitement to my next trip.

Knock on wood.

Name: Dude better have a broken leg or at least a large gaping wou
Name: Am I stupid??? Why not just take her helemt off and pull he
eluctor: "His mistake: Being stupid" LOL! Yep, that says it all. :
Bergschlawiner: This is what typically used to be called by SAR people as a
eluctor: Always nice to hear a story where someone was prepared for t
Sigsterrr: Man I am soo glad you are back! I have been dying for my fe
dave: We stayed out the same night at beaver brook (2miles from mt

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