Re: Global Hiker Stopped by Yosemite

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120207/A_NEWS/202070320

"I snowshoed over Tioga Pass and onto Tuolumne Meadows, but that took over three days," Skinner said. "I had to camp out around 9,000 feet for three nights and got mild frostbite on both feet. The good news is that the feet should heal. ... The bad news is that I need to stop walking," he said, explaining that his boots went from "wet" the first night to "frozen" the second night and "frozen solid" by the third night.....

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
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Wait, this was recent? He just missed the mild weather?

Just checked his tweets...he was at Tuolumne Jan 25-28 or so.

Dr Colin Skinner Tweet

Really BAD planning. Why didn't he plan to cross in spring or summer? Not to mention how ironic that if only he was, what, 2-3 weeks earlier, he'd have made it no problem!

We had this story on local TV and radio last week. He started from Lee Vining on Jan 24 and was just about one week too late to beat the storms.