I guess that I'll grab the first thing that comes to mind... This last summer I was part of a group of backpackers that were doing a 4-day trip in the Weminuche Wilderness in Colorado. One of the people in our group got lost (she went ahead of us to try to make up some time and took a wrong turn). When we got to our destination, she wasn't there. I used to be a survival instructor at the Air Force Academy, so I planned out my own search-and-rescue mission to try to find her (with the coordination of the rest of my group and my HAM radio). I found her about 2 hours later, and she had missed a turn and walked to the wrong lake, realized that she was at the wrong place, then turned around and headed back. She had walked about 15 miles, and was dehydrated and exhausted. I got her to a spot for her to camp that night, helped her recover and gave her some extra clothes to keep warm, and hiked back to our camp which was 4 miles uphill from where she set up camp. She hiked out the next day with another member of our group, while 4 of us did a day-hike to a mountain summit over Half Moon Lake, which required crossing 6'-deep snow fields, knee-deep ice-cold water, and scrambling up Class 2 terrain.

I like to learn about cultures and new perspectives, teach outdoorsmanship and computer programming, and share delicious meals and beer.

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Backcountry skiing (telemark), road and mountain cycling, rock climbing (sport lead, and really want to learn trad), backpacking, computer programming