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First, I would have cautioned them, if you should ever decide to take up ski mountaineering on your own, don't go alone or with a weak party or underequipped or anywhere beyond reasonable expectation of safe retreat. Secretly not wanting them to dash too far ahead of me, I would have warned them that if they were overburdened with energy, they should save it, thus keeping the party strong if someone else's underburden of energy should show up; mine for instance. Sounding even more fatherlike, I would have warned them in capital italics about AVALANCHE HAZARD, and would have illustrated it with a very hairy story about how four friends of mine would now be dead, their death having been brought about by a very simple-minded avalanche, had a fifth friend not had a cold that day. There I would have ended the story abruptly until they pounded me for details, which I would spoon out with liberal accompaniment of vital avalanche lore. |
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