Discussion: in this lifetime

Don't count yourself out. Maybe you'll never run as fast as they did this weekend, but when we're all on Brown, it's hard to know who will be running fastest then.

I just got a email from Mark, apparently he crashed on the exact same chain doing exactly what I was doing, reading ahead. And destroying his compass in the process. I don't even get to use the smashed compass as an excuse now.

I'm really impressed about not using a compass. I did a lot of no compass stuff when I was carrying stands, and it's so easy to get turned around here, especially when it's cloudy. I made some really embarrassing no-compass errors in the last few months.

I noticed a lot of chains hanging low---we'll have to add that to our list of stuff to check for future events. Along with "having a first aid kit" and "knowing where it is."