Summitting of the Middle Sister, Three Sisters Mountain Range, Oregon

[GregoryLog]

We were losing our daylight so we got a bit radical and used the glissade technique. We lost about 3000 feet in elevation using the glissade technique in about 20 minutes by running a few hundred feet then hopping on to the next glacier and so on, for about 4 to 5 glaciers in all. It helped expedite our decent. Once we got back to the trail head where the treeline starts, it was another 6 mile jog back to the parking lot. We brought no flashlights or headlamps.

[westpoint64]

Your whole experience just sounds so awesome! I love it when people challenge themselves like this. The faint of heart would say, "This is tempting fate, better to stay close to civilization, where it is safe"....The prepared adventurer accepts the risks inherent in the quest and makes himself/herself as ready as possible, realizing that the most dangerous experience of almost any person's life happens almost daily when they buckle up and pull out of the driveway.

Absolute safety is impossible.

[GregoryLog]

It really was a memorable experience. I am absolutely thrilled to have done it.

I am a very cautious person. I have a reasonable amount of agility, at least for balance. The only time things got a little hairy was in our glissades where we'd reach maybe 30 miles an hour sliding on our hands and butts. At the end of those glacier fields were very large boulders, so you had to really dig in at the end to break. I had the Tarzan look going, no backside left to the shorts and rosy cheeks