After watching Desperate Days, I wrote a note to my dad thanking him for the recommendation and commenting
- If you're going alone, tell someone where you're going and when you'll be back.
- leave a note visible in your car saying where you're going and when you'll be back.
- Don't go dangerous places alone. (Slot canyons are dangerous when you're alone.)
- Take more food and water than you think you'll need.
- Carry a whistle. (Probably wouldn't have done him any good, but you can whistle a lot longer than you can shout, and they can be heard much further. He could easily have whistled every hour if he'd had a whistle.)
- If a rock falls and pins your arm, cut your arm off. He should have done it much sooner. I hope I'd be able to do it if it had been me. I wouldn't have been there alone, but (as in the movie "Touching the Void") sometimes something bad happens and you end up alone.
Anyway, the Sykes' Sickle climber wondered where the line is between safe enough and crazy when climbing solo. I think he's way on the crazy side of the line. I continue to think that technical climbing is not a solo sport.
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