Reply #33: I didn't say that the New Yorker doesn't know anything about climbing.

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I didn't say that anyone had no knowledge of climbing. My point is that WHERE and WHEN you climb/hike/whatever is just as important or more important than the skills you learn when you climb. It's like anything else that you do outdoors. Just because you've gone canoeing 20 times, does that mean that you can do it in Missouri as well as Canada?

I'm impressed that the climber has summitted Rainier 13 times...but damnit, the Northwest has gotten hit by a weather system now for a long time.