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Sometimes you need ‘risk management,’ tree well

by NATHAN R. MOSER, Community Church of Ephrata
| February 3, 2022 1:00 AM

A Geo Metro is really an egg with a stick shift and little toy wheels, not fit for the mountains. The white one I was driving in a caravan of college students up Mountain Loop Highway was overfilled. The three-cylinder motor gave us everything. We planned to climb Mt. Pilchuck and stay overnight in the fire lookout that was bolted to the top. It was January. We got a late start. No one had signed on to mountaineering a glacier in the dark. Except maybe me.

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