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To: Snowshoe who wrote (3290)	11/24/2002 5:56:38 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) of 6901

Earlier I provided this link to an aerial photo of our earthquake fault line... Aerial photo of quake site, looking east from the general vicinity of Mt. Mckinley... aeic.alaska.edu The photo, which looks east along the Alaska range from the Parks Highway, dredged up some old memories. Back in about 1984 I took a weekend drive westward from Paxon along the Denali Highway toward the Parks Highway. The Denali Highway skirts the southern edge of the Alaska Range off to the right in the photo. On Sunday afternoon at one of the forks of the Susitna River I found a couple of hitch-hiking mountain climbers named Dave Cheesmond and Carl Tobin. The lads had been out climbing on Mount Hayes for three weeks, and then had floated down the river for 20 miles or so on a rubber raft. (Mount Hayes is one of the large peaks on the horizon just to the left of the fault.) Tobin had fallen and hurt his back, and was on painkillers. Cheesmond had to catch a plane to Canada (Vancouver, I think) the next morning. Somehow I crammed the guys and their pile of gear into my small car and drove to Talkeetna, where we dropped off Tobin (who lived in Fairbanks). Then I drove home to Anchorage with Cheesmond, who stayed at my place overnight. The next morning I dropped him off at the airport. He was pretty fatigued and we didn't get much of a chance to talk, but I did learned that he was a South African who had climbed all over the world. A few years later I read in the newspaper that Cheesmond had disappeared with Catherine Freer while climbing Mount Logan in Yukon Territory. More recently I looked looked him up on the Internet and learned that he was one of the greatest climbers ever from South Africa.

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