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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (102160)	4/27/2005 10:12:23 AM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 108807

I remember that incident and tales of the crab industry. Haven't read the books, though. Thanks. I tugged on Superman's Cape the first winter I was in Alaska. I was three miles back towards the Herbert Glacier when one of my elderly ski boots disintegrated. Here I was one ski on, one off and it was getting dark early. I tried moving with one ski. Got about a hundred yards and my other ski boot disintegrated. I sat wondering how the hell I was going to get home in my stocking feet in deep snow that wouldn't hold my weight. Sitting on my pack, I noticed my waist strap. I cut it off, used my knife to pierce slots in the toes of my ski boots, and literally tied my skis to my feet. I got out a couple of hours later none too worse for the wear. If it had been colder, if I had been wetter, if I had been further out, if I had lost my head, Alaska would have chalked up another one.