Comments on: Those we left behind: What to tell the people at home https://pmags.com/those-we-left-behind-what-to-tell-the-people-at-home Practical advice and musings on the outdoors, hiking, backpacking, ski touring, and camping. Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:08:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: Paul Mags https://pmags.com/those-we-left-behind-what-to-tell-the-people-at-home#comment-690161 Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:56:01 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=25224#comment-690161 In reply to Another Kevin.

Glad it worked! You had an ample six-hour window. 😀

]]> By: Another Kevin https://pmags.com/those-we-left-behind-what-to-tell-the-people-at-home#comment-690155 Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:56:23 +0000 https://pmags.com/?p=25224#comment-690155 I think that my wife may have forgiven me for the time that my daughter and I were a day late getting back, having had no worse trouble than pesky bad luck with routefinding on a New York bushwhack. (We were hitting a trail-less peak I hadn’t been to before, and wound up doing a seemingly endless back-and-fill in a maze of ledges.)

We had left a VERY approximate itinerary (New York bushwhack, after all!) and clear instructions not to panic for 24 hours after scheduled check-in. We managed to check in only 18 hours behind schedule, but still, I had OUR DAUGHTER with me, and if Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy. But, $LC_DEITY bless her, my wife followed instructions and didn’t call out the troops.

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