REALLY Stupid Stuff

Just got back from a ski mountaineering trip up Red Baldy in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Considering it's only the 2nd tour on these new skies, and I'm not that good, maybe it was stupid, but not too. After all, no cliffs or rockbands involved in the descent, so all in all safe. Calculated risk, unlike what I saw on the way home.

My personal Darwin Award has to go to the family having a picnic. On the way out of the canyon we stoped at the floodgate station to check out some of the falls in the cutes. Hey, we're in the middle of the spring melt, with temps at 90 in the valley and 70 at 10,000 feet, the canyons are a great place to be. BUT, 3 feet from a raging creek and 10 feet upstream from a 15 foot sluicegate drop with a whirpool is not a good place to have a picnic with an 18 month old and a 3 year old. We warned them, not that the advice was heeded.