2006/8/2 Yosemite Reunion 第三天 --- Mt. Dana EMAIL 雜談總匯
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潘秀雲
When Cary mentioned that someone should have written something about Mt. Dana, I said "right, after all, our reunion officially began on Jul 31." So, I started to write. But since I wasn't intended to do so when I was in Yosemite, so I didn't put down any note, then my aging brain doesn't function well, which means a lot of data has already been wiped out. I haven't done Chinese input for quite a while now. my little Apple also gave me a hard time. It runs an old edition of NeoOffice i/o Microsoft Word, which I was familiar to, I have to write over and over again because its auto save sometimes didn't work and the system often went down unexpectedly. I am still working on it, but I think I should ask you first for your favour to fill in/correct the missing/incorrect data, and at the presumption that still no one has mentioned about working on the same subject.
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林鼎貴
糟糕，我也沒做任何記錄。因為印象裡文瑕說「老少咸宜，大家都爬得上去」，所以十分輕敵。很不幸的，那天爬得哇哇叫，坡度陡還 OK，路跡不明走起來就辛苦了。起初以為快快走，衝刺一會兒就到，沒想到隊伍就拉開了；好在古大俠、昆明學長、盛文、大少一路盯梢，大家才都安全。
比較深的印象是太陽很曬，我一沒擦防曬油，二沒戴帽子，回來後頭頂頭皮疼的很，兩天後脫皮。所以淑娟是數著片片的白雲離開加州，我則是數著片片的頭皮屑搭飛機回台北。
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古競祥
我記得上Mt Dana時,山頂已有李昆明、郭東鷹、范盛文夫婦,我比張世英稍早登頂,還有莊文琮一路努力的堆疊石頭當路標,大約和高瓊華同時登頂,其次是江文里,最晚到的是大少。下山時除了我和郭東鷹先下來外,其餘九位因其中幾位上山時幾已體力耗盡,下山時必定也有許多故事。而且昆明同學和范同學在途中都拍了不少照片,要追索記錄資料應該較無困難,我比較多事,請他們幾位提供些資料讓潘同學彙整,是否可行?
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高瓊華
爬 Mt. Dana 那天隊伍拉的較長. 我想每位同學的見,聞與經歷都是集體經驗的一個片面. 每個人都只能見到周遭發生的事.無論最後有沒有上山頭我想每個人都有一份很unique 的心路歷程. 如果我?都依自己覺得comfortable 的程度隨意分享.說不定我?會見到一個璀璨多面的登山經驗.
我想再分享一件我所見到的事...那天下山時, 大概不到 1/4 哩路就到山腳入口處. 我已經累得雙腳不聽使喚. 有時絆到石頭. 有時踩到自己的腳.稍停休息時遠遠見到世英正在啜泣. 我好心痛. 想過去安慰他, 卻跌了個大跤. 才又站穩. 只見李昆明學長快跑進入路旁花圃採了幾株紫的,黃的, 紅的花給世英. 我好感動. 我們都年過半百還看得見單純的友情. 後來問世英, 她告訴我, 學長說: "世英, 不要哭, 看前面.
看前面."
本來不想提這件事. 怕不擅言語的自己把美事說壞了. 不過, 前幾天, 在世英家看到她已把一些 reunion 照片連同"不小心"被她帶回來的已枯乾的花貼在 "Yosemite Four Seasons" 書內的前後空頁上. 我忍不住要訴說這件美事.
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邱素娟
郭東鷹 wore sandals skiing through ice patch, up and down Mt. Dana, . 王聰叡 wore a size 7 and half boot on one foot and crammed another foot into a size 6 and half shoe (per 小倩's kind preparation) and still smiled all the way. After the climb 周宏明 opened a watermelon stand in the parking lot by the ranger station right in front of 5 potter potty. Watermelon donated by 蕭萌區, those were the best watermelons you ever dreamed about. And 阿?叔叔 became ??叔叔. This is a wonderful trip indeed.
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江文里
文瑕說「老少咸宜，大家都爬得上去」. I checked web
sites before I left for Yosemite and found that the
trail is an unofficial use trail, not maintained, and
not an easy trail for some people. Mount Dana, at
13,053 (or 13,057, 13,061) ft, is a class 1-2 climb
(see www.answers.com/topic/yosemite-decimal-system for
the definition of the classes). We hiked 3 miles (5
km) and gained 3100 foot (940 m) from the park
entrance at Tioga Pass (elevation 9943 ft, 3030.6 m).
You may refer to the following and other sites:
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By the way, 大少 reached the top before 江文里 and Sue
(陳淑慧). There seems no difficulty down hills except
a couple of dangerous situations sliding down the snow
slope. Some people wasted time and energy looking for
the downward trail. 張世英 smiled at the later time.
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潘秀雲
其實大家就這樣聊聊也不錯，總算沒有靜悄悄的就讓它溜走就好。
這是我第一次到Yosemite，啥概念也沒。前一天Fourmile Trail 走得還算輕鬆，只知道Mt. Dana 路會長一點，晒一點，不知她竟是Yosemite 第二高峰，有點輕敵。我算是緊張大師，心想登山社爬山一向不玩假的，因需要多帶水，我連相機也不敢背上去(我的是老式相機有點重量)，上山時前頭領隊說待會兒會晒得厲害，最好趁還算涼快時多走一點，花圃雖美，大家也不敢多流連。等到開始上爬時，雖沒覺得氣特別不順，但一停下來就兩眼發白、頭發暈，要等好幾秒鐘才敢張開眼睛溜覽一下周遭景色，同行的 Dona決定不再繼續爬，我只好加入小朋友群。一路認真調息，不敢冒然開口與同行的夥伴多說話。只聽有人說原來穿的登山鞋前頭裂了口，只好穿涼鞋上山，想必就是郭同學了。
我因沒帶外套，山上涼不敢久待，約2:00pm就隨著小朋友下山，但關節不好，哪跟得上他們腳程？所以回程幾乎是一個人走到底。好幾次差點摔跤，前後半個鐘頭路程內都不見一人，心中是有點害怕。也只好硬著頭皮、邊持咒邊往下走。好不容易下完第一個山頭，路變得明顯一點就開始衝，希望能趕近前面的人群，卻不小心衝錯山頭。還好山頭上看得到左側遠處才有人影，才又一路切過來，那是石片坡，鬆滑加殘雪，走得很緊張、很辛苦，但也看到一隻小鹿，兩隻水獺，還算欣慰。因為是一路獨行，很多趣事和美事都錯過了，還好現在個別提提，讓Mt. Dana 行又更具 "歷史" 價值，請大家繼續共襄盛舉。
沒錯，山下那片西瓜是世界上最甜美的，謝謝萌區的細心和宏明體貼。
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舒孝潭
Hi,
Here is some data about Mt. Dana (3981 Meters). If there is a 美國百岳 list then Mt. Dana should be one of them. It is higher than the highest mountain in north-east Asia - Mt. Jade (玉山 3952 Meters). We should be proud of our accomplishment. "We did not come in vain." Good weather, good view, good hike, and good companions. And of course "no pains, no gains...."
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Mount Dana is a mountain on the eastern edge of Yosemite National Park in the U.S. state of California. At an elevation of 13,061 feet (3981 Meters), it is the 420th highest mountain in the world, the 112th highest mountain in North America, the 88th highest mountain in the U.S., the 18th highest mountain in California, and the 2nd highest mountain in Yosemite (after Mount Lyell). Mount Dana is the highest peak in Yosemite that does not require the aid of ropes in rock climbing. Mount Dana is named after James Dwight Dana, who was a professor of geology at Yale College.
Mount Dana is composed of prebatholithic rock that is mostly reddish metamorphic rock, which was composed by metavolcanics of surfacing magma from the Mesozoic Era.
Mount Dana includes a northern face includes a small, receding glacier known as the Dana Glacier.
The Hike
Mount Dana is typically hiked from its western face beginning at the Tioga Pass Yosemite Park entrance and is a class 1-2 hike, rising 3108 feet in elevation in 2.9 miles from the park entrance at Tioga Pass (a 20.3% average grade). There is a clearly marked path to just above tree line. After topping a ridge a set of use-paths and ducked routes are present, with the main path running along the easterly ridgeline. Additionally, numerous alternate trail segments begin and end at various points on the southwestern face, making parts of this hike a difficult class 2. The path segments turn into scree toward the summit. A shallow stone-walled shelter and register are found there. Total hiking time is approximately 3.5 - 6 hours depending on acclimatization.
After reaching a plateau above tree line almost all vegetation disappears with the exception of lichen and a few high alpine Sky Pilot (Polemonium eximium). Fauna are largely limited to spiders and insects, such as black/brown grasshoppers. The only mammals other than humans are marmots, often fed by hikers against Park warnings.
Thunderstorms are known to arise suddenly, making the rocks slippery, and the hiking dangerous. Temperatures can drop very quickly, with hot 100 F weather dropping to freezing levels during a hailstorm. Even experienced hikers can face altitude sickness, due to the high elevation.
First ascent - 1863 by Josiah Whitney, William H. Brewer, and Charles F. Hoffmann
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蕭萌區
哈哈! 總算有人為西瓜說話了。
西瓜事件是標準的團隊合作，我買了西瓜，一直被壓抑是雞婆。 又因怕熊只好先放宏明家。 宏明太太一直到出發前才請好假，宏明心疼太太，reunion那天當天往返，將太太, 西瓜帶上Yosemite。 Yosemite回來還發現家門大開， 想想是那天忘了西瓜， 轉回來拿時忘了關門， 鄰居還叫了警察 (放心! 他家治安還不錯)。
前一晚我們還在討論，要不要把西瓜帶去爬山 (放車上怕熊)， 大少一句話 :"背上山" ! 事情就敲定了， 我們D隊可是聽領隊的。
這也是人算不如天算。 Things fall in place perfectly.
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舒孝潭
本以為 Mt. Dana 小山一座, 來一個負重訓練也不錯. 把西瓜背上山, 在山頂切西瓜慶祝登頂, 很"山社"也很有解渴"滋味".
好在 Tiago Pass 人煙"稠密", 把西瓜放在車上也不怕熊. 負重訓練的遠大志向就遠遠丟背後了. 好在沒背西瓜上山, 要不然有更多人要哭了.
雖然登頂沒西瓜吃, 但昆明學長背了半打多的啤酒上山, 也算是很"傳統"地慶祝登頂了,
p.s.
MING MING, wake up, you are Team A, not Team D.
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古競祥
從山上下來還覺得挺輕鬆的,如今看到大少介紹Mt Dana的文字才知凶險,想來山社真是十分幸運的一群,在如此翻臉像翻書的高山上,卻剛剛好把握到最佳的天候狀況,平平安安的爬山,快樂的回味艱苦的攀爬過程、刺激的雪坡滑降,重拾年輕時的單純友情,真好。
看到張世英時我還不知道她正是『只爬大山不爬小山的』張世英,只見她坐再岩石上啜泣,可是沒看見小阿娟說的感人一幕,真可惜。
秀雲同學,山上只有土撥鼠,沒有水獺啦。
大少,世英,小阿娟,你們開始鍛鍊了嗎?阿娟已在跑操場囉。
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邱素娟
Nice follow up. Thought ??也就算了. Oops, 被?名了，嘻嘻，明天，no , the day after 明天 I will start the preparation work for 鍛鍊. Buy some fancy, colorful clothing like 阿?always does. I guess this is the benefit of being friends with Iron man 大哥。 A couple of more check-ups from him, the possibility of becoming 1/10 Iron woman is getting bigger. So promising, though I hope 古大哥 would be more forgetful.
P.S. To set the record straight.
小阿娟派兒子流汗爬山，自己躲在山下吃西瓜，還要虧我走得慢，變成烏龜，真是不道德。
1. Little Ah-Chuan was on a mission: to scare away potential bears ( though the imagination was not materialized), so everybody
could have the juicy sweet watermelon after the hard climb.
2. 阿?叔叔 became ??叔叔 is from 聰叡家的Alex. 阿? is always 神勇，I dare not 虧 他。
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潘秀雲
阿貴，你老站在我後面，就像以前所有壓隊趕鴨子的模樣，害我不敢多休息，下回有話要明講，我就不必如此趕得眼冒金星。
古同學，謝謝指教。它有鮮亮的黃棕色，水獺應是土灰色才對，因它們有又大又扁的尾巴，又在冰堆下石縫中的水上玩，所以我想是變了色水獺。水獺是加拿大的代表動物，我見過很多它們築的水壩，啃斷的樹幹，倒沒真正見過一隻。
我爬一萬三千呎的山不帶外套也夠大意了，我們真的運氣很好，天、地、時都合、順，這兩個週末與兒子爬 San Diego 附近的山，汗流浹背，加上怎也趕不上兒子的腳步，才ㄧ千七百公尺就搞得我累了好幾天。如果爬 Mt. Dana 那天也是這種氣候，只怕我也打退堂鼓了。
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高瓊華
我只是想如果多點人contribute 信息會比較有資料可整理.
MingMing 與宏明準備的西瓜真的是最甜的. 那是最豪華的 treat 也是個驚喜.
去Mt. Dana 的一路上我?幾個室友, 秀雲, 世英, Donna 與我還掉詞忘字的大唱大吼 Joan Boaz 的老歌. 真過癮.
也很驚喜原來 40 年前我們就有共同嗜好與歌唱品味. 只是大概苦了開車大少.
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呂麗雪
回憶Mt.Dana，真是苦盡甘來！
（感謝交叉轉寄，使得有些中文字體敗部復活，各家故事都精彩，說別家的更秘辛，請繼續接龍）
啊呀，美食派的阿貴你別欽佩啦，吃香喝辣代價很高地！大少以及純琍前年帶我們走完Rocky Mountains 三個國家公園，就是沒一起去走Mt. Whitney，可能因此沒有以power bar精算熱量當正餐的經驗，那裡能像 貴隊背包裡每天一套還有空位裝陽傘？！A隊有數不清的熊罐，我分配的那一個裝著第二天午餐的bagel，這菜單一直應觀眾要求往後挪，更誇張的是公糧往往不及私糧精彩，五、六個bagel以及兩包肉鬆，竟然一路讓我背到山下，真是有苦說不出！
不過回想Yosemite pre-reunion A隊的美味仍要兩頰生津，一路有肉(肉鬆、肉干和各式ham)有魚(魚鬆、小魚干)，煮完一鍋冬粉海帶湯，再為不喜歡sea food的伙伴煮一鍋蔬菜蛋花湯。在Little Yosemite Valley紮營那一晚，煎完香腸的油用來炒蔬菜，炒著「雪裡紅」(絕對不是脫水蔬菜)，我想到加上脆脆的花生更好吃，才開口立刻有兩包出現在我面前，如此綠白相間又下飯的道地中國菜，美國餐廳恐怕不容易做出來。
我兒曾這麼說：Half Dome大會師不就是完美的ending了嗎？為什麼還要繼續爬山。
英勇走完A隊，得知Mt. Dana是要在短短幾哩裡爬升將近一千公尺，其實我也是很猶豫的！後來決定要走，是因為兒子的關係，兒子跟著已混熟識的其他青少年做決定，而這些青少年則跟著一群美少女決定的啦！牽拖的阿雪是有理由地－－腳底Ｎ個水泡外加一顆烏青彩繪腳指甲。這是前後N十年的登山史第一次嚐到雙重滋味，每一步履都要調整登山鞋的著力點，為了讓姿勢不要太難看，理直氣壯慢慢走。明著講的理由是陪著好朋友一起走，一位是腳?腫個大包卻走得穩健的小阿娟，另一位是來美國以後第一次hiking的桂華(周宏明的太太)，還有在最後趕鴨子似的大少。
最後的摸魚子隊，大少原先耐性的連哄帶笑的鼓勵，三娘一路話家常還要交流教子經，大少偶爾供出他們家看到的娘子經，約莫一個多鐘頭大概耳朵的繭滿上來，大步邁開追前面的伙伴去了。眺望難得一訪的Yosemite西邊出口，在繽紛花朵的hanging garding裡，跟著拿著圖鑑的老美辨讀花草，與小阿娟輸番唱山歌，陪著桂華體會她登山經驗裡許多的第一次，心裡沒有登頂的壓力，輕鬆又仔細的發掘山徑旁的驚奇，很有另一番滋味！
觀賞兒子照得山頂遠眺Mono Lake的美景，對自己沒有登頂是仍有些遺憾但已不負擔，我想到第一次全家到美國自助旅行時，總覺得無法玩得透徹，小倩說得有道理：留點遺憾，讓下次更有些期待。
期待以B、C隊路線再訪Yosemite！
阿雪
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周宏明
說起來要不是為了這西瓜,我可能連上Mt. Dana都作罷. 經過了A隊的backpacking,實在很想偷偷懶!
不管怎樣,還是一早起來,按照原定計畫,回家把太太和小兒子接來.當然還有要把兩個西瓜也帶來,雖然還不知道怎麼吃法,只要不要忘了帶刀子就是了!
一走到停車場,赫然發現停在我旁邊的車子居然不但車窗被打破,連門框也被扯濫了.八成是那黑熊砸了那玻璃卻沒吃到東西,火大連門也不放過!
說到門忘了關,我想住在美國的夥伴一定都有那種,"ㄟ我剛剛車庫的門到底有沒有關?"的經驗.至少那經常發生在我身上.我該算是個很小心的人,
出門必定檢查門戶.關車庫早已是倒車後的反射動作,幾次不確定,再回頭去看從來都是關的好好的!但這回拿西瓜是從大門出入.其實在路上我也問了
自己,拿了第二顆西瓜後到底有沒有把門關上,只因趕時間也就沒有再回頭!
還好家裡沒事,西瓜大家也吃得很高興!
也是為了西瓜,下山時一直急著趕回車上,就怕黑熊也大白天,熱的想吃西瓜,顧不了附近的Ranger了!
Anyway, 這趟Mt.Dana,撇開西瓜不談,感謝阿雪,小娟,文宗,還有大少的照顧.沒想到我那從不運動的老婆也居然爬到了半山腰!
(不過也害我為了等她,不能更早回到車上:-)
剛剛看到了大少送給萌萌的信,好像有在想明年要去大峽谷....
想想如果一些人從北緣(North Rim),一些人從南緣(South Rim),來個谷底大會師,一定也很有意思吧!
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陳繼全
I have never hiked such a height. The only hiking I've done has been walking trails, albeit on occassion. The first day I walked downhill for 4 miles. Already my legs has started to hurt. By the second day, my friend insisted me to hiked Mt. Dana. I had no clue how tall this mountain was. Halfway up the mountain, my heart beated rapidly and was pounding. I thought my heart was going to jump out. Fortunately I met Ching Hsiang Ku (If I spelled your name correct) and he patiently told me the secret to hiking a mountain -- take 10 small steps, rest, and take deep breaths. Eventually my body got accustomed to the altitude. By noon, I was exhausted and had no desire to continue hiking. I began to think of all the errands that I needed to do the next day. So I decided to hike back downhill alone. Fortunately I encountered Tony Shu and he told me to slow down and to not get lost. I followed the markers and safely arrived to the parking lot around 2p.m. I was cold and headache. In a couple of hours, some hiker gave me some medicine. This has been an unforgettable experience. I'll always remember your friendship and thoughtfulness.
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高瓊華
我想有完沒了的不只是那 pre- or pre-pre reunion 或 post or post-post reunion 的活動.
而是因這些相聚而深植於每個參與者心中揮不去的回憶與思念, 無論是參加Backpacking, 4-mile trail, Mt. Dana
或 just show up.
我有太多的感謝與感恩.
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