That's not a mountain.
That's a speed bump!
Mt. Stuart, central Cascades
9400 feet and snaggier than an old girlfriend of mine!
(Just kiddin ya!! Congrats on the climb! I'm from New York and used to love the Adirondacks and Berkshires.)
Posted on 05/16/2009 7:09:29 PM PDT by martin_fierro
Edited on 05/16/2009 7:11:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
NEW YORK -- Tim Chai keeps in touch with friends through Facebook, listens to music on his iPod and never goes anywhere without his BlackBerry.
So when the 17-year-old was looking for a summer camp, he ruled out a church camp with a no cell phone, no computer policy.
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I was on a recent hiking trip to the White Mountains in New Hampshire and I had my iPod and a device with full access to email, Twitter, Facebook and other internet sites including this here Free Republic. For example, as I was climbing Mt. Mansfield, I was keeping up with the latest "I'm Buying My First Gun - What Gun Should I Buy?" thread so I was never really out of touch with civilization even though all around me were nothing but trees and rocks.
When I finally gained the top of the mountaintop, I was able to text my Twitter follows "BION I climbd dat mntn! my 20 S tp Mt mansfield nu hamsphire, i own d gr8 outd%rs! B bac dwn @TEOTD, wen Ill pRT 2 d max"
For those not text-inclined, the above basically translates as follows:
Believe it or not, I climbed that mountain! My current location is atop Mt. Mansfield in New Hampshire - I own the great outdoors! Be back down at the end of the day when I'll party to the max!
When my kids go on their ‘youth retreats’, it is often a no-phone/no-ipod weekend/week. They are allowed to take cameras so that my kids can put a video together later. Doesn’t hurt them at all.
Poke fun, but I doubt any of us are any less addicted to FR.
They don’t understand how revitalizing it is to get rid of those things for a while... and they mistake the quiet for boredom for a while.
is this a joke?
I sympathize... the thought of being without FR gives me panic attacks, too!
“I don’t think even most 17-year-olds should be ‘ruling out’ things of this magnitude - the decision should be with the parents.”
I don’t think a 17-year-old, or the 17-year-old’s parents should be making a decision on what summer camp to attend in the first place - maybe they should be making a decision on what summer camp he’s going to work at. I started working at a summer camp around the age of 15, and continued until I was in college and circumstances and the need to take summer classes got in my way.
As far as communicating with friends, that’s a whole different issue. Most summer camps are only a week long, so they won’t be “breaking contact for weeks at a time”. Plus, at 17, if he was staff, even the church camp that I worked at allowed its staff to use cell phones, computers, etc. either in certain areas after the campers were in bed, or on the weekends when the campers weren’t around. And, although the kids technically weren’t allowed to have cell phones or iPods in practice it was at their counselor’s discretion, which usually meant a 15-minute window between the nighttime devotions and lights-out (when they wouldn’t be doing much anyways) or something of that nature.
As far as kids making choices, as long as the parent approves, I don’t see that it’s a big deal. When I was 14, I made a plan to finish homeschool high school in three years, and my mom basically said “If you can do it, fine.” When I was 16 and I got bored about a month after ‘graduating’ and decided to take AP classes at the local high school for college credit, my mom also basically said “If they let you, that sounds like a good idea.” However, possibly unlike some of these kids who ‘make’ school choices, I was very aware of my academic strengths and weaknesses and learning style, and made the decision based on what I thought would be best for me getting a well-rounded education that would prepare me for college, not what school it’s ‘cool’ to go to or what school all my friends went to. I sure know my classmates were shocked when they discovered that even though I was younger than them, I’d already legally graduated and didn’t even have to go to school =)
That does look like fun. Being from New England, I have to take what the geography offers me and so the Presidential range is about as good as it gets elevation-wise around here.’
You should have brought the GPS.... Mt Mansfield is in the Green Mountains in Vermont not New Hampshire.
Don't you just < SELECT > and < PLAY > like with any other Wii module?
If you can't fish without gadgets, you're not a fisherman.
You MIGHT be a harvester of fish; but that's not the same as fishing, or being a fisherman.
Well, you can basically walk to the top of Mt. Rainier, and I’ve been to about 10,000 feet myself.
But I’ll never climb Stuart - you can’t do it without ropes...
Then I guess it would be safe to assume that you would also be opposed to the use of dynamite.
[ducking]
Yes, I am! A 30-06 fired into the water, aiming BELOW the apparent position of the fish works just as well, and is much more controlled.
what do you mean by that?
I see things differently. As a Christian I know that we are to “redeem the time for the days are evil,” which basically means not to while away our time with frivolous and trivial things. God wants us to enjoy life and having recreational pursuits is a healthy thing for stress reduction, and a host of things. Spending hours and hours and hours a week, whether on golf, watching televised sports, video games, playing poker, or anything of the like is a waste of valuable time.
I do not always use my time wisely and sometimes get quite “sucked into” Free Republic for instance, but I think I am pretty disciplined otherwise.
I need to spend more time praying and that’s the truth. We ALL do.
:’)
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