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D'Wolf
climber
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 4, 2013 - 09:15pm PT
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Seems a few airlines have cancelled flights. Doesn't appear to be a major eruption at the moment but one never knows...
Thom
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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I love the video, even in black & white and no volcano sounds.
As they say in Mexico: "SUNNY-BEACHES!!"
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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I find it amazing that my 1988 ascent was so close to the 1994 cutoff due to increased activity.
Lucky to have taken the opportunity. My good friend Clicerio Avilez, a Mexican physicist who I worked with from about 1980 until his death in 1991, wrote to me in a letter "today I was able to see Popocatepetl from Mexico City and thought of you. I would like to climb it with you some day" But he was not able that one time that my colleague and climbing partner Lawrence Wencke and I had ventured down in December to a collaboration meeting, and a foray up that mountain.
To me, Popocatepetl is a reminder that we should not put off to the future the fulfillment of our dreams.
Here's to you Clicerio, that mountain blazes with your spirit.
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TYeary
Social climber
State of decay
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Nice words, Ed.
I was on Popo in 1990.
Popo in '97 from Izta.
TY
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hamie
Social climber
Thekoots
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1965
"On top of Old Popo,
All covered in snow"
Wearing a down jacket in Mexico, and still cold.
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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Thanks for the cool shots, hamie.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, all... thanks for posting all the pics of volcano...
and the neat trip stories of 'yesterdays' :)
hope things will be okay for all the folks in mexico :O
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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In 1985 with Rob Grandfield and three others. I think I still have a summit pic of the five of us.
Orizaba and Ixta (I was the only one for Ixta, the others were too tired after Popo) too.
In 1971 my late brother Mac and I climbed Mt St Helens. Walking on ground that is no longer there.
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Jacemullen
Trad climber
Oceanside
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I was in the area last december to climb Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltepetl) and took some pictures of Popo in my travels. This was while it was still doing it's thing but before the recent increase in activity.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Aug 12, 2013 - 03:39am PT
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Amazing, isn't it. Nature. When I climbed Popo in 1985, snow all the way to the crater, now it looks bare.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 12, 2013 - 04:15am PT
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Just as a matter of curiosity, what is the penalty for hopping the fence on one of these cones? That is if there is a fence.
Do they simply re-patriate your Gringo butt?
No offence, my southern amigos, but I have been kicked out of the Canadian Provincial Park in the Bugs because of "fire danger." We were not re-patriated, just banished to Edgewater for a week instead...
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Aug 12, 2013 - 07:18am PT
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Oh jeez, fence hopping is a serious offense in some parts of the world. You can get shot, or have a mad bull ream you. I wouldn't advise it, but then, I was never good at giving advice.
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