Good Evening,
I lost another one of my mentors recently. Royal Robbins was 82.
He joins another mentor who left us in 2012: Herb Conn. Between these
two I learned how to climb and how to cave. I owe many of my wilderness
ethics to them. While I never climbed the big walls of California nor
spelunked the largest caverns of Kentucky I did climb in the Black Hills
and at Devil's Lake in my home state of Wisconsin. Most of my caving
was in the Hills under the Conns' tutelage. Royal taught me how to
leave as few marks on the rock face as I did on the way to it. I do
miss standing on a summit and lying under twenty foot long soda straws
but miss them both even more.
The sun has been active this week as the auroras show. I got two
emails from my brother telling me the West Coast was booming into
Wisconsin right around net time yesterday. He said the East Coast and
EU were weak but everybody west of the Rockies was 30 over S9. Too bad
I can't convince him to get his license again. However, this bodes well
for at least the forty meter net. Hopefully, twenty meters will open up
again too.
Please join us tomorrow on:
14050 kHz at 2200z Sunday (3 PM PDT Sunday)
7045 kHz at 0000z Monday (5 PM PDT Sunday)
73,
Kevin. KD5ONS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Robbins
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39697638
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_and_Herb_Conn
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