We climb and we climb.

Oh, how we climb.

I know.

Hello and welcome to episode 1056 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from

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I'm Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer joined by Jeff Sullivan of Fame Graphs.

Hello.

Hello.

Tell me about your day off or tell me about the night before your day off that you were recovering from on your day off.

Oh man.

Well, I try to make it a winter or at least snowy tradition do go climb, mountain hellens going to kick off mountaineering and outdoorsy season.

I think it's a little weather to really really cooperate this year.

Then I think I'm mountaineering class, long story short, finally got a chance to go do it during the week.

Just took Tuesday off because there is good weather window.

So me, my girlfriend and a friend decided to go do a midnight summit attempt getting what they call an outline start to go climb Mount St. Helens, which is

5700 vertical feet of elevation gain up to the summit of 8300 whatever feet climbing up through the snow under what was very nearly a full moon, which is spectacular.

And it took for Fing ever to feed it for a variety of reasons I didn't get into, but we got to the top a little after sunrise and it was spectacular.

There's Matt Rainier 40 miles away, Matt Adams 30 miles away, Matt Hood more miles than that away.

You can look over the the lip of the summit crater for anyone who doesn't know, Manson Hohens did blow itself out in 1980.

So it now is in the form of a horse shoe, the crater containing what I believe is still the only growing glacier in the 48 states.

Why is it growing?

It's growing because the shape of the mountain basically protects the glacier from direct sunlight almost all of the year.

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