I'm too high, I'm too high, I can't even tell the guy

I'm too high, I'm so high, I feel like I'm about to die

Hello and welcome to episode 180

Effectively wild, at least while podcast from FanGraphs

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My name is Ben Limpurg, I'm a writer for TheRinger.com

joined by Jeff Sullivan of FanGraphs

Hello, do you want to talk about Mat Chasta?

Would you rather never talk about or think of that Mat Chasta again?

The long short of it, my girlfriend and I tried to make a second attempt for the

14,000 plus, yeah, but some of those Mat Chasta following

not the very popular avalanche galt route but following a different route up to the top

and the previous time we returned around because a team member experienced a bit of a anxiety attack

and so we had to turn around but my girlfriend and I were dissatisfied so we went back

and tried to make it up on our own.

We knew the way we were fully prepared and all that and we were doing great.

I was feeling strong until about 13,000 feet or so started to feel some altitude symptoms

which I am fairly familiar with, high altitude related symptoms, although these were a little bit less familiar to me

and so we plugged away a little bit more until I realized I couldn't go any further

and we had to make the difficult decision to turn around and I was okay with it.

It didn't everything by the book, we made the right decisions but it wasn't until we got back down

and out of the trailhead and got to a hotel on town that we started looking up.

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