Escape From Beacon Rock

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

“For me, it was a way to stay connected—literally: tied to my free-range daughter by a length of 10-millimeter climbing rope, and connected to my own dream of being an adventurer,” says David Altschul. “And that was how I found myself on a ledge, high above the Columbia River, in the dark.” For the past decade, David has told the story of the infamous “Escape From Beacon Rock”–a failed attempt to climb a basalt monolith with his daughter, our producer, Jen. At age 72, it dawned on him that, rather than continue to tell the story of the failed climb, he could connect with his daughter by actually climbing Beacon Rock, and doing it this time as a ‘real’ climber.

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1:01.4	Last month my son Tappinai we were skiing in Tahoe. It was the remnants of a
1:06.7	powder day so it was still soft but everything was starting to form up in
1:11.3	emobles especially off the groomers. I would never go so far as to say I'm a
1:16.5	snob about what I ride because snowboarding sliding across snow it brings a
1:21.6	smile to my face but I am acutely aware that there is a difference between
1:27.3	dropping in on 2,000 feet of untracked powder and riding moguls on a man-made
1:32.6	snow base. Mostly I feel it in my body because for the sake of the ankle I've
1:38.3	broken twice the hip that now seems to be sympathetic be affected by that twice
1:42.0	broken ankle and my back I try my best to ride the uninterrupted powder fields.
1:47.7	It's just better for the body period and more fun. But anyway so we're riding
1:53.7	along and Tapp says to me, Dad let's go there! He turns from the main run, stops
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