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Okay, useless argument because her Daddy gave her permission.

She was experience enough that her father deemed her worthy for the venture and I would say, based on what I read today, that she would died pursuing something worthy.

By the way, I nearly died from swimming to a bouy 1/3 of a mile out. Well, I say nearly died as I was being towed under by the riptide but I knew how to deal with it and ended up swimming 1/2 mile down from where I started.

I also did search and rescue when I was a member of the Sheriff Explorere and was always lead, as I was familiar with the Santa Cruz Mountains and could understand tracks.

I also topped trees at 14, sometimes from a height of 50+ feet. I say 50+ as I wasn’t really measuring so much as guessing how high up I had to climb so to top the tree, so when I cut the actual tree, it would fall safely.

Then again sometimes I would go on a hike and tell my Mom which way I was headed and when I should be back or would be back, as in the next the day, if it got to dark.

I also rode my ten speed down highway 9 to get to work and college 5-6 days a week. If you have never done it I can tell you it is a highway and it it two lanes of winding through the Santa Cruz Mountains.

If you aren’t able to clock at 35mph, probably shouldn’t be on the highway. Trust me. There is no shoulder to ride so cars can pass you.

You are either going as fast or faster than cars or you are a menace to the road.

I would like to say I do a lot of crazy things but most of them don’t seem crazy to me. Just others.

Kind of like going heli-boarding my second year of snowboarding, in the Andes, at 15,000 feet.

I can tell it was a good thing I cracked two ribs and gave myself a concussion the year before in Tahoe.

I immediately became a fan of wearing a helmet.

Well, in Valle Nevado, at probably 14,000 feet, I fell down the side of the mountain some 250 feet. Nothing happened and it was all snow but we all pretty much think wearing a helmet was a good thing that day.

We found out the next day that wearing a helmet was absolutely the smart thing to do, when a friend fell a little further from where I had fallen the previous day.

I really thought as a skier she was going to break a leg but nope. She too was fine. She got up an took an hour traversing to us.

Thing is when we got back to the lodge another friend notice a huge dent in her helmet. It was about 3 inches long.

She took her helmet off and said “I thought I heard something loud”. She was missing a little piece on the back of her ski, where it had probably hit her helmet.

So to you a lot of things look risky.

To many of us, it just looks fun.

Oh and I don’t thing Sailor Abby would have lost both her emergency beacons.