I was so much older then

Said goodbye to Michigan in January, 1973 and moved to Oregon. The Detroit metro area was a Gehenna – no one really wanted to live there if they had to. I saw Mike Hoover’s short mountaineering film, Solo (1972), and that was all it took to get me hooked on the idea of trying mountaineering too. I knew some folks out in Oregon, so I packed up my stuff, said goodbye to my parents and got the hell out.