Still one of the most fascinating documentary films I’ve ever seen…

@RunTheJulz That's the icing on the cake: a relatively short drive to BC. Like many Seattleites, I have a place in BC, primarily for the snow season. I hike year round, and I have backpack organized/stocked up to keep me alive for a few days, even in snowy conditions.

You can't live here, if you only do outdoors activities in perfectly sunny weather.

I don't do "mountaineering", primarily because the locals have an elitist attitude, and I just want to have fun. I thought it would be fun to do Baker, but I started getting nauseous toward the top. And then I remembered: it's a live volcano, and these are sulfur fumes.

Tried doing a late June horseback ride over Cascades mountain trails, started mid afternoon, ended 4AM, this is a full moon, cloudless night. I swore off horseback riding. Could not sit down for a couple of days.

And let's not forget the wineries, especially the Willamette Valley!

You should do your San Juans kayaking trip. Did a few this spring. You might even see some Orcas.

@Northwest I’m only focused on snowboard mountaineering. I’m fine with climbing up but I have zero desire to down climb. However I do abide by the tenet “if it’s sketchy to climb it very likely may be too sketchy to ride it” my body can’t handle cliffed out mandatory drops like it used to. But if it “goes” and it “flows” I’m happy to carry that ventral weight of my board. I’ve had 3 different board companies from the state of Washington in my “career” and I don’t see why I would change anything now.
Plus Whistler is Mecca for bike park riding. Nothing else quite like it on the planet (yet).
I hike at Baker with my board because they let you. Not every mountain has that attitude. But all my favorite ones do. Brighton in Utah. Kirkwood in the Sierra Mammoth too. The resorts formerly known as Alpine Meadows and Squaw Valley used to… ☹
Gotta watch those gaseous vents. I don’t remember which but one season 5(?) of the ski patrol/mountain operations crew were killed when the wind direction changed and they walked right into a cloud of oxygen displacing volcanic gases and they never saw it coming. The mountains don’t play fair.
Horses are not my strong suit and my back doesn’t like them either lol but I have had some amazing experiences but nothing like yours my friend!! That’s intense!!
Omg I almost mentioned the winery scene too and let’s not forget the home of the micro brewery scene too. I don’t drink beer or wine but I can appreciate what the PNW has going on for a while now.
I have to make that kayak trip before long. I remember riding a ferry from Washington state to Victoria and it was so clear to see that it would be possible to basically island hop and pitch a tent at dusk and then pack up at dawn and hop in the boat to get to the next one. As I got older I started working at a small kayak climbing and mountaineering shop that had an attached guide service and I got familiar with flat water and ocean kayaks but I also learned the hard way that I could carry too much weight for my poor little discs in my lower back. Definitely won’t do that trip solo. Would love to see orcas and seals sea lions etc. I don’t think I would be able to strap a surfboard on the kayak and I don’t think I could make that island hop on a stand up paddleboard but maybe 🤔… nah I’m gonna need a bigger boat lol

@RunTheJulz Never tried snowboarding, and I only go as far up as a gondola or lift take me.

I'm in Whistler year round, but my cycling is strictly recreational.

The Victoria Clipper is a 3-hour trip. They operate one daily round trip. Leaves Seattle 8AM, arriving Victoria 11AM, departs Victoria 5PM, back to Seattle 8PM. They had an incident a few years ago, when a homeless guy boarded the vessel and managed to pilot it to the middle of Elliott Bay. They've since installed locks.

They operate small charter SCUBA boats out of Nanaimo, east Vancouver Island, that run November through February. Sleeps about a dozen people, on floor mats. Sails east out of Nanaimo for a week. You dive as you go. Midnight dives with the snow coming down are out of this world.

I ski Whistler, because I don't have to worry about finding a place to stay, but from my non-professional perspective, the best snow day on Whistler, is an average day ski day in Utah. But in whistler, you can walk into a small Sushi joint, and have the best Sushi you've ever had. In Utah, you're more likely to have food poisoning if you order Sushi.

I don't "drink" wine. I pair wine with food. Donald Trump will run out of lies, before you run out of micro-breweries to visit in Oregon and Washington.

Take it easy on your back ;-) I'm thinking about heading to Hood Canal over the weekend, but the damn tourists LOL.

@OlderSometimesWiser Controversial (esp the guise in which it was filmed and I believe that the stories told by those who survived and the common thought shared by those people who all said as soon as they jumped they realized that they actually did not want to die was a very powerful and positive message that I only hope has and will continue to inspire people who are in dark places in their lives to not choose the option.
This is streaming on the link I posted for free as well as supposedly on AppleTV and I think there’s an age restricted YouTube option as well.
I think I saw it originally about a year or two after it premiered and mostly out of curiosity based on all the controversy that was stirred up by the debut and the director. I won’t watch any of the other documentaries on the S***** topic like the one made about the forest in Japan or others. This one just kinda hits close to home…

@RunTheJulz First let me say that while all these suicides were very tragic, seems I’ve always known that people frequently jump off SF Bridge to commit suicide. I tried very hard to remember how I knew this and what point in life I was at when I came to learn this, but I simply don’t know. A good guess would be middle school. I’ve always loved to read about anything and everything that interests me…

But no, you didn’t create overhype … It was basically just what I’d guessed a typical, educational, video, as sad as it was. I was glad that I watched it. I was specially sad to hear the one guy say the exact time he jumped, he thought to himself, “I don’t want to die.” And sure as he thought he was going to die and he was coming back up towards the surface, he thought it was a shark that brushed up against his leg, (scary), but it turned out that it was a seal swimming around him and his own words said it kept him afloat and he “believed that it was God, that saved his life”. I thought immediately .. “you are exactly right, God spoke to his creation, and put that seal right where it needed to be and directed his swim and a life was saved after jumping off SF Bridge”. Amazing that he survived and has an awesome testimony.

Not much more in the way of thoughts. Thank you much for sharing. 🙂

@Unefilletrescurieuse Thank you for your touching words and your feedback. I too think that seal was “heaven sent” and that it was just not a coincidence. I’m glad that the film didn’t leave you with a negative impression or experience. Because as sad as it is there’s also a positive feeling that I have after seeing it that hopefully it helps to deter more people from doing something to themselves that they don’t actually want to do. Best wishes to you as well. Thank you again. ☺😊

@RunTheJulz You are most welcome 🙂