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Originally Posted by Ryan Foley
I'd love to see a southern california or florida team come to BAE regionals and see how they handle the near artic temperatures (no offense)
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How well do you Easterners know U.S. history? Members of the Donner party FROZE to death in CALIFORNIA in the 1800s; do you know what the survivors ate to stay alive? By the way, the Donner party consisted of Easterners. Maybe if they'd had better leadership, like someone with FIRST experience, they would have made wiser choices and avoided the history books. ;-)
Anyway, I fractured my leg in November 2001 when I slipped on ICE in CALIFORNIA. We were hiking in the snow, just for fun. We had been on the trail over an hour when I slipped. We weren't in an ice rink or a giant freezer; we were outside in real, natural, genuine SNOW. You know, freezing temperatures and all that.
The main reason my husband (ChrisH) hasn't been skiing the last few years (skiing in SOUTHERN California) is because he's been too busy with FIRST. Lots of Angelenos would ski more often if the lift lines weren't so loooong...
Other than money, one of the reasons Team 330 hasn't been East is that we're too busy maintaining the FIRST presence locally...
--KarenH