The closest I came likely from dying of this was 1970 when I was 22 years old and in college. One of my friends was going to UCLA and the other one was going to Sacramento State University. We decided since we didn't have much money as college students that we would share gas and take my 1966 VW Bug on Christmas Vacation 1970 to Mt. Shasta. Our plan was simple: get snow shoes and climb up to Horse Camp at Tree line on Mt. Shasta and stay there a few days in the snow. It would be quite and adventure in which we could do this and not have to pay a motel to stay in. (However, this was then and now things are likely very different) regarding Horse Camp Sierra Club Emergency Lodge (which was built to rescue climbers year around on Mt. Shasta). As you can see Horse Camp was built of large Stones from Mt. Shasta in 1922. However, whole trees were used in the roof rafters because it would have to carry a snow load of up to 40 to 50 feet some winters then. So, each roof rafter was a whole tree then with the limbs taken off to hold the roof in place under heavy snow loads in the winter at that altitude. I myself have stayed there in 1973 on my birthday by myself and had to dig down 20 feet in the snow to even open the front wooden door to stay there a few days in the late winter early spring then. This was my 25th birthday to stay there alone and play the guitar and to write which was heavenly for me then in the wilderness.
Note my story continues after these quotes about Horse Camp Sierra Club Lodge:
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However, we didn't have smart phones or weather reports and we were all about 19 to 22 years old then and college students. "What did we know?"
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