I had gone with my Cross Country metal edged skis or (mountaineering skis) which are better if you hit a patch of ice than ones without metal edges and I had put my skins on for going uphill to Horse Camp Sierra Club Lodge. It was a sunny day and I was skiing alone which I sometimes liked to do. At this point I don't recommend skiing alone (even though I might have been the only one who survived the avalanche this day if someone else was there with me that day).
So, i decided I would traverse on Skis all the way over to the Old Ski Bowl and I got about halfway there and realized the snow conditions were not going to let me do this. So, I started going down fairly quickly off the mountain.
Suddenly, I was center of a city block sized avalanche. But, it wasn't the really impressive ones where almost everyone dies. Instead the whole city block sized avalanche went down the mountain at about 30 miles per hour with me struggling to stay on top of it so I wouldn't die.
To make matters worse it was a very sunny day so I had taken my shirt of because I was too hot with any jacket or shirt on and only wore a baseball cap then and my backpack with my extra clothes in it and likely a protein bar and water there too be able to put out this much energy and stay okay.
So, now I"m desperately struggling to stay up on top of the snow before I died. I was moving my legs and poles faster than I have ever had to before and scared I would die.
Then I looked forward and saw we were headed for many trees.
Now I had something else to worry about which was I might impact trees with my face at 30 mph but luckily the front part of the Avalanche hit the trees and this slowed down the whole city block size of avalanche enough so I didn't die impacting any trees with my face.
So, when the mass of snow stopped I was chest deep at this point in the avalanche but it had stopped moving so I wasn't dead or smothering.
So, I struggled to get my tips of my skis above the surface of the snow and after all the energy I could muster I succeeded and soon put my shirt and jacket on to warm up a little from freezing in the snow.
Once I was on the top of the mungled snow every which way from the avalanche I found a way to get across the mungled snow. It wasn't skiing it was more like using your skis as snow shoes more than anything else.
Eventually, I got back to Bunny Flat by first skiing down to Everitt Memorial highway and then skiing down the road to Bunny Flat where there is a gate and they don't plow the snow above Bunny Flat most years so I could easily and safely ski down the road covered with snow to my car.
Well. especially among young men 15 to 21 they think they are immortal a lot and they are not. So, unless you take seriously your limitations as you climb this mountain you can easily die.
The easiest way to die on Mt. Shasta is when all the snow is melted off and you go up from Horse camp to where it is really steep above Lake Helen. All one climber above you has to do is to slip a little and let a pebble loose and that pebble often can be fatal if you aren't watching for it coming at you especially in the head, face or eye. The littler pebbles might not kill you if they hit your main body because your snow jackets likely would take up some of the punch. But, if that rock is fist size or more it will knock you down and you might not ever stop rolling until you are dead.
A friend of mine was telling me about coming down from Red Banks too late after everything froze in the early 1970s. He was the summer Caretaker for the Sierra Club that year for the Sierra Club who hire a caretaker to save the lives of climbers mostly and to help them climb more safely if they will listen.
So, he had stayed too long on the summit to register that some record breaking climber had climbed the mountain 3 times in 36 hours from Horse Camp but got enthralled by the Perseid Meteor shower and stayed up there too long without camping gear up on top of Red Banks. Now Red Banks is two cliffs that most climbers climb up and down to get to the top of the mountain IF they climb up from Horse camp on that route. I didn't do this but my route isn't recommended because it was considered too dangerous for most climbers then in 1970. However, I survived going up it and down it even though it is very very steep and usually covered with snow. However, the snow conditions allowed me to do that on that particular day both up and down. So, I never climbed up or down Red Banks ever. Didn't want to.
So, here is my friend on top of Red Banks and it's 2 am or after and starting to get cold and he had his helmet light which then was huge from fighting fires which he had also done the last summer for the Forest Service then. then his climbing light gear got caught in his Ice ax and he knew this might kill him if he jumped down 25 feet to the next level of the cliff.
So, as he jumped he threw away the headlamp gear and the ice axe so they wouldn't come down on top of him when he landed and kill him after falling 25 feet.
So, then he jumped because he was still pretty young then and didn't want to freeze to death that night.
Well. he didn't die and the ice axe and headlamp missed him so he survived that but then he went over the 2nd 25 foot cliff and landed in some rocks and was injured. He said he was pissing blood for a week or two from how he landed but his hip hurt the worst.
Then about 6 am climbers found him climbing up the mountain and asked if they could help him. He told them that if they found his headlamp and Ice axe he might be okay and they could finish climbing the mountain.
It took him the rest of the day to hobble back down to Horse Camp lodge to heal himself up over the next few days or so until he had two days off. So, he survived all this somehow but was pissing blood for at least a week or more which isn't a good sign either. But , he survived.
This is why I say that most people who die are usually 15 to 21 years old or 12 to 25 years old because they underestimate what it's going to take to survive climbing up and down this mountain and they die with no one there to rescue them.
So, "Everyone needs to be aware of their limitations when they climb Mt. Shasta or they might not survive this climb!"
However, if you can survive this climb this is still an achievement of a lifetime and a truly amazing experience!
But, you have to survive the climb first to tell the story about it later. This is the thing!
Likely because I watched this when I was 8 years old with my parents who were then in charge of a Christian Mystic Chuch on Hope STreet in Los Angeles, California then.
So, I was conditioned a lot by their belief system as many children were then for both good or ill but usually both. I'm sure if you grew up then you can relate to what I'm saying here.
For example, at Horace Mann grade school that i went to from 3rd grade to 6th grade then (1954 to 1960) when I graduated Grade school then had I think it was Tuesday and I think they called is something like "Sunday School" Day where kids who went to public school would be sent to their churches for a Sunday School on Tuesday (it seems like this was Tuesday afternoon every week). Which likely seems impossible to many people now but this is how things were done in Glendale, California from 1954 to likely 1960 or after when I graduated and we moved so I could go to Woodrow Wilson Junior High School and then after I graduated there Glendale High school for my Sophomore and Junior Year and then I went to santa Fe, New Mexico to a private church school from october of 1965 until I graduated High school then in May of 1966.
However, Moses is the most easily relatable Prophet in the Bible that I can relate to. In some ways his life experience (on some levels mirrors mine) in many ways which is why I can relate to him so much.
In fact, even the Burning Bush experience he has in the Bible I also experienced a "Burning Bush" on Mt. Shasta and so watching him go meet the burning bush also brings tears to my eyes because the look in his eyes was just like mine then too in August 1970 while climbing Mt. Shasta at 2:30 AM in the morning going up from Horse Camp Emergency Climber's lodge owned by the Sierra Club to save the lives of Climbers to rescue them if possible in emergencies as Mt. Shasta is considere either the hardest easy climb or the easier really hard climb in the U.S. which makes sense to me if you have ever climbed it.
Many many people have lost their lives climbing mount shasta for one reason or another over the years.
NUmber one reason they die? Probably overestimating their skills during the weather conditions they were approaching.
Sort of like Flying a private plane, climbing Mt. Shasta is completely unforgiving and this is how people die there a lot too.
So, the Burning Bush on Mt. Shasta in August 1970 permanently changed my life forever!
I thought of this while watching "The Ten Commandments"(1956) with Charlton Heston tonight on TV the day before Easter and I was thinking about this.
OF just how improbable things that people have always believed in.
However, without believing what they believed most would have died very young.
I have myself believed many different things in my lifetime and some of them kept me alive here all the way to 77 almost 78 now.
When I grew up unless you were very Christian and very white often you were going to have a very hard time here in the U.S. unless you were lily white.
So, I believed what was useful to me at every moment growing up. When I was given a pamphlet by my father when I was about 9 or 10 years old about all Black people having to move back to Liberia I knew this was wrong but I didn't talk to my father about it because I was 9 years old. What was I going to do about it at that age?
I didn't really believe in my parents religion at age 10 because too many people were dying from not going to the doctors. I believed in science then and now and I'm a very logical pragmatic person and yet I was always a very kind person, especially after I had whooping cough at age 2. I never wanted anyone good or bad to have to suffer like I did. Then my concussion around age 9 resulted in seizures only at night from ages 10 to 15 which terrified me because each seizure was exactly like being murdered each time.
Eventually at age 14 my father when I had a bad seizure and had broken my nose trying to get to them before I died (the easiest way to die in a seizure is not to have someone hold your head and you smash your head against an object and die or you can choke on your tongue. So, not getting someone to hold your head during a seizure is often fatal.
So, as I was shaking and recovering from this seizure after waking up in a pool of my own blood around my head from my broken nose while my father tried to put a butter knife in between my teeth so I didn't choke on my tongue he said to me: "If you don't get some religion under your belt, son you are going to die!"
And I took this seriously even though I was up until then more of a kindly scientific person in school. I knew at that time all the names and models of all cars made in the U.S. because I really wanted to be able to drive to go anywhere I wanted to. Also, I bought my first car at age 16 the month after I passed my driving test on my 16th birthday, a 1956 Ford Stationwagon.
So, at this point I was 14 years old and I started going to my parents church 4 days a week trying to stay alive. But, my parents didn't even take me to a doctor until I was 12 even though I started having seizures after a Sunday Newspaper route delivery on my bicycle when I was 10. When I had my first seizure my mother only told me I had had a bad dream. She thought I must be a great man because of having the "King's Disease" but she didn't tell me this at the time.
Dr. Dody in out in the Valley (san Fernando Valley I believe) gave me a b-12 shot because he thought I had anemia or something from growing up a vegetarian like my father had raised me. Then he wanted me to take Phenobarbitol and my father refused this. So, basically this is how my life started out regarding God.
(even though the Archangels had saved my life at age 2 already). So, the last seizure that I almost had I had been praying a lot so I wouldn't die and this worked this time about 1 year after the broken nose seizure with blood around my head.
This time I was in a vision of armies in preparation for a death seizure attacking me to kill me and I invoked God into my body with me and these armies all became mine and I felt the power of God rush through me and take charge of everything in and around me. And God has been living inside of me ever since.
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I think this is one of the main reasons why I like to write about them all is that it is just so different a world they all live in compared to us where they often cannot die (almost ever) unless they choose to in their physical bodies. (However, since the Galactic sentience is literally a being that can and does live inside a sun or suns in the Galaxy) his body would incinerate any of us if we got too close and blind us too. So, unless he creates a physical body to live among us here on earth (and he has done this several times already) we aren't going to experience that usually.
However, I think it's important for you to know about the reality of all of this myself.
That you know that time is literally "Galactic Time" in that if something happens they don't want to happen on earth they simply change the time to something else.
However, there are limits to how much this is usually done and there are basic rules of the road regarding all of this too.
And another factor is that we humans of earth are generally Creators like the Galactic Sentience now living in Human bodies here on earth.
So, this is a factor too.
So, the more you know about all of this the better you will be prepared for off world travel and to understand that no war on earth is necessarily permanent (the way the Galaxy handles things).
So, dying in a war is not necessarily useful to anyone long term. However, some people still do this by choice.
But, if you know what is really going on in the galaxy I think it is very helpful too!
NASA has shared the first breathtaking views of Earth taken from the Artemis II mission as the crew continues its journey toward the moon.
The photos reveal Earth behind the Orion spacecraft, our home planet aglow with aurora.
One photo of Earth, taken Thursday by Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman from the Orion
window, shows the planet backlit, with auroras visible at the top right
and bottom left, Lakiesha Hawkins, deputy director for NASA’s Artemis
program, said Friday during a news conference.
Earth
from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar
injection burn on April 2. There are two auroras (top right and bottom
left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses
the sun.Reid Wiseman / NASA
A zodiacal light is also visible at the bottom right as the Earth eclipses the sun, she said.
Another
photo of Earth, also taken by Wiseman, shows a terminator line, meaning
the line separating daylight and nighttime on the planet.
A
view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid
Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft's four windows after completing
the translunar injection burn on April 2.NASA
“What an amazing shot that he shared with us here,” she said.
The photos were taken after completing the translunar injection burn Thursday.
Hawkins said Friday, the third day of the Artemis II mission, that so far systems are normal and “the crew is in great spirit.”
A
view of a backlit Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II
commander Reid Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft's window after
completing the translunar injection burn on April 2.NASA
The four crew members — NASA astronauts Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — launched Wednesday on the 10-day mission.
As of Friday, the crew is more than 100,000 miles from Earth, with about 150,000 miles to go to the moon.
The mission does not include a lunar landing, but is designed as a step toward a landing in 2028.
Artemis
II crew members Jeremy Hansen, Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor
Glover answer questions from reporters during the first downlink event
of their mission on April 2.NASA
The next major milestone for the space pioneers will be Monday, when the crew is expected to fly around the moon.
A
view of Earth taken by NASA astronaut and Artemis II commander Reid
Wiseman from one of the Orion spacecraft's four main windows after
completing the translunar injection burn on April 2.Reid Wiseman / NASA
Though I had also studied computer programming and operations starting when I was 18 and worked part time through my college from age 19 or so and then worked full time for a year or two as a computer operator programmer in North Hollywood at two different locations I eventually realized working midnight to noon 7 days a week was silly because I was 20 years old an single. Then I realized I could not do what I wanted to with computers because the computers of 1966 to 1970 were too tedious. I was actually 50 to 60 years technologically from what I actually wanted to do which is about now.
So, I then went in another direction which was to study to become a psychologist (which was an entirely new direction for me simply because through philosophy courses and psychology courses in college I began to learn how to save my own life. I realized I had to dump about 90% of what I had been conditioned to believe in order to survive past age 25 actually.
So, when I began to write in this "legendary style" I wasn't trying to make money or to write for other people ONLY to heal myself and any friends or relatives that might be interested in reading what I wrote. I still have never tried to make money from my writings even today and mostly publish them online for free.
However, I began to write in this style when I was 32 in 1980. I had just remarried in Mt. Shasta and about that time we also bought for cash land fairly remote on Mt. Shasta at 4000 feet without power or phones but with a septic tank where I built my family an A-Frame which also had a loft for sleeping. This changed our lives a lot and I had more time after doing this than before. It also saved us about 60,000 to 70,000 dollars in rent doing all this too because we paid cash for the land and sold one of our vehicles to help buy the building materials then because they weren't expensive at all compared to now. Then my father had retired and came up and helped me build this A-Frame. We had already built a retirement home for him in the Yucca VAlley area and my Mom came up to in their motor home to do all this which was helpful too, especially in cooking for all of us while we built this A-FRame. Friends came and helped too whenever they had the time.
So, this "legendary style" really wasn't invented to entertain others at that point.
However, then I was 50 years old and my son was by then at least 20 years old and my older daughter was about 10 years old then and then I had a new daughter who was around 2 1/2 years old and it appeared I was dying from a heart virus in 1998 and 1999. So, I refused to die (which if I wasn't married with children I would have just let go and died likely if I didn't have a family then because it was very hard to stay alive through all of that.
However, what I learned as I prepared to die was that I hadn't been writing "legendary science Fiction" designed to heal myself of things in this lifetime. I had actually been writing about past, present and future lifetimes I had already lived.
I wouldn't have believed all this was possible in 1980 because I was a sequential reincarnation Christian Mystic then. I had no idea in 1980 that our souls have nothing at all to do with time or space unless our souls are wearing a body like a human being does.
At this point all this made much more sense because I could see I wasn't just trying to heal this lifetime I was trying to heal all lifetimes in around a 7 million year range from millions of years into the past and millions of years into the future.
Once I realized this I knew that I needed to publish my works online. I wasn't interested in making money because we are okay that way already. So, because I could I wanted to share about what the future is bringing on a Galactic Level not just regarding Earth.
Fourth-generation
Iowa farmer Mark Mueller is no stranger to the ups and downs of the
agriculture industry. But right now, he thinks America is on the cusp of
a farm crisis.
“I am more concerned now than I have been in my 30 years of farming,” Mueller told NBC News.
Even
before the Iran war, Mueller said, many farmers felt they were being
squeezed. Consolidation in the fertilizer industry and increased
competition from abroad have resulted in higher prices for fertilizer
and feed — and smaller returns on Mueller’s corn and soybean crops.
Many farmers who couldn’t pay their bills in recent years went under. In 2025, the number of Chapter 12 farm bankruptcies reached 315, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. That was up 46% from the previous year.
Now, the Iran war is putting even more pressure on farmers.
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Before the war, roughly a third of the world’s fertilizer ingredients and a fifth of its oil supplies
passed every day through the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway off
Iran’s southern coast. But since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on
Feb. 28, the strait has been effectively closed by Tehran, leaving
scores of tankers stranded.
The strait’s closure has driven up global prices for fertilizer and for the diesel fuel that powers most of America’s heavy agricultural equipment.
The double whammy is hitting farmers just as they head into the spring planting season.
“This
is that perfect storm where everything comes together and hammers the
farmer,” said Mueller, who also serves as the president of the Iowa Corn
Growers Association.
Mueller
said his fertilizer supplier was selling a nitrogen fertilizer he needs
for $795 per ton on Feb. 22, a few days before the war started. At the
end of March, it was $990, Mueller said, a nearly $200 jump in just a
few weeks.
Meanwhile, the
price he’s paying for diesel has jumped, too. Diesel is now averaging
$5.51 nationwide, up from $3.76 right before the war, according to AAA.
Mueller
said he got most of the fertilizer he needs for spring before the war —
but had to buy some at the higher prices. He’s holding off on
purchasing the additional fertilizer he needs for summer, hoping prices
will come down.
Mark Mueller, a farmer and president of the Iowa Corn Growers Association, thinks America is on the cusp of a farm crisis.Courtesy of Iowa Corn
President
Donald Trump’s tariffs have also added to the cost of goods that
farmers import from overseas — and frustrated many of the foreign buyers
of America’s agricultural products.
“Our
government made our life more difficult by walking away from trade
deals or instituting tariffs or just basically making our customers
angry — our customers being other nations and companies in other
nations,” said Mueller.
Lance Lillibridge, a corn and cattle farmer from Vinton, Iowa, told NBC News he plans to use less fertilizer this year.
“I’m
probably going to see a reduction in yield,” said Lillibridge. “If
there’s not the supply out there, then the price is going to go up.”
If
the war continues, the higher prices could ripple through the supply
chain and ultimately result in higher prices at the supermarket.
“We’re
talking about all the crops and all the food products that we consume
on a daily basis,” said Gregory Daco, chief economist at EY-Parthenon.
“Anything
that is grown and that requires fertilizers, which is most of
everything that we consume, is potentially affected by this rise in
fertilizer prices,” said Daco. “And as a result, we may see these prices
rise rapidly across grocery stores in the U.S.”
Take
corn, for example. If corn prices spike, then feeding cattle becomes
more expensive for many farmers. Plus cattle farmers are also dealing
with the higher fuel prices. The cost of beef has already hit record highs — in part from shrinking cattle herds and drought — and it could surge even more.
“I
worry about how much more consumers will continue to pay for beef,”
said Will Harris, a fourth-generation cattle farmer in Bluffton,
Georgia. “I think that I can produce it as cheap as anybody else, but I
don’t know where consumers draw their lines.”
It
may take a while for price increases on the farm to show up at the
grocery store. Farmers are just planting their spring crops now, and it
could take months for them to be harvested and sent off to distribution
centers and eventually grocery stores.
But consumers may see higher prices sooner rather than later, because of higher transport costs with pricier diesel.
“If
you’re feeling these costs now, it’s only going to continue to increase
as the supply chain fills with higher-cost goods,” said Lillibridge.
“Corn
is used in over 4,000 products,” he added. “It’s not just food — it’s
industrial products, like your paper that you would put in your printer
has cornstarch in it, plastics, just tons of things have industrial uses
from corn.”
Economists say the longer the war stretches on, the larger the effects could be.
Newly
harvested corn in Inwood, Iowa. Consumers may see higher prices sooner
rather than later because of higher transport costs with pricier diesel.
Jim West / UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty images file
“Right
now, our farmers can get the product — it’s just really expensive,”
said Faith Parum, an economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation,
an advocacy group for farmers and ranchers. “We’re slowly starting to
hear the longer this goes on, we’re also going to have issues with even
the availability of the fertilizer.”
That could further strain farmers.
“We’re
going on to year four of losses across the farm economy,” said Parum.
“It’s going to become harder and harder for them to put a crop in the
ground.”
Before the war, the Agriculture Department estimated that farm sector debt could reach a record $624.7 billion in 2026.
Farmers
have received some financial assistance from the federal government
over the years. In December, the Trump administration announced a new
tranche of $12 billion in aid to farmers.
At
a White House event for farmers in March, Trump said that he would push
for more aid and urged Congress to pass a new farm bill.
Trump also pledged to ask Congress to permit year-round sales of E15, an unleaded fuel blended with 15% ethanol that the American Farm Bureau Federation says could save consumers money at the gas pump and create markets for American-grown crops.
Farmers
listen as President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on Friday.
During the event, Trump urged Congress to pass a new farm bill. Alex Wong / Getty Images
Mueller was among the farmers last month at the White House, where he listened to Trump.
“I
guess I would liken it to empty calories,” he said of the president’s
remarks. “It was like a pep rally with very little being said.”
Mueller fears that the mounting pressures on farmers, exacerbated by the war, could lead some to hang up their hats for good.
“I
really do see fewer farmers when it’s all done,” he said. “In the end,
the consumer will still have fewer choices, probably have a little
higher prices, and farmers will have less margin than they did before.”
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