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This breaks my heart!

The community lost two great ones. RIP Steve and Chris.

Wysplit - I hope you can feel the arms of your fellow splitters around you brother. We got a better sense of Steve through you and thank you & him for those opportunities.

If there's any such thing as consolation in this - its that Steve lived more life in his tragically shortened time here than most of us wannabe's will live in 2 lifetimes in our dreams.

Thanks for the kind words from all. It definitely helps through this process. I am so fortunate to have been able to call Steve my friend. I am going to miss him soooo much. I just keep wondering where Steve would want us to go from here?

I've been wondering the same thing - and I think it's definitely a discussion worth having.

Perhaps it is a discussion better left for a different thread or offline. I have my thoughts, but this is not the place to express them.

I too, am having a hard time coming to grips with this and the entire season in general.

Agreed. I wasn't really thinking here or now.

each time start to type have a hard time, Chris and Steve, were not good friends but knew each other and my wife over the years.
this accident is closest yet, big empty feeling

said goodbye hiking glory today

Very sad news, so sorry to hear of this loss. Though I haven't know any of the victims from this year personally, each incident hits home hard. Condolences to all family and friends.......

i couldn't believe my eyes when i read this news over breakfast on friday morning. it almost kept me from going out to ride.

in my few short years of touring, this is the first time that i've experienced the loss of someone that i've known and traveled with. i knew it had to happen someday, but i guess nothing can really prepare you for remembering someone's smile on the skin track, and knowing that it's gone forever.

i know i wasn't steve's favorite touring partner (it was my pocketknife that almost cost him a fingertip after all), but i had nothing but respect and admiration for him.

what better testament to a life well lived than to be a part of so many people's happy memories of adventure. i can only hope, whenever my time comes, that a tenth as many good people will look back and smile at the thought of time they spent with me.

thanks, steve, for being a part of the best year of my life. i still went touring on friday. i couldn't think of another way to honor your memory.

TR: an aoraki adventure