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delalluvia:

--- Quote from: nakymaton on August 11, 2006, 10:15:12 pm ---Most people here assume that Ennis and Jack went into the mountains in May, and TS1 was the night of the full moon in June. That timeline drives me batty, personally, because I think there would have been too much snow up around treeline in May. So I came up with a timeline that made sense to me: http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=2566.msg41239#msg41239

Mel

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Depends on how heavy the snowfall was in the winter.  I've been hiking up in the mountains of Wyoming in June and July and one year there was no snow in June and the next year there was heavy snow on the trail in the treeline in July.

nakymaton:

--- Quote from: delalluvia on August 12, 2006, 05:14:22 pm ---Depends on how heavy the snowfall was in the winter.  I've been hiking up in the mountains of Wyoming in June and July and one year there was no snow in June and the next year there was heavy snow on the trail in the treeline in July.

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Yeah, but that's June and July -- July is high summer. The first full moon in May, 1963, was at the beginning of the month, not around Memorial Day... the beginning of May is awfully early up that high. There isn't any part of the country where I would expect treeline (and above) to be regularly free of snow at the beginning of May -- not Colorado, not New England, and certainly not Wyoming. There's a reason why trees don't grow up there.

Jeff Wrangler:
Hey, I'm gonna have to check out Mel's time line, but I'll just throw this into the mixnow. Since it comes from the story and isn't even mentioned in the film, anyone is free to ignore it, of course, but one thing Annie has them talk about in the story is the sinking of the submarine Thresher, which is said to have happened the month before they went up the mountain. Leslie did some research and found out that the Thresher sank in April 1963, so Annie is clearly sending them up the mountain in May of that year (and certainly intentionally in the story makes their last trip into the mountains exactly 20 years later, May 1983). Maybe 1963 was a low-snow year in the Big Horns or the Wind Rivers?

nakymaton:
I don't have the story with me right now. Does the story actually say the Thresher sunk just a month before they went up the mountain? I swear I looked at the story and there wasn't anything specific, which just says they went up the mountain later than April.

Sorry. I have it in my head that they couldn't have gone up the mountain before the end of May, and I'm still convinced that people want an early arrival for purely sappy romantic reasons.

It wouldn't surprise me if there was exactly 20 years between the first and last trips in the story, and I could believe that they could have gone up the mountain in late May. Just not before the full moon during the first week of the month. It's the IMDb full moon timeline that really annoys me.

(Why do I care about this? I have absolutely no reason to care about this. Argh.)

Front-Ranger:
Front-Ranger to the rescue!! The story says the Thresher was lost two months earlier.

I looked in my briefcase (relinquary) for the story and I couldn't find it at first and I started to hyperventilate!!

(OT: Is it blizzarding there too??)

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