Aron Ralston = Another East Coast Yahoo

So this past summer I finally got around to Reading Aron Ralston's "Between a Rock and a Hard Place." Ralston's own story about how he went into a super remote slot canyon in south eastern Utah's Canyon Lands N.P. with out telling any one of his plans and then had a rock fall onto his arm and pin him in place. Days later, out of food and water Ralston then became desperate and cut his own arm off (ballsy no doubt). In the book you can clearly tell two things 1) Ralston is another east coast transplant that thinks that going into the Mountains and River's of the west are the same as playing in a local city park that will yield little or no consequences for his stupid actions. At one point he risk's the lives of his entire back country ski party when he triggers an Avalanche trying to get a few selfish pow turns in. 2) He's an arrogant elitist who thinks he's better than others because of the experience's he's had or things he's seen. In particular one part of the book Ralston claims that in 2002 he saw three Wolves running across an open Meadow on one of his "14er" solo missions (I'm not getting into that part of the book) He then goes on to claim that he was the first person to spot wolves in Colorado in over six decades. Now this past little snippet from the book made me so mad I actually sent an inquiry to the Colorado Department of Fish & Wildlife to see if there was any validity to this story. Attached is the return e-mail from them:



Good Proof I think that Ralston is a kook who makes things up to further romanticize his life and to further separate him self from all of us "less privileged." The only wolves that were in Colorado at that time were probably near the Wyoming border not all the way into south central Colorado (See link for claimed location).