1. It took you 4 attempts to reach the top of Mt. Shasta.
2. Four out of every five times you climb above 9000 feet you throw up for
the next 24 hours.
3. You are no longer able to get anybody to climb 14er's with you, not even
your brother.
4. You obsess about starting Diamox and Decadron before you go for a drive
to Yosemite Valley.
5. You think you hold the record for number of times with AMS in a single
season (6 times).
6. Your family is talking about getting you a psychiatric consult is you
train one more weekend this winter.
7. Your closet looks like a used clothing bin in the basement of REI.
8. You have run through 6 different types of hydration systems and still
aren't satisfied.
9. On your descent from the summit of Mt. Rainier, a rock the size of a
Ford Ranger grazes your shoulder and smashes into the headwall 20 yards in
front of you. You walk away with a few stiches from landing on your own
iceaxe.
10. The $3000 fee for the McKinley trip is taken out of you kid's college
fund.
You take the trip, and bomb out at Base Camp with the Daimox still in the
bottle! True story. Who needs fiction!