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Hello, When not climbing, I work in sound design and sound studies at Edinburgh Napier University. We are conducting surveys on the soundscape and its perception while climbing. I would appreciate it very much if you could complete this survey: https://survey.napier.ac.uk/n/ClimbingSuoundsape.aspx Happy climbing, Balandino.

YES! Post up some TRs from whatever Truckers adventures you remember!!

I would love to hear all of that stuff. I grew up out there, born in Forks till first grade, then Quilcene from first grade to half way through high school, then PA for the rest of high school and junior college. Via scouts I hiked all over the Olympics. i love those pictures! Reminds me of the pictures of my early scouting days, nobody in Quil had any money and you could see it on the clothes on our back and the gear we had. That was early 80s. tell us about the truckers!

You should tell me what you'd like to know more about. Differences between climbing in the 70s and climbing now? Cool traverses across the Olympic Mts? Idiosyncracies of the Truckers? Rock Climbing ? Climbing Tahoma? Environmental advocacy? Climbing particular peaks? I have quite a few photos that I digitized from slides that I took with a Canon AE1 SLR.I didn't digitize them until they were 40 - 50 years old, so some of them aren't great quality, and, of course, some were just too deteriorated to save. I'll send a few here. Breakfast on an approach to Mt. Lincoln from Wagonwheel Lake. The core group of Truckers: Dave, Rich, and Scott; looking appro priately tough with their Animal Crackers before a grueling climb up some damn peak. Rich chimneying on one of the spires on Jabberwocky Ridge. He went through to the other side to finish the ascent. Scott drew the short straw and therefore, was chosen as the mothertrucker to be first across the Hoh at flood stage on an ill-fated attempt at a winter climb of Mt. Tom.

Thanks, all!

So great!! Thank you @AAI!

Huge shout out to these guy....the @AAI continues to keep the lights on here. I'm so greatful that they recognize what this site means. Please do pitch business their way, support them because they support us. They have a great gearshop with great selected equipment too, btw. Thank you Jason, we really do appreciate you and your folks!

Thanks Dave I would love to hear more from you, anything you can share about your time in the Olympics!

Left a pair of REI Flash trekking poles on 11/8/25 along the trail from 542 up to Welcome Pass. If found, please message me. Thanks!

This is amazing history @Dave 1970! I never would have thought that register would yield such rich memories....please post some photos and stories from those trips if you have any!! I would love to see what a 1970's mother trucker looks like!

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You asked if anyone knew about the truckers. I was a part of that organization a long time ago. I remember when we placed the register on the Citadel, but I don’t remember which other summits we put registers on. We climbed lots of mountains in the Olympics as well as many of the minor peaks and even some unnamed peaks. The truckers were active from about 1970 to maybe 1977 or 78. Most of the time our membership consisted of 3 - 5 guys. Our name was inspired by a common phrase of that time: “Keep on Truckin’. “ we generally avoided common routes up mountains. We referred to our routes as “truck routes,” and the leader of a climb was referred to as the “mother trucker.” Almost every September, we would take a cross country route across the Olympics, following ridges as much as possible, and climbing any peaks, we ran into along the way. If you’d like to know more, you can email me (Dave) at sciguy300@gmail.com Nice pictures, and nice to see the register is still there after all this time Thanks for the memory.

Yes. Bring it. Man so different from my last time there. Now all the good free camping is just up the road where I used to go 4x4ing in my Honda Accord to find firewood. And the “campground “ is closed (not sure if shutdown related).

I WILL fight you, just so I can listen to Live instead of Counting Crows. The angel opens her eyes!

I may have missed other ascent reports on CC or elsewhere. Don't think I'll plan for a repeat. I've never climbed and only skied lower slopes on the Fuhrer finger. Going back to either climb and or ski the whole route might be fun. Just skiing the lower slopes there is fun.

That is an awesome picture

Super cool @Sack, thanks for stopping by!

Watched your last pitch after scrambling up Dip Top, but lost your number! Here are those photos, thanks for the motivation to learn how to do cool stuff like you guys. -Devan https://photos.app.goo.gl/8qjDKho26bcGpTbQ7

Meet me here to fight or listen to Counting Crows. Hurry up! Bring licker. Round here!!!

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Sunshine on Hood. Skyladder on Andromeda. (Although I'm sure this one is on a list somewhere.)

What a day! I was a seven year old watching it on a 13" black & white TV with my parents. Cool to see the old Mt St Helens behind you too. My only day of note was my fourth summit of Glacier Peak on 9/11/2001.

Not sure Liberty Ridge is seeing much traffic these days. Even in April/May the upper schrund and bowl under Liberty Cap is looking steep and icy. I don't keep track of route reports much, but it seems the route is no longer intermediate at all? Are you going for a 50 year repeat? 👍

It worked surprisingly well for me at the Green Creek trailhead which is in a deep valley with lots of trees. This kind of sucks but it will result in less folks lost in the backcountry if they can message for help on their iPhone.