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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!!!

Sold.

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.

North Ridge of Blum

It’s a bit more fiddlly than the inreach (I have a Mini2). Others thing about the mini2 is it has insane battery life, versus a phone (unless you go airplane mode, etc). I also wonder how much longer the satellite messaging will be free…I’m betting it will at some point cost extra. that said if I already had not paid for the garmin I probably wouldn’t at this point. And I’m probably not getting good value for my money given how many times a year I am truly out of cell service. But for now I still pay for the Garmin service. it won’t be long till there won’t be such a thing as “off the grid” or “out of cell service “ … the death of that freedom

I use the iPhone texting via satellite too. I use it basically in open terrain. Its free. I don't know if it will work in valleys with trees.

Renton Granite.

I still have an older Iphone 13 so I don't have that option. But I have had multiple climbing partners text on it in the backcountry from WA to UT. Sometimes it took a few minutes but it never failed. In the future I will probably do the same as you once I upgrade phones. I am curious if the Iphone satellite texting works well in Alaska. That would be a huge improvement for expedition climbing especially weather forecasting.

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I was able to text with my wife on my iPhone from the Green Creek drainage near the Twin Sister range recently. Also sent and received one from the trailhead which is pretty heavily treed. I'm planning to cancel my inReach subscription based on the cost ($0 vs $17/month), performance and convenience. It sounds like the satellite system isn't quite as robust as Garmin's but probably adequate for my needs in North America. Anyone else used the satellite service on their iPhone?

North Ridge of Torment! Bonus for linking it into the already selected TFT....

Early Winters Couloir, NEWS

Frostbite is in one of the volumes (second?) of the red Nelson Potterfield Selected Climbs. But I agree, that one is great.

Frostbite Ridge on Glacier, but I think that is in the Kearney guide too.