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Oh no! Someone showed a a flag on their off hours in a public park!!! Sounds like a ringing endorsement of treason to me!

How many times have the democrats done what happened on January 6th? Are you showing your support of the orange turd? You’ve been very careful to avoid doing that this far. So you consider that event an act of patriotism eh?

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The noose gets tighter at MORA. The park is being severely mismanaged--and, given his history in Alaska, I suspect the new superintendent is the nexus. https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/roadway-from-cayuse-pass-to-stevens-canyon-road-will-be-closed-next-month-at-mount-rainier/ar-AA1LmuTS?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Wow, that is strange. I have to think some sort of AI scrubbing going on?

Another 2 weeks and there would be zero bugs. Bugs die fast in the far north as summer ends in late August. I think that might not have been so aytpical for mid August.

I hope that just means more fun routes keep popping up to spread us mouth breathers out 😉, heard Mt Hardy is a cool looking face!

Yeah, we were really surprised at the bug situation. We all brought bug nets and deet, but never really used them much. The bugs were about as bad as the Cascades in July/August. I'm still confused about it, maybe just a good season, or possibly reverse sandbagging by Alaskans to keep people out (but I doubt it). I think we just got really really lucky.

What a beautiful place, thanks for sharing. Was it very buggy? I've heard horror stories of Alaska mosquitoes but you don't mention it or have bug nets...

Sadly there is some truth in this. Banging around on clean granitic rock for a few days in the Cascades without another soul in sight was definitely a perk.

That's quite a set of perched blocks along the side and top of that lower, scimitar-like feature. Maybe solid for now...

Reliving glory days!

I am also interested in climbing Mount Rainier potentially Sept 6,7,8 timeframe if the weather is cooperative and route conditions continue to be favorable. My Cascades experience includes Mt Adams, St. Helens, Hood, South Sister, Thielsen, McLoughlin, Shasta(attempt), and the Enchantments(Colchuck mini-glacier). I also have no experience on Mount Rainier. Danieldbattin@yahoo.com

Twice, it’s been a while though..

Hi, are these still available?

It is a little known fact that Darin develops routes so that he doesn't have to see other people when climbing high quality rock

That’s a lot of people. I think had I been in the middle of seven parties climbing on top of one another I would have collected my gear, muttered something under my breathe, unclipped and jumped off. Glad the younger generations are not as antisocial as myself.

It’s just me reading the TRs 1000s of times

Wow what an outing!

I'm also looking for such a crew! I'll DM you my contact information. Unfortunately, I'm primarily a slave to the M-F work week, so unless I block days off in advance, it's mostly weekends for me.

Was noticing that recent TRs are seeing many hundreds, if not many thousands of views in a few days. Feels like for the last decade it’s been way less than that, so what’s going on? Is cc.com about to experience a Renaissance of community, culture adventure and creative writing? Or have bots really replaced human beings and it’s just a 1000 different AI start-ups scrubbing the Internet for data?

Luna!

We just walked through everything with our shoes on for the entire trip. We never had dry feet while we were hiking. You stop and take long lunches with your socks off to dry out your skin, then again when you get to camp. We took plastic bags to line our shoes with so that you can walk around camp with wet shoes on and dry feet. It works really well. This experience has really changed my attitude about river crossings and wet feet.