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Ah, my apologies for the false accusation and derailing your TR. Again thanks for posting it!

FYI that is not my video. that was another party about a month after us. I did produce a video of my experience but it was created without the use of aerial photography and it's under my name. Furthermore, I've just about had it with the federal government prescribing what is allowed in terms of personal recreating. The blanket rules rarely apply in the alpine and are even harder to enforce. If me and my partner are the only animals up on an alpine face in the dead of winter, a drone has little effect on the ecosystem and the rule is moot. It mainly exists so that colchuck lake isn't turned into a seattleite swarm drone demonstration every saturday, so i get why it's a thing. There's also legality loopholes for footage like "taken off from, landed in, and operated from outside the Wilderness area" for footage produced like that parties. I suspect that most tickets are from being caught flying the drone in person. It was hardly persecutable before the layoffs, and now i don't think they have the resources to enforce it period. I used to agree with the "setting a bad example for others" reasoning for things like this, but now i just don't care. if you fly a drone in the wilderness, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Hey Troy, thanks for the great trip report and nice climb! Evidently I spend too much time on Reddit but I saw the video your buddy made and wanted to point out that drones in Wilderness areas are not allowed. In the current political environment I have a hard time seeing FS staff ticketing based off of online videos but I just wanted to give you a heads up so you don't happen to get nailed or keep flying drones in the wilderness.

Ok time to get these stickers out there! On your trailhead vehicle, on your water bottle, on whatever so people see it and remember we exist and hopefully visit the site and start contributing to our community here. 1. PM Me yout address and I can mail you some. Especially those of you that threw down! 2. I’ll mail some to AAI in Bellingham so you can pop into their shop. Will also put some in Feathered Friends and other shops in the Seattle area. Anyone have a good PDX location to mail or get some to somehow? these do no good in a bag at my house so let’s get them out there and pimpin the site to peoples eyes

Great work!

Thanks for sharing your story! It brought me vividly back to my experience on the route almost 10 years ago now. My most fond moments in the mountains have been those in which success seemed unlikely along the way, right up until we made it. Pushing through and succeeding, whether I did it 'clean' or not, was what mattered. Well done.

Thanks for sharing, I was sure wishing I had the fitness and partners and time to get on it (or much of anything) this season!