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And I wouldn't hazard a guess what the building is setting on. Could be piers, wood or conc.

Concrete, newby

So as I understand it, they could do a lot to save the structure, even bringing in sling loads of Knaack boxes, but are more than reticent to do so because: 1) Governmental inertia 2) Fear of lawsuits 3) Some in the hierarchy do not believe that structures belong in Wilderness, and a loss of the structure is part of the natural way. I for one support saving these historic buildings, but no one from DC calls me on my Obama phone

I think those mechanisms are already there, it is just that some agencies don't want to use their ability to use chainsaws for trail maintenance. Likewise with historic preservation.

Shoring a river bank against erosion is essentially impossible without tons of money, rip rap, heavy equipment and paperwork. The only way to save that building is to move it, or hope the river decides to move itself

The demise of Wilderness Sports http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/81210/Wilderness_Sports

A quote from Clark Gerhardt about the Swallows Nest from Super Topo http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1183970/Boat-Street-Swallows-Nest-Seattle-appreciation-thread

Swallows Nest was never ever ever ever on Capitol Hill. Ever ever ever.

I believe you

But given that this is a group, walking across with large packs gets my full endorsement

sounds like a pull rope would be in order, so the first and stronger members could yard the weak-scared-frozen-or incompetent across

We also had pre-Big Wall Bob, before he was drummed out of the corp by Patty Murray's brother

And I remember gb as a basic student, under my expert first-year intermediate tutelage.

He lived in Tacoma

Newbie Mountaineers class of '75 here

I want to say it was around '95 they closed. I was glad when those snots when out of business.

It shouldn't, it just really says don't Skycrane it to Hoquiam for repairs in the shop

And their star graduate was CBS

Thanks You missed out taking the courses in Everett, I was an AJ Culver man myself

What was his last name, not Bradshaw?

I stand by my doubts.

Yea, the one Jack worked at

Four locations for the Swallows Nest: 1) Boat Street: Start to 1977 2) North Lake and Meridian: 1977 to 1991 3) Bellevue near Sears: Early 1980's 4) Seattle Clise triangle

Easier said than done? With a pack? For two hundred feet?

But there isn't nearly the abrasion involved in whippers in comparison to using an aluminum carabiner as a substitute for a block on wire rope.