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It would be nice to see a photo

Managing partner John Kircher buys out Boyne Mountain http://www.seattletimes.com/business/local-business/crystal-mountain-ski-resort-bought-by-longtime-manager/ I was reviewing some plans they had in the past that were quite ambitious, a tram serviced condo at the base of Pickhandle Ridge was proposed in 1966, and another hotel and condo complex on pattened land in Yakima County above Morse Creek was floated in 1989. Neither plan got off the ground and are now contrary to all Master Plans and would likely never recieve pemission

I hope the most famous thread in the history of CC also makes you chuckle. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/91017/1

It's always 4:20 when you arrive at Camp Muir

They're already there

El Cap in in Wilderness

Looks like a nail drive Zamac, and not the Drive anchor that Bill was refering to, but the point remains the same.

ExpeditionPortal would also be a good place to post http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/index.php

I've been challenged there a couple of times. Once when visiting some other landowners, and a third landowner challenged me. When I responded to whom I was visiting, she said she didn't know those people. I said that was her problem. And the other was when we went there while they were working on the bridge. Another busy body came up and told me the bridge was private property. I told him the rigging tools he was using were my private property (I had lent them to my friend the land owner), and if he wanted, I would take them home.

Do you mean Rat Creek Boulder? The word was that Mark Shipman owned the property, or nearby property, and he established an easement. The boulder could very well be on USFS property. Whatever the case, easements are recorded, but like HOAs, do not appear on iMap. Here is the Chelan County parcel viewerhttp://atlas2013.co.chelan.wa.us/flexviewers/ChelanCountyGIS/

Sherrifs tape on the parking lot. We climbed OS in '83 the day after the two cheeseheads fell off the ledge, and we didn't know anything had happened till two days later.

Lock passed away last year. Looks like he had some money, his home is listed as the Highlands http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/seattletimes/obituary.aspx?n=winlock-miller-lock&pid=176010930

Probably won't happen ever. Not enough money in smaller resorts to justify the developent costs. So that will require a larger area. Large resorts require the development of condos and hotels accessible to the lifts without the use of cars. The permitting required by this by the USFS would likely be so onerous as to scare off any developer. You will also be opposed by: 1) The enironmental groups 2) The "206'ers" already there. 3) The born and bred locals who resent any and all "206'ers".

Primarily the Idaho batholith and Belt super group http://geology.isu.edu/Digital_Geology_Idaho/Flythrw/MidFrkSalmon.htm

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From what I understand, it's far from a done deal, even changing the NPS managed Recreation Areas to NPs requires Congressional approval, funding and consternation. Even more so for the relatively small USFS lands involved in this deal.

The OP's a geologist

No, I think you have it right

Good to see photos of Dan

It was always fun to walk on the catwalks above the digesters

That was based on this: Written by the NPS http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/noca/adhi/chap1.htm

I would have thrown it in my car and laughed all the way home at the thought of you shivering uncontrollably all night.

For the record: I'm 55% against it.

Would that ban on stocking apply the the three big dam impounded lakes, as well as Lake Chelan? This (NPS produced [biased?] history includes the statements by the head of WA Dept of Fisheries [factually biased?] that stocking was required for at least some of these lakes) . http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/noca/adhi/chap1.htm Regardless of one views, the NPS produced history is fascinating, and details the struggles between the USFS+DoAg v. Dept. of Interior+NPS, as well as the personalities of Bob Marshall and Harold Ickes. At one time, the precursor of NOCA was hoped to contain almost all of the North Cascades north of Stevens Pass. And in contrast to an earlier poster who stated "...Wilderness designation is the gold standard.." the NPS history points out that Wilderness is merely an administrative designation, while NP status mandates the protection and management by an entire service. Never the less, folks are right to be concerned.