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quote: Originally posted by slothrop: Been to Switzerland! Nice town, not much service as avertised

For those looking to the State Patrol, it turns out these incidents are under the King County Sheriff. Also, the first agency that gets the 911 call is the State Patrol when it comes in from the cell phone. I think the beef might be with the Sheriff, not WASP as implied earlier.

Cell phones in the BC are for calling in for Pizza, better than HC, in fact you can have them put it on it. I know of atleast two late to come backs that used a cell phone to say dont send anyone, we are ok, just running late ...storm, caught but are ok.

Was at Exit 38 breifly yesterday, didnt see any of the suspect vehicles, hope nobody got broken into. Speaking of first available officer I was on forest service 58, right next to I-90 yesterday, and after climbing at the pass I came across skid markes on one of the hairpin turns. I got out and sure enough there was an Explorer down the cliff in the trees. There were personal items scattered all around the truck, admist broken trees. I went down and couldnt see how anyone could have survived, thinking the worst (while someone on the road was calling the police). Well nobody around but the wreck was pretty fresh, looks like they got out somehow. The police said stay there and they would send first available officer . 1 1/2 hours later we called again and said that it would be handled later and we can go home. [ 09-15-2002, 12:49 PM: Message edited by: To The Top ]

Push him off the highest mountain around.

Yo! check your private messages!

Salmon la Sac it nice, but another option is Lake Easton state park, but can be noisy as it is by the highway. TTT

JERRY SANCHEZ after a beer?

quote: Originally posted by JERRY SANCHEZ: Hey that is not Scot'teryx it's Bill = To The Top

Great TR I do have a few questions about your climb. Did you see that snafflehound on top of the food chain namely the Cougar? Gear: did you go with plastics? You should make an attempt on the cable route of Tiger, but I have heard this wouldnt be a first ascent. By the way time doesnt matter if you did it in style. TTT

Hey Spud! We looked for you. We (friends and I) did it in a day Saturday, and it wasent too bad, other than late season means stumbling through scree for a lot of the day. Come to think of it I have never done this route in more than one day, and yes that old rutted road is way better now. A note for others going down from Seattle: The road 23 will be closed starting Monday the 9th until I think the 23rd or so out of Randle to Trout Lake, making for a longer drive. PS it is snowing in the cascades, viva schnee.

Ahhhh....Burning Man, what a great fest, a friend has gone every year...

Paridise to Paridise in 19 hours! 16 hours of hiking, plus she was out hiking with her husband the next day.

This was in the Tacoma News Tribune. She is one tough lady. "She doesn't know quit" Skip Card; The News Tribune After racing up and down Mount Rainier in less than a day, 77-year-old Bronka Sundstrom returned at 5 a.m. Sunday to her home near Ashford to get some sleep. Two hours later, the oldest woman ever to climb Rainier awoke to make her usual call to her son in New Jersey. "We always call Allen at 7. I didn't want to break the ritual," Sundstrom explained. And today, free from a regimen of solo speed hiking designed to prepare her fit 5-foot frame for the summit attempt, Sundstrom will take a leisurely trek with her 85-year-old husband, Ake. He has been feeling a little under the weather lately, so the pair will cover only seven or eight miles. "Mazama Ridge is beautiful, with the flowers," she said. "It would be nice to get Ake broken into shape again." Just another walk in the national park for Bronka Sundstrom. But the climb was special. Despite 22 years of hiking Mount Rainier's trails and snowfields, Sundstrom had never tried to reach the peak's 14,411-foot summit. "I just never thought I could do it. I'm an old lady," Sundstrom joked. Anyway, Rainier's high camps aren't nearly as comfortable as the Sundstroms' warm cabin just outside the park's Nisqually entrance. "You're much better off in your own house," she said. Those who know Sundstrom had no doubt of her strength and stamina, and most are amazed at her spirit. "I think what she did was incredible, and that's what I wrote in the summit register," said Jason Edwards, a longtime Mount Rainier guide. Edwards persuaded Sundstrom to finally make the summit attempt and accompanied her on the climb, in part to inspire others her age. "I think people like her prove that life doesn't stop at any given age," Edwards said. "It stops when you give up, and she's hasn't given up." Sundstrom hasn't even slowed down. Next year, she said, she probably will climb Rainier again. "I was happy to go, and I was happy to come back. It was a nice trip," Sundstrom said. Mount Rainier officials aren't sure who held the previous the record as the oldest woman to climb the peak, but they believe it was Eva Meassick of Steilacoom. Meassick was a few weeks short of her 65th birthday when she reached the summit in July 2000. The oldest man to climb Rainier was Jack Borgenicht of Long Valley, N.J. Borgenicht was 81 when, led by guides, he climbed the peak over a three-day period in August 1992. Sundstrom's total time on Rainier was 19 hours. Most climbers take at least two days to go up and down the mountain. Rangers say one-day round trips are attempted by only the fittest climbers. "A one-day climb would be an extreme event for most mountaineers," said Mike Gauthier, lead climbing ranger at Mount Rainier. "There's probably around 50 ascents like that a year out of 12,000 climbers, maybe less." Edwards and fellow Rainier Mountaineering Inc. guide Ryan Stephens set off from 5,420-foot Paradise with Sundstrom shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday. Sundstrom reached 10,080-foot Camp Muir in 3 hours 15 minutes - about 45 minutes longer than Sundstrom's normal pace. After a short break, the trio walked past the tents of Camp Muir and headed toward the 14,411-foot summit. Most climbers take six to eight hours to reach the summit; Sundstrom was there at 7 p.m., after 4 hours, 40 minutes. They spent about an hour on the summit, despite wind gusts that Edwards estimated hit 50 mph. Sundstrom signed the summit register and walked up to the highest point on the summit's crater rim. They started down just as night was falling. Sundstrom said she had trouble in the dim light, so she stayed close to Edwards and Stephens and often held onto their packs. They considered sleeping at bit when they returned to Camp Muir at midnight, but Rainier Mountaineering Inc.'s hut was still full of people. Instead they continued down. Sundstrom said she might climb to the summit again next year. She said she enjoyed seeing the lights of cities like Seattle and Yakima glimmering in the distance. "It was just fun to see something that I never saw before," she said. Skip Card: 253-597-8655 skip.card@mail.tribnet.com (Published 12:30AM, September 2nd, 2002)

Crazy!! You can't see those storms approaching from the west, on most of those routes. Glad they are OK. TTT

Riots in the streets of Portland over Bush being there. Looks like WTO a few years ago. DFA seen on the hood of a police car.

Phish is good road music. Swedish rap is good too, if you understand it that is.

quote: Originally posted by Dave Schuldt: Did anyone happen to pick up my reflective leg band? I thought you couldn't go more than a 100 feet from the phone or it would start beeping and an automatic call to the probation officer would bring the cops there. Sorry couldn't make it. TTT

quote: Originally posted by Lambone: The Emmons is in good shape also, although you have to travers very far left to get around the upper bergschrund. I was up there last weekend and that was the better alternative then, the right was a bit of a pain. The route was good then both ways. Congrats on getting past the Cougars, I hear they are in town this weekend.

Dru, I thought you worked all the time. I wonder how many CC.comers where at the Hempfest and not climbing. I heard they had a hut setup like the one at Muir. I shoulda gone to help them reenact the day.

Hey Drew, How many of those 20 guests were your avatars? Nice to see the Canadian gov't is paying triple time to some to work on Sunday! Recovery after a climb is nice with a bottle of Chardonney on the deck in the sun! Nice day to enjoy the waterfront!

Check your Personal messages....I dont know if it is a help. TTT

Sibley creek approach is easier to get permits for the Triad area too, when the other approach usually is "sold out". The main problem was finding the "obvious decent gulley". Better views too. TTT

I heard on Rainier a very similar incident a week and a half ago on the Emmons, according to Rangers this weekend. No other details but know how a story changes by hearsay. Read the AAC accidents every year and as they always say NEVER glissade with crampons on.