Fairweather

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As for USFS, well, I have issues with them too. Particularly regarding their partnership with the "Mt. St. Helen's Institute," and various permit and quota schemes. It's never funny when public agencies offer up a 'free-market solution' to an arbitrary quota they imposed. They provide the problem--and then sell us the solution. (Now available on recreation.gov!) That said, NPS often behaves in an utterly draconian manner couching institutional laziness in a green wrapper. The debacle along the road to Paradise this last winter was just the latest example. Back to NOCA, recall rangers frog-marching climbers and hikers out of the backcountry because they lacked a permit said ranger could have just issued on-site.

To whose "wilderness values" are you referring? I'm a conservative. And a conservationist. Sixty years of hiking, climbing, paddling, and yes, occasional mountain biking. One mistake urban liberals make is viewing wilderness as their inviolate playground, not realizing people of all political persuasions own it--and use it.

That might be the noble goal for park staff and urban elites--but the 1968 enabling legislation doesn't make it so. 93% of the park is now Stephen Mather Wilderness. The USFS can manage that just fine.

This is demonstrably untrue. Permits to climb? Lottery for the Wonderland Trail? Back country quota areas expanding every year at Olympic, and MORA--and NOCA? If there's no "loving nature to death" crisis in our NPs, then why all the restrictions?

Related. Sort of. https://www.wsj.com/articles/national-park-fees-booz-allen-68d4d6d8?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Let's do it!

Don't particularly like the guy, better choices are plenty. But this nonsense cannot stand. Russiagate, Ukraine, Peegate, tax returns nothingness, on and on. I wish liberals loved their country more than they hate Trump. Their mania is leading us to a very very bad place. They should have just let him fade away.

Parked at about 1300' where the snow starts. Snowshoes up the road to the Washington TH parking area. There is a S#!t ton of snow up there! Not likely to melt out for a while.

I'd say some civil disobedience is in order here.

Are you talking about that goofy "Volcano Pass?" I've never heard of any permit needed to climb Mt Adams.

I hear radon levels there are off the charts at the LaQuinta Inn!

Don't believe everything that you breathe You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve

That's very weird, I don't remember eating any corn.

The Mountain Goats: Up the Wolves

There are already plenty of laws against littering. But occasionally stupid can be fixed. Not sure about lazy. Sheeesh, can't they just shake off those last few drops like the rest of us?😎

They've appeared just in the last few years. Single toilet paper squares alongside suburban and popular mountain trails. Not the brown-stain variety, rather, as if someone was "dabbing." Has anyone else noticed? If so, is this a phenomenon that is rising hand-in-hand with, how do I put this, REI's recent marketing push toward women? In any event, it's nasty and I wish people wouldn't do it. Crying Indian.

The Doves: Kingdom of Rust

Same story here. Back when the glacier and the Boy Scouts still existed.

USFS would be fine, but as screwed up as Washington State government is, they still seem to be managing their state parks fairly well. For now. I say let them have it.

You answered your own question in your preface. What's more, yes, in many ways the national park service has become the poster child for government dysfunction. Not sure Washington State government would be any better, but, hey, why not give it a try at this point.

Sad, same fate as the first glacier I ever touched. Anderson Glacier. https://www.nps.gov/olym/learn/nature/glaciers.htm

It is the least-visited national park in the nation outside Alaska. Decades of NCCC litigation has rendered it little more than a playground for public-sector elites and staff residing in Marblemount and Stehekin. Park management has let access roads and trails fall into disrepair one after another--in the name of some nebulous green religion. And now they want to expand the park and absorb the National Rec Area? I say decommission the park, retain the wilderness ares inside its present boundaries, and turn management over to either the USFS or Washington State. There is precedent for doing this: https://www.sierra.com/blog/lifestyle/disbanded-national-parks/#:~:text=4 National Parks That No Longer Exist 1,Travertine Creek. Photo by Jonathan C. Wheeler

One more thought: they get cold easier than you do. Less muscle for heat production--even in motion and relative to their total size. Don't assume they are warm just because you are. I made this mistake a couple times.