Often it seems the umbrella of "environmentalism" covers other motivations. Putting warm fuzzy bears aside, perhaps I don't want bridges put in because it makes the area that much more wild and exclusive to get into, making it a special place that is perhaps visited rarely. Sort of along the lines of Edward Abbey's proposal to move the Grand Canyon Vistor Center way back from the canyon's edge. The animals and habitat are often used as symbols around which people can rally to protect areas from development.
"Here's Bob, he lived in Portland for 5 years before moving out here to Florida for retirement, and man is his RV taking a pounding right now" (ducking roofing shingles as he speaks)
"Bob, Joe from KGW...do you miss Portland?"
I'm sure he's the guy sent to the chain-up areas to report on road conditions too. Then it's off to Florida for hurricane season to get the pacific n.w. angle. Poor guy.
that sucks. The Wells Fargo tower could collapse today and it would still not make the news, relegated to later in the newscast so they can show some dumbass reporter slipping around out on burnside bitching about how cold it is, maybe throw in some more footage of a expedition peeling out in a parking lot.
I'm at work today so I can tell my future kids I did intentional donuts at the I-5/217 interchange haha
love it when there's no one on the road. I was thinking of biking to work on I-5, but thought better of it with this crappy breakable crust.
better wear your helmet 'cause I'm showing up at the slopes with this fine setup gathered together from friends and relatives:
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= look out below or you might get a dislocated shoulder or something
one thing to note though is those canopy lock cores are pickable with a ski wicket in about 10 seconds, though they are usually frozen solid when I go skiing. so maybe 20 seconds, after dosing it with wd-40
I just throw them in the bed. I have a canopy. At some point I will get my truck bed line-x'd so I stop scratching up the thing, but w/ the canopy on paint chips are not that big a deal. If you are worried about your edges detuning by bumping the truck bed or scissoring each other then you are a better skier than I.