olyclimber

He was a friend of a friend, but I call those friends. I imagine some of you ran across Jim. Rest in peace brother. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-hiker-who-died-on-buck-mountain-identified/ take care out there.

good memories for doing this myself long ago. weird how a good picture can put you right back in a time and place.

Pretty cool stuff! Pretty amazing how far climbing has come. http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web18c/newswire-first-female-free-ascent-of-city-park

Thanks Ken! Always great to see an old familiar face! Congrats on tagging this one, and enjoy the Alps! I'm not climbing anything, but will be in the Alps next year.

yeah we know (or at least I know)...just got back from the coast...we'll get it fixed!

On the lemon theme this is a great album

This is one of my favorite of the summer (new to me at least)!

jeebless!!!!!!

Not disagreeing with you, but it is pretty amazing how "passionate" folks are about this argument, which I suppose pits "access" vs "winderness". As in, if the land is the peoples land, but they are too out of shape, handicapped, or unmotivated to use it then what do they care what happens to it. So people want to maintain existing roads and infrastructure so that enough people use the land and care about it and will maintain it. This "shit hole" is governed by the people (at least in theory) and if the majority would rather drive their RV to managed facilities rather than backpack in to unmanaged wild spaces...that group will win. And on the other side is those that see the value in wild spaces, not just in the landscape but in the mind. A place were you can go and escape the humans, the crushing spread of the humanity. A place were you won't be hassled by the Man. I would think that all of us here are in that group, but actually it isn't so. I recall some spirited arguments back and forth whether to rebuild/restore the Dose road washout on the Oly Pen. Barring some great scythe like a virus or war that wipes out the human race and knocks population back it sure seems like things will only get worse and worse if you want to escape your fellow man or enjoy solitude. We can create more wilderness by designation, but there is going to be more and more people getting sick of being stuck in an RV traffic jam. Just try to go camp at a state site on the Washington coast during the summer. If you didn't reserve your campsite 9 months in advance, you are SOL. The earth isn't getting any bigger.

Move to Canada you patriot!

TECHNO VIKING!!!

I usually have a bonefire and roast up one of the neighbors cats and eat it.