olyclimber
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On 11/7/2025 at 12:45 PM, Dave 1970 said:
You asked if anyone knew about the truckers. I was a part of that organization a long time ago. I remember when we placed the register on the Citadel, but I don’t remember which other summits we put registers on. We climbed lots of mountains in the Olympics as well as many of the minor peaks and even some unnamed peaks. The truckers were active from about 1970 to maybe 1977 or 78. Most of the time our membership consisted of 3 - 5 guys. Our name was inspired by a common phrase of that time: “Keep on Truckin’. “ we generally avoided common routes up mountains. We referred to our routes as “truck routes,” and the leader of a climb was referred to as the “mother trucker.”
Almost every September, we would take a cross country route across the Olympics, following ridges as much as possible, and climbing any peaks, we ran into along the way.
If you’d like to know more, you can email me (Dave) at sciguy300@gmail.com
Nice pictures, and nice to see the register is still there after all this time Thanks for the memory.
Thanks Dave I would love to hear more from you, anything you can share about your time in the Olympics!
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Yes. Bring it. Man so different from my last time there. Now all the good free camping is just up the road where I used to go 4x4ing in my Honda Accord to find firewood. And the “campground “ is closed (not sure if shutdown related).
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That is an awesome picture
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Meet me here to fight or listen to Counting Crows. Hurry up! Bring licker. Round here!!!
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It’s a bit more fiddlly than the inreach (I have a Mini2). Others thing about the mini2 is it has insane battery life, versus a phone (unless you go airplane mode, etc). I also wonder how much longer the satellite messaging will be free…I’m betting it will at some point cost extra.
that said if I already had not paid for the garmin I probably wouldn’t at this point. And I’m probably not getting good value for my money given how many times a year I am truly out of cell service. But for now I still pay for the Garmin service.
it won’t be long till there won’t be such a thing as “off the grid” or “out of cell service “ … the death of that freedom
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35 minutes ago, lunger said:
Ha, no. Apologies, just credit for the link.
His OnlyFans channel is full and closed to new members.
Thank god I procured 3 of the memberships.
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That third pic fromn the bottom.....thank you for sharing as usual!
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Wait….rat has a fing blog??
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On a road trip in Idaho and Montana and came across this hat in a thrift store in a little town in Montana when I stopped in to get some steak knifes. Got this and three steak knifes for $2. Thank you Steve and RIP.
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Dan I will help you! Let’s also get your phone off here it will get scraped and every bit in the universe will be calling you!
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I would love to read the essay @Otto
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It’s all about belaying, not about the climbing.
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https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/registers-canisters-a-grand-northwest-tradition
hopefully people are replacing the actual register rather than taking to container down…
I mean I think they are cool. Sometimes you see notable names in them, or a name of a now deceased climber of note.
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That sucks…especially those old brass Mountie registers. Is it possible the Mounties are retrieving them themselves? But probably not unless the replace it with a modern container…
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Tedious! 😂. If tedious is the bar to get those views, sign me up for tedious.
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Went up there again. The smoke from the Bear Gulch spoiled the views to the south but we had a good time anyway. Was gonna camp on Hawk Peak but ended up going down to the plane wreck in Tull Canyon to get out of the smoke.
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lol
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Unfortunately NWAlpine is calling it quits. Not sure what the plan is there, but taking the advert down.
If you like their stuff (quality, made in a America) then get in on their going out of business sale here:
All the best to all....
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Now you’re on to something. Fire all the statisticians, force the team to give the US government 20% ownership of the team, make it so you can only buy tickets to the games with Trumpcoins. Deport any player with a batting average under .200.
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Damn! That’s impressive!! Let’s see a picture of the bike.
definitely best of!
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23 hours ago, Bronco said:
I say fire everyone on the Mariners pitching staff.
Just brutal. Brutal. Are we cursed?
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