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  1. I would love to hear all of that stuff. I grew up out there, born in Forks till first grade, then Quilcene from first grade to half way through high school, then PA for the rest of high school and junior college. Via scouts I hiked all over the Olympics.

    i love those pictures! Reminds me of the pictures of my early scouting days, nobody in Quil had any money and you could see it on the clothes on our back and the gear we had. That was early 80s.

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    tell us about the truckers!

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  2. Huge shout out to these guy....the @AAI continues to keep the lights on here.   I'm so greatful that they recognize what this site means.    Please do pitch business their way, support them because they support us.   They have a great gearshop with great selected equipment too, btw.  

    Thank you Jason, we really do appreciate you and your folks!

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  3. 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!

  4. 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). 

  5. 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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  6. 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.IMG_1279.jpeg.d1298781ebaab3e6f04d0ee0e0bf9974.jpeg

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