olyclimber
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1 hour ago, Bronco said:
There were so many rocks littering the tent platform at Thumb Rock that I tunneled into the up hill side about 2' so at least my head would be protected during the night. We were in bivi sacks so even a small rock would've been exciting. Wasn't there a TR a while ago where someone had a rock come through their tent in the night at Thumb Rock?
Yeah that was @Alpinfox pax
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Just saw there is a newer climbing gym in the West Seattle area. Has an interesting roller feature. I haven’t been there but it’s called Castle Climbing Club.
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Thank you Benjamin S!
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Happy new year to you all! Here is to another year of trip reports, of time in the mountains, new explorations and experiences.
Bring on 2026!
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22 hours ago, rat said:
I hope you don't sell it but no one will piss on your grave if you do.
For reference: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bad_boy_bubby
I won’t sell it. I don’t feel like I “own” all these stories and information. I believe we can find a steward(s) when we need to. I’ll have to check out that movie!
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4-5 miles up there I think. Not my photo (cap from a vid)
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I just had someone offer to buy this site. I didn’t get as far as how much or anything like that but it was a real approach to buy it. By someone who runs online communities in other spaces. I thanked him, his approach was genuine and I think it’s possible his group could run this community in a thoughtful way.
But I turned it down. This site is not for sale. At least not by me.
When a site is bought and sold the community becomes a product. There is then a need for the community to turn a profit somehow.
i have a different vision, of making this site a nonprofit organization that benefits our community and those adjacent to it. That gives an option online for people to connect and share where we are not the product and are not being mined for our data or to be fed directly into the AI machine.
But I can’t do this on my own. So if you or don’t you know is interested in helping please reach out. I’ll share more of my vision here but I’ll also listen, particularly to active members of the community. This is not mine, this ours.
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3 hours ago, Phil K said:
Yeah, I was worried! It would be such a shame to see this place vaporize. Thanks!!
Thank you Phil.
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30 minutes ago, Alisse said:
Thank you so much for getting it back up. I've actually been working on a little project archiving all my TRs as PDFs in legit printable formats (not an easy task) out of fear/knowledge that someday this place will burn down and not come back...glad that time has not come yet!
I’m exploring ways to keep it going and making it more resilient. But what I did was a huge step. We are now on the latest OS, and dumped a bunch of old stuff that wasn’t used for the site, all the underlying components got upgraded.
we just need to keep it simple. I will keep it going.
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12 minutes ago, stillcrankin said:
“WE ARE NOT DEAD YET!!!”
Speak for yourself……….
You’re still cranking.
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The new Mini3 seems be how Garmin is fighting back. You can send photos and voice notes with it now.
So how long till you can do that with a phone? I would wager its in the works already.
https://hikingguy.com/hiking-gear/garmin-inreach-mini-2-vs-mini-3-should-you-upgrade/
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Highway 2 - pretty screwed how many places are it out? - no way to Stevens Pass. Can’t get to Leavenworth that way.
410 - down to one lane, sure to hose access to Crystal
what else
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Emily M, Jonathan P, thank you both for your generous support! I'm not sure of your either user name here, but DM me. Jonathan, I have a hunch on you but want to be sure.
Also Rolf and Philip, thank you for both your continued to support of the site!
That money really helps...we will have extra cost this month as I had to spin up some extra servers in the recovery effort.
And I can't in my right mind bill our site sponsor for this month.
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I think we lost just a few posts as I had to restore from a backup to start the journey to recover the site. It wasn't much, that still does bum me a little and I'm sorry. But the site is back and I'm really happy. I was so stressed.
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We are not dead! That was extremely trying. The server totally crashed in a terrible way right in the middle of a super intense week at work for me and I was taxed mentally to the max figuring this out. Luckily I have a couple really good friends, ex-coworkers...but they are friends to give me moral support and confidence to do everything I did which was rebuild everything on modern software. So the site is in a MUCH better place than it was pre-crash. I still have a bunch of maintainance to do, but the site is back up and going. Thank you for sticking around. We WILL keep this place alive dammit.
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WE FIXED IT!
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2 hours ago, bedellympian said:
Sounds fun, weather seems like a similar gamble to Patagonia? Got any TRs to recommend a winter trip?
I wish! Always wanted to go.
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New Zealand?
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https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/news/hikers-marijuana-prosectuion/
by the what is prosectuion? Clearly the writer of the article was high.
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Monkey shrieks and grunts and take! Take! Take!!!!!!
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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.
tell us about the truckers!
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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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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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