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Big Ballers!

Ah yes...for the old lookout:

Man, its been since college when i was up on Church mountain! I seem to remember some old outhouse or something on the way up.

Trip: mt ellinor - summer trail Trip Date: 08/27/2023 Trip Report: Kiba and I hiked up the summer trail Sunday morning, joining the other million of visitors this peak has every summer. I've always avoided Ellinor and Washington because of the crowds, so I've never been up either before, but due to the fact that I had never been plus that I could bring Kiba....well we had nothing better going so we went up Sunday morning. Its just a less than two mile hike, but still a cool position to view the rest of the Olympics. The trail is unreal, especially up higher. The Mt Rose Trail Crew really put in an insane amount of work to make this accessible to the masses that go up in every year. How many bolts did they drill to put in the wood steps? Also just some innovative trail building methods in use. Also...the first via ferratta I've even seen the Olympics! Webbing hanging on bolts right by their trail tool box or whatever it is. Anyway, while it was smokey, we watched the sunise from near the summit and saw all my old mountain friends. The Sawtooths and Cruiser, Mt Olympus holding court in the distance. Mt Skokomish, Stone, Lena, Bretherton, Constance, the Bros, etc. I think it would be fun to climb Ellinor with a guide as recommended at the bottom of the comment section here: https://www.summitpost.org/mt-ellinor/151552 What do you think Bob would charge to guide you up Ellinor? What do you think Bob looks like? I'm going to guess he will be wearing a hickory shirt, arms cut off at 3/4 length. Wearing Romeos, and Carhartts with holes in them. Or at least that is how hope he would look like. Maybe a can of Copenhagen. Due to inflation I could see Bob charging you $200 plus a 6 pack of Hamms. Gear Notes: wear shoes Approach Notes: fine European trail

dang. not a lot, but some moisture in the near forecast.

Gotta be a bot

pretty dramatic image...

Awesome trip, thanks for sharing!

Popcorn with a cigar? I hope it was chocolate popcorn.

I hope that trail always remains a hard thrash. 😉

domain name expired. only jon has access to that, but he got it renewed....for some reason the autorenew didn't happen, but it has been resolved thanks to jon's help.

Awesome! Thank you for sharing!

https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/6/2/46 if you Google there is a bunch of discussion about this, but I wouldn’t trust the area without close inspection and testing. This, like much of the other discussions about this particular topic I found Googling, is pretty much just armchair speculation, but: it seems like there are so many factors that could impact this: 1. how hot did it actually get at each bolt? It may be just a bolt or two are damaged and the rest are fine, but it only takes one bad bolt to make for a bad day. 2. Type of rock and moisture content in the rock, which could not only cause problems with the bolts, the the frailty of the rock in general. I suspect the more moisture the more things could change. 3. What kind of bolts/how were they affixed? Etc.. again just armchair talk here, not a geologist, physicist, or psychiatrist.

Thank you! It has been more of an ordeal than I thought it would be! But the end is near I think.

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/124432683/the-edge-of-time-arete

Yes. I believe on Mountain Project?

You did it! I remember in the car or over a pint saying you were gonna! Congratulations on checking it off. What a crazy amazing mountain. Headed for a week hut hiking in the Alps in the first part of September myself!

was this on the road that weekend? I imagine it has been there for a while…

again a couple weekends ago.

With some variations, again last weekend.

Love it @JasonG ! I was up in the Silver Lake/Tull canyon area with Kiba that weekend. Crazy amount of cars at the Dungeness trailhead. Great job finding were they (mostly) aren’t! I’m ready to test my shoulder out btw. <edit> I’m mixing up my weekends. This was when Kiba and I where up by Marmot pass! 😂

Some how i need to to change? Look in the mirror when you say that. I’m not sure what polarizing indoctrination you’re quoting there but it isn’t helping you. I appreciate but that it exists, that you exist. But I don’t have to agree. A little sad that you drag this conversation here when there is so much we have in common. You know, like being outdoors and on mountains and things.

https://gearjunkie.com/climbing/honnold-caldwell-bromance-bikes-biggest-adventure-yet All the kool kids are biking...

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What are you on about? Are you mad because I don't lift you up and celebrate the list of things you hate? Is that how I'm "killing the site"? Actually, I've paid money out of my own pocket to keep this place running. I secured a sponsor to help keep the site going. And people have chipped in as well. Hell, @JasonG single handedly ran an auction of his photography and raised a bunch of money to keep this place going. And all the users that have chipped in individually....you guys are why this site is still here. I appreciate and tolerate different points of view. What I'm not a fan of is the sort of Eeryore negativity that drags down healthy discussion. But even Eeryore has his place. I have nothing against donkeys in general.