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    list of cc.comies you'd most like to meet

    in Spray

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    20 hours ago, ralphbo said:

    Yoooo @olyclimber, it's me, the reincarnation of slothrop. I lost access to the email address I used for cc.com... would be happy to have that account back, as regrettable as the choice of username is to me now. Please DM me if that's possible, I can tell you what the old email was.

    Hi y'all :wave: Came back a few weeks ago and took a nostalgia trip through the whole "Hardest Mox" saga and damn that was the good stuff. Was glad to see cc.com is still going hard to this day with weird stream of consciousness trip reports and random spraying.

    sent you an email!

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    [TR] The Devil's Tongue - Standard- Illegal Immigration Ridge 9/16/2017

    in North Cascades

    Posted

    38 minutes ago, JBo6 said:

    This is an incredibly delayed response but I believe that "breaker bar" is actually a mining drill bit meant to be hit with a sledge.  I've found several stashes in the Pasayten that have that same hexagonal/octagonal shape.

    Yep agree. I was just watching a youtube channel this past weekend and they were exploring an old gold mine down in California.  It was a huge adit, with passage ways going everywhere.  They found a ton of that old steel left in the mine that looked exactly like that, and you could see the business end of them where they were pretty used up.  I think you could also hook them onto a machine driven by a compressor or something? Or at least the mine in the Youtube vid had one.

    Best approach shoes

    in The Gear Critic

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    If LaSportiva don't fit your feet I think these are equal to the TX4s.  I picked up a pair last year when in Austria because the mountaineering boots I had brought were tearing up my feet (not sure why I had tons of miles in them already), so I used the Scarpas on my hut hike and they are really nice.  I don't know if it was just a Euro thing, but the version i bought are a sweet teal color:

    https://us.scarpa.com/mescalito-men-s

    They are so comfy I've taken to just wearing them as every day shoes.

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    ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS

    in Newbies

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    1 hour ago, stoneramhunter said:

    I've spent over 50 yrs in the backcountry  with my packhorses   mostly Northern British Columbia  and in all that time have had only two encounters with  grizzly that were not good. Although ive encountered many bears over the year with no issue  i wasnt so lucky on these occasions.  Lost a couple of horses in one encounter  and was attacked in the other fortunately i wasn't seriously hurt. 

    Damn never would pass up hearing more about either or both encounters…

    Mapping Software

    in The Gear Critic

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    12 hours ago, mthorman said:

    I am a huge fan of CalTopo personally.

    Same. I used/still use Gaia GPS for a long time but they were bought and now my photos no longer sync from my phone with the free version.  I really like the typos on CalTopo, now my go to when researching an area.

    Drones in the Wilderness - Poll

    in Climber's Board

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    My evil plan for engagement worked Puppy.  Well the thing is with drones is depending on the environment you may not even notice them. Easiest way to detect them may be to search YouTube for your favorite wilderness area. Then , I guess, “who cares”, right.  I get what you’re saying. It’s like if you get your car stolen, and you call the police and expect them to round up a posse and ride out three counties to find it. Instead they may not even send out an officer to talk to you, instead directing you to fill out an online form and that’s it.  
     

    No man, this is the last straw. The only thing that separates as from the other animals.  OVER THE LINE!!!!

     


     

     

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