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    [TR] Graywolf Ridge to Walkinshaw - Standard 07/16/2023

    in Olympic Peninsula

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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!

    I’m at Skull Hollow bitches!!!

    in Spray

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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). 

    Iphone Satellite Messaging

    in The Gear Critic

    Posted

    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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    Terminal Gravity

    in Climber's Board

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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.IMG_1279.jpeg.d1298781ebaab3e6f04d0ee0e0bf9974.jpeg

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    Fire Everyone Again

    in Spray

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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.  

    [TR] Chikamin Peak - Dog Route 09/05/2022

    in Alpine Lakes

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    29 minutes ago, Omnia.Extares said:

    Hey there! I know this trip was a few years ago, but any chance you'd be willing to share tracks or let me ask you some questions about your route? I would love to bring my pup up with me. Mostly curious if you diverted much from the standard approach. Thanks! 

    I don’t think I deviated much for the standard approach, if at all. 
    I think I may have the tracks, I believe I have my trip on Strava.

    Im glad I did it, but I was super worried about Kiba going up and coming down. Perhaps only for a short section, but it was stressful. I’m definitely by far not the only person to take my dog up there, and after this I got Kiba a proper climbing harness.  Just fyi.  But happy to share whatever I got.

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