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olyclimber

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  1. If I was pissed off enough I would take their controller and huck it.  But just sounds like a bummer when we are just trying to find some solitude/a challenge/a good time. And I talk tough but probably I don’t want to poison my time in the hills with a shitty interaction with some asshole.  Modern life: what a joy. 

  2. Wow, what an adventure!   And great pictures! That is so awesome you guys are getting those grants from the AAC and CalTopo.

    I've primarily been a Gaia GPS user since I have a ton of data in there, but came across CalTopo (I had used it a long time ago, but its way better now) a couple months ago and was super impressed with it and have been using it more.

    Thank you so much for sharing your story here, and congratulations on a great trip to an amazing place.

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  3. Just came across this from June this year:

    https://www.nps.gov/mora/learn/news/climber-fatality-and-recovery-on-mount-rainier-6-6-23.htm

    What stood out to me was the soloist was 80 years old!   I think the record for oldest person to summit is 82?

    This guy had previously had the record for the oldest person to summit Rainier, and had previously summited Everest solo.

    https://people.com/body-washington-man-found-went-missing-climbing-mount-rainier-celebrate-birthday-7509313

    Did any of you know him? Dawe Eddy was his name.

     

       This year a woman set the record for the oldest woman at 78.

    https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/rose-vanderhoof-78-becomes-oldest-woman-to-summit-mt-rainier

  4. I drove the road  this weekend, hiked up the Blanca in the snow.    The new road section is well done.  I hiked that section when the road was out and was wondering how they would do it,  of course had to go up the hillside away from the river.  There is an immediate 11% grade to get up away from the river.

    the road to the blanca trailhead is washed out, but not meaningfully (only adds 1/4 mile and is passable by high clearance 4x4 if you really want to get up the road).

     

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  5. List TRs that look like they have photos but they aren't showing up here.  Some of them I can fix.  Others I can't (usually if they are stored somewhere other than CC.com and are gone from the server that originally have them....I can't fix that).

     

    I just randomly found this TR was missing its photos, and I was able to fix it.

     

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  6. 2 minutes ago, Stefan said:

    I do care.  I just don't have a formenting rage.

    This is kind of like "excessive speeders" I find on the highways....

    Its more like:  If I am there and I here that sound....then I am pissed off.  But if I am not there, and I see the drone footage, then I would think it's kinda cool...and a little bit irked at the same time they went around the rules....

    Fair point! Added a choice. @Stefan

  7. 4 hours ago, JasonG said:

    How many tripods did you need to kick over to get that spot @olyclimber??!!

    I had it to myself!  Slept in my truck up at overnight lot, was just on a random wander.  Woke up at 5am and went down there, that shot is lit by the full moon.   But..it wasn't long before the hoards started showing up.   I left and went down to hike up Church mtn.

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