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    Ya I know, I am out of it🤷‍♂️

    in Climber's Board

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     Appreciate it guys!  We are still taking funds for the site, there is a button to donate.   AAI, our sponsor, pays our monthly server hosting bill, which is huge.  Without that, I would be continuously bugging you guys for money or be faced with turning things off.   Think a never-ending public radio fund drive.  That would suck.

    But Cascadeclimbers.com also has its own fund that you all contribute to, and the money is used to pay for software licensing, domain name costs, things like that.   We also *could* use funds for paying a developer, but for now there just isn't enough to do that.   What would be awesome is if we could find a climber who is also a developer and good with PHP/MSQL who has the time and energy to help solve a few problems for the site.   But also understand that we need this developer(s) to have bought in to how we are running the site.  Myself and all the moderators who participate are doing this without pay.  We do it to keep the community/site going. Any developer working with use has to be ok with that and do it for the love of the site and community.

    Regarding the site, there are a few things I would like to at least consider changing, and obviously recreating the search function would be nice.  We also have image issues that may be fixed in bulk with code. 

    We may also want to consider moving from Invision forums at some point as I'm not super enamored with the support and direction the software is going, but given the current landscape of the products in this space it may be the best option.

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    NW Alpine Advertisement

    in cc.news

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    Jason and his AAI crew continue to support this site, providing the financial backing that pays our monthly hosting bill that keeps the lights on.   We have continued gratitude for that!

    I also added a second advertisement to the site for NW Alpine.  It's not in its final landing spot, as I've got to figure out a better way to host the advertisement.  We are hosting this ad for free for a while, with Jason's blessing (AAI continues to be our sole sponsor, aside from donations from you which help pay the other costs like software licensing, etc).

    If you know NW Alpine, they are a local, Northwest company making great outdoor apparel.... manufacturing in the United States. In the past NW Alpine has supported Cascadeclimbers.com, so we are returning the favor as Bill Amos and company continue the battle to maintain domestic manufacturing. 

    The ethos we see for Cascadeclimbers.com is as a local, non-corporate alternative, a community of people who share the same passion. Oh yes, we have our differences! But we are here because we love to climb, hike, ski, accumulate closets full of gear, photograph, and spray about all of it.  And I think the story telling format of our TRs are the crown jewel.    

     

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    [TR] Choral Peak - North Face 05/05/2024

    in Central/Eastern Washington

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    I wonder what cougar populations are these days.   Growing up in the sticks, I only ever once saw a cougar, fleeting....running in front of a car driven by my dad.  We also used to have a cougar rug, made from a head and the whole body that was from when one of my older brothers shot one that was attacking his dog (epic story behind that one).

    I'm seeing more cougar reports these days, this is just anecdotal so pretty worthless.  But two in Quilcene there were HUGE, biggest I've ever seen was captured on a friends game camera near Lake Leland.  One had a tracker on it.

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    Edit:

    3600 in Washington according to WDFW

    https://wdfw.wa.gov/species-habitats/species/puma-concolor#:~:text=Cougar (Puma concolor)&text=Sleek and graceful%2C cougars (Puma,3%2C600 cougars in Washington state.

    Ya I know, I am out of it🤷‍♂️

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    Yeah shits been like that for a while my man.  Sorry.  Right now focused on keeping the site around, many sites have died, good ones.  We are still going.  I was working on getting a better TR system in place and made progress.  But then that fell apart as the developer kind of went his own direction.  

    You can still find stuff. And yes it could be better.  I'm the only one running the site from the technical side. @JasonG and a few other mods keep things clean. 

    Honestly I'd like to eventually hand the site over to a new guard of younger folks who will not commercialize the site and keep the community aspect alive...but also can make it better. 

    Life has been taking me personally in a lot of different directions, but I still love this site and am committed to keeping it going.  Also invite new energy and drive, but it has to be selfless, and directed towards keeping this going like a non-profit entity.   Thankfully we have a great sponsor in the American Alpine Insitute, and we have had generous donations from the users of the site. 

    There is a TON of great stories here, and they continue to grow.   We will find a way to keep that alive. 

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    REI

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    Imagine the Enchantments “opened up” by instead of a lottery….an auction.   Highest bidder gets to camp.  ‘Merica! Fuck yeah!

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    Big Lou has passed at 95

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    Never heard this before, seems like something everyone should know about:

     

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    The first time Jim and Lou Whittaker summited Mount Rainier, they both threw up. The twins were 16-year-old Boy Scouts in the summer of 1945, ascending via the Emmons Glacier with a few dozen others in the Seattle-based Mountaineers club. The sky was clear, but the two-day slog was harder than they expected. The underprepared boys were so dehydrated they melted snow in their mouths. Air is thin at 14,410 feet, and nausea is common “at elevation,” as climbers say. 

    But what happened next is still disputed some 67 years later.

     

    “Mom had packed a bunch of grapes, and you’re so thirsty up there,” says Lou Whittaker, now 83. “I threw up the grapes, re-ate a few of them.” Gross, yes, but he was a teenage boy. 

    But Jim, his older-by-10-minutes brother, won’t confirm it, “You can’t believe everything Louie says. He wants to make a good story, and those are good stories.” In his own biography, in fact, Lou wrote that the gross anecdote was a “story [that] got around…but that’s not true.”

     

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    REI

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    I know it’s long been sport to rip on REI, I’ve even at one point torn up my membership after they pissed me off with whatever, but man they have fallen since the days back when they were on Capitol Hill. 

    I even now know multiple really good people who work for them (or I think they still work for them…been lots of layoffs).

    But man they just keep digging deeper into the shite hole in my opinion.   I admit I still do have a membership. Bought a pair of cycling shoes a couple weeks ago with the sale.  But this kind of crap:

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/experience/national-parks/2024/03/24/rei-signature-campground-grand-canyon/73085605007/

    Its sad.   The concept of a coop for outdoor gear is nice but they are instead of a corporate beast that lays off the people in the store who actually know anything and only hires seasonally to avoid paying benefits.

    With Promountain Sports going out of business where do you shop these days?  I think our sponsor has an American Alpine Institute  has a store up in Bellingham (never made it up during the right hours to check it out).  There is the place in Ballard, that just moved to somewhere else (used to be Second Ascent).  I’m talking places the actually have a good chosen selection of climbing, mountaineering, and skiing gear. 

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