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yes. my hammock. zoots?

Trip: Buckhorn Mountain - Marmot Pass Date: 6/12/2016 Trip Report: I hiked up Buckhorn Mountain via the Big Quilcene/Marmot Pass on Sunday. It was well worth the effort. I remember first cresting Marmot Pass when I was in Boy Scouts. It was one of our first trips (of many to follow) and it was so cool to see the interior of the Olympics come into view. My expert tracking skills told me that many men had travelled the upper Big Quil trail, more than the 8 cars in the parking lot indicated. When I got back to the car at 1pm there were 35 cars. Very popular hike, for good reason. I passed everyone and their dog (literally, they brought their dog) on hike back down. Dogs of all types. I don't remember dogs being allowed in Wilderness areas, but apparently they are. The signs at the trailhead even say to keep your animal on a leash. And as far as "many men"...it was actually mostly women I passed, like 2 to 1 women to men. But if you get up at 4:30 and hit the trail by 5am, you'll have the trail to yourself. I didn't bring a dog. Nor did I bring my three legged cat. The clouds were burning off right below Camp Mystery for me, and from there you were above the clouds. The views were good into the interior. And Constance, Warrior Peaks, and others to the south were in full view. The other hills to the northwest were still there: Buckhorn Peak, Iron Mountain, and Townsend. And views down into Tubal Cain. And Rainier. And the sun even came through and warmed things up when the wind died down for a while. Eventually another party joined me in sunbathing on the summit. Got back down to the trailhead at 1pm and had time to stop in Quilcene and visit a friend and his new baby. And got on the 4pm Southworth to Fauntleroy ferry. [video:youtube]BRTwIs03qpQ Gear Notes: Arcteryx wind shirt Approach Notes: hike up the big quil, trail splits off Tubal Cain trail after Marmot Pass

But anyway, post up some pics! And thanks for sharing your experience. Sorry you lost your gaiters, hope they are returned.

Did you do the the High Adventure Program at Camp Parsons in the late 80s? "A DEER TRIED TO RAM ME!!!!"

wow sounds like an adventure! way to tough it out, hope your friend is ok.

thanks marcus...i think this fits what i'm looking for.

Wow. what great pictures and what a cool trip. Thanks Jason.

Trip: Warrior Peak - 1a Date: 6/5/2016 Trip Report: Two Elderly People Fail To Climb Mountain Two elderly folk escaped the infirmary this last weekend, and stumbled up the Dungeness valley to the Warrior-Constance circe. In various stages of decomposition, both old men fought valiantly against gravity and other forces both real and imagined. A general lack of preparedness reigned, from the faded/unreadable photocopy of a topo from a printer running out of toner, and lack of vocabulary to understand terms in the route description (well the vocabulary was there once, but was forgotten or misplaced in the mind)to the most egregious error : lack of mosquito netting. With wrinkles, grey hair, palsy, and forgetfulness these wizened shells of former selves left the trail a couple of miles after the Boulder shelter and mistaking one creek for another and found a high camp up in the alpine with views toward Inner Constance and Constance Pass and Mt Fricaba. There they were hosted by a hummingbird, who hung around camp during their stay, perhaps smelling the decaying flesh, waiting for bones to pick clean. The sun set, and then it rose again. The old people got up and in no hurry packed up and scrambled through the brush back down to the trail in search of the correct creek. After the waterfall they stumbled back up hill and toward the "cirque". If that term had been fresh in their rotting minds they might have easily walked up to it, but instead they searched for a "prominent couloir", any couloir could have been it on the foreshortened slopes. The failing eyesight of the aged was not helping. After not finding any "couloir of obvious prominence" stumbling up hill for some while, they found themselves in what they remembered is known as a "cirque" by the rest of humanity. From here...what should present it's self to the bags bones but a couloir...of some clear degree of prominence. Could this be the fabled couloir? It was not known to the elderly, but they agreed to drag themselves up it in lack of a better option. At the top of the couloir it was revealed that these victims of the passing years were accidentally in the right place. Like the men, the day was not young anymore. And nor was there a desire to climb low 5.1 choss. These dinosaurs did not go silently. No...they whined and complained first. Then they made excuses. The required testicals and/or ovaries were searched for and not located. But in the end, and in the face of certain ridicule by those in the know, a whimpering retreat was made. Recaptured by the authorities and shaking with palsy, the old men returned to their underwear staining and cup drooling at the infirmary. Gear Notes: The elderly appreciate a good walking stick for the knees. Approach Notes: Head left after the waterfall (or later) and then up to the cirque : cirque sərk noun 1. GEOLOGY a half-open steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley or on a mountainside, formed by glacial erosion. from there, find the couloir of prominence.

Hi All, As many of you know, there is an issue with our Trip Reports (well actually its the whole site) function that is not allowing you to write a TR external (such as in Word or another text editor) and paste it into a TR. Very frustrating! While we are working on the issue as much as we can, keep in mind that this site is really a volunteer resource. We make a little money, but that is just enough to pay the hosting bill. And some how, over the years, we got busy and had kids, and all sort of things that eat into our time yet are somehow equally important. So we understand you might be frustrated and so are we. If only we had more time in our days! But we will get to it, promise. Anyway for now if you're having the issue, Timmy has given me a work around you can run your TR through before pasting it into CC.com. This will allow you to copy/paste till we fix the issue! http://www.articleformatter.com/ Paste your TR in there and press "Format". This will take you to the formatted tab. Then copy your TR out of that and paste it into the TR on CC.com. Then it will actually save! Post your questions about this particular process here if you have any. We hope to have this issue resolved soon, and then this will no longer be necessary. And thanks to Timmy for sharing this work around! You da man Timmay!!!

Awesome! Thank you for your patience. We are working on the TR posting issue!

noice!

The link above mentions Ome Daiber. That guy was a legend. I want to say I met him when I was in the boy scouts, but I can't remember clearly. If I did meet him, he was quite old at the time. FA of Liberty Ridge, etc.

supposed to be one near the snout of the Humes too. Don't see anything. http://www.windsox.us/VISITOR/HISTORY_BUILDINGS/PLANE_CRASHES.html Humes snout

Anyone have any interesting old plane crash locations to share? I was looking for the one on C141 Peak in the Olympics before I realized they removed the wreckage. You can see the one over by Tubal Cain mine: click here

yeah i saw that mammut cord...way too much for me. utility cord i guess then...

It should still be there for next time. Thanks for posting, lets everyone know what the conditions are up there! thanks!

what are you using for lightweight rap cord, and where did you get it? Just looking for cord to pack in order to statically rap alpine routes. I guess 60m?

General ice climbing grade discussion has been moved here.

Discussion, East Coast vs West Coast, climbing grades!

Well as you can see the discussion has derailed from talking about the particular TR to a general discussion of grades. It makes more sense to keep that general discussion separate as it applies to all climbs. It is also being respectful to the folks posting the Trip Report, which at the end of the day, is the thing that makes this site the most valuable. I'm going to go ahead and pare this conversation over to the Iceclimbing forum. Thanks for your understanding.

Hey Dave, yeah we are working on it. Can you take the discussion of grades to the Ice Climbing forum in a new topic? I'm sure there is merit to the discussion, but we'd like to keep that separate from the Trip Reports so as to not take away from any one's accomplishment. Grades can be pretty subjective as has been mentioned here...but that debate should have its own thread. Awesome possible FA guys, they are getting harder and harder to come buy in such a popular area.

Awesome...thanks Wayne!

Awesome Jason! How technology has changed...I was just looking at one of my old TRs of a failed attempt to climb this route. I had to get the film developed from my old Nikon F4! Beautiful images.

And doing the Murph no less, with one hand tied behind his back (well, in a cast). thanks joining us Captain Safety.