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    Mt. Challenger 15' topo (out of print)

    in North Cascades

    Posted

    I don't think you would find 15-minute quads at Metskers.

     

    From the USGS web site:

    "The 15-minute map series at a scale of 1:62,500 (1 inch = approximately 1 mile) has been abandoned. The USGS 7.5-minute topographic quadrangle map series is the official replacement for the 1:62,500-scales series."

     

    My understanding is that the Mt. Challenger 15 minute quad is no longer produced by the USGS.

     

    Mt. Challenger 15' topo (out of print)

    in North Cascades

    Posted

    Just curious... When it went out of print I found several copies in stock at Cascade Sports in Mt. Vernon and snatched them up. I was looking through my topo collection the other day and stumbled across them. It's a classic 15-minute topo that depicts the wild heart of North Cascades National Park. Geologist Roland Tabor even published a guidebook called Routes and Rocks in the Mt. Challenger Quadrangle ...also a classic and also out of print.

     

    Terror Peak Rescue leads to NPS Commendation

    in Climber's Board

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    Department of Interior Convocation

    Anthony Reece and Kevorck Arackellian (National Park Service) conducted one of the most challenging rescues in the history of the North Cascades National Park Search and Rescue program. In July 2009, a party of four mountaineers were halfway up Mount Terror’s North Buttress route when the lead climber fell and was left dangling upside down on the rope, semi-conscious with a femur fracture and head injury. During the rescue, Park Ranger Kevork Arackellian hung from a helicopter on a 100 foot short-haul line as Pilot Anthony Reece transported to the accident site. Ranger Arackellian rescued one climber before poor weather moved in and prevented the evacuation of the second stranded climber. After that climber had endured four days of rain and snow, trapped on Mount Terror’s cliff, Pilot Anthony Reece and Ranger Kevork Arackellian returned and performed the same risky maneuver. Given the technical site of this rescue, a cliff with sheer rock walls above and below, there was no margin for error by either pilot or rescuer on this mission.

    Gay Marriage (Spray Version)

    in Spray

    Posted

    I don't think you want to debate the .000001% that are hard-core Ron Paul supporters. They're small in number (inconsequential really...), but rabid in their devotion. There's no point in engaging them. They are not a factor.

    Bachmann ends GOP presidential bid......

    in Spray

    Posted

    With Bachmann out of the race, I think we all need to get behind a Trump candidacy.

     

    Seriously though, Bachmann was the perfect Republican: earnest, intellectually handicapped, naive mistrust in the legitimacy of science, attributes responsibility for outcomes to a mythological deity, retarded vision... the corporate shills would have used her. My guess is the gender thing was held against her.

    Guitar Thread

    in Spray

    Posted

    Alright...since you specified electric guitar, and since tastes seem to run heavily in favor of shred style playing on this forum, I'll give you this:

    [video:youtube]

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