Skeezix

Taholah is the center of the Quinault universe. It's located at the mouth of the Quinault River on the ocean N of Gray's Harbor. Hwy 109 N out of Ocean Shores dead ends in Taholah. Not much climbing here, but the fishing's good. Off White ...were you thinking of Tofino?

Come out to Taholah ...I'll kick all your asses! Bwahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaah!

Baseball is so boring they have to have an organist to entertain the crowd.

Interesting thread. I won't buy a pass. If you are ticketed and challenge it in court, rather than claiming you were there for religous purposes, simply deny that you were there for recreation purposes. It seems that it would be the ranger's burden to prove that you WERE there for recreation purposes. I used to carry a ticket book for the NPS in NCNP. We always used tickets as the very last compliance tool. I did get ordered by my boss to write a ticket once, and it was for a party-size violation by a guide with a commercial permit. I felt terrible because I had to write the ticket to the poor kid who had been sent out with an oversized party by his boss. The trail pass came out after my tenure as a climbing ranger in NOCA was over, but I know I would be loathe to write any cites for such a funky law. Where are our lawyers on this issue? The problem with ignoring a cite/summons is that it won't go away and could ruin your day at a traffic stop when they run you and "Failure to Appear" comes up... I'm going to go have a religous experience.

Kerry: "Pull my finger, Marine, and listen to that girl over there fart." Marine 1: "I think I'm going to fall over backwards." Marine 2: "I'll pull it, sir!"

The route to the left is a shallow gully with a series of ramp/steps up. It is always a reasonable alternative to the snow gully. This is also a good descent route. There used to be rappel anchors in place ...I haven't been up there for a few years. There may be some loose rock.

Bush sucks. I'd like to see him in a swan dress.

Aren't you orange?

How cool would it be to have a president that kite boards?

I did find a baggie of bud at Barney's Rubble back in the early 70's. There was also a pipe in the baggie. Naturally, I turned it in to the authorities... (Believe that?!)

John Dittli and I went in Sibley Creek/Pass to Triad Col. This approach to the Eldo area starts from a much higher elevation. We saw a bear sliding down the snowfield below Triad col. We also ended up bivying near the top of the W Arete and were annoyed by a crack snaffle until I winged it with a chucked rock. "Squeek" and it was gone ...left us alone the rest of the night.

Cool. There was an article years ago ...I think it was in Signpost magazine... about how to make wooden skis in one's home workshop. I probably have it filed away somewhere. I'd still like to try it some time. Never could figure out what "lignostone" was, tho'.

What a raft of crap. We're a deeply flawed species, and sailboi's logic is representative.

Gotdamnyeryoung JerryTYX. Don't preach on your second post. You gotta establish some cred before you blast off into hyperspray. Cred you ain't got.

orange

"Lurch" and "Ferris Buehler" is pretty funny. Kerry does look a little bit like Lurch. Bush, however, not only looks like a chimp, but is also the intellectual inferior of most chimps.

You've got plenty of time, Brett. Work your way up to it.

Jiggle those biners again, Bruce.

Impressive trip. You really covered some ground.

The exposure is awesome but manageable on Forbidden. One sketchy place is the couloir. Exercise caution ascending the steep ice. It can be bypassed by climbing a series of ledges to the left of the couloir. On the cruxes along the ridge there is scary exposure on the right toward Boston Basin, but in many of the tough spots one can move left onto the NW face to avoid exposure. There's an exposed step-across to the summit block. By the time you get there, you'll be ready for it. I wouldn't worry about the exposure, the thing to worry about on the West Ridge is moving fast. Don't dilly dally.

Canada

My son chorped in the Everybody's Store in Van Zandt. I cleaned it up. Didn't even get a free sample of cheese.

United we stand.

Make that extremely successful wind-bag propagandist whose latest film is shattering attendance records and causing neocon Bushlovers to panic as the tide of anti-Bush sentiment washes over the nation.

Japhy Ryder