KaskadskyjKozak

WA taxes are high enough. It's all about what the politicians in Olympia prioritize - and it's NOT wilderness recreation and access!

The problem is not religion or Nietzsche. It's people. People suck. I prefer to be a misanthrope. The outdoors is the place to be - and finding places there without people is getting harder and harder these days. Thanks IG! Fucking hell.

Whether there is a God or not, or whether one's view of God is different from another, I think there are some fundamental principles we should be able to agree on. We don't let children buy guns, drink alcohol, or drive cars. Making permanent decisions like sex-change operations seems pretty obviously to fall into the realm of inappropriate for young, undeveloped minds. And a gov't dictating that parents must support such decisions or lose their children seems blatantly wrong. I don't need a concept of God to know that.

they should stick to cutting bolts on Forbidden, and keeping the cat scratch gully rappels as dangerous as possible. priorities, people!

Thanks Jason! Sometimes these reports get things wrong and I was assuming this was the SW couloir of SEWS (quite popular). I'm not at all familiar with the EWC route. This was a very tragic accident.

Was this the couloir route or another one?

good luck with the PF! I've had that in the past and it's a bitch for sure

Uranus? 🪐

i'd rather approach from sunrise and get mineral too

Chimney is the only Smoot I have left. I'm stoked for it!

He's 23. i've posted up trips with him before (eg easy mox 2021). but yeah i've been remiss lately

I have three left: Mineral, Tyee, and Redstone. I plan to get those in the fall via some variation of the northern wonderland trail loop.

I'm going to be recovering from shoulder surgery all spring. Hopefully if I have my strength back I'll be able to get the following: Challenger Chimney Rock Whitney, E Face (with my son!) And there would be a bunch of other climbs and scrambles too.... opportunistically grabbed

I snuck in and bagged Pitcher Mountain the day before they closed the bridge. What luck, eh?

meh.

"learn to code". OK that made me laugh. that's the extent I'm getting involved in this thread though

black ice axes are especially scary

Did it have a bump stock?

I agree things have changed. So have I. And I've aged. I find solace and joy finding less travelled paths and enjoying that solitude while it still lasts. I have been remiss in posting TRs here. I should though. I had a horrible turnaround on Chaval last summer, and that tale might amuse some, in a Schadenfreude kind of way. I did have the mountain to myself. (well, me and my son did). I need to go back before the masses/IG crowd discover it

I guess I care too, but I can care to myself and not on the internet. Totally agree about talking about pleasant things and what we have in common. Arguing makes me feel bad. Talking about mountains and adventure makes me feel good.

I remember i used to want to jump on all these threads and argue endlessly. I'm so burnt out after the last decade or more. I don't really care anymore.

I would love to see the Enchantment lottery run more like hunting tags. Your chances go up the more years in a row you try and don't get a permit, and if you get one, you have to wait years before you can get it again (maybe once per lifetime even).

When is his final day? I may try to head down there myself

I highly recommend a larch trip in the Sawtooths late September-ish. this year I cam in from the South and tagged N Navarre and Sunrise Peak en route to camp at Sunrise Lake, stayed the night there, then tried for Cheops (turned around maybe 50-100' from summit due to loose snow). In a previous year I hit courtney/star/oval as a 3 day.

Chimney Rock!