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Refuse to win!

Reliving glory days!

Luna!

You can arrive the night before and pull a number.... but everyone knows this and more and more people do it. More and more people are now camping outside the ranger station in the parking lot, or in a turnout nearby. The NCNP should join the 21st century and allow more permits to be made on line and not need to stop in to the ranger station. The Olympic NP has their shit together - you can call in a permit request - something I recently did for camping at Lake of the Angels for an over night trip to climb Skokomish and Stone.

Just saw this. You arrive and draw a number and wait your turn. Depending on how much the gods hate you that day you may be subjected to people ahead of you who have done no research about what they want to do and take up 15 min or more time chatting with the ranger on duty. My last visit was a few weeks ago to get a cross country zone permit for Arriva. We waited quite a bit, even though we got there around 9 when the 7 am crowd should have been and gone. The people in front of us wanted to "backpack somewhere" but didn't know where. The ranger walked them through options, asked questions. It was swell.

Sha na na na. Sha na na na. Hey hey....

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?