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I have observed behavior that thwarts climbers. Answer me this, how can Mt. Rainier manage climbers on Muir, Schurman, etc by # of climbers but NCNP does it by # of permits? If the issue is impact wouldn't that mean # of people at a time and not # parties (a party could be 1 or 12). In boston Basin, 6 parties are allowed and that could be anywhere from 6 to 72. And why can't climbers make reservations? Why do you have to roll the dice and show up at 7 am (or the evening before) only to find the park has issued all the permits, including those to guides who pay franchise fees? Makes it hard to plan anything too. Have you been up the Boston Basin trail recently? It's overgrown. Why is WTA not allowed to go in there and do volunteer trail maintenance? Sorry, but I am not happy with the NCNP and how they administer the land. I'm much happier with the Olympic NP and MRNP.

Sweet. Hopefully this Sept or next...

I've been saving this one as a backup for a bigger trip W of the crest. Hoping I sack up and do that gap if I am solo. I've heard you can jump it on the descent. TFPU!

Death to all but rock!

eat a bowl of bloody dicks you lil bitch

with their one ok song.....yea!!! they've been consistently excellent with new material the past 15 years. Their show at White River 3 years ago was top notch. I'm definitely seeing Bruce, Harris and the boys next time around!

Yes, and that is even more perplexing! The NCNP does its best to thwart climbers. There is no consistency between National Parks, even in WA. I have no bones to pick really with how MRNP handles climbers and multiuse access (except the closing of W side road - a bit of an annoyance), or the Olympics (climbers, backpackers). It's the NCNP in particular that has a hostile and overprotective attitude towards climbers and protecting resources - especially in the Boston Basin area. If that's the model - I don't want it to expand.

Trip: Reynolds Peak - East Route (S Fork Reynolds Creek) Date: 7/18/2015 Trip Report: I've been taking my youngest son hiking since he was 3 or 4. He's been doing progressively more strenuous trips over the past few years and I thought we'd step it up a notch with a trip involving more offtrail travel and some bushwhacking. We drove up to the trailhead the night before and slept in the car. At 5 am we got up and my friend arrived just in time to head up together (safety in numbers with two adults). Summit Routes says this climb takes 6-7 hours and we did it in about 7:50. There was more brush on the trail portion than I expected which actually slowed us some, and then there was the bushwhacking and offtrail stuff. We left the trail later than we should have - around 3 miles in, and crossed the stream. The upside was that bushwhacking was minimal here. We then traversed left until we hit the stream coming down from the valley S of the summit area and headed up, staying on the W side of the stream. We broke out of the trees in the lower basin around 5600' but ended up making a bad choice for avoiding the slide alder and headed up too soon. The result was we traversed steep cliffy terrain around 6200' before we could head up again and hit the upper basin at around 6700'. From then on it was just hiking open terrain to the notch just to the E of the summit. From here up we picked a class 3 line with a few exposed moves. Arriving in the upper basin: Terrain above the basin: Summit view: We were greeted by a swarm of flying ants on the summit. Our DEET mostly was still on (from the swarms of mosquitos and black flies that we encountered earlier), but we still had to wave them away. Summit stoke: For the descent we chose a more direct gully off the summit block and also a small stream drainage from the high basin back to the meadows in the lower basin. We still had some slide alder to content with there however. Descending from the summit: Total time was 14+ hours car to car. Gear Notes: Helmet. DEET. Approach Notes: Reynolds Creek trail is quite overgrown, as is the spur road leading to the trailhead. There are only a couple tiny snow patches in the basin and above, but there is running water for now.

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Weird, I've seen signs JUST LIKE THAT at Lake Ouzel, below the summit of Ruth, on Meany Crest, on the Boston Glacier, in Torment Basin, below the Borealis Glacier, under Pyramid Peak, in upper Horseshoe Basin, ... NOT.

Exactly.

and at night? personally I sleep with my food and have never had a problem with bears or snaffles. this is in locations where I'm on a glacier or other alpine area with no place to hang food. I carry all my food with me during the day.

In local terms it's the modern Republican Party, which is bent on reinstating feudal system and financial enslavement. your Russian masters well have taught you the use of bullshit rhetoric

They played Romeo's Delight, Little Guitars and Dirty Movies. Fuck that brought me back!

i've never seen the Stones, I am embarassed to say. :-( They aren't coming to Seattle this time around and I'm not sure I want to see them as septagenarians :-P But, gawd, the Stones are great!

Too bad bro, Eddie's got his shit together. It should be a great show. The set list is old school!

I attempted Cutthroat on Friday. We cut it soon not wanting to epic (got 3/4 of the way up but it was 1:30 already). I then drove out to Libby Lake TH and climbed Raven Ridge and Hoodoo 15 hours car to car with a friend. I got home at 2 am. Yesterday? After a recover Pho I took the boys to see Van Halen, rehydrating from my climbs with IPAs at a tailgate. Great fucking weekend for sure!

My friends did the climb last weekend and said the conditions were good.

Maybe this is a harsh thing to say, but honestly...I just came back from an awesome weekend with my family and I have to deal with you getting pissy over this? Over me removing a couple derogatory words from being used here. Do you have *anything* better to be spending your time thinking about? I know I do. I came back from an really good weekend and I thought I would check in with the people that I love here...which is why I come here. And it makes me wonder why YOU come here. And I know people are different on the Internet than they are in real life. So perhaps I should cut you some slack for that....maybe you're not really such a troll in real life. You did your little test 3 days ago. And I just got back and you're waiting for my reply. Must be pretty important to you! Man...its not that important. Believe me. I will say this. I do care about you. I care about human beings, even those that have issues. I do try to be "fair and balanced" when I help run this thing. If you don't believe that...well I can't do anything about that. I can't make everyone believe everything. But I do care about you, just like I care about everyone who chooses to be a part of this community. And I hope you actually do have interactions with people that aren't like the interactions you have on here. That you aren't such a jerk in person. This has NOTHING to do with politics. There is no conspiracy by admins. Every time you try to make that a "thing", you're coming off as a "Truther". It has everything to do with trying to get people to be asshats to each other everyday and in every interaction. I don't even mind if it happens occasionally, thats perfectly normal in any relationship. But EVERY fricken day? 99% of your interactions? So seriously, if that is all you can bring to the table, then I *would* prefer that you leave. If you have something else, then I would love to hear it. Dude. Why let inconsequential things get to you? Chill, broham!

They are back, Kevbone! A great fucking opening night last night in White River. Unbelievable set list and performance from all. Dave even remembered the lyrics: http://ultimateclassicrock.com/van-halen-opening-night-set-list-2015/

He is hardly a socialist. He has self-identified as a socialist. From Wikipedia: Sanders is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history. A self-described democratic socialist,[4][5][6][7] he favors policy proposals similar to those of mainstream social democratic governments in Europe, particularly in Scandinavia.[8][9][10] Those funny numbers in square brackets are reference, K-bone, linkable from Wikipedia. ;-)

he's too old. 74 this year. come on folks - be consistent. If McCain was too old, so is Bernie

Failure? I call those things setbacks :-)

Lesson learned: if boyz be gettin' ornery talkin' bout politics and social issues, remember, we are all united in our love of watching gratuitous violence and looking at boobies

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