KaskadskyjKozak

Yeah, they should destroy Highway 20 and restore the slopes to their natural grade. Want to climb at WA pass? Do it like Beckey did

Like I said, they are clearly on duty, when they are standing on the far side of the locked gate at 8:15 am and refusing to open until 9. I don't buy the OT or accident response bit. What if I drive up Cascade River road and get into an accident? Who responds? Is someone "on duty". I think a certain amount of accident response - and expectation thereof - can reasonably be put on the shoulders of the person engaging in the recreational activity early in the morning, or later in the evening. I don't expect a nanny state to take care of me if I take those risks. Folks can and do climb Rainier in the winter. That's outside of "normal working hours". So again, you guess seems to fall short.

there is no good reason for the rule (open at 9 am at the earliest), and they don't care to explain it sure, there are times when it has snowed at night, and maybe a plow needs to run up and down the road, and someone from the NPS needs to check that out first. Everyone gets that. But when it is light at 7 am, and there has been no new snow fall for days, and it is sunny, and the road is bare, and NPS employees are already on duty but refuse to open the gate until 9 because "that's just how it is" is BS

Red Herring. How about just open the fucking gate earlier when the road is clear and the weather is decent? Nobody is advocating privatizing the park. I'm saying we can't even get decent access with our taxpayer dollars. I've arrived at 8:15 am on a bluebird day, rangers are on duty in their cars at the gate... and refusing to open it. And copping an attitude when asked when they might open it. Later in the day, at Paradise, they then make their rounds to folks changing, taking off boots "you know the road closes in 30 min... you need to move now". Well if you opened the fucking road an hour earlier this would not be an issue.

Meanwhile the Rangers can't open the fucking gate at Longmire before 9.

Seattle: homeless person urine smell Tacoma: tacoma aroma

yeah, I thought this thread was about ttk/ggk/ivan/other miscreant discussing their favorite make and model for butt plugs.

Oh Jesus...your powers of observation are amazing! Have you read Death on the Installment Plan? A Confederacy of Dunces? These might be manuals that will help you understand the world a little better. someone needs to make ggk "A Modest Proposal"...

Are you better off or worse off than you were when B-Ho took office? I'm better off :-) So explain me in logical terms why most of your posts are agains the current president and his policies then? [video:youtube]

Are you better off or worse off than you were when B-Ho took office? I'm better off :-)

WOW WHAT AN EXPOSE. I never claimed to be PC, you conservatard. i'd like to point out that, of us 3 pc-poor punters quoted above, my prose was by far the most poetic Of COURSE when libtards like Ivan post homophobic or racial slurs - it's all in jest. Really, they don't mean to use hate speech - it's just good fun.

I guess you've just called out a Spray poster, but not the one you thought!

to the hyper-offensive, all the world seems to be defensive

That's such a crock Ivan. Comedy is not inherently liberal, and making fun of things as they are - or simply making day-to-day observations funny - doesn't mean you are going to change them or attempt to. So much of humor is about making fun of people, relationships - nothing to do with politics. And as I mention elsewhere there's always great fart jokes :-) And scatalogical humor, blue humor, insult humor (Rickels, anyone?) joking about racial stereotypes and race relations.

Carlin is of course funny. And he tells some good fart jokes - which, bottom line have nothing to do with partisanship. WE all fart ;-)

stop complaining!

fucktard washington drivers!

Speaking of world heritage sites... keep Greenpeace out of Cuba

Even more of a relic than a Cold War one. so bizarre we had a base right there with missiles being installed by the russkies just a few miles away...

Good idea! He could send NCNP rangers there from Marblemount to manage the area. Nobody would get in. (Except guide services who paid a franchising fee, of course)

Oh, I'm a fan of mild chest beating as the next guy. But Ho-le-crap. It's like sitting at a bar scarfing beer nuts and the guy next to says "...this reminds me of the time we were on the south face...blah, blah, blah". Next it's the TV commercial, or the beer foam, or the coaster (!!!???) that presents and opportunity to launch into another unrelated opportunity for soothing whatever-the-fuck insecurities are driving this train. After a while the repetition is quite tiresome. Even amongst the more restrained chest-beating of CLIMBERS.

back on point your concerns about the influx of tourism are valid. I still think this move is way overdue.

Cuba flipped us a middle finger 50+ years ago and we've held a grudge ever since. We don't like it when other countries don't kow-tow to us :-)

But if fat Americans just swarm resorts the only damage would be to an expanding (but small number) of resorts in certain areas, no?

There are tourists already from Canada, Europe and elsewhere. Exactly what sites would be impacted by these tourists and why aren't they already impacted?