JBo6
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I just got invited along on a FM trip and this gets me absolutely stoked! Thanks Jason.
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Ah, my apologies for the false accusation and derailing your TR. Again thanks for posting it!
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Hey Troy, thanks for the great trip report and nice climb!
Evidently I spend too much time on Reddit but I saw the video your buddy made and wanted to point out that drones in Wilderness areas are not allowed. In the current political environment I have a hard time seeing FS staff ticketing based off of online videos but I just wanted to give you a heads up so you don't happen to get nailed or keep flying drones in the wilderness.
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I just saw this on KOMO News. Hopefully the climber is recovering well!
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Man Eli. I'm sorry for you and your family.
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FYI the highway is closed again as of 4pm on 7/21. I'd expect this closure to last a lot longer since the fire is down close to the highway now.
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Great trip Matt. I took a look at your gear list and I'm curious what you think of the Fjallraven G1000 pants? In the hunting world people are in love with those things but I can't quite get over my cotton phobia. How do those pants do with a soaking rain & brush bashing. Will they saturate through or are they pretty water resistant with the wax?
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Nice trip! Thanks for the recent bunch of TRs, they have been a great distraction in the office.
Just a heads up but using drones are banned in wilderness areas.
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Keep them coming eeelip! Thanks for the TR, it looked like quite the adventure.
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Hey Bill, seeing this made me take a look back through my emails to see when I bought my set of Fast/Light pants from you. It looks like I got them in January of 2011 and for whatever reason you had mailed the pants to me to try out before I paid you for them. Thanks for the great customer service back then. If there is anything that I can fault about those pants it is that they are too damn durable and they are still my go to pants for nordic skiing.
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As an FYI in the Methow Valley the local snowmobile club has multiple warming huts that operate similar to the proposed hut in Canyon Creek. As a relatively decent backcountry skier and absolute hack snowmobiler I really appreciate the chance to warm up and take a breather at the publicly accessible club warming huts.
Also in the Methow there are the privately owned Rendezvous Hut system on the Methow Trails system. With the exception of the covid years those huts are always open for public day usage and function as warming huts as well. Plus Methow Trails operates a warming hut that is also on a trailer and is removed as soon as the snow is gone.
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I never met Matt but appreciated his work in the ESN forecast area. The few emails I shared with him regard observation reports were always pleasant. My thoughts to the NWAC, Leavenworth and other communities that are missing him.
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On 9/28/2017 at 7:17 PM, JasonG said:
It is awaiting your ascent of the Tongue Oly! I had no idea what I was looking at other than a breaker bar with an old axe head shoved on top. I will look it up now, I'm curious. And sorry to spill the beans on the top sekrit moderator hideout. Obviously I got carried away when I was inserting pics.
Darin- I took that photo just for you.
This is an incredibly delayed response but I believe that "breaker bar" is actually a mining drill bit meant to be hit with a sledge. I've found several stashes in the Pasayten that have that same hexagonal/octagonal shape.
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Tom, on the off chance you are looking for a set of 44.0s that are well used I've got a set I'd sell you.
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The Methow Valley News had a brief article in print. It was a rappelling accident on the Methow Inspiration route on Sunday and was a young guide from NW Alpine Guides.
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Strange timing to see this bumped back up. The navy was doing a helo rescue in Mazama a few nights ago, so I expected to see some news from that incident. No word on what happened.
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Rain and thunder currently in the Methow so I think it'll be getting a good soaking up there. I'm optimistic that it'll stick to the current fire perimeter and shouldn't grow much at all this fall.
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5 hours ago, mhux said:
I have another question but don't want to make a new thread:
Does this site still support the blog posts/articles, like I remember there were some posts by Sky Sjue about skiing, and one in particular I am looking for by Marc-Andre Leclerc about increasing your speed in the alpine. I can seemingly only find forum posts or trip reports. I know you are still building it out, thank you!If you use the "Wayback machine" you can look through cached versions of websites. I clicked around a bit and never saw an article from Marc-Andre but this will take you to some articles from Sky and Colin Haley. https://web.archive.org/web/20180107134605/http://cascadeclimbers.com/articles/
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Does this place serve literacola?
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Google Earth allows you to look through historic satellite imagery too. In Sept 2009 the lake was pretty low but all other imagery from summer into fall had it fairly full. I'm not familiar with the Buckhorn area but I'd imagine it slowly drains throughout the summer and in years with low precip such as this it winds up close to empty. Interestingly in 2009 there was a relatively decent amount of rain in Seattle, maybe the Buckhorn area was heavily rainshadowed that year?
Here is a link to NWS Seattle's recent Twitter post about Seattle rainfall that I referenced.
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3 hours ago, Kuato said:
Black bears come in many different colors and they get really big too. It wasn't the color or size that tipped me off, it was the big ass hump between the shoulder blades with the blonde tipped rough hair on top. Black bears don't have that. I wish I had a high end camera ready to go and knew the bear was in the bush, but I didn't. I've seen a picture from the Cascade Pass area of a Grizzly Bear in a side profile on a ridge from a few years ago. Pictures aren't enough to convince people. There's smoking gun video evidence of Sasquatch from 1967, the Patterson-Gimlin Film, people still try to say it was a dude in a monkey suit. In all my time out in the mountains, I've never seen a park biologist, sometimes I doubt that they even exist. I've seen pictures though.
There was a lot of initial excitement about the Cascade Pass photos being a grizzly but it was quietly withdrawn as a grizzly sighting due to some additional clear photos of the same bear from a different person.
Also NPS Resource Management folks typically work a more traditional M-Th/Fri schedule and aren't out and about on the weekends. Bowan Lake is visited quite frequently by the NPS aquatics program.
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Aw man. I never knew him besides his postings on here but just saw a news article and my heart fell. Condolences to all that knew him and his brother. He seemed like a class act.
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Thanks Matt. I have really appreciated your well written TRs. Especially when I'm sitting on my ass in the office counting down the minutes until I can leave.
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2 hours ago, Bronco said:
Also this - https://methowvalleynews.com/2022/04/13/work-on-mission-project-logging-will-begin-in-may/
Logging project in the Methow that will send 12 logging truck loads over HWY 20 twice per day. Should be interesting to see the shenanigans at the 4 way stop in Winthrop between the tourons who wander around eating ice cream cones while staring at their phone and logging truck drivers in a hurry to get to Darrington.
Load one will very likely heading past the 4 way prior to any ice cream consumption is occurring at Sheri's. I live in Winthrop and have been commuting over Loup Loup to Omak and have also been passing loaded log rigs coming over the pass at 6:15 or so from cutting that is occurring on DNR land on the east side of the Loup.
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