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Trip: Ragged Ridge - Easy Pass to the Ridge Date: 4/17/2015 Trip Report: Skiing has been on the thin side this year. Three trips to the south side of Rainier produced some fun skiing, but more is better. When WSDOT announced HWY 20 was open I started looking at weather and snow reports, deciding where to go, and calling up some of the usual suspects. Plans to ski someplace new for me were resolved, but partners didn't coming through. In the end my automatic response was, "Screw you guys I'm going skiing." The first complication was avoiding the early morning bee nightmare on 1-5. 405 worked out fine and gave me some nice views of a wrecked truck and people in bee-proof outfits [img:center]http://wset.images.worldnow.com/images/7490167_G.jpg[/img] On reaching the Easy Pass parking area I met up with a fellow looking for a jump start. Despite my offer to assist his truck died after a jump start. We then talked about the lack of cell phone reception and the closest town where he could find a mechanic willing to replace his alternator. Fortunately some road bikers arrived and offered him a ride to Winthrop, so I started skiing. The snowpack was good enough for skiing to the bridge and crossing the log bridge [img:center]http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/3068/medium/3-WEB-DSC02325.jpg[/img] Unfortunately the snow went away not too long after [img:center]http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/3068/medium/4-WEB-DSC02326.jpg[/img] After a hike with skis they were back on my feet and I got a nice view of Greybeard [img:center]http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/3068/medium/5-WEB-DSC02327.jpg[/img] After more trudging Easy Pass was in the bag and I started heading west towards the ridge crest. Views of Mt Logan were great [img:center]http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/3068/medium/9-WEB-DSC02331.jpg[/img] After reaching the crest deciding whether to keep going to Mesahchie Peak were on my mind. Given the consistency of snow and lack of it at low elevation I took in the view and turned around. [img:center]http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/3068/medium/14-WEB-DSC02336.jpg[/img] Looking towards Fisher Peak [img:center]http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/3068/medium/10-WEB-DSC02332.jpg[/img] Looking northwest at a line I didn't ski [img:center]http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/3068/medium/19-WEB-DSC02341.jpg[/img] While a little funky in spots skiing back to the pass and below was fun [img:center]http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/3068/medium/20-WEB-DSC02342.jpg[/img] [img:center]http://cascadeclimbers.com/plab/data/3068/medium/21-WEB-DSC02343.jpg[/img] After finding my way back to the trail I was quickly back to the highway. There are some nice lines for future ski trips in the Ragged Ridge area on my list now. Approach Notes: Thin snowpack till you gain 1000 ft of elevation from the creek and it's melting.

Fairweather's buddy [img:center]http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/main_node_view_image/tom_cotton_rtr_img_0.jpg[/img] The Iran War Will Be a Cakewalk

TRY THE PLYWOOD SHACK NEXT DOOR TO MUIR

If Fairweather was truly honest he'd move to Oklahoma and spent the rest of his days basking in the glory of, "Right Minded People," and, "Intellectual," bumper stickers.

As per usual your assumptions are wrong. Not on a Prius, but... [img:center]http://www.youngcons.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/obama-bumper-stickers.jpg[/img]

Written arguments with right wackos such as yourself in Spray aren't worth that much time.

Meanwhile on Fairweather's side of the fence [img:center]http://media.cagle.com/95/2013/08/26/136551_600.jpg[/img] [img:center]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IIPhHuJkTmo/hqdefault.jpg[/img]

No dogs at the crags period would be the best solution in my book Ain't never going to happen but you can always dream.

Another quiet day in Fairweather's neighborhood [img:center]http://mx1.politicususa.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/open-carry-texas.jpg[/img] [img:center]http://www.arktimes.com/binary/312e/1361380947-opencarry.jpg[/img] [img:center]http://m5.paperblog.com/i/14/141829/bumpersticker-gun-nut-words-of-stupidity-and--L-fqtdoy.jpeg[/img]

I attended a presentation on drones a few months back. They'll probably be restricted to Daylight flight only No flying within 5-miles(?) of a real airport Operator must have visual contact with the device Permission from property owners for overflight While you might get away with it that probably rules out flying in wilderness areas, and you can forget about the Amazon delivery copter

And you are correct While part of a climbing site this isn't the land of of well thought out arguments and or Robert's Rules of Order.

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Linky http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/dxhtvk/suppressing-the-vote

Buckaroo, I suspect you'd be a bit more pleasant in person. But who knows. In any event, angry paranoid libtards like you are a big part of the reason ordinary people are tuning out the D's. Glad they have ya on their side. :kisss: Ahhh, you must be proud to have folks like this on the R side of things [video:youtube]nd_JAo5cfdg

Based on this 2012 map the area you're talking about going is Area #1 and rules state, " Closed to ALL public entry." http://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev3_007073.pdf Not sure what you could get away with or what potential fines are but the word, "all," is written in caps

[img:center]http://img1.rnkr-static.com/list_img/11098/311098/C300/corrupt-republicans-u1.jpg[/img] OK lets talk about the living Aaron Schock resigns after new questions about mileage expenses http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/aaron-schock-resigns-116153.html

How many seats are available in the time machine? [img:center]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01683/delorean_1683796c.jpg[/img]

Fairweather is the the Tom Cotton of Spray http://thinkprogress.org/world/2015/03/15/3633912/tom-cotton-alarmed-capital-iran-controlled-iran/ [img:center]http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/CottonScreenShot-638x358.png[/img] I'd agree with Off, it takes more time and thought to reply to one of Jay's posts and some of us have to work.

Since we're going off topic lets revisit Seattle vs Tacoma and talk about safe places to live. http://www.movoto.com/blog/top-ten/safest-places-in-washington/ Or this link http://s3.amazonaws.com/movotoblog/2014/05/safest-washington/table.html Big cities don't fair too well in the study, but at least Seattle (#66) is safer than Tacoma (#70). Of course Tukwila manages to beat Yakavegas and score #74

Oh he expressed an opinion, just not on this thread All Obama had to do was confirm his Constitutional duty to get Senate confirmation of this treaty if/when the time comes. (Can you think of any reason he might not? Maybe his recent penchant for grand unconstitutional executive orders?) Probably poor form on the part of Senate R's--but arrogant prick el presidente reaps what he sows.

Mt Rainier is 14,410, maybe all those posts are precursors of an upcoming eruption.

And only 18 posts since then. Hmmm

Buck should probably stick with the subject of upside down Republican stars and satanism. It is entertaining Discussing Knights Templar scandals could be good subject matter too.