Skeezix Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 Where is there a log cabin located between the Eldorado Gravel Pit and the Cascade Pass Parking Lot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeezix Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 What's another name for the Hidden Lake Peak Lookout? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeezix Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 (edited) Name the ranger who figured out that he could propagate sedge seeds by first freezing them. This inveterate experimenter advanced greenhouse propagation of alpine plants for revegetation of alpine meadows as well as experimenting with composting toilets in the subalpine zone. (He also once painted a white stripe on the side of a bear in the Enchanted Valley, Oly NP.) Edited December 17, 2004 by Skeezix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeezix Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 What species of trout live in little Sourdough Lake and Upper Bouck Lake? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncascademtns Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 What's another name for the Hidden Lake Peak Lookout? Â Obscured Pond Mountain Shack! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncascademtns Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 What's another name for the Hidden Lake Peak Lookout? Â Obscured Pond Mountain Shack! Â Actually identified as: Lookout US-175 WA-22, Skagit County Structure - #87001184 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lowell_Skoog Posted December 19, 2004 Author Share Posted December 19, 2004 Name the ranger who figured out that he could propagate sedge seeds by first freezing them. This inveterate experimenter advanced greenhouse propagation of alpine plants for revegetation of alpine meadows as well as experimenting with composting toilets in the subalpine zone. (He also once painted a white stripe on the side of a bear in the Enchanted Valley, Oly NP.) Â Bill Lester, right? Â What's the story with the bear? Some kind of no-pass zone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 What is the highest toilet vault in N Cascades NP? Boston Basin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 There's one up at the Sahale Arm camp at about 7,600 ft. Is that one higher than Boston Basin? Â What exactly is a toilet vault anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 The toilet at Heaton Camp was once ranked as having the most scenic view in the state (maybe even country). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie Posted December 20, 2004 Share Posted December 20, 2004 I'd guess the upper Shuksan toilet is higher.. Â The Cabin is at the hairpin.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_Simpkins Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 I vote for the Shuksan toilet also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeezix Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Geordie is disqualified from answering any of my questions. Bill Lester was directed to paint the bear by his supervisor. I think the bear was later shot. He was a backcountry ranger in the Enchanted Valley, and also served as the Lake Ozette Ranger before he moved to NOCA. The cabin is just above the road before one passes through the gate below the hairpin. A toilet vault is a fiberglass box with a hole in the top. It sits inside a wooden toilet box and collects waste until it is full, then it is dumped into a compost bin. Sometimes the vault is too full, and then it is difficult to dump (think splatters...), which once led John Dittli to have to shave his mustache off. The Sulphide toilet is probably higher than the Sahale Glacier box. Fact-checkers? That leaves the other name of the Hidden Lake Lookout? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncascademtns Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 OK. No one on the other name for Hidden Lake Lookout? Â I think - "Lois Webster Memorial Shelter". Am I right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncascademtns Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 I threw this one out for Klenke but I think it got lost in the shuffle. Here it is again. Â 2 peaks. Swap one letter between the 2 and spell each of them backwards and you get the same peaks. Just swapped. ???????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted December 24, 2004 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Ernie, I saw it initially. I just stopped caring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeezix Posted December 24, 2004 Share Posted December 24, 2004 OK. No one on the other name for Hidden Lake Lookout? Â I think - "Lois Webster Memorial Shelter". Am I right? Â Bingo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billygoat Posted December 25, 2004 Share Posted December 25, 2004 Where is there a log cabin located between the Eldorado Gravel Pit and the Cascade Pass Parking Lot? Â Right on the left, by the next gate. Â Pretty cool one too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncascademtns Posted December 26, 2004 Share Posted December 26, 2004 Ernie, I saw it initially. I just stopped caring. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 OK. No one on the other name for Hidden Lake Lookout? Â I think - "Lois Webster Memorial Shelter". Am I right? Bingo. I am reading through "Poets on the Peaks" right now and apparently another whimsical name for this lookout was the "Hidden Lake Hilton" apparently because of its "modest" accomodations. This was mentioned in Chapter 1, page 4. Perhaps the author Suiter will elaborate more later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeezix Posted February 9, 2005 Share Posted February 9, 2005 That's a great book. I devoured it when my wife gave it to me. May be time for a first re-read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopalong Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 Crazy Kids and their Peyote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeezix Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 No, it's poetry, not peyote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klenke Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 I *think* it said in the beginning of the book that Gary Snyder did peyote. So the poetry and the peyote went hand-in-hand with him. Snyder had a strong interest in Native American culture. The book has been pretty good so far. A lot of good North Cascades history (place names and characters). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeezix Posted February 13, 2005 Share Posted February 13, 2005 Snyder was just in Bellingham recently for a reading. I missed him, but received an autographed copy of his new book for Christmas. He's a nice fellow. I e-mailed him a question about one of his poems when I was teaching a unit on Poets of the North Cascades to my high school students. Snyder answered the question, then recommended me to Philip Whalen's recently published (or re-published?) poetry. One thing I really like about Snyder was that he wasn't just an intellectual ...rather he liked hard physical work ...trail maintenance and such. He was described as quite capable in that way. I like Snyder's writing about being in the outdoors. The Cold Mountain-style descriptive stuff. William Stafford is another poet that wrote about the North Cascades. He wrote a series of poems for the Forest Service on commission: The Methow River poems. They're level 3 stuff: obtuse and provocative. Kinda scary... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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