Jens Posted December 19, 2004 Posted December 19, 2004 let's hear some Cascade mountains urban legends you've hear from climbing parners Here are some: * Lost diamond mines? * Bigfoot? - Deep in the wilderness -B.C.? * Wolverines? * naturally occuring radioactive material in the ground near Cascade Pass? * Ancient log cabin remains in literally the middle of nowhere (Picketts etc.) * Strange magnetic field anomolies? * Secret gold Mine shafts? * human remains seen in crevasses? * valuable debris dropped from airplanes? * Strange sounds? * Hermits living in the woods near Darrington? * Super secret Hot springs - 1hr. hike from the top of the upper town wall? * other secret hot springs? * Indian Burial grounds/ hyroglphics in the alpine that only climbers know about? * 4-star limestone bolted sport wall/ cave hidden and kept hush-hush in the cascades? * weird stuff on the crater of the top of Mt. Rainier? -Don't ask for details, but in my 17 years of climbing in this state, I've actually heard at least one person make a factual claim for every one of the above statements. Anybody else have some good ones you've heard around the climber's campfire? Quote
Jens Posted December 19, 2004 Author Posted December 19, 2004 just a few more I've heard: Weird Monte Cristo stories? Alpine climbers that have very LARGE gear caches (not just a rack) located at several different climbing areas? Little pockets of houses (communities in the foothills) with all the elements of the movie "Deliverance"?- I'm not namin' names or where. Weird stuff that has gone array in the Cascades from McCord Air Force Base? Climbers that have found very large gold nuggets while approaching climbs? Recent Grizzly encounters as far south as Glacier Peak? Junked cars in places literally impossible to get a car? Weird geological faults? Rockslides/ Rockfalls that defy Physics? Climbers that have gone insane in the hills and stayed for a while? Bull Elk that have tried to kill people? Strange lights in impossible places? Again, I've heard these from others (don't ask for details) Quote
Billygoat Posted December 19, 2004 Posted December 19, 2004 Fuck that shit. I want details! How about the one where Rainier can be climbed, round trip, from Paradise in a little over three hours... Quote
lancegranite Posted December 19, 2004 Posted December 19, 2004 (edited) I heard about a winter that never came.... Most of those other things are currently happening right now up the North fork of the Skykomish. As far as gold, funk and antiques, Monte Cristo was the place. A huge boom town in the day, nothing ever "panned out".... We did get Everett out of the deal, as the town was proped up to be the western railroad terminus for the ore shipped out from Monte Cristo. Edited December 19, 2004 by lancegranite Quote
plexus Posted December 19, 2004 Posted December 19, 2004 Moose up in the western slope Strange dancing lights in the sky Huge transportation lane for pot smuggling by Canyon Creek Rd The glaciers are actually EXPANDING A sheep got away from Dru unharmed Quote
dbb Posted December 19, 2004 Posted December 19, 2004 People running drugs down Ross lake in the Winter. One time we got a suspicious eye from a ranger when we had four people with huge packs and one snomobile. You'd think he'd at least be impressed that we were carpooling. Quote
MisterMo Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 I heard about a winter that never came.... Most of those other things are currently happening right now up the North fork of the Skykomish. "Little pockets of houses (communities in the foothills) with all the elements of the movie "Deliverance"?- I'm not namin' names or where." Can you squeal like a pig? Quote
Dru Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 There are definitely wolverines living the border area near Chilliwack. I worked with biologists that monitored them. They would cross the border on occasion. Quote
Dru Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 Also there was a marijuana drop plane that dropped its bales recently (october?) while being chased by the US Border Patrol planes. The bales are scattered over "inaccessible mountainous terrain" between Chilliwack and the Okanagan. These bales have not been recovered. Quote
Thinker Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 I've been in the ice caves in Rainier's summit crater. there's lots of junk in there that melts thru from the surface, but nothing too strange. An ultralight aircraft that crash landed on the summit has been documented in the caves, along with misc gloves, mittens, wands, food tins, and other crud. I've spent a fair bit of time in the passages alone with lights off and didn't see any strange telepathic creatures with blue auras...I swear! Quote
jordop Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 (edited) I have come across many a hermit in the local mountains around Vancouver. Lots of squatters up Cypress, but the best was when we used to party in the woods during highschool. Once this guy just appears, says he's been livin in the Capilano watershed for a few years. He looked at our beer like a ravenous dog Edited June 7, 2021 by jordop Quote
Blake Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 There are Wolverines in the North Cascades, I know several folsk who have seen them, and I think as Dru said, biologists would agree. There are still a lot of old mine remains in and around Cascade Pass/Horshoe Basin. One can find explosives equipment, trapping supplies, and ranching supplies in some very remote places. Obviously the #1 legend is the Sasquatch, but I aint buying that. I'd love to hear the evidence behind there being radioactive material near cascade pass. I've seen some indian petroglyphics, but I they aren't secret to only climbers. IMO people are in general just too weak-willed to ever maintain vast conspiracies and networks of secrets. If there were Aliens/bigfoot/etc... and a lot of people were in on the secret, some chump would have spilled teh beans in a tell-all book or TV appearance, and made his million dollars, as opposed to being poor, silent, anonymous, and "in" on the secret. Quote
Macson Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 My mother in law saw a wolverine in their horse pasture last year. The dogs went to investigate, but hightailed it out of there as soon as they got close enough to see. When my father in law heard about it he told her it must have been a badger or porcupine...until he saw the picture. Wolverine for sure. This was on their place accross the river from the town of Methow. Quote
klenke Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 So something's been eating at me today ever since I left the slopes of Big Foot Hill... ...if you are lucky enough to come upon two of them in the wild and want to talk or write about them later, are they bigfeet or bigfoots or bigfoot? What's the plural? And, for that matter, what's the plural of sasquatch? Hmmmm? Quote
Dru Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 Sasquatch, or sasquatches, are both accepted as the plural of sasquatch. You can look it up in Sasquatch, The American Ape by John Green (the definitive reference work). Quote
DirtyHarry Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 Badgers that chew the brake lines under your car at the trailhead. Selkirk legend anyway. Quote
Dru Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 Porcupines do that. But, you know, there are porkypines in the Coast Mts and the Rockies too but it's only in the Bugs that people chickenwire up their cars. Quote
JoshK Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 Porcupines do that. But, you know, there are porkypines in the Coast Mts and the Rockies too but it's only in the Bugs that people chickenwire up their cars. I saw one up in the mountaineer creek drainage too. Quote
Bug Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 IMO people are in general just too weak-willed to ever maintain vast conspiracies and networks of secrets. If there were Aliens/bigfoot/etc... and a lot of people were in on the secret, some chump would have spilled teh beans in a tell-all book or TV appearance, and made his million dollars, as opposed to being poor, silent, anonymous, and "in" on the secret. I have never seen evidence of a bigfoot but I was one of about 30 people who saw a UFO over Missoula in 1964. I'll tell anyone. The conspiracy theory doesn't cover it. It's simply a matter of people not being willing to believe if they haven't seen it themselves. I wouldn't. But there I was looking at the damn thing. I have to admit to being a little embarassed about talking about it in public. Is that the result of a conspiracy or the result of a fear of being flamed? Wait a minute, I'm getting a message from the Big Giant Head now..... He says you're all boobs. Saggy ones. Quote
Distel32 Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 * 4-star limestone bolted sport wall/ cave hidden and kept hush-hush in the cascades? they aren't limestone Quote
Dru Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 There are 4-star limestone sport routes in the Chilliwack Valley but the cave isn't bolted yet. There are 6 routes from 11a to 12b plus whatever got done this summer. Quote
bigwalling Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 Strange sounds... ya, once out at Index on the upperwall trail I heard the weirdest and most spine chilling sound ever. Now some of those trees make noises that always happen when the wind picks up. But I've never heard this one again. This sounded truely like somebody in great pain! I looked in the area but didn't find anything. In 6 years of hiking around the woods I've never heard anything like this... nor do I ever want to again. If you ever hike the Upper Wall trail with me I could show you the exact spot that I heard the noise. Quote
John Frieh Posted December 20, 2004 Posted December 20, 2004 I heard about a winter that never came.... SR20 never closed in the winter of 1976... man what a winter for FWA that would have been... Quote
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