Cascade Urban Legends?-that might be true?

[Ireneo_Funes]

Now what about that new Alan Watts Smith guidebook. Urban legend or not

 

Yeah, let's beat that horse some more.

[Dru]

Human-dog speed record legends.

[Distel32]

rasta bivy kit......

 

or

 

Boulder Boy Wonder in the alpine.....?

[Ireneo_Funes]

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[Dru]

The experimental tunnel at Index. What REALLY goes on in there?

 

Huge unclimbed faces that Beckey never attempted.

 

Tunnels under the border in a certain rural community northeast of Bellingham

 

Oregon granite other than the Wallowas.

[RuMR]

its some of the best steep cave style climbing in Washington...it rocks...locals only though....

[nolanr]

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.

 

From personal experience I can tell you porky's will get under your car and chew stuff up. I spent a mostly sleepless night chasing them off from a TH in Kokanee (spelling?) Glacier Provincial Park. Bastards!

[DavidHiers]

In general, magnetic anomalies exist.

 

I recall that the FAA Sectional charts (for Tennessee) that I used a few lifetimes ago carried a warning along these lines, "Ground level magnetic anomalies of up to X degrees exist...", with X being something less than 10 degrees (I think). It did not specify natural or artificial causes, so for all I know they were talking about the U-Pull out on Highway 41.

 

I wouldn't be surprised of the volcanic cascades had their share of anomalies.

 

Climbers, with all our ironmongery, probably cause our very own anomalies

[drater]

Hey Bug here is a link that still works!!!

 

Authorities will not release location where bags were dropped!

 

Oh it's true all right, but it's not up there anymore so don't waste your time scouring the Pasayten. The local 'Nogan climbers were on that shit so quick. The one climber in the area I know that doesn't burn tuff is constantly lamenting the fact that he can't get anyone to go climbing anymore, as all motivation is properly wasted shortly after the morning awakening.

 

Also, the deliverence reference would hold true for just about any town in the 'Nogan. Visit at your own risk.

 

Nother rural legend is that located somewhere in the vast wasteland of choss in North Central Washington is some decent climbing. As if.

 

Also, don't know about any bolts in the Cave up in Metaline but the stalagtite bouldering in there was insane, up until the point the Ranger escorted me out. Fucker, I was sending!

 

Sorry, couldn't be bothered to quote all the posts, hope this makes sense.

[Don_Gonthier]

I'll vough for the strange sounds at Index. About 5 years ago we were at the Great Northern Slab and were treated to about 2 hours of the craziest sounds coming from across the river. It was obviously human but contained no identifiable words. Moaning, screaming, the works. Amazing experience, I wish to god I had a tape recorder. We asumed it was aretarded hillbilly on a bender.

[johnson]

I saw two Wolverines last September in the Selkirks on our hike into Chimney rock. I didn't know they existed in those parts. I've been to Chimney quite a few times but this is the first I've seen them.

[forrest_m]

the rainier winter access thread reminded me of this one, has all the earmarks of a real urban legend (i.e. sounds vaguely reaonable, but i was told by someone who was told by someone, etc.)

 

so, we all know that the road to paradise is the highest plowed road in the state, allowing access to all kinds of great winter recreation. this use is now so well established that they would be hard pressed to stop plowing, but that's not the real reason the road began to be plowed in the first place.

 

the way i heard it, as a cost saving measure, when it came time to build the current paradise visitor's center, the park service simply reused the design from a vis. center in hawaii or some other warm climate, a round building with a concave roof form. they then discovered that without running the heat all winter to melt the snow that the building would collapse. the road was originally plowed to haul heating oil up there all winter.

 

i'm pretty sure i don't believe this, but don't it make you think "well, it COULD be true..."

[MisterMo]

the way i heard it, as a cost saving measure, when it came time to build the current paradise visitor's center, the park service simply reused the design from a vis. center in hawaii or some other warm climate, a round building with a concave roof form. they then discovered that without running the heat all winter to melt the snow that the building would collapse. the road was originally plowed to haul heating oil up there all winter.

 

I was told pretty much the same thing around the time that building was fairly new. I believe it needs heat to not be crushed; I am less certain that they would need fuel deliveries during the winter. I do not recall that the building of that lodge coincided with keeping the road open all winter. My mother ski toured at Paradise in the 1940's, well before the construction of that day lodge.

[gregm]

Mel's Hole - a supposed bottomless hole located near

Manastash Ridge in Ellensburg Washington

 

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Expedition seeks paranormal pit

 

By John Zebrowski

Seattle Times staff reporter

 

ELLENSBURG — A topographic map spread on the hood of a car showed where the search party would start. There is a hole out there, they believe, a hole that not only appears to be bottomless but has, on at least one occasion, brought an animal back to life.

 

The hole, the story goes, exists outside of town on land once owned by a man who calls himself Mel Waters. For years, he said, it was used as the neighborhood dump for trash, old appliances, dead cattle. When the hole never filled up, Waters measured its depth by lowering weighted fishing line into it. After 80,000 feet, he gave up. Amazed by this odd place (which dogs and birds avoided), Waters called radio host Art Bell, whose late-night show on conspiracies and the paranormal attracts a huge national audience.

 

The hole is now lost. Waters — himself a mystery — said he sold the property and won't say where it is. Few people know who he really is. So far, Waters exists only on radio waves, with a story many think is bunk. But tales of a deep hole in Ellensburg have circulated for years. Hoax or not, Waters' appearances before Bell's 10 million listeners have elevated an old local legend into a national paranormal mystery.

 

Ever since Waters first called Bell's show in 1997, listeners have followed the story closely, posting each new clue on their chat page, melshole.com. They believe the hole is about 10 miles west of town on a place called Manastash Ridge.

 

Before the search party headed out the other day from its staging area at the Copper Kettle on Eighth Street, member Brian Christ of Ellensburg, who would wait at the base camp, warned the others they were in danger.

 

"People know you're out here, right?" he asked.

 

Christ was clearly nervous. He'd heard what Waters said happened after he went public — that soldiers in yellow gear cordoned off his property and threatened to "find" a drug lab on it if he didn't cooperate. He also knew other details Waters told Bell: how one neighbor claimed to have thrown a dead dog in the hole, only to see it later frolicking in the woods; how another saw a black beam emanating from the hole; how transistor radios brought to the hole play programs from the past.

[EWolfe]

Secret Government Bunker in Cascades

 

Free Ascent of City Park

 

Climbers getting shot at from neighboring Index Gun Club

[Jens]

Secret Government Bunker in Cascades

 

Free Ascent of City Park

 

Climbers getting shot at from neighboring Index Gun Club

I once talked to a dude who said he was pinned down on a belay on the Golden Arch as some dude was shooting at him (with a 22?) from the top of the wall. Appartently some of the bullets were near misses.

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Oh and the paraside plowing, I heard it costs them over a million bucks a year to keep it open and plowed. (labor, rig mateninence, sand, etc,)

[MisterMo]

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Oh and the paraside plowing, I heard it costs them over a million bucks a year to keep it open and plowed. (labor, rig mateninence, sand, etc,)

 

Figuring a 150 day snow removal season that would be about $6,700 a day. Seems a little steep but Your Federal Government could probably make it cost that much.

[lancegranite]

Gas in 11worth after 10:00 pm

 

Powder stashes after 10:00 am

 

Hot girls who share your fasination with crack climbing

 

( the last one is true, but they are all Canadian, and on a year long road trip with their boyfriend)