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ale_capone Member
Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 717 | TRs | Pics
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When do I get my special.
But seriously, I found a small door through a ridge couple years ago while ski touring.. Maybe about 6 wide, ten feet tall. With a ten foot header(stone above door). Maybe 6 feet deep. Nothing special, but it looks cool, and not likely to be seen much due to its hard to get to location. Sorry I don't have a photo. I'll get some media when I return with film Crews.
Point of the topic.. You ever make a "discovery"? Either real, or imagined. Something not quite worth blowing up, but special to you?
Here is a discovry I call angry man. My native American friend calls it angry injun.
Thunder ridge, looking towards surprise.
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the1mitch Member
Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 278 | TRs | Pics Location: Snohomish |
Do unmarked or unrecorded mine shafts count as geological? Above a certain Snoco reservoir lurks a mine and cofferdam connected by an open wood flue that must have provided a lot of head pressure for a generator? I find all kinds of that sort of stuff. How about a 65 lb railroad bar in Canyon Creek right we used to keep beverages cool? I grew up swimming and wading in the exact spot and one day boom there it was! BTW if you ever need to move a house or dumptruck, I've got your tool.
illegitimi non carborundum!
illegitimi non carborundum!
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philfort Member
Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 437 | TRs | Pics Location: seattle |
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Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:41 am
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ale_capone wrote: | I found a small door through a ridge couple years ago while ski touring.. Maybe about 6 wide, ten feet tall. With a ten foot header(stone above door). Maybe 6 feet deep. |
Was it this one? This is in an area that I think you play in:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7AkuhunCLJTYXFoWjJjUUJTcFU/view?usp=sharing
The Hummels and I found a cave a few hundred feet below the summit of Cadet in the couloir on the west face. About 20 feet deep and larger inside - easily big enough to stand up in. I guess it could have been a mine shaft (given the area), but there weren't any noticeable signs of past human presence.
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ale_capone Member
Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 717 | TRs | Pics
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Ha! That's the one Phil! Nice.. Z-bo skinned right past it Monday. Not sure if he noticed. Guess that saves me the trouble of going back for some photographic evidence. I know for sure at least a dozen or two people here have snow shoed past it.
Jason was talking about returning to that area this winter sometime. I'f I go, I'll see if he can point the cave out. Have to find out if you made a geological, or historical find.
I like any kind of find. I could just change the title to."just like Christopher Columbus, I made a discovery!"
My favorite personal was discovering the worst alder thicket/ devils club shwack I've ever encountered. After a couple hours of going nowhere I managed to beat my way to some running water. I sat to get a drink, and amused myself thinking. " well, I bet at least I'm in a spot noone else is dumb enough to suffer." Until I went for a drink and found a modern water filtering device.. Not even old enough to be historical.... Fail!
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ale_capone Member
Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 717 | TRs | Pics
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Wait a minute.. Is that a current photo, as in, taken Monday?.. I was basically standing in the same spot sunday..
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Gregory Member
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Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:34 am
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philfort Member
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Wed Feb 03, 2016 10:49 am
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ale_capone wrote: | Wait a minute.. Is that a current photo, as in, taken Monday?.. I was basically standing in the same spot sunday.. |
Nope, taken several years ago.
There's that big door on Mowich Face too, but I assume lots of people have seen that.
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ale_capone Member
Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 717 | TRs | Pics
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On, sweet! That means you seen it before me. I'll make sure you get credtied
We'll call it "Phil's hole"
oCD kicked in. Yesterday two others, myself and a dog all went up. Little harder to access then in your photo.ice cover rock slab at the front door. The back door is unaccessable, but has the potential for a rowdy ski of 100' . super nice foyer, with a ledge, and room for a dozen.
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philfort Member
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Thu Feb 04, 2016 11:38 am
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Haha, awesome. We discovered it on 2/5 2006 (OMG ten year anniversary!). I'll await the royalties! (I'll give you a cut, since you actually went up into it)!
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ale_capone Member
Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 717 | TRs | Pics
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Little late. Sorting through old photos, and I found these...
Access is a little steep, but not Terrible. Could be possible to do a "through" hike.
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gb Member
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ale_capone wrote: | Little late. Sorting through old photos, and I found these...
Access is a little steep, but not Terrible. Could be possible to do a "through" hike. |
That may be the same window I saw while touring in the mid 90's in the same area. Given the massive granite in the region it may not be the only one.
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ale_capone Member
Joined: 22 Sep 2009 Posts: 717 | TRs | Pics
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I would say highly likely the same one, especially if seen while ski touring.
You guys are killig my buzz.
Phil, please forward all royalties to GB.
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boot up Old Not Bold Hiker
Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 4745 | TRs | Pics Location: Bend Oregon |
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Fri Jan 05, 2018 12:12 pm
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access is a little steep....
cool formation!
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MtnGoat Member
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Fri Jan 05, 2018 1:09 pm
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Sweet pix. I love that area winter or summer.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers
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