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Slim This space for rent
Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 560 | TRs | Pics Location: Falling off a turnip truck |
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Slim
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Wed Apr 24, 2019 5:15 pm
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Haha - not that kind of input. Seriously.
We are a non-profit organization, the Washington Hi-Lakers, that is working with the Forest Service on improving water and overall environmental quality in the backcountry. To that end, we are volunteering to assemble and install new privies. As a pilot, we need your suggestions on where a new privy should be located.
Ideally this would be somewhere that:
- receives a fair amount of hiker traffic
- near a body of water
- doesn't already have a privy
- is in the Skykomish Ranger district
We would like to hear your suggestions. If the program goes well, we would expand to other areas in the Cascades and Olympics.
~Slim
Washington Hi-Lakers
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Anne Elk BrontosaurusTheorist
Joined: 07 Sep 2018 Posts: 2410 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Anne Elk
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Wed Apr 24, 2019 5:32 pm
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Sorry to hear that you're limited to the Skykomish Ranger district, since one place that's been over-run (especially since last year) and desperately needs it, is the Vesper Peak approach. Although I suppose Lake Elan isn't exactly a lake (more like a tarn) and isn't stocked. But on the other hand, it feeds into the Spada Lake drainage, which, I believe, is in or just near the Skykomish Ranger district.
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Nancyann Member
Joined: 28 Jul 2013 Posts: 2314 | TRs | Pics Location: Sultan Basin |
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Nancyann
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Wed Apr 24, 2019 6:14 pm
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I didn’t see one at Thunder Mountain Lakes. I also don’t remember seeing one at Deception Lakes, although I may have just missed it. Is there one at at Lake Janus, don’t remember seeing one.
One of my favorite trailheads, Tunnel Creek, desperately needs one.
Thanks for your efforts!
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Slim This space for rent
Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 560 | TRs | Pics Location: Falling off a turnip truck |
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Slim
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Wed Apr 24, 2019 7:11 pm
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We will take all suggestions.
It's just that we're doing the pilot with the Skykomish Ranger station so that is our preference for the first go-round.
Thank you both for your input.
~Slim
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ejain Member
Joined: 27 Apr 2009 Posts: 1497 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle, WA |
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Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:49 pm
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Slim wrote: | [*]doesn't already have a privy
[*]is in the Skykomish Ranger district |
Is there a list of existing privies?
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slabbyd Member
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Thu Apr 25, 2019 6:18 am
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Absolutely agree about the small lake there below Vesper Peak. Could probably use two.
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Slim This space for rent
Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 560 | TRs | Pics Location: Falling off a turnip truck |
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Slim
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Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:16 am
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ejain wrote: | Is there a list of existing privies? |
Not that we know of. This would be another thing to work on. We would need to crowd source this info.
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Kim Brown Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2009 Posts: 6900 | TRs | Pics
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Slim wrote: | ejain wrote: | Is there a list of existing privies? |
Not that we know of. This would be another thing to work on. We would need to crowd source this info. |
Double check. I've seen a Hole-y Book of Toilets at Skykomish's office.
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Slim This space for rent
Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 560 | TRs | Pics Location: Falling off a turnip truck |
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Slim
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Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:35 am
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Kim Brown wrote: | Double check. I've seen a Hole-y Book of Toilets at Skykomish's office. |
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Nancyann Member
Joined: 28 Jul 2013 Posts: 2314 | TRs | Pics Location: Sultan Basin |
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Thu Apr 25, 2019 8:42 am
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Lake Isabel could use one.
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Pyrites Member
Joined: 16 Sep 2014 Posts: 1880 | TRs | Pics Location: South Sound |
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Thu Apr 25, 2019 4:29 pm
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Do you have a drawing of privy?
Keep Calm and Carry On?
Heck No.
Stay Excited and Get Outside!
Keep Calm and Carry On?
Heck No.
Stay Excited and Get Outside!
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Slugman It’s a Slugfest!
Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 16874 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Apr 25, 2019 5:51 pm
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MidLifeHiker Member
Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 193 | TRs | Pics Location: Mukilteo |
What about Blanca Lake, does it have one yet? I haven't been there in 4 or more years just because it has been overrun by hikers and with toilet paper and S$#T all over.
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BigBrunyon Member
Joined: 19 Mar 2015 Posts: 1450 | TRs | Pics Location: the fitness gyms!! |
MidLifeHiker wrote: | What about Blanca Lake, does it have one yet? I haven't been there in 4 or more years just because it has been overrun by hikers and with toilet paper and S$#T all over.
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And the piles without TP you know they didn't even wipe cause you know they ain't willin' to pack TP out!
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joker seeker
Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 7953 | TRs | Pics Location: state of confusion |
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Thu Apr 25, 2019 11:24 pm
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I"m forgetting whether there's one at Glacier Lake (above Surprise) or not. If not, it would be a good spot for one...
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