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FiresideChats Member
Joined: 20 Jan 2014 Posts: 361 | TRs | Pics Location: San Juan Islands |
Completed the McAlester-Rainbow Lake Loop in the NCNP. 40ish miles: heavenly flower fields, deep forests, and high ridges. Not logged out this year, so stock camps open to hikers. To wit: High Meadows stock camp was a fantastic surprise. Even saw a bruin from the PCT!
The flies were swarming below 6k and the mosquitos above 6. But they never joined forces against me on this trip.
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Roy Jensen Member
Joined: 17 Aug 2018 Posts: 31 | TRs | Pics
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Short Note - Goal was Price Lake off the Nooksack Cirque trail. You can easily wade Ruth Creek or cross on the log jam downstream of the trailhead. The famous log is finally gone so if you are going to Price Lake you will need to wade the Nooksack River.
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Cyclopath Faster than light
Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Posts: 7694 | TRs | Pics Location: Seattle |
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Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:23 pm
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Did Cascade Pass on Sunday.
Had to get some panos too.
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HitTheTrail Member
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 5452 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
Leafguy wrote: | Did a small loop Monday - Wednesday in the Chelan Sawtooths. Went in Monday with a couple friends that had to be back Tuesday afternoon. |
Did you catch any fish after we left? It was such a nice day we envisioned you laying in your pack raft on the lake all day whipping the water to death!
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Stefan-K Member
Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Posts: 522 | TRs | Pics Location: seattle |
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Tue Aug 11, 2020 7:31 pm
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loving the exploration of the interstitial lands Brucester. The strange archeological appeal of man meeting nature, and for some strange reason there always seems to be more wildlife than in the wild...
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Leafguy Member
Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 525 | TRs | Pics Location: Wenatchee |
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Tue Aug 11, 2020 8:04 pm
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HitTheTrail wrote: | Did you catch any fish after we left? It was such a nice day we envisioned you laying in your pack raft on the lake all day whipping the water to death! |
About the same as Monday. Signs of lots of pressure. Steve saw lots of entrails in the water. Glad I took the raft. So darn relaxing floating around. Didn’t fish Cooney. Overweight hiker + overweight pack makes for sore feet.
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Brucester Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2013 Posts: 1102 | TRs | Pics Location: Greenwood |
Heading up to Mount Dege I chatted with a ranger about seeing things on trail never seen before like an abandoned stroller while hiking at St Helens on a dirt trail... She said she saw a dude in a unicorn onesie the day prior...
So I'm up at Dege and there's this girl taking selfies in a hot pink crop top...
Headed over to the Fremont lookout was eventful for Covid times. Mask on and then mask off to breathe mountain air.
It seemed crowded. Groups of 5 seemly everywhere. I got to the lookout and felt crowded so I left. I didn't take one picture. Too many people!
Back at the trailhead...
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7687 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Is that your ride?
That looks like one of those crawler things that go out on the ice along the Icefields Parkway up in Alberta.
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ozzy The hard way
Joined: 30 Jul 2015 Posts: 475 | TRs | Pics Location: University place, wa |
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ozzy
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Thu Aug 13, 2020 4:24 pm
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olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | Jake Robinson wrote: | Ptarmigan Traverse July 25-29 |
Jake Robinson wrote: | Indian Head Pk and Pilot Ridge loop August 1-2 |
These both seem worthy of more than a paragraph in the lazy TR thread. No pics? |
yes I second that!! Sweet trips Jake, I wanna know more!
“I don’t know what’s gonna happen, but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames”-Mr Mojo Risin
“I don’t know what’s gonna happen, but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames”-Mr Mojo Risin
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Brucester Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2013 Posts: 1102 | TRs | Pics Location: Greenwood |
olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | Is that your ride? |
Not my rig.
Imagine being the passenger on the ride down, that shoulderless road with no guardrails.
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16088 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Backpack trip to Vista Ridge North Side Glacier Peak. Road in ok condition after recent grading. Developing washboard already. Several large blow downs on Suiattle to Switchbacks section. Switchbacks very brushy worse going to Mica Lake. Almost everyone was South Bound Thru Hikers on PCT. Great weather not to hot no rain.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Waterman Member
Joined: 21 Mar 2015 Posts: 582 | TRs | Pics Location: Big Snow Quadrangle |
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Mon Aug 17, 2020 7:20 pm
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Murphy lakes for 2 nights. Bugs not too bad, the hot weather made the upper basin a reflector oven. Too hot bailed a day early. Nice fat fish.
Went in from the hot springs.
Forest gnome is a pretty good sport when it comes to off trail travel.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by. And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
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timberghost Member
Joined: 06 Dec 2011 Posts: 1316 | TRs | Pics
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Got into 3 lakes on Friday off trail. Was good to not see a soul out there!!
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Brucester Member
Joined: 02 Jun 2013 Posts: 1102 | TRs | Pics Location: Greenwood |
Stefan-K wrote: | interstitial lands |
That i90 holds secrets passed down from the elders of NWH'ers....
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Michael Lewis Taking a nap
Joined: 27 Apr 2009 Posts: 629 | TRs | Pics Location: Lynnwood, WA (for now) |
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