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DIYSteve seeking hygge
Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 12655 | TRs | Pics Location: here now |
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Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:23 pm
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Great stuff! You and Hotpantz will have this one tucked away in your souls for the rest of your life.
I know you were hoping to move a bit faster on the PT, but consider yourself fortunate to have finished the first three days at the traditional camps.
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Jason Hummel Member
Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 1209 | TRs | Pics Location: Tacoma Washington |
Awesome. Read the rest. So cool.
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jcocci Member
Joined: 16 Jul 2009 Posts: 484 | TRs | Pics Location: Longmont, CO |
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Tue Jul 27, 2010 5:52 pm
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Great trip. I had a great time on the PT a few years ago, definitely want to do it again.
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wildernessed viewbagger
Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 9275 | TRs | Pics Location: Wenatchee |
Wowza, that's awesome !
Living in the Anthropocene
Living in the Anthropocene
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DIYSteve seeking hygge
Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 12655 | TRs | Pics Location: here now |
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DIYSteve
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Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:07 pm
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iron wrote: | and for some reason, the previous 8 days, the countless decisions, route finding, nervousness about whether or not things would go, what the weather would hold, and all the other elements... they all vanished. i felt like that entire time period was a void in my life. i know it's not a void, but on this day, it felt like it.
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and as we transitioned back to the speed of life --- slow hiking, to biking, to driving down the single lane cascade river road, to driving through marblemount to darrington, and then to the madness of i5 and seattle --- i felt the clutter and stress of normalcy. it's something i don't normally feel, but after 9 days of the ultimate simplicity - eat, hike, drink, sleep - i now felt it. i didn't enjoy that transition, but i'm not sure how to avoid it. |
Well said. In my experience, it's unavoidable. We call it civilization shock, the abrupt cessation of life in the moment and return to the pettiness of modern life. And the only cure is to get out there again.
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b00 Member
Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 1144 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Jul 27, 2010 6:23 pm
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iron, you are awesome! great t/r!
thanks for the excellent route info.
:>)
ps - the thing that impresses me the most about you, is your ability to stay well within what you can safely do. many who are not as strong as you, take significantly more risks. impressive!
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seattlehikertoo Member
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 582 | TRs | Pics Location: Finding an alternative to Mailbox Pk |
Successful PT with your soul mate. What else can you ask for! btw, I was on Daniel with WxMan during those thunderstorms. We could see exactly where they were, and yep, pretty much right over you. Congrats.
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wamtngal Member
Joined: 13 Jun 2004 Posts: 2382 | TRs | Pics Location: somewhere |
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Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:54 pm
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Opinions expressed here are my own.
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iron Member
Joined: 10 Aug 2008 Posts: 6392 | TRs | Pics Location: southeast kootenays |
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iron
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Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:50 pm
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from base of le conte
from saddle above south cascade glacier
on the south cascade glacier
on the south cascade glacier
sunset at yang yang lakes
near bruseth
along sonny boy ridge
along sonny boy ridge
le conte mountain
le conte glacier
from sonny boy
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Magellan Brutally Handsome
Joined: 26 Jul 2006 Posts: 13116 | TRs | Pics Location: Inexorable descent |
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Magellan
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Tue Jul 27, 2010 9:59 pm
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What an adventure. You guys pulled it off! Congratulations on going big.
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Tom_Sjolseth Born Yesterday
Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 2652 | TRs | Pics Location: Right here. |
Holy hot tamale! I need to give this a full read, but on the once-over, it gave me chills. The photos are stunning!
So happy for you guys to be able to experience such a wonderful trip together. You deserve it!
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Dayhike Mike Bad MFKer
Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 10958 | TRs | Pics Location: Going to Tukwila |
Man...what a great read. I've been looking forward to this trip report since we talked and you certainly didn't disappoint.
Probably one of the better step-by-steps of the PT that I've read through, and really fun to read and see the northbound bushwhack as well!
Thanks again for sharing this with us, you guys...you two make an amazing team!
P.S. - Love the panos, too!
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke
"Ignorance is natural. Stupidity takes commitment." -Solomon Short
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke
"Ignorance is natural. Stupidity takes commitment." -Solomon Short
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cascadetraverser Member
Joined: 16 Sep 2007 Posts: 1407 | TRs | Pics
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Awesome trip; I agree that the finish was very creative! Looks like you two are ready for all sorts of cool trips to come.
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chuckiebob Member
Joined: 30 Apr 2010 Posts: 5 | TRs | Pics Location: Port Orchard |
Great trip, Awesome pictures!
"We have a long way to go and a short time to get there"
"We have a long way to go and a short time to get there"
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peltoms Member
Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 1760 | TRs | Pics Location: Worcester MA |
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Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:31 am
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Awesome trip, you two deserve it and earned it. Made my morning. I had to enlarge ptarmigan picture to see it. Bench lake looks alot like Blanca Lake in shape and setting and logjam.
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