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MCaver Founder
Joined: 14 Dec 2001 Posts: 5124 | TRs | Pics
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MCaver
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Wed Aug 21, 2002 3:06 pm
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I'd be game for a slow photographer hike some time this fall. Maybe combine interests and do a waterfall photo hike?
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rubberlegs to Quark Guest
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rubberlegs to Quark
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Wed Aug 21, 2002 4:30 pm
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Gimme a brake, Quark. My car don't even go that fast. It tops out at 22.5 mph, downhill with a tailpipe, on pavement. That's what happens when you only have rear wheel drive and 255k miles and pockmarks in your windshield and smelly boots clogging the air filter.
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Randy Cube Rat
Joined: 18 Dec 2001 Posts: 2910 | TRs | Pics Location: Near the Siamangs |
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Wed Aug 21, 2002 4:41 pm
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Not to mention a drive up the M FK Road which is eqivalent to at least 50k!
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Quark to rubberlegs Guest
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Quark to rubberlegs
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Wed Aug 21, 2002 8:54 pm
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Ummmm....smelly boots aren't what's clogging your air filter - it's the Shoe Goo. I told you to spring for a new air filter, but nooooooo.
The smelly boots are what's clogging your tailpipe. The one one your car, I mean.
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catwoman Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 888 | TRs | Pics Location: somewhere near Tacoma |
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catwoman
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Wed Aug 21, 2002 11:22 pm
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What I want to know is..... how do we know who is posting - David or Karen? Do you two not have individual identities? Does only one of you use the computer? Are you really only one person with dual identities?
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Alpine Sam Guest
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Alpine Sam
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Wed Aug 21, 2002 11:45 pm
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ajgoodkids Member
Joined: 11 Aug 2002 Posts: 113 | TRs | Pics Location: Issaquah |
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Davidą Token Canadian
Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 3040 | TRs | Pics Location: The Great White North |
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Thu Aug 22, 2002 7:43 am
To Catwoman
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FYI - it is I, David who does all of the writing (trip reports, posting) while Karen takes all the pictures. She does however read all the posts on this site and quite often makes comments which I later submit under our 'joint' login
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JimK Member
Joined: 07 Feb 2002 Posts: 5606 | TRs | Pics Location: Ballard |
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Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:11 am
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I find that a steady pace with few breaks works best for me. I average about 2 1/2 mph up a steady grade. I only go a little faster on level trail. Unless I'm in a hurry, downhilll is often slower than up as I take more time to admire the view, eat berries, etc.
I think Mt. Si a good barometer of speed. Most of us have hiked it and timed ourselves. I take about 1:40 going up to the saddle where it skirts around the Haystack or turns towards Teneriffe. That's just about my 2 1/2 mph average.
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
There is no such thing as a .35 Smith and Wesson!
3mph is good!
TB
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Well then, trivia. I like it. I'll have to look into that. I'm a Colt fan of that era. I'll take my come-up-ins on that one and look into it.
TB
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Yellowstone Geezer Guest
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Thu Aug 22, 2002 11:18 am
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Like the famous Walt Stack says:
Quote: | I like to start slow, and then taper off. |
Shoot, they're talking 'bout guns again. It'll be a Colt day in hell before they drop it.
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Dslayer Member
Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 652 | TRs | Pics Location: Home: Selah Work: Zillah |
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Thu Aug 22, 2002 11:46 am
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Ripe berries have saved me the last two weekends on hikes with my daughter, a tall rangy 10 and a half year who can shop at the speed of light-this does not bode well for the teen years or some lucky fella that she'll get to marry at the ripe old age of say 28--about when I allow her to date. However, she hikes at the rate of .5 mph unless I persuade her (read boot to rear end) to move just a little faster. Actually we have a lot of fun and I'm constantly amazed by what she notices-the really little stuff she found a mean looking bug eating another bug for example. We hiked the Fog City trail-east of Chinook Pass two weeks ago and she devoured about a quart of berries. Eating while hiking makes her happy.
Like with most of you, speed depends on the climb, terrain, what's on my back and what's around me. When I hiked in MT last earlier this month, marveling at the scenery, just one wonderment after another it seemed like, it was a pretty slow go.
Got to go clean my gun, now.
"The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights is my concealed weapon permit."-Ted Nugent
"The Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights is my concealed weapon permit."-Ted Nugent
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polarbear Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 3680 | TRs | Pics Location: Snow Lake hide-away |
I go about 16587.6 feet per hour. It's pretty constant. Not sure what it is in miles, do the math. Nice scenery up ahead can pull me along at a faster clip. If I don't know where I'm going the pace is a slow amble. I often forget to bring a watch, so I just try and make it to the place I'm going. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.
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Dante Member
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 2815 | TRs | Pics
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Dante
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Thu Aug 22, 2002 10:38 pm
I usually plan around 2 mph
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I usually plan around 2 mph with grown-ups. BPJ and only I made 1.5 mph into Stuart lake in the dark by Tikka light, but came out at better than 3 mph. I think my 5-year-old and I got in and out of ShiShi beach at about 1 mph.
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