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Kat
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Kat
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 Sun Jun 27, 2004 6:17 pm |
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On the way out of the Middle Fork today, approx 3pm somewhere after Taylor River there was a Sheriff pulled over, talking to this poor guy with a beaten, bloody head. There was some blood all over his shirt, too. He looked in bad shape but coherent.
As we continued out, there was a fire truck coming in, also another Sheriff.
I've got to wonder what happened to him - judging from the er, beer belly he wasn't a hiker.
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Backpacker Joe
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Interesting (and sad) I wonder if he party'd too hard and fell and hurt himself?
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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Kat
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Kat
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Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:03 pm |
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Ummm.. definitely not. He tangled with probably more than one fist.
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Newt
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Newt
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Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:29 pm |
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Maybe a trailhead vigilante group caught up with a vandal?
Did he have hands?
It's pretty safe to say that if we take all of man kinds accumulated knowledge, we still don't know everything. So, I hope you understand why I don't believe you know everything. But then again, maybe you do.
It's pretty safe to say that if we take all of man kinds accumulated knowledge, we still don't know everything. So, I hope you understand why I don't believe you know everything. But then again, maybe you do.
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Randy
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Randy
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Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:07 pm |
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About 3 years ago I was driving up the road and just after the concrete bridge there were a couple cop cars with lights going. They had the road blocked and there was some random dog running about. I got out to ask what was up and noticed a red car about 50' ahead and wrapped around a tree. The driver was dead and his dog was running around my feet. The cops wouldn't let me by which was fine as that was enough MFR road for a day. Crazy stuff.
Point is, maybe the guy you saw wrecked his car and it was off the road somewhere?
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Plinko
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Mon Jun 28, 2004 12:01 am Middle FOrk ROad
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SOme crazy stuff happenin on that road...last week I drove in to hit Bessemer via Quartz Creek and on the way in a van someohow ended up about 150 feet off the road and 30 feet down in an area luckily free of trees...long straight road at that point makes you scratch your head wondering how stuff like that ever happens. Crazy stuff goin on out that way...
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Backpacker Joe
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| Quote: | | Crazy stuff goin on out that way... |
That kind of thing happens all over Washingtons back roads.
The MF just gets more people/attention.
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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radninjaskills
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| Kat wrote: | | judging from the er, beer belly he wasn't a hiker. |
I have a beer belly and I'm a hiker. :-P
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Kat
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Kat
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Mon Jun 28, 2004 5:28 pm |
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| Quote: | | I have a beer belly and I'm a hiker. |
OK, but I bet you don't have THREE bellies like this poor guy lol. And if you do, congrats to you. I met a great guy last year attempting Melakwa. He said he didn't care if it took him an hour to go a half mile, he was getting there. I saluted him! (And hoped he didn't suffer from cardiac arrest!)
Guess I'm sort of naive about this stuff. I live on a dirt road myself, on a rare occasion have problems with motorcycles taking off at high speeds thru the woods. Also in the past party animal kids leaving behind garbage and broken glass in our neighborhood, which we stopped by leaving a sign and a garbage can for them to use. Guess they were good kids.
Seeing someone beat up like that was enlightening. Maybe, when hiking I should worry more about humans than bears or cougars..... Not the first time I've pondered that question!
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Backpacker Joe
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| Quote: | | Seeing someone beat up like that was enlightening |
Somehow saying enlightening doesnt seem quite right!
Hmm
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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Smokey
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Mon Jun 28, 2004 8:34 pm |
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Too close, yet too remote and I've read too much. I don't venture down that road. In the first half mile of that road, I've seen two cars ditched in the ditch with all windows broken. Ran into some odd looking characters just sitting in their car in the early morning, they flashed their lights at me as if they were signaling, I decided not to park there. And some bozo and his partner in their truck tried to get me with a mud puddle splash as I was walking down the road with my dog. I outwitted them, mainly because I could see an idea was forming in their pea brains from the smoke coming out their ears.
No thanks to the MF for me.
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Tom
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Tom
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Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:37 pm |
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Yep, best all you city folk just stay out. Abandoned cars, meth labs, toxic waste... 
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Backpacker Joe
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| Quote: | | Yeah, an Skunks, mosquitos the size of bull bats, rattlers, and squatches too |
Don't you mean sasquatches?
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"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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