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BackPacker Dadio
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looks like a key keeper for the trailhead valet parking guys. 
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Magellan
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 Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:24 pm |
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Beehive hanger?
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wamtngal
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wamtngal
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Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:29 pm |
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| Quark wrote: | | THere's a handle on top so it can be removed each season it's used. |
Hmm, I noticed that...the suspense is killing me. It must be a testing post...but testing what? Pollen count? Hook sticky paper to the numbers and see what sticks to it at the end of the season?
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Conrad
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Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:39 pm |
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Scratching post. Bears (or ?) leave hair on it which can then be recovered and its DNA analyzed etc.
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Akula
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Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:54 pm |
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I know what it is!!! It is a Lady Bug Condo. It is tailored from the condos one sees in Hong Kong. They use the hooks during the day to hang their bedding on to air out. In the evening they use the hooks to perch on while visiting the neighbors. And just like a typical Hong Kong condo, the wealthier lady bugs get the upper floors.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover. -- Mark Twain
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Slugman
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Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:48 pm |
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I think it's a fence post for temporary fencing.
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hikermike
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Notice the hooks are numbered....Hummmm!
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hikermike
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I'm sure it's used to capture Yakima's famous side-hill walkers...but why the numbers?
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Allison
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Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:25 am |
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If the thing was located at the top of a square hill, I'd say it might be a spar pole for a tiny logging operation.
Do you have more pictures to back up my hypothesis?
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mgd
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Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:54 am |
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These types of markers are widely used by geologists to mark schismatic genesis rock under which are often found vast oil preserves. The ANWR is peppered with them, and yes, baby caribou do knock them over while scratching their mosquito bites. I saw a couple in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness near Lake Rowena (very close to where BPJ sighted the grizzly), but when I approached them to inspect more closely, a black helicopter with Slick-50 and STP stickers plastered on it landed in the clearing, and I quickly ducked into a boulder field. People in ski mask with uzis wearing wingtips jumped out of the copter. I probably would have been taken hostage, but was abducted by aliens just in the nick of time. I post this post under extreme duress from the planet X-on. 
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Slide Alder Slayer
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Will this be used to mark for or as the actual post for a photographic mount to monitor wildlife?
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Stones
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Sun Jun 03, 2007 7:25 pm |
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| marylou wrote: | | If the thing was located at the top of a square hill, I'd say it might be a spar pole for a tiny logging operation.
Do you have more pictures to back up my hypothesis? |
Horse Heaven Hills, totally treeless.
 The post was located down near the saddle to the right of the dirt road in the sagebrush.
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Quark
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Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:51 pm |
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| Stones wrote: | | marylou wrote: | | If the thing was located at the top of a square hill, I'd say it might be a spar pole for a tiny logging operation. |
Horse Heaven Hills, totally treeless. |
So it was a big logging operation, then. 
"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
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"...Other than that, the post was more or less accurate."
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Allison
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Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:55 pm |
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Yep, that's what I'm thinking.
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strider
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Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:06 pm |
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A testing station to study flying insects, perhaps? Hang small traps of some sort on the hooks, each trap "baited" with a different substance. Count the catch, determine which bait is more effective?
Donno how the numbers might play into such a scenario though.
Maybe it's just a handy anchor for the local balloon vendor.
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