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northbynorthwest Member
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Hiker Mama Member
Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 3448 | TRs | Pics Location: Lynnwood |
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gone Member
Joined: 08 Feb 2008 Posts: 1051 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:23 pm
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I feel your pain.
I think unless you're really hardcore, it takes a considerable (and sometimes nearly insurmountable) amount of resolve to get on and then get up the trails in this weather. I haven't turned around on one yet after getting started, but I have talked myself out of even going a couple of times. I find it helps to go with someone, as it adds a certain misery-loves-company aspect to it, as well as some motivation-via-competition, even if only mildly.
Hang in there!
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sarbar Living The Dream
Joined: 28 Jan 2002 Posts: 8055 | TRs | Pics Location: Freeland, Wa |
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Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:30 pm
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Mmmmmmmmm....hot caramel latte makes defeat not so bitter
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Karen Member
Joined: 22 Dec 2001 Posts: 2866 | TRs | Pics
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Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:00 pm
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I led a Mountaineer hike once (supposed to be Monogram Lake) and it was raining so hard when we got to Marblemount that we went and had breakfast instead.
None of us felt guilty.
Karen
stay together, learn the flowers, go light - from Turtle Island, Gary Snyder
stay together, learn the flowers, go light - from Turtle Island, Gary Snyder
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Andy Schmidt Formerly Fuu
Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 210 | TRs | Pics Location: 98133 |
Just think of it as the first leg of a mailbox peak section hike... or reconnaissance for your "real" mailbox trip later in the year.
We've all called a trip at one time or another. Maybe that should be a thread... "What's the best hike you've planned but didn't complete?"
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EastKing Surfing and Hiking
Joined: 28 Mar 2007 Posts: 2082 | TRs | Pics Location: 77 miles from Seattle! |
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Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:39 pm
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YouTube | SummitPost
Saw the depths of despair. Now I am salvaging what time I have left on Earth.
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sarbar Living The Dream
Joined: 28 Jan 2002 Posts: 8055 | TRs | Pics Location: Freeland, Wa |
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Tue Jun 10, 2008 3:40 pm
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Fuu wrote: | Maybe that should be a thread... "What's the best hike you've planned but didn't complete?" |
That'd be this weekend https://www.nwhikers.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7967385
After 9 miles or so of side hilling snow and trees and a number of miles road walking.....yeah it was a good choice to bail. The weather yesterday made me glad we DID bail! It would have been awful.
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touron Member
Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 10293 | TRs | Pics Location: Plymouth Rock |
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Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:32 pm
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While it's true the mailman always delivers, sometimes the mail ends up in the wrong box. Usually it is the box next door belonging to the Nemesis family. Nemesis are related to trolls, and have a large extended family with abodes in various wilderness locales, sometimes close to trailheads, sometimes within a mile or so of a lake or summit, esconced in front of a thick patch of devils club or an endless sea of alder and vine maple. At times one of their dwellings will magically appear out of a driving rain or snowstorm. Sometimes you will start a hike, then bump into a Nemesis who then strikes up a long conversation, and before you know it the day is shot, and you have to turn around short of accomplishing what you set out to do. There is no way to politely extricate yourself from one of these run-ins. The Nemisis will wave goodbye and holler "Hope I didn't distract you from your journey! Y'all come back when you have more time!"
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
Touron is a nougat of Arabic origin made with almonds and honey or sugar, without which it would just not be Christmas in Spain.
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Opus Wannabe
Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 3700 | TRs | Pics Location: The big rock candy mountain |
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Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:08 pm
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Definitely a good effort given the weather. Hope you got something hot to drink afterwards. Earlier in the year I snowshoed up Keechelus ridge in cold, snowy/rainy weather and we all went to that Starbucks afterwards. Being the master of coffee shop lingo I ordered a "blended" drink - not realizing blended meant cold, with ice.
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Bloated Chipmunk Cock Rock Searcher
Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 2993 | TRs | Pics Location: Margaritaville |
EastKing wrote: | Besides if you are going to hurt your knees and put yourself through all that pain, you want to at least have somewhat of a view |
Unlike what a friend & I did in Oct. 2004 - continued on up to the summit in whiteout conditions:
BC says "Brrrr it's cold! & I can't see shyte!"
Home is where the hiking is.
"Peaks that have come and gone four times should halt a man in his steps." -- William O. Douglas
A balanced diet is a margarita in each hand.
Home is where the hiking is.
"Peaks that have come and gone four times should halt a man in his steps." -- William O. Douglas
A balanced diet is a margarita in each hand.
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
Bandera's actually not all that bad right now. Small patches of snow here and there but otherwise dry as a bone.
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tigermn Member
Joined: 10 Jul 2007 Posts: 9242 | TRs | Pics Location: There... |
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Fri Jun 13, 2008 6:01 pm
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Hmmmm.. Funny as I was thinking of heading up and trying Mailbox tomorrow morning thinking though about what Eastking said.. All that torture must leave some reward....
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The Angry Hiker SAR Blacklistee
Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 2890 | TRs | Pics Location: Kentwila |
I went up Saturday and the summit was all fogged in. No reward but the satisfaction of having made it through all that mud!
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