[sarbar]

Ok, I figured Ranger Barry HAD to be half myth/half urban legend. Wow. How anyone can be SUCH a jerk is beyond me. As we came up to the pass near Crag Mt. he lay in wait for us in the shade of the pass So we get up there (we were going Northbound), Ford is ahead of us by a minute or two. Well, Barry starts drilling Ford and grabbing his pack. SO NOT COOL. You DON'T touch a minor child! I haul my petered butt up there and Ol' Barry starts the integration - demanding where we camped on Saturday night - you could see he didn't believe we had camped at Bumping River coming from White Pass. So when that tactic didn't work then he demanded to know why I didn't have my full name on the permit. Well, it seems Barry doesn't like women who give him the stare of hate. Barry did run away after I told him he could jump off on that issue. I kept waiting to hear "Papers Please". I won't even go into TwoFourtyJeff's encounter with him on Friday night at Dewey Lakes where he expected Jeff to rat out illegal campers - after Barry jumped him while walking in the evening. The subject of sunflowers came up The man is a FREAK with an attitude!!!! Photo of Barry after I gave him a glowering attitude on why I wasn't giving no stinking last name to him

[Hiker Mama]

Wow, Sarbar, I'm sorry. That totally sucks! Was Ford OK with being harrassed?

[Dslayer]

Too weird. This is almost the same spot I ran into him last year, it must be his favorite stalking spot. Although Barry has a belt black, and has beaten up people at his real job, I've heard through my sources that he's more show than go. Unfortunately, my plan to drill him with bear spray last week didn't materialize because we never ran into him. Was he carrying his axe?

[Dave Workman]

[reststep]

There are other threads about Barry. I am sure someone will post some links.

[sarbar]

[Backpacker Joe]

Most the rangers I have met have been great. There are bound to be jerk offs. I dont have a child, but if ole Barry grabs my nephew like that, he's gonna end up on his butt!

[Malachai Constant]

the guy sounds like an officious jerk, and a bit of a bully Can anyone say Larry, course he never seems to get out of his truck.

[Dslayer]

Probably a crosscut saw in a scabbard, Barry likes to walk around like he's Paul freakin' Bunyan. I commented it on this in a thread last year that Barry and one other Ranger lady who was in way over her head in MT when a monsoon hit the Beartooths are the only NFS personnel that I've met in the back country that weren't friendly, informative, and upbeat. But this guy is a freak, just a real POS of a human being, and running into this jack ass can cast a real pall onto any outdoor adventure in that neck of the woods.

[ActionBetty]

I come unglued when anyone touches my child..sounds like someone who needs to have his job performance re-evaluated

[Backpacker Joe]

[cweston]

I'm not really familiar with that area: where were you that you needed a permit, anyway? (There are relatively few such places on NFS land in the Cascades, right?) This guy seems like a real piece of work.

[sarbar]

Just so everyone knows: he could see my fat butt coming up the steep climb - he could have waited for me to get up there. Yet I heard him asking questions of kiddo - who is 10! And these were pointed questions. Not Ranger joking with kid stuff. If he wanted to talk, he was talking with me! I was so mad after he left that I turned on my cell phone and called my husband and he got an earful. (you can get 4-5 bars at that pass). It made me really long for the last time I did White Pass-Chinook - last October in a snowstorm. Nobody but us idiots out there that time

[sarbar]

[Bedivere]

Unbelievable. I've never met an uptight ranger before in the backcountry. What district does he work for? I'd be filing a formal complaint if I was you. Grabbing someone can be construed as minor assault.