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Bootpathguy Member
Joined: 18 Jun 2015 Posts: 1788 | TRs | Pics Location: United States |
Especially the Western Washingtonian
What's up with our local news medias.
This morning ( can't remember the network ) they had a segment with a guest speaker on how to avoid... "frost bite"...
They weren't targeting the backcountry folk. They were referring to your ordinary downtown street pedestrian.
C'mon people. I get it. It's kinda cold. This cold snap is nothing new. Midwesterners and Eastcoasters are laughing at us. Thinking we don't have enough sense to get out of the elements and get inside. It's not like there isn't a public Starbucks on every f### street corner.
We're f### Lumberjacks! and Lumberjills! Start acting like it!!!
Media has been, and for some time now, wussifing the Washingtonian. I've picked up on, and noticed this transition the last few years. From Lumberjacks & jill's to wussys.
Time to move
Experience is what'cha get, when you get what'cha don't want
Experience is what'cha get, when you get what'cha don't want
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DIYSteve seeking hygge
Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 12655 | TRs | Pics Location: here now |
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 6:56 pm
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lumberjack/jills have been replaced by hipster Amazon slaves with topknots
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Randito Snarky Member
Joined: 27 Jul 2008 Posts: 9512 | TRs | Pics Location: Bellevue at the moment. |
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:07 pm
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TV News desperate to fill air time does some pretty boneheaded stuff.
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cascadeclimber Member
Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1427 | TRs | Pics
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RandyHiker wrote: | TV News desperate to fill air time does some pretty boneheaded stuff. |
"Fifty three people trapped near summit of Mt. Hood!"
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Jake Robinson Member
Joined: 02 Aug 2016 Posts: 521 | TRs | Pics
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schifferj Member
Joined: 07 Mar 2015 Posts: 224 | TRs | Pics Location: 509 |
Bootpathguy wrote: | Especially the Western Washingtonian |
I'll go with that Western Washington part. No wussifying over here in EASTERN Washington. We'll take as much snow and cold as we can get. The windchills at our local ski areas yesterday was around -15 degrees and the slopes were crowded! But then the slopes were covered with "cold smoke" powder, who could resist?!
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flatsqwerl Member
Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 1049 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
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treeswarper Alleged Sockpuppet!
Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 11276 | TRs | Pics Location: Don't move here |
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treeswarper
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:20 pm
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Wow. We all used to wear those hats like the guy in the video, and we were not Western WA ers. I had forgotten about those wool hats.
I am embarrassed because I have a woosie dog that has to wear a coat outside when it gets a bit chilly. She came from....Yakima originally.
1968 was the really cold time, Yah, lot of dem orchards froze out. Neighbors had tu haul da water from our house because dere pipes froze and parents vere taking turns starting up da cars during da night sos dey could drive tu vork in da morning. Yah, dat vas da cold one and ve had lots of da snow tuu.
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
What's especially fun about sock puppets is that you can make each one unique and individual, so that they each have special characters. And they don't have to be human––animals and aliens are great possibilities
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Malachai Constant Member
Joined: 13 Jan 2002 Posts: 16092 | TRs | Pics Location: Back Again Like A Bad Penny |
Another training hike on the verge of wussification may be the Section Line on Tiger. We went there today on a family hike when Poo Poo was too crowded. First there is the new bridge eliminating the spicy gorge crossing on slippery logs, though that seems welcome. Second the tread has been improved up to the crossing and up to the Nook trail intersection. Third work is going on on the steep section toward the West Tiger RR Grade. Not complete there yet but I note WTA has more work parties scheduled.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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cascadeclimber Member
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Malachai Constant wrote: | Third work is going on on the steep section toward the West Tiger RR Grade. Not complete there yet but I note WTA has more work parties scheduled. |
The WTA is far too dependent on revenue from trail "maintenance" on DNR land.
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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
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Bedivere
Why Do Witches Burn?
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 8:38 pm
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It used to be that most of the people that lived in W. WA grew up here. Nowadays natives are fairly rare. It's all a bunch of young people who've hardly ever been outside coming here to work at tech companies.
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RumiDude Marmota olympus
Joined: 26 Jul 2009 Posts: 3589 | TRs | Pics Location: Port Angeles |
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:03 pm
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Wow, it looks like some wussified NWHikers need to get out into the cold air for some work or play. They might not have to post crap like this thread if they did.
Rumi <~~~~~he's a lumberjack and he's ok
"This is my Indian summer ... I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all."
"This is my Indian summer ... I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all."
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Just_Some_Hiker Member
Joined: 02 Jan 2013 Posts: 691 | TRs | Pics Location: Snoqualmie, WA |
The last time I commented on a thread like this a certain admin yelled at me.
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jared_j Member
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Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:46 pm
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Ski ><((((°>
Joined: 28 May 2005 Posts: 12829 | TRs | Pics Location: tacoma |
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Ski
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Tue Feb 20, 2018 3:13 am
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Boothpathguy wrote: | This morning ( can't remember the network ) they had a segment with a guest speaker on how to avoid... "frost bite"... |
.... and which "network" was this? do you mean KOMO or KING or KIRO, all of which employ news anchors who are not from this area? we don't expect them to understand that we are already familiar with the weather patterns here, or how to pronounce "Puyallup".
Bootpathguy wrote: | "...Midwesterners and Eastcoasters are laughing at us..." |
Perhaps, but they're not laughing nearly as hard as some of us are laughing at the clueless news anchors who honestly believe they need to tell us to "put on a jacket".
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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