[Vine Maple Victim]

The mailbox topping mailbox peak has been replaced. My friend, brother, and I hauled our butts up that mountain today and planted a nice mailbox atop a 5 foot 4x4 post at the summit. That is one helluva hike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I consider myself a strong hiker, and it thoroughly kicked my ass. I'll have photos when they're developed. The visibility was crazy...must have been less than 100 feet. We could throw a rock off the peak and it would dissapear in the cloud that shrouded the mountain before it hit ground, and I'm no baseball player. There's a peak register (notepad from my high school graduation) in a plastic bag with 4 pens in the mailbox, should suffice for many hundreds of summiters. All I can say is someone had better not destroy this mailbox!!!!!!!!! We found remnants of the previous; a pen and the plastic attachment that held the flag. Unless a bear pulled the flag off, ripped the post up, dropped the flag attachment on the ground, put the flag back in the box, and carried it off somewhere, it was a human job. No natural phenomenon would make that happen. Brian

[polarbear]

Vine Maple, Job well done. I have never done this hike but now that the mailbox has been replaced there is incentive. I think the original box had a copy of Green Eggs and Ham. It sounds like we need an expedition to replace the book too.

[Vine Maple Victim]

Yep, it still needs a little injection of character. Though, I'm not sure if I'll be carrying it up with you It's a good hike though, especially if you like to sweat a nalgene bottles worth every mile.

[catwoman]

Oh well, too bad I can't be a part of the mailbox replacement party, but maybe I can contribute some reading material.

[Alpine Sam]

The bears would be most grateful.

[Mike Collins]

That was one of the last books I read. I especially like the pictures. I think it is still around here keeping the legs of the table from wobbling. Thanks for the strong effort in schlepping that 4X4 post up there.

[RainierRidgeRunner]

I think its cute A new mailbox, i'll have to check it out sometime. I have plenty of junk mail I could contribute. I was running away from the hills with the lightning this weekend.