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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Aug 19, 2014 - 07:35pm PT
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Way cool, Ron - thanks for sharing the stories!
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Aug 19, 2014 - 07:37pm PT
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Sounds like you got a lot of wood back then.
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
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Aug 19, 2014 - 07:40pm PT
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Are these people stealing firewood or are they actually milling it?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Aug 19, 2014 - 07:45pm PT
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Did you ever dress up like a tree to catch a poacher..? Never knew you were a wood pig...?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Aug 19, 2014 - 07:50pm PT
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Down here rumor has it the poachers said " rat " in the woods , not pigs...
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Aug 19, 2014 - 07:51pm PT
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Sheeit Mr. Anderson, you had me at LEO level 3 of region 4, so I stopped reading. I will return and finish the rather lengthy diatribe, but my attention span is not what it used to be (back in the summer of '69, when I did not get my first six-g.. er .. six string).
Oh yeah, I fought the law (and the law usually won).
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
mammoth lakes ca
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Aug 19, 2014 - 09:03pm PT
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Fritz....! Ron throws down with the 925xtra long sword...Un guard...!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 19, 2014 - 09:41pm PT
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I got a woody, Ron. I love it when you tell yur sweet lies. :0)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 19, 2014 - 09:43pm PT
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LEO-baiting! LEO-baiting! Write him up! Write him up!
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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Aug 19, 2014 - 10:33pm PT
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Good stuff! I was "level 2" USFS law enforcement. I HATED it. On the one hand I had no gun and always had to deal with twitchy armed rednecks. On the other I just never liked hassling people over camping or whatever. I wrote one ticket during those two years-- total drunk guy blasting a shotgun all night. In a campground!! Found him the next morning, mouth open catching flies passed out. I hope they got rid of of the level 2 category. I left it all to fight fires...
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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Aug 19, 2014 - 10:34pm PT
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Undercover in the woods, and caught the guys - pretty cool.
Not your standard TV city crime stories!
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Aug 19, 2014 - 11:00pm PT
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Interesting perspective Ron, TFPU. Someone once told me that an anti-theft technique was to spray potential xmass trees near roads with animal piss that froze on the trees, if a poacher cut the tree it would thaw out and reek. Is that true and does it really work?
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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Aug 20, 2014 - 03:18am PT
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no john,
we call those piss fir, otherwise known as white fir.
their sap smells like
crotch after a multi-day
intimacy binge.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 20, 2014 - 03:28am PT
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"White Fir oil is also soothing to rheumatic pain, and great for muscles (or joints) that have been overworked or are tired. It is excellent for pain that has been brought on from inflammation."--Piss Fir Willie Gibbons
http://www.experience-essential-oils.com/white-fir-oil.html
A poem (not a haiku) from Jim Dodge.
HARD WORK
Boys, I've listened to your horseshit enough.
You want to know what hard work is, listen up:
I've rode a misery whip; carried hod;
Pulled green-chain; broke big rocks into little rocks;
Whupped a hundred miles of picket fence;
Set choker in country so rough
You were doing good if you could crawl downhill.
I've fought wildfire; lugged sandbags against floods;
Bucked hay till I was tripping on my tongue;
And made so damn much split stuff
I plumb wore out a sledgehammer head
And a couple o' pairs of elk-hide gloves.
So you boys can write it down as gospel when I tell you
The hardest work you'll find in this world
Is digging the grave for someone you loved.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Aug 20, 2014 - 09:40am PT
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Very interesting thread, Ron.
Great stories! Could make an interesting book.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Aug 20, 2014 - 11:01am PT
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and letting him know everything was good..
it's the LEO code, eh Ron..bust the crooks...unless they're cops.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Aug 20, 2014 - 11:37am PT
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fair enough Ron- Good stories.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 20, 2014 - 12:05pm PT
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"And i always attempted to make a violator an informed user of the forest if i could. Even as far as writing permits on the spot to folks who were in deep confusion,or not initiated to the ways of the woods. As much as i was called pig of the woods locally, i was also invited to dinners, parties, and would be greeted in stores and such by hundreds upon hundreds of those that had very nice dealings with me in the woods."
Ronline Ron is like, different from this guy to many of you who've wrangled with him on the pages of El Taco, "The Echo of the Voice of the Cliffs."
It's the internet,
Soooo not what you get
In real Life With Ron.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 20, 2014 - 01:17pm PT
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This is one for Dingus Milktoast.
This is for norwegian.
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skitch
climber
East of Heaven
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Aug 20, 2014 - 01:40pm PT
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I helped out an LEO, or FPO (whichever is the lower ranking) for a summer, we worked the north end of the Bighorn Mountains, mostly warning people on ATVs that they are only supposed to travel on trails shown on the map. I really liked the guy that I worked with, but I had a hard time giving a sh!t if people took there ATV on a road that looked to be there longer than I've been alive, but just happened to not be on the official trail map.
A couple years ago, when I was hard up for a job, I was offered a job doing ATV-LEO(??)FPO(??) work for the summer out of Cody Wyoming. I probably would have taken it if I didn't get this permanent gig as an administrative d-bag. I'm not sure I ever would have cared enough to do the job effectively, my give-a-sh!t section of the brain has never worked terribly well, and I hate being an authority figure. The world is fvcked and we are just getting in the way. . .
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