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StefanS
Trad climber
Leavenworth WA
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Dec 17, 2014 - 10:34am PT
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If they quit pumping water out of the hole it will be good for deep water soloing.
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Darwin
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 17, 2014 - 11:32am PT
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^w.r.t pumping: Ha ha. Boy I bet Mike McGinn is chortling, he having fought the tunnel tooth and nail.
on a tangent: The Mountaineers' center out on San Point has a 15' high(?) quartet of real transplanted basalt columns. They are spaced to provide reasonably sized cracks ranging from tight hands to very rattly fists+. I've only been there in approach shoes, but I found them surprisingly difficult, like I could barley make a move on any of them. And I'm someone who does (did?) concrete overpass cracks pretty frequently. I hope it's just been my head space and lack of proper foot ware. I have average-small hands for a man, and I would guess the small handed people would have a harder time at the Mountaineer's columns.
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WBraun
climber
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Dec 17, 2014 - 11:40am PT
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Brett
That's some funny sh!t in that article you linked.
I was LMAO reading it, thanks .....
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Dec 17, 2014 - 11:48am PT
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Most often when I hear my family of stone called out it is in a way that touts the fun climb ability of the stone ....
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 17, 2014 - 01:00pm PT
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I'd be laughing too if this wasn't a MoneyPit, our Money in that Pit.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Dec 17, 2014 - 01:16pm PT
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I thought the tunnel was supposed to be drilled horizontally.
Where are they going with it? China?
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Dec 17, 2014 - 02:12pm PT
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Wow. That is nuts. The writer was sure having fun with it.
Round here the local politicians are more restrained. Take our local, crowded 2-lane highway from Boulder to Denver. What everyone wanted was either three lanes or, more expensive but more PC, light rail. Or maybe both. Instead we have millions of dollars and a couple of years construction that will end up with the road becoming, yes, two lanes all over again plus a toll lane to pay for the construction then buy yachts, mansions and lobbyists for the fine folks at Goldman Sachs. For the next 50 years. Way to go, local politicians.
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2014/02/boulder_turnpike_privatization_plan_lawsuit.php
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 17, 2014 - 02:23pm PT
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Chaz- The vertical hole is being dug to try and free up the horizontal boring machine that stalled down underground after running into some crap that it couldn't pass through. Very pricey holdup on a rather stupid project to begin with that caters to developers along the waterfront. How do you spell SNAFU?
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brett
climber
oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 17, 2014 - 02:39pm PT
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Not the same David Roberts. Both are great writers, though.
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couchmaster
climber
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Dec 17, 2014 - 02:43pm PT
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What would the odds be that the David Roberts who wrote that story is also the David Roberts climber and author?
Hmm, not much but better than getting the tunnel in under a less than massive increase in the budget I'd bet.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Dec 17, 2014 - 03:12pm PT
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They've made more progress digging down than they have digging sideways.
They can work off their success if they dig a series of vertical pits like this one, side by each, forming a trench. They could build the new road at the bottom of this trench, and cover it when finished.
That's how L.A. built its subway. ( the L.A. subway doesn't go anywhere anyone would ever want to be - like the airport or the ballpark - but it's finished )
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Oregon
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Dec 17, 2014 - 03:13pm PT
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The article made me smile. But the whole issue withe the freeway is eerily reminiscent of Portland's waterfront park, now a keystone to livability in town but once a noisy polluted freeway that took away the river from the people.
It went From this:
To this:
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doc bs
Social climber
Northwest
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Dec 17, 2014 - 05:38pm PT
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Fracking in Seattle, maybe it will start the big one?!?!
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MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Dec 17, 2014 - 05:44pm PT
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It's so funny to read the comments.
Portlanders -vs- Seattleites - it has always been, and continues to be a classic regional dissing agenda.
Portlanders: "Seattle sucks! Portland is hip, we take care of our city."
Seattleites: "Portland sucks, at least we have jobs!"
LOL.
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