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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Oct 17, 2017 - 04:01am PT
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Nice post Jody! :)
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Oct 17, 2017 - 09:48pm PT
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Notice the cobwebs? A fading icon of America. What was once viewed as America's parks for enjoyment by all therein are now open for viewing every 30 minutes in the East Auditorium. Or, on relegated boardwalks, roped off view points and shuttle buses that leave from full parking lots and drop off's at roped off areas or other boardwalks with summary video showings, and informative interpretive signs. Selfie Stations, too. Reservations for volunteer clean-up crew accepted from well qualified applicants 5 months in advance only.
Funding for LEO at NPS has probably tripled while campgrounds have shrunk. Who here remembers Smokey Jack, East and West Tenaya, Soda Springs, and Gaylor Creek campgrounds? America's parks for enjoyment shrink every year. USFS campgrounds are shut down by September 30th; what the hell is that?
Meanwhile, some Devil's Tower LEO's finally find a target.
oh yeah, here's one of my hats from BITD. I would feel like a fool to wear it, even on Halloween (for now). Saving it for when I come back.
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Bad Climber
Trad climber
The Lawless Border Regions
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Oct 18, 2017 - 07:44am PT
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Jody for the win:
Holy cow, if wearing a hat constitutes impersonating a ranger, than eating a donut constitutes impersonating a police officer.
And to the other poster who said this is akin to arguing about an ant: What, you've never been tooled by a tool? It's a common problem for us climbing folk, part of the culture, and classic stories around the campfire, virtual and literal.
BAd
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Oct 18, 2017 - 07:56am PT
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mmm.. donuts. so hitting Hing's this morning.
The hat tooling.. lame.
All the campground closures.. lame in the extreme. It's a stupid misguided tactic to save money. Dont get me started about mis-use of funds. FS attemped to shut down our Visitor Center just after Labor Day this year to save on payroll.
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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Oct 18, 2017 - 03:21pm PT
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If you can't do the time, don't do the crime... don't taze me bro!!!!!!!
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Oct 18, 2017 - 05:54pm PT
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Damn Houston game in the background Russ!
Peace
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Ballo
Trad climber
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Jan 14, 2018 - 01:08pm PT
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So, I *may* know why this happened:
I have a friend who worked at Olympic NP wilderness trail crew. There was a general manager for maintenance (I don't recall what his exactly title was) who, given stories I read about him, was a tool and a half.
I've never seen him, but he was described as only having upper body strength and wore little girl's t-shirts. He liked to keep his sunglasses perched on the middle of his forehead and walk around swaying, chest out. I don't recall all the stories but one time he walked up on the Trail Crew (his name is Reed):
Reed: Are you the Trail Crew?
TC: Yeah
Reed: Well I'm your BOSS! Head of general maintenance (or whatever)
One of the crew: Yeah, we met when I got injured.
Reed: Well no more of that! I had to do extra paperwork!
My friend: We'll try.
Reed [Leaning over to get right up into my friends face]: No, YOU'LL DO!
Reed [saunters off into the sunset like some hero at the end of a western]
Apparently my friend was wearing a USFS hat in a cafeteria once and got some disgusted looks from Reed (probably due to the white dreadlocks).
He transferred to Devil's Tower before OP's incident and this is the type of sh#t he's known for.
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