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bluering

Trad climber

Santa Clara, Ca.

Oct 18, 2008 - 11:15am PT

Mount Doom today...I'll be there, anybody else wanna go?

Dr. Rock

Ice climber

http://tinyurl.com/4oa5br

Oct 18, 2008 - 12:44pm PT

Hey I got tooled by Open Space a few months back.
Was cuttin brush at Eagle Peak.

Really weird how it went down.
I am clearing some leaves off the main trail, and I trundle a softball size boulder down the steep hill by "semi mistake" if you get me, like, darn, didn't mean to push that rock with my foot.

So there i goes, ka thump de dump a bump a slam, for a few minutes.

Next thing I know, some freak with a backpack hikes up the hill in exactly the same spot as the boulder track, I can hear the leaves when he is still 100 yards down the hill, so I stash the chain saw and the D9 and wait for John Denver to make his appearance.
He didn't have any open bleeding sores or anything, so I guess the rock missed him.

So here comes the lone hiker with his back pack, we have a friendly chat, he might have spied something.

Anyway, a half an hour later I am trimming some stuff and another boulder goes down the hill.
Ka thmpity thump ka womp a crack a splat.

Five minutes later, here comes Ranger Rick down the trail:

"Hold it right there!"
As I ws in the middle of trimming a 1/4 inch branch with a two foot antique Swedish hand saw.

So I am going WTF over, how did this guy know I was there?

Anyway, it was the Lone Hiker.

He is a look out for marijuana plants on Open Space and nearby area.

The reason I know is I kayak with the guy that does the exact same thing, only in the East Bay.

They dress up like bird watchers, or hikers, then walk around with a radio in their back pack.

After Ranger #1 show up, Ranger #2, an old blond hag, wanders down the trail and starts telling me how I shouldn't be there because a lot of people go up there to kill themselves, and how she found someone hanging from a tree, sheesh, what a wack job,anyway, probably that circular branch right as you get to Eagle, anyway, here comes Ranger #3 from down below!

They had a frickin perimeter set up to catch me!

My bike was there, so the guy starts listing the four charges, telling me what a deal I am getting with only the Illegal Pruning charge.

The third guy was an ex climber, but he was no help.
Traitor!

Anyway, still waitin for the paperwork.

So if you see a Lone Hiker type that seems a little on the "straight" side when you rap with him, that means the Possy is on it's way as soon as he gets out of hearing range.

Oh, I voluntered for Open Space, you can get on their web site and sign up, so I am going to push a project for a trail improvement.
I want to make it so you can do a loop around the water fall and hit all the peaks on that side without getting all cut up.

We pay property taxes to buy that land, but they act like it's a privelage to be there.

#1 Purpose is Land Preservation.

Well thats great, but not if nobody gets to enjoy it.