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05-14-2022, 10:47 AM #1601
Pics and prose on point!
Nice work Norse.
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05-14-2022, 03:35 PM #1602
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05-14-2022, 03:39 PM #1603
5-6” of mixed graupel and snow in the Wenatchee Mountains above 5000’. Like really crumbly styrofoam, skied great where it wasn’t windfucked. Felt like winter, it was 18 and windy on top of Wenatchee Mt. at 1000.
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05-14-2022, 08:54 PM #1604
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05-14-2022, 09:28 PM #1605
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05-14-2022, 10:31 PM #1606
hell yeah Norse
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05-14-2022, 10:31 PM #1607
Maybe this link gets around paywall
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-...lation-of-one/
Protected Habitat, for a Population of One
Fifty years ago, Marty Bluewater fought to keep his home among the nesting birds of Protection Island. Now he’s fighting for the birds.
Mr. Bluewater, 72, is the only person to have a lifetime tenancy on the roughly 370-acre, two-mile-long island.
Mr. Bluewater, 23 in 1971, saw the island and fell in love. With help from his parents, he purchased land on a high bluff for $7,000.
The Nature Conservancy and other environmental groups fought development of the island, and in 1982, Protection Island was designated a National Wildlife Refuge. The landowners were offered buyouts, and the handful of those who had already built homes were offered residencies for 15 years, 25 years or lifetime use. Mr. Bluewater was the only one who chose the lifelong option.
The island is now closed to the public, and boats without special permission must stay 200 feet away from the shore.
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05-15-2022, 06:35 PM #1608
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05-15-2022, 08:02 PM #1609
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05-15-2022, 08:11 PM #1610
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05-15-2022, 11:13 PM #1611Registered User
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Awesome Norse!
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05-16-2022, 12:36 PM #1612
Wild... I had no clue about him. Funny to think of him chilling in his shack, staring across the channel at the Cape George Buicks and Bridge Club crew.
Norse - Great pics and adventure. That looks like a fun little zone on the bikes. Looks like we'll be driving up to Quilcene in August and bringing our bikes. We rode Port Gamble last summer; might have to come north this time.
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05-16-2022, 01:58 PM #1613
It's not rad or big but it's refreshingly different, and super quiet. Have you ridden the stuff up the Dungeness?
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back to skiing... couple recent cool TRs on TAY:
https://turns-all-year.com/trip-repo...ace-ne-couloir
https://turns-all-year.com/trip-repo...umquat-couloir
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05-16-2022, 02:07 PM #1614
Outstanding work by everyone! Thanks for the inspiration, lots of spring left and up high it feels like it hasn’t even started yet…
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05-16-2022, 02:15 PM #1615
Great TR Norse, I'm getting ready to move back to the peninsula after a few years in Utah - love to see the snowpack and Canadian radio waves are still strong.
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05-16-2022, 04:32 PM #1616
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05-16-2022, 06:20 PM #1617
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05-17-2022, 11:29 AM #1618
Thread drift but.... here's another one:
https://www.washingtonnature.org/yellowisland
My folks had house on nearby Shaw Island in the 60's/70's, and we used to go visit the Dodds who had homesteaded and owned Yellow before TNC got it from their kids. They lived in a the coolest driftwood house in very spartan conditions and were quite content.
house vid at 3:45 https://dashpointpirate.typepad.com/...hil-green.html
history here: http://www.willhiteweb.com/washingto...slands_298.htm
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05-17-2022, 12:42 PM #1619
Phil's Sneak in Green Valley is about done too, cliffs are melted out.
Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
>>>200 cm Black Bamboo Sidewalled DPS Lotus 120 : Best Skis Ever <<<
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05-18-2022, 09:27 AM #1620
also... happy 42nd anniversary of the St Helens eruption
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05-18-2022, 09:46 AM #1621
That looks like a picture my mom took on the day of the eruption, we flew down in my step dad’s Cessna and flew around that side of the mountain for a while after refueling at PDX.
It was the cover of the Arlington Times the next day and made into postcards.
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05-18-2022, 10:19 AM #1622Originally Posted by Rainier Nat'l Park News Release
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05-18-2022, 10:35 AM #1623
Wow.
You got to fly around an erupting volcano?
Can’t even imagine how awesome that would be.
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05-18-2022, 11:16 AM #1624Registered User
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05-18-2022, 11:40 AM #1625
PNW 2021/2022 Season! La Niña ahead!
Yeah, unforgettable and mildly terrifying. My mom, sister and I were doing yard work at our place northeast of Stanwood. We heard an explosion but though nothing of it because people routinely blasted stumps around there. My stepdad was at Arlington airport working on the plane. He called home with the news and told us to get down to the airport.
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