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Laura just bailed. I have a seat in my car and rack space for one bike.
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Alex
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:16 am
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Laura -- Just because you can't go Friday doesn't mean you should skip the whole thing! Come up on Saturday.
And wow, 5 pages and we haven't even left yet.
btm
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:55 am
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Alex wrote:
11am meetup at the trailhead, rolling at 11:30 sounds good to me. I want to be up there pretty early so that I have time to explore Green Mtn a bit.
Trailhead being the end of the road?
Sounds like a plan.
UAV will leave Seattle before 9am. Since there's no need to carpool I won't bother going to the Park and Pool. If anyone wants a ride they should email me (I can't figure out why this fucking site has an 'outbox' for private messages) where I should pick them up and I'll let them know when to be on the street corner.
Currently it's Me, Monica, and Greg Tellvik provided he gets my PM. Plenty more room.
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joeball wrote:
FYI
I am driving Mike, Diane, T-Ball, and myself to the end of the road on Saturday morning. Our rig is full and we are leaving Ballard at probably 8:15 in the morning.
Tentative plan is to ride the 6.5 miles to camp set up and then possibly ride back 2 miles unloaded to Green Mountain road, ride up 6miles/1000' Then hike the green mountain trail and get in some views.
I would eat fiesta but don't have the energy to count people, subtract vegans, scale for derrick's appetite, and throw in one for the pot.
Basic recipe in the past has been Rice-a-roni Spanish rice, canned tomatoes, canned pinto beans, frozen/canned corn. Add canned chicken if desired, Top with shredded cheese, sour cream, hot sauce, and eat in a tortilla.
We have also done tacos with ground beef and beans cooked in the pot and toppings all cold.
Yo JoeBall, this sounds like a good plan, I'm down for a nice hike!
Green Mountain sounds pretty dang beautiful, it is featured in my book: 100 Classic Hikes in Washington (8 miles and elevation gain of 3100 feet, neat). I've been wanting to do this hike but have heard that a road wash-out makes the trailhead un-reachable... but do you know if we are able to get there with our bikes?
I'll be up there Friday night so your plan of going to our camp first Saturday and then riding to the trailhead will allow some of us who got there early to join. What time can you estimate getting to the campsite?
Sean we'll probably show up to camp around noon. I really wish I could be headed out there Friday night but alas. Anyway the trip report that goes with the flickr set you found describes the old lower trail up to green mountain. It goes 2 miles up and reaches a point that would take 8 miles to bike to (2 miles back up the road and then 6 miles up to the new GM trail head).
Sulphur Mountain is pretty rad too.
5 miles and 4200' each way, starts from the end of the road. Excellent views, and some alpine lakes if you want to descend ~800' down the backside.
We tried heading up Sulphur Creek trail to look for the hot springs, but it was wicked overgrown and we lost the trail after ~2 miles.
margaret
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:14 pm
Joined: 30 Jan 2007Posts: 112Location: bellingham
is anyone camping sunday night?
here's my plan as of now:
sat. bike from bellingham to suiattle
sun. hike and read a book
mon. bike from suiattle to bellingham
any bham people who wish to join me are welcome. can't wait to see all your faces.
ethan
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:35 am
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aww crap... after all that shit-talking about Monte Cristo and all... I think I need to bail. just too much other stuff coming up (some business, some pleasure) to take off for a whole weekend. have fun peeps.
tictoc, hope you can jump in with BTM or someone.
Talk about "bad decisions" ... I think I just made one.
tictoc
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:06 am
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Hey Bryan
I Need a Ride! I emailed you with details.
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:14 am
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:18 am
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and the disaster begins.
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:29 am
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tehschkott wrote:
Laura just bailed. I have a seat in my car and rack space for one bike.
Were you leaving before 5pm scott?
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tehschkott
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:34 am
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Sorry Scott, cutting it close now and have decided to limit myself to me and Chris at this late hour (leaving in 2hrs). Getting out of town is getting kludgy and I'm ready to get the fuck outta dodge. Sorry man.
Hit up BTM. I'm told the UAV has unlimited capacity.
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:38 am
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no prob, just thought i'd check.
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jimmythefly
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:45 am
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I'm still planning on riding up, anyone want to join me?
btm
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:50 am
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tehschkott wrote:
I'm told the UAV has unlimited capacity.
The UAV will be at the 65th Street P&P at 8:15am, departing 8:45am. I'll email those of you I have contact for about this.
Confirmed:
Me
Monica
Scott/tictoc
Peter Meilstrup
Greg Tellvik
Possible:
2 people who came up to me at CM
2 friends of Sweetbike Scott
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If all the possibles came, we'd be full. We'll see though, it's a late hour.
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laura
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:12 am
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jimmythefly wrote:
I'm still planning on riding up, anyone want to join me?
Paging Robin Ley. Robin? Robin, are you there?
the dreaded ben
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:06 pm
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if anyone is going up tonight. we'll be at the clear creek campground just a few miles south of darrington.
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:41 pm
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screw you hippy, we'll see you tomorrow.
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Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:32 pm
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I plan on shitfacedness this eve, then wakin up at 7 and flippin a coin
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mcrawfor
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:01 pm
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margaret wrote:
here's my plan as of now:
sat. bike from bellingham to suiattle
sun. hike and read a book
mon. bike from suiattle to bellingham
Didn't you just ride halfway around the world or something? You're a monster.
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mcrawfor
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:30 pm
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In other news: Holy shit, 180 replies? Could someone summarize this shit for me? I don't care about your cars, just:
a) When are we meeting at the trailhead?
b) Where is the trailhead?
c) Is there a pre-drive seattle meetup point and time?
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Alex
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:08 pm
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Trailhead: end of suiattle river road, northeast of darringthen
When: 11:30ish for some of us
Seattle meetup: nothing really official, I am leaving Ravenna around 9am
mcrawfor
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:15 pm
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Alex wrote:
Trailhead: end of suiattle river road, northeast of darringthen
When: 11:30ish for some of us
Seattle meetup: nothing really official, I am leaving Ravenna around 9am
Yeah, same road, cross the long bridge over the Suak river then turn right off the hwy (stay straight as the hwy turns left). Road is paved for about 6 miles then turns to gravel for about 6 more miles. When you see a bunch of cars parked you are at the end.
There is a bypass trail around that washout for about the 1st 1/4-1/2 mile. Then you get back to the old gravel road which is in great shape. ~8.5 mile ride to the camp ground. Once you get to the wooden ramp that accesses the concrete bridge you are 100ft from the campsite.
Alex
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 9:28 pm
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No, I mean Suiattle River Road, aka NF-26. Just drive to the washout and park.
Suiattle Mountain Road fork is after the washout, so if you pretend you are going to Suiattle Mountain Road that will work too.
Yup, that was a great time. Thanks for coming everyone!
Scott -- besides the stings the Sulphur Creek site did beat Downey Creek. Thanks for clearing up the trees to make the way out easier.
Jimmy, Margaret, and Matt rock for riding out the whole way.
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:07 pm
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did rogelio ever turn up?
he disappeared so fast this morning i thought [insert racist thing that had happened here]!
when people just keep showing up every hour or two with fresh supplies of alcohol the night goes loooooooong.
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:13 pm
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Ben likes fried chicken
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lantius wrote:
did rogelio ever turn up?
he disappeared so fast this morning i thought [insert racist thing that had happened here]!.
I was out trying to learn how to cross a river from a pair of young white women.
See also: wearing snug cutoffs and white shoes.
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tehschkott
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 6:52 pm
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christ that was a good time
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Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:00 pm
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Pictures?
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dennyt
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:01 pm
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A damn good time! Thanks to Ben & Joanna for helping to clear the blow-downs on the way out this morning.
I lost one of these in camp or by the river, let me know if you found it.
tehschkott
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 8:22 pm
daywalkerJoined: 09 Nov 2007Posts: 6108Location: Hatertown
Hey yeah! That was great! Thanks guys for clearing the road. I worked on the big triple one on Saturday but gave up on that last big log after it collapsed. I wondered who finished it.
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