Olympic Mountain Climbing
On July 8th, 2023, Pilot and I summited a mountain.
As all mountains go, it was a shitload of up. I've won plenty of uphill battles in my life but it had been a few years since I'd summitted any earthbeasts worth bragging about. Maybe longer. I didn't do it to brag, though. I did it to see what was at the top.
The trail claimed there would be mountain goats. So many, in fact, that a Mt. Goat Removal Project was scheduled for the end of the month. As such I schlepped my umpteen pound 600mm lens, along the with the three liters of water and snacks for me and the little scruff. A lot of up, a lot of schlepping. Alas, the most mountain goat I saw was in a few strands of white hair alongside the trail.
Her name is Mt. Elinore, and in spite of the three days worth of damage she did to my quads on the descent, I'm glad I spent the day with her.
Here's why:
Mt. Elinore, Olympic Range, Washington. USA.
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Wow… epic views. So worth going up. 🤩
Awesome captures!
Have a lovely mid week 👋🏻
Thanks, you tooooooo!
You are welcome, thank you 😊
I really enjoyed reading all of that up shit and the photos didn't suck at all.
That's the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me!
Thank you so much! I've been practicing nice, wasn't sure it's working, this is huge!
Fake it 'til you make it!!
Beautiful views 🤩
Thanks! (On behalf of the mountain, of course.)
U r welcome 😁
At least you got a shot of that chipmunk.
Thank god I got a shot of that chipmunk.
Thanks @ewkaw and @qurator team!
Those are some good lookin' mountains. Pilot's a trooper to make it all the way up there :)
The mountains are your eyes.
No wonder I keep finding rocks in there.
Aren't those just the loose rocks off the main mountain?
Maybe. I will have to send a sample into the lab for analysis.
Yes. Get data, always the data, get data.
You checkin' out my mountains, bro? WTF.
Yeah, he's a trooper, that dawg o' mine. Impresses all the hikers with his mountaineering skills.
Caught in the act. Dammit. I'm going to hell.
Who the fuck is this and what have you done with @brandt??!!
I'm his replacement. I pushed him off a cliff.
Oh, ok, that's cool. But are you sure you should be telling me that right here in front of the internet and everybody?
It's 2023. Nobody will ever scroll down this far.
I read submitted instead of summited for some reason.
Oh, now I remember why. Can't talk about that one, sorry, eh.
Earthbeasts. I wonder if you know how accurate you are with that word label. I'm laughing.
Second photo is wicked. Near the end, I'm wondering how it is a chipmunk is on a mountain rock like that.
Yes, I submitted this mountain for @brandt's review, he being hive's foremost expert on mountains west of the rockies.
Earthbeasts. Yes. I know what I'm saying, woman! Mountains have souls!
Chipmunks have souls, too. And good sense enough to hang out on summits and scavenge for m&ms and grapes and nuts and cheese and bits of slim jim (in case they don't get enough excitement as it is living atop a mountain and need a little more).
@nineclaws there's actually a lot of wildlife that likes to hang above treeline. Chipmunks, picas, marmots, ptarmigans, crickets, spiders, to name a few. And goats, of course :)
Know something else I see a lot on top of mountains? Crows.
Are you telling me to take a hike?
Yeah you need a hike. So does some other green eyed pink princess, but I'm tired of tagging his toes.
Are you trying to tell me I should go the morgue and pick up a dead zombie in a pink tutu and take him backpacking?
I'm so confused. I thought you were gloriously unemployed but now I'm thinking you work at the Apocalypse Hotel California.
Actually, I was referring to some individual that sometimes hangs around here, works the pink princess thing, pretends to be dead but is never a zombie...just have to protect him from snakes.
That's what I want you to think. Both of those two thoughts. I'm waiting for your third thought.........make it a threesome thrupled up.
You dirty dirty
girlcenturies-old woman.Who is this Pink Princess????? Does she/he/do they live in Oregon or do I have to go on another one of those goddamn fucking road trips to climb some goddam fucking mountain and yes I used two different damn dams because I like them both? I had a pink tutu when I was a little girl. If I still had it I could wear it on the hike, if PP thought that was appropriate.
I am looking for a wilderness buddy. Has to be the right fit, though. Like my tutu was.
I miss that thing.
That's my third thought.
I'm full on sobbing in sloppy saltiness slapping down my face with more joy than I've seen in, well, can't recall.
@dandays, kindly bring your pink tutu to the mix.
@dandays is PP??!!
omg I can't wait until he reads this please oh please let him read this one first
I didn't. I read hers first. But I read the previous one of yours so I read two of you to her one, how's that?
Princess, yes. At one point in my career someone thought it would be funny because my work has to be pretty, hands have to be soft, time has to.. there's a lot that goes into being me.
But it didn't hurt my feelings at all. I only wished someone pointed it out sooner. It's totally obvious.
Pink Princess is an addition but I'll take it. I wear a pink belt. This phone is pink. PP, however, n.o. = }
And now I realize that, outside of going rad places with your wife and taking a minimum of 800 pictures of your dog a day, I have no idea what you do. Like, for a living.
What do you do for a living, subiebuddy?
And I won't call you PP. Don't worry.
at least not in public and not to your face
I'm kidding, sheesh
god some people are so sensitive
What's the difference between a chickpea and a garbonzo bean?
I only one want on my face.
Sensuous..
Cool you care. For 22 years I engineered tower cranes.
Joined the Union when I was 19—third generation, my grandfather was a Union wireman for the railroad. They said if I worked my ass off for 20 years I could retire and draw all my pensions when I'm 40 and never work again.
I had a couple injuries during my career, knee replacements n shit.. fused limbs, serious things. Set me back a couple times.
Worked like they said, didn't take vacations or anything like that like a true hearted American.
Took me 22, though, not 20, close enough.
= }
Subie-nod.
Whooooaaaaaaoooooowww that's cool! I've always been fascinated by those things. Soft hands, huh? Gotta engineer those cranes with a satin touch. In spite of them obviously biting the body that feeds them... Congrats on the retirement. I think you're younger than me, so the math tells me it was recent.
I don't get your joke.
😂I'm betting he got it ackwards bass. New short form for him...PP, I'm liking that a LOT.
I don't think PP is PC.
I don't know PC, so I'm good with PP.
But are you down??? With OPP?
You're talking about a provincial police force now, the OPP? I had no idea that anyone (cough) south of some line I've never seen would know that much Canadiana.
No, I was talking about this.
Confirmed.
˙ƃuol ooʇ ɹoɟ @dandays ɥʇᴉʍ ʇno ƃuᴉƃuɐɥ uǝǝq ǝʌ,no⅄
I think you've been lying to me about where you live.
I think you live in Australia.
I think you're just jelly you can't do ndsᴉpǝ poʍu esrever tricks cause you can't handle the coding.
p.s. Do you know where I really am right now? I might be looking through your windows, skulking about, winning away your crows.
GIVERRR! I'll make a salad and share.
Why make a salad when you can just toss this one?
You're just killing me, literally killing me. I laugh cried trying not to die.
Please don't die; I'll have no one to share my pastries with.
It's too late. I'm corporeal. A corpse. Temporarily. Can you make corpse cake pastries for the dead?
That all looks plastic to me. I know they want us to eat more plastic and less sweet, but, please, I just can't, I know it's for the good of the environment, I've tried eating it, I really have, but it doesn't exit the way a piece of plastic tinsel stays shiny on it's exit after a cat ate it.
made with recycled yoga mats!
I'll see your recycled yoga mats and I'll raise you this beer and this burger and these gummy bears.
The subtitles for the video are great: "creating needs from human species." Who needs humans, anyway? What a load of shit on a shingle.
Singapore swears they hold the market on using reclaimed water. Drink beer, piss it out, drink beer again. The circle of life.
No gummy turbines for you until you finish your subway sandwich, Jared.
Don't you know that humans are now hackable animals, no more free will, spirit, or any of that nonsense? That's all over. Just eat poop, drink pee and you'll be happy.
I adore (back at you) that sentence; made me burst out laughing instantly. On a serious note, don't you just love corporate marketing language?
Singapore can keep swear singing along about their record, no one that truly matters cares.
No gummies for me period. Candy and me are a no go, even if it's for a green cause like eating gummies to support recycling of wind turbine blades.
Isn't mapley burp-popcorn kiiiiiiiind of a candy?
<3
It can be whatever word label you want to stick on it. Just don't eat the label. Recipe can be switched around, use REAL butter instead of coconut oil, use REAL honey instead of maple syrup. If you really want to candy it up, just go full on hardcore and make REAL caramel sauce with raw organic cane sugar and pour that on it with salt. You could flavour the caramel with whatever you want. Literally, just go crazy like I am here because it feels so right-good to go crazy.
I like crazy. Not really inclined to sugar-coat anything, though.
It tastes supergood if you use the right sugar-coat.
sugar coat.
turbinado.
I disagree, that's a shuga coat.
This is sugar coat.
Weeeeee!!!
Peeeeeeeee!!!
It's now updated to PPM, please see below for more detailed information, thank you.
Where below? What huh what the hell is going on?
Peakd just took a blast to the past and is only showing me content from September so now I'm on ecency, which is about as confusing as being on E, I would guess, though I've never actually taken it and have no plans to do so.
Can't we just call him PPE? For pandemic nostalgia?
I'm sorry. Eh. It's been updated a third time. Here. Right. Here. Right. Below. O. K. ?.
#GEPP
What the what?
Then how would you know. You're making all this shite up. I knew it.
I would but I can't because I have a habitual helpful habit of deleting words out of my dictionary and you just mentioned a word that no longer exists. It got erased in the last type reset.
I also add words to my dictionary, just so you know I'm being fair to my dictionary with both deletions and additions.
This is my brain.
You love caramel don't you...mmmmmm yum, caramel fun.
Your brain on caramel looks especially delicious, careful, caramel zombie gonna come getcha, lickya caramel brains right out of your skull...
Check this out.
I mean this.
Looks like you're part of the Pink Princess Mob, based on both pics, but I don't understand why you didn't take that buck out for deer steaks, meat being pricey and all. Then again, LA Pink Princesses aren't hunters.
Yes, if you want to take pictures of the crows there :)
I've denfinitely not spent the time in western mountains. I wasn't thinking of chipmunks being there, but other wildlife yes. Definitely mountain goats. Crows I'd expect. I'd also expect ravens.
Is this a pica? Never heard of that one, had to look it up. So cute.
Yeah that's a pica. Except I spelled it wrong. It's supposed to be pika.
Thanks, figured it was, spelling doesn't matter unless, um, it's the right/wrong word(s) at the right/wrong time.
Btw, just so as you know, it's freaking me out that you changed your profile pic, so much so, that I checked to see if @otherbrandt changed his and nope, all good there. Can't say the new one doesn't suit you in mountains, that is, after inspection with magnification.
I don't have many pictures of me, mainly because I'm camera shy and am totally not a selfie kind of person. My buddy shot this one of me recently and I thought it was decent. @otherbrandt can go suck a dick.
You're kinder than I am. I bring people to tears when they even suggest taking a pic of me.
Seriously though, it's a good shot your buddy took. I like it.
I wonder if @otherbrandt will rise from the depths of hell to tell you to go suck a bag of dicks. Maybe he's dead though.
What?
Well look who crawled out of the cesspools of the bowels of hell.
I thought you submitted to the mountain, but even better that you submitted for @brandt's review because he is the Mountain Man Manifico, like M&M's but a thruple not a double.
Have you been inside seen inside such mountains?
That's a delicately creative way of saying you bribed that chipmunk repeatedly to pose for you. How would you know they don't get enough excitement atop a mountain? I don't believe that. @brandt, I think she's full of m&ms and grapes and nuts and cheese and bits of slim jim.
I absolutely did not submit for @brandt's review. Don't be vulgar.
I drove through a mountain, once. But it shat me out its north end.
How was that vulgar? Well, I never. I never. I never knew you don't know the real vulgar me, cuz that wasn't it that I spat.
Gotta pick the right mountain. I have one in mind.
If I go to Crater Lake I can take a hike and then jump in a lake...
that's one way in.
Also jesusfuckingchrist how did we end up with two threads on one post? I feel like @hivebuzz should give us some kind of award for how long we can keep a thread going.
Okay, you can't jump in a crater lake to get in. That doesn't count because it's cheating.
I don't know but your comments have made me laugh cry. I had to pause to do that, couldn't fingerlip fly on keys, never mind writer's block.
Did you run out of tears? Because I have some more in my cajones...
Holding out until one of us pisses our pants. Then we can call it.
I made sure I laughed all the ones that wanted to fly free out of me. The other ones I'm saving for when I'm reading old letters. I'm not sure I trust your cajones, the contents, how the tears are treated, and well, that's enough said there...
Done. It's on.
Oh, I'm very good at self-care. You can trust my nuts.
I don't know about that. I think it's more hu.ma.ne using a vise to crush nuts to nothing, especially nuts with eyes.
TOO MANY THREADS!!!
You win.
I know I know
I keep still finding them all over my home. Sewing hazard...threads everywhere. Literally.
I'm sorry, neither of us can either win or lose. I compete only with myself, sorry.
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oh shit i mean
!bubbleoff
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Doesn't count unless the inspiration for the image naturally occurred on your bathroom ceiling, you took multiple photos to get the right shot, edited it in photoshop, then and only then, made a gif out of it frame by frame in photoshop.
You're right! It doesn't. But can you make a heart fart butt gif??
Even better on your bathroom ceiling...
I can poop hearts. I levelled up from heart farts a looooooooong time ago. Hope that doesn't cause heart hurt.
There's a butt crack on my ceiling but I haven't been able to capture the right shot yet. There's always the toilet though. 😉😘😁
Clearly, you have too much time on your hands to be baking such poop.
All the time in the world.
Please precisely quantify specifically in detailed data the exact amount of time using this clock to calculate.
When the axe strikes wood.
Or gold.
Shit. Whichever makes the maniacal homicidal apostle richer.
I'm not even going to attempt-fake pretend I have any feather flipping clue what that statement means. Yes, I'm serious, not cereal, sometimes serial.
Did you actually watch the procession????? I think you need to go back and reclick your own link, woody.
Seriously, I thought that apostle was why you needed me to see it.
I watched many moons ago but there's an A word has been erased from my dictionary for so looog that it completely compromised my comprehension.
I can't be woody, I don't have the wood for it, even with medical intervention, it wouldn't function.
It was actually the clock I wanted you to see because it's an astrological clock, but I wanted you to have the full tourist experience even though you aren't there and I've never been there, it still counts in time.
A for..... Anna??
looog is a really long time. Oh, loog at the time! Goota run.
This "A" word in that. That word is so long lost from my language, I don't recall ever speaking it.
Ahhhhh, I see.
I was raised Athesit. Another A word. And Also, my mom would say we were witches. Not an A word but seeing as the two were relatively contradictory we can call it far enough away to be close enough to A.
Really glad I don't know all the apostles or much about them other than they like eating dinner all facing one direction.
Everything I know about Jesus I learned from Lamb.
She saw the light burnt that her brain bright. Many things I say are lost in translation for many a, um, just say long time, screwed up the ryhme here.
I don't know what that is but it looks curious. Sounds like you were raised from the dead, which would explain the witchery elements you describe. I like your logic. Really, these things are all the same, but that's a secret mostly unknown, but readily observable, if your interface is sufficiently functional.
I forgot all I knew about that A word long ago. They're all just stories anyway.
I've heard rumours that there are there different ones and I didn't learn that from Christopher, lmao, that's familiar.
Huh. Athesit sounds like something from a fable or Greek mythology, maybe? I have no idea. Could explain a great deal of things pertaining to the why-I-grew-up-fucked-up factor. Can't even disbelieve in anything properly.
Lamb is sooooo good! I cried a little at the end. (Spoiler alert, Jesus dies.)
This is how it is in this world. All that flockery is by design.
I simplied...bye, bye beliefs, hit the road mindtrap beliefs and don't come back no mo no mo no mo.
Spoiler alert, I read him.😂
I like this god. He rides on a rat. It's very homoerotic. And he was once so passionately engrossed in a writing project that when his pen broke he snapped off a tusk and used that instead. We have a lot in common.
You've gone Hindu now?
I'm not sure what that is, my brain just froze on that word, can't seem to process it.
If you need a tusk, I have one, but it's not elephant god's tusk so it probably doesn't count.
Don't need a tusk, but thanks for the offer!
I'm not hindu, I'm just everything whatever I like whatever works whenever I want it. Best.religion.nonreligion.ever.
It's alright, you'd never be allowed to have it because you're on the wrong side of the border. According to Cites; can't send such a precious thing out of this corporation to your corporation, or any other corporation.
Sounds like you'd fit in very well into a northern corporation.
I think I might have a carved walrus tusk somewhere that I stole from an evil ex boyfriend who got it from someone, probably some chick he was dating, when he lived in Alaska.
If it means taking a drug test and filling out this application for employment first, I'm just gonna stay unincorporated. Or, you know, here, in Portland, where everything whatever I like whatever works whenever I want it pretty much flies for everyone.
Good Luck.
North or South corporations, all the same, especially when there's five eyeballs on it all, different departments is all, same as shopping at walmart or costco or any boxed in same structure.
Meh, for all I know it was soapstone, though he claimed it was carved by a native. I have no idea where the thing is.
You're safe. Won't be arrested for that. Fabulousness.
I think goats are just camera shy.
I'm starting to think they're in cahoots with Bigfoot...
Maybe I should go to cahoots.
Worth the pain for the view I say!!!
Absolutely! I have plans to injure myself on her again next summer.
😂 go easy!!
Amazing photos! Your dog is sooo cute 😍 How do you call the animal on the last photo? It's not a squirrel, isn't it?
It's a chipmunk! A striped and smaller and somehow even cuter version of a squirrel.
And thanks! My dog is cute, isn't he. And tired, in that photo. Usually he smiles for the camera.