Washingtonians

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Does the Loup Loup or Disautel moutian passes count? LOL. Sorry. It is early in the morning and I should be getting ready for work. first High School football game tonight...will be fun.

Loup Loup's officially the North Cascades, and Disautel's in the Okanogans, which is north of the path I took and west of Spokane, which I was arbitrarily using for a divider. I get to be a bit of a smart*ss about mountains; it started when I was in college and somebody from Colorado complained that the Olympics were "cheating" because their base is close to sea level, and was exacerbated by travelling to Montana too often and hearing that Snoqualamie Pass is no big deal (of course, one year we went over White, which is a big deal: not as big as Washington Pass on 2, but only a couple of hundred feet lower than Fourth of July Pass).

Well, and growing up on Yelm Prairie gave me a strong definition of what a Proper Mountain looks like. (About 40 miles of clear air at 350 feet looking 5 degrees north of due west at a 14,411 ft of triple-crowned stratovolcano makes an impression).

I did not think ANYONE would know what the Loup Loup was or what/where Disautel was. LOL.. that is too funny.

When was the last time you were over Disautel? Have you ever stopped at the top, turned and look back over your left shoulder and look at the top of the mountain? someone put up a giant steel "BIG FOOT" man? It is really cool .

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Loup Loup's officially the North Cascades, and Disautel's in the Okanogans, which is north of the path I took and west of Spokane, which I was arbitrarily using for a divider. I get to be a bit of a smart*ss about mountains; it started when I was in college and somebody from Colorado complained that the Olympics were "cheating" because their base is close to sea level, and was exacerbated by travelling to Montana too often and hearing that Snoqualamie Pass is no big deal (of course, one year we went over White, which is a big deal: not as big as Washington Pass on 2, but only a couple of hundred feet lower than Fourth of July Pass).

Well, and growing up on Yelm Prairie gave me a strong definition of what a Proper Mountain looks like. (About 40 miles of clear air at 350 feet looking 5 degrees north of due west at a 14,411 ft of triple-crowned stratovolcano makes an impression).

I did not think ANYONE would know what the Loup Loup was or what/where Disautel was. LOL.. that is too funny.

When was the last time you were over Disautel? Have you ever stopped at the top, turned and look back over your left shoulder and look at the top of the mountain? someone put up a giant steel "BIG FOOT" man? It is really cool .

Not since I was ten or so- we went that way to Grand Coulee from Omak (which is my Dad all over: he thought direct routes were for boring people).

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Girlfriend, thats why you got all those clothes and extra baby stuff.
You can toss out the yucks and still not miss anything.

It only happened to me once and boy, let me tell you...that was enough.

Then years later you can tell Audrey what happened and watch her face.

LOL

Precious.
My son likes that story the best! And I only lost one blanket, one outfit, one onesie,and had to really really clean the stroller. Cheaper than the movies.
So go brew a BIG pot of coffee and smell the grounds. Alll good.

Stories for later are the best...that reminds me....The NOW 16 year old - when he was 5...he loved to sit in my lap and cuddle. He liked to lay his head on my "chest". Once he picked up his head and pointed his finger at my "chest" and stated: "I like to put my head there, it is soft and comfy".....

I will have to retell him that story some time.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Loup Loup's officially the North Cascades, and Disautel's in the Okanogans, which is north of the path I took and west of Spokane, which I was arbitrarily using for a divider. I get to be a bit of a smart*ss about mountains; it started when I was in college and somebody from Colorado complained that the Olympics were "cheating" because their base is close to sea level, and was exacerbated by travelling to Montana too often and hearing that Snoqualamie Pass is no big deal (of course, one year we went over White, which is a big deal: not as big as Washington Pass on 2, but only a couple of hundred feet lower than Fourth of July Pass).

Well, and growing up on Yelm Prairie gave me a strong definition of what a Proper Mountain looks like. (About 40 miles of clear air at 350 feet looking 5 degrees north of due west at a 14,411 ft of triple-crowned stratovolcano makes an impression).

I live on Loup Loup!

Yes You Do!

 

[Kaneke]

all of which reminds me of a poem ... using Washington place names ...

this link is a PDF file, however I couldn't find any other link to share this bit of ... ?? doggerel ??

http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cg...s&sei-redir=1#search="heart went hamma hamma"

 

[Ogress]

Did you see the predicted temperatures for the next 10 days??? I think it may be the start of summer! (either that or the weatherman has been sniffing glue again).

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I remember when I was visiting friends in South Dakota. They took me shooting up on the top of the "mountain." I about wet myself when they said we were there, and all we had done was drive of a rolling hill that was no more than 700'! I couldn't help but tell them that THAT is NOT a mountain! It's a hill!

Nobody in that family had been outside of SD, so they really had no clue. But it was funny.

LOL That reminds me of when I drove across the country with my sister, who was moving to PA. We kept seeing signs for the Pocono Mountains... Pocono ski resort...Pocono this and Pocono that. Well, we kept waiting for them...until we realized that we had driven right through them!!! The whole time we thought we were driving through the foothills.

 

[Kaneke]

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about time we had summer, I was beginning to wonder if we had been transferred to Ketchikan's vicinity, where summer lasts just one week, and if you blink you miss it

 

[Ogress]

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Love it!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I know I am behind on pages....but I was just thinking the EXACT same thing.....