Sunday Pic of the Day

[BrentD]

I take back everything bad I've said about Bozeman. Whitefish/ Kalispell top honors for armpit of Montana.View attachment 286128

A state can have two armpits ya know.

 

[Stocker]

A state can have two armpits ya know.

What about 6,415 like Iowa?

 

[BrentD]

What about 6,415 like Iowa?

absolutely possible. Or 6,416 like Nebraska.

 

[Brauee20]

Dragged the boat up to Traverse Bay for a couple days fishing. Had the pleasure of jigging Lakers with @Ben Lamb Wednesday with my youngest on board, and some bonus chrome on Thursday with my son.

 

[Hem]

A state can have two armpits ya know.

Ha...okay @BrentD ...one enema tube.

 

[nastynate]

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

I take back everything bad I've said about Bozeman. Whitefish/ Kalispell top honors for armpit of Montana.View attachment 286128

Kids could play “road is lava” and jump from Subaru roof to Subaru roof all the way across.

 

[CowboyLeroy]

family vacay

 

[trb]

Split Mountain, Dinosaur National Monument this past weekend

 

[BOHNTR]

Right next to the house tonight.

 

[geewhiz]

I take back everything bad I've said about Bozeman. Whitefish/ Kalispell top honors for armpit of Montana.View attachment 286128

Difference is the flathead seams to be more seasonal while the boze is a madhouse 365.

 

[Hem]

Difference is the flathead seams to be more seasonal while the boze is a madhouse 365.

No matter...probably won't go back for another ten years.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

I take back everything bad I've said about Bozeman. Whitefish/ Kalispell top honors for armpit of Montana.View attachment 286128

I haven’t been up there, I’ll have to get up there and investigate it myself

 

[elkduds]

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Took this mid SAR mission to assist a cliffed out hiker yesterday, the lesser traveled side of a very popular peak...

Back of the Bells? Fabulous image, thanks for sharing.

 

[TOGIE]

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Took this mid SAR mission to assist a cliffed out hiker yesterday, the lesser traveled side of a very popular peak...

how sick of assisting/rescuing climbers that lost the route and cliff themselves out are you? given it entail risk for you and your team?

on that same note, i'm sure the custer county guys are sick of hoisting bodies out of the bottom of the needle gully

 

[TOGIE]

Back of the Bells? Fabulous image, thanks for sharing.

looks like blue lakes, "backside" of sneffels

 

[Sytes]

Wife, routed back down along the northern U.S. as the Trans Canadian Hwy was apparently a dull pit bruiser of a drive.

Several are likely familiar with this stretch.

Wife Text: "Makoshika State Park in Glendive, MT"

 

[GrantK]

how sick of assisting/rescuing climbers that lost the route and cliff themselves out are you? given it entail risk for you and your team?

on that same note, i'm sure the custer county guys are sick of hoisting bodies out of the bottom of the needle gully

Really not sick of it at all, helping people who use some common sense of when they are really stuck and call for help is usually a good problem solving exercise, scraping up the ones who don't use common sense and plummet is much less fun, I'd prefer to go out on a silly assist rather than clean up afterwards if it goes bad...there's obviously some really dumb calls but in general even those are enjoyable, I get to explore places no sane person would willingly go...

 

[Dave N]

Wife finally nagged me enough to make another batch of deer jerky. Good thing I had enough toothpicks!

 

[TOGIE]

Really not sick of it at all, helping people who use some common sense of when they are really stuck and call for help is usually a good problem solving exercise, scraping up the ones who don't use common sense and plummet is much less fun, I'd prefer to go out on a silly assist rather than clean up afterwards if it goes bad...there's obviously some really dumb calls but in general even those are enjoyable, I get to explore places no sane person would willingly go...

that's a great perspective. when you read the mountaineering forums you usually see the perspective of other hikers and climbers that constantly call these people out for putting SAR teams in unnecessary jeopardy by overreaching their experience.

the west gully incidents on the needle being the somewhat more recent morbid examples. in that, when you've found yourself off route, before entering terrain that you may not find yourself capable of returning from - and several have died trying to navigate once in - just return to the last on route point and reassess, which is something a lot of hikers and scramblers don't seem to be doing as much on popular colorado peaks. the attempts to bypass the knife on capitol by thinking there is a shortcut to capitol lake being even more sad and preventable and likely are due to people overstepping some experience and preparation for committing and scary routes. the recent diamond wall rescue is another more extreme example, the guys admitted to not being able/having the equipment to self rescue after embarking on a big wall ascent and finding themselves beyond their capability, putting park rangers and SAR teams in jeopardy for something that no climber should have done.

so i was just curious, the community seems to get super pissed at these guys, not sure if the SAR teams get fed up with some of it too. no doubt, assisting a guy/gal back to the route and walking them out is a pretty enjoyable call over high angle extrication of bodies.

think about this stuff a lot, my tolerance for risk has changed a lot in the past few years, and extremely so since that kiddo was born.