Rock Plodder
@mtmagog.bsky.social
Everyday permit science - NPDES & other water quality, streams, wetlands, marine (long ago) - and dealing w contaminated crap people leave behind. Outside is good, wild places better.
A5 I've always tried to live reasonably close to parks but the distances have increased. In the 70s Boone NC I could get to the BRP in 10 mins. Evenings I'd often head to the Moses H Cone memorial park (partners w NPS) and walk up a hill top we called "Nowhere" to unwind. #parkchat
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A5 I've always tried to live reasonably close to parks but the distances have increased. In the 70s Boone NC I could get to the BRP in 10 mins. Evenings I'd often head to the Moses H Cone memorial park (partners w NPS) and walk up a hill top we called "Nowhere" to unwind. #parkchat
Going way back to my first visit here in 1975 - going up on the canyon rim while my friends were below at the ruins, the feeling of all that ancient space & trying to get a sense of the people who lived there has stayed with me ever since. #parkchat
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Going way back to my first visit here in 1975 - going up on the canyon rim while my friends were below at the ruins, the feeling of all that ancient space & trying to get a sense of the people who lived there has stayed with me ever since. #parkchat
A1 If you are stuck roughly mid-way between Mt Rainier, North Cascades & Olympic NPs the best pie comes from Remlinger Farms, Carnation WA. But I've just discovered you need to plan ahead. My mission has been to obtain a peach-raspberry, but we'll have to settle for pumpkin & cherry #parkchat
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A1 If you are stuck roughly mid-way between Mt Rainier, North Cascades & Olympic NPs the best pie comes from Remlinger Farms, Carnation WA. But I've just discovered you need to plan ahead. My mission has been to obtain a peach-raspberry, but we'll have to settle for pumpkin & cherry #parkchat
I'm having a hard time thinking about the rangers at the entrance stations who will have to check IDs & enforce this. I'd would quit on day one. #parkchat
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I'm having a hard time thinking about the rangers at the entrance stations who will have to check IDs & enforce this. I'd would quit on day one. #parkchat
Does the pass come with fully funded NPS Rangers & staff?
November 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Does the pass come with fully funded NPS Rangers & staff?
There will be so much work to do when this admin is gone. How much will we lose that can't be recovered?
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
There will be so much work to do when this admin is gone. How much will we lose that can't be recovered?
Once I took a chemist from a big midwest city wastewater treatment plant on her first visit out west on a tour of Yellowstone NP. First stop at stream with steam & a strong sulfur smell she was shocked:
"If this was in Ohio the EPA would shut this place down" #parkchat
"If this was in Ohio the EPA would shut this place down" #parkchat
November 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Once I took a chemist from a big midwest city wastewater treatment plant on her first visit out west on a tour of Yellowstone NP. First stop at stream with steam & a strong sulfur smell she was shocked:
"If this was in Ohio the EPA would shut this place down" #parkchat
"If this was in Ohio the EPA would shut this place down" #parkchat
A11 We have a lot of competing travel plans for places farther away, but I'm really hoping to get back to southern Utah this year. There are too many places I haven't visited in such a long time & people I need to visit there. #parkchat
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A11 We have a lot of competing travel plans for places farther away, but I'm really hoping to get back to southern Utah this year. There are too many places I haven't visited in such a long time & people I need to visit there. #parkchat
The small neighborhood I grew up in was carved out of 1930s farm land that was transitioning to southern forest. I spend every free minute in that crappy forest, exploring & building forts, finding snakes & critters. Then they started developing it for more housing... 'Nuff said. #parkchat
November 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The small neighborhood I grew up in was carved out of 1930s farm land that was transitioning to southern forest. I spend every free minute in that crappy forest, exploring & building forts, finding snakes & critters. Then they started developing it for more housing... 'Nuff said. #parkchat
It's also another rock climber mecca - my daughter visited and came back gushing that she got to meet some big name climber I had never heard of. #parkchat
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
It's also another rock climber mecca - my daughter visited and came back gushing that she got to meet some big name climber I had never heard of. #parkchat
Really, the weather we've had the past couple of wks has been dreary, but it's not cold & must be awesome out on the coast.
November 20, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Really, the weather we've had the past couple of wks has been dreary, but it's not cold & must be awesome out on the coast.
Thank you @cnhamoab.bsky.social ! Great questions tonight! Thanks for your work with SW public lands! #parkchat
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Thank you @cnhamoab.bsky.social ! Great questions tonight! Thanks for your work with SW public lands! #parkchat
A10 We family camped along the Blue Ridge Pkwy when I was a kid, those Mts& forests are special. But it was a trip out west at 19 - & a chance visit to Chaco Canyon where I fell hard for the SW, parks & public lands that changed everything for me. #parkchat
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
A10 We family camped along the Blue Ridge Pkwy when I was a kid, those Mts& forests are special. But it was a trip out west at 19 - & a chance visit to Chaco Canyon where I fell hard for the SW, parks & public lands that changed everything for me. #parkchat
A8 Water. May those wild lands water sources; rivers, streams, springs ever run free & clean & the groundwater uncontaminated #parkchat
November 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
A8 Water. May those wild lands water sources; rivers, streams, springs ever run free & clean & the groundwater uncontaminated #parkchat
S. Utah, Nevada, Montana. A couple of yrs ago we drove from Yellowstone to Grant Mt - a bit south & west from Butte. It had been a long time since I had been in big country, it was very humbling #parkchat
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
S. Utah, Nevada, Montana. A couple of yrs ago we drove from Yellowstone to Grant Mt - a bit south & west from Butte. It had been a long time since I had been in big country, it was very humbling #parkchat