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We like it while on vacation too. Great for reservations at campgrounds etc

 

LOL I guess you take your vacation at home, in the boondocks.................Or do you go to the city for the fumes

 

You confuse the religious right with people just right of center. Two different things really

 

We go all over on vacation but like utah for mountain biking, especially the Moab area. The desert is a nice change of pace from the forest too. Also like the Oregon coast and a trip to the redwoods is always fun. Last year we toured all the volcanoes in the west and I even climbed Rainier. My wife stayed in camp for that one though. Even called me a crazy old man and said I'd die up there but here I am. HA!

 

I have been to the top of Raineer, and know that you might have climbed a hill there, but certainly did not climb Raineer.

Sheesh

 

Which route did you take? By the way most people that have climbed it can spell it.

 

I took the road that goes to the top, the only road that does this. The road was cut with a snowblower, the snow was ten or more feet high along the sides of the road..............

 

There is no road to the top of Rainier. You are dismissed.

 

When you got to the top did you pop a can of Rainier Ale ?

Did you go ghetto and popped a 24 ouncer of Rainier Ale ?

 

The map concurs, there is no road to the summit of Mt. Rainier.

 

Every road that goes up a mountain has a top of the road.................really simple

 

My “hotspot” works without WiFi, the USB connector to my laptop connects fine (I live in the city, but have no cable).

 

Again you are using a cell phone connection that you are paying for. A hotspot is a free WIFI source, such as a coffee shop or bookstore, no one runs USB cables to a hotspot. True cell carriers want you to use your phone as a WIFI hotspot, because they charge you for the extra bandwith, or slow your connection after a certain number of gigs is used. Again a real WIFI hotspot is FREE


by Melanie Pinola
Updated September 09, 2017


Wireless (or wi-fi) hotspots are essentially wireless access points providing network and/or Internet access to mobile devices like your laptop or smartphone, typically in public locations. To put it more simply, they're places where you can take your laptop or other mobile device and wirelessly connect to the Internet; some devices and smartphones also act as mobile wi-fi hotspots.

Typical wi-fi hotspot venues include cafes, libraries, airports, and hotels.

Though many are free, some hotspots require a subscription or service with a particular mobile provider (e.g., Starbucks has exclusive deals with T-Mobile and AT&T customers).

Connecting to a hotspot and using its Internet connection basically works the same as other home or business wireless connection set up steps: Your wireless-equipped laptop or other devices, such as an iPod or smartphone, will typically notify you when it is in the range of available wireless networks. (If you don't get the "wireless networks are available" information prompt, you can go into your network settings to find available wireless networks.) You then just accept or initiate the connection to the hotspot's wireless network, which is usually identified in the network name (SSID). Some network cards will even automatically connect to the hotspot once it is in range, but this is generally a bad idea; for security's sake, follow our friend Bradley Mitchell's instructions for turning off automatic connections to unsecured access points.

 

Why do you have to use cable? We just connect by WiFi setting being on in both computer and phone. You can't get too far away from your phone but it's pretty convenient.

 

You can only use WIFI if the computer that you are connecting to has WIFI. You are assuming that all computers have WIFI when many desktops still do not, since this user has no cable he also has no router or modem that might add the WIFI.

Any more questions just ask.

 

Sorry but I don't trust the words of anybody who claims to have driven a car to the top of Rainier so I'll ask questions of other people.

 

I drove my car to as high on Mount Rainer as most other cars go. The fact that you might have HIKED up the rest of the trail and claim that this counts as mountain climbing is hysterical, but then what is to be expected of a hillbilly who lives in a dilapidated trailer in the woods and does not even know what a hotspot is.

ROTFFLMFAO

 

So when you drove your car as far as you could you didn't realize you were not at the top of the mountain? You really are clueless aren't you. Did you not look through the telescopes at the visitor center that aim up to the summit? See any roads up there?

 

And you claim that you climbed that? Got pictures kid, or you forgot your camera?

Let me guess, cameras were not invented yet. How many people were in the group, did you need Oxygen?

Yawning

That said I climbed Mount Everest naked twice

 

Now I don't believe you have ever even been there. You seem surprised by what the mountain looks like and earlier you said so what about "hiking a trail to the top" which aroused my suspicions. Obviously it's more than a hike up a trail and I don't think you have ever left the eight block area you live in. Ya meet all kinds in these forums, interesting really.

 

There are hiking and biking trails, campsites and lodges to climb Mt. Rainier, it doesn’t appear to be a particularly challenging climb, when I was a kid I used to do ‘free-style’ climbing, Rainier looks like something one would just walk up, no ropes or anything like that: https://www.nps.gov/mora/planyourvisit/northern-loop.htm

 

It's not a bragging rights climb if you take the route I did. Thousands do it every year. It is a three day event though and great fun. The hardest part for me was day one from the visitor center to Muir base camp. It's a long steep haul with 50 lbs on your back, especially up the Muir snowfield where you have to take little tiny steps.( Great fun glassading down though) No part of it is real technical and anyone in decent shape can make it but we did indeed rope up. I went with two experienced mountaineers that made it a safe and pleasant adventure. Most people that don't make the summit fail to do so due to altitude sickness but it never bothered me much. It's like another world up their on those glaciers and if you are prone to do this sort of thing I'd highly recommend it.



http://www.summitpost.org/disappointment-cleaver/155670

 

It was pretty cool, going from a rainforest at the bottom and into walls of snowblown snow straight up along the side of the road at the top. Am I dumb enough to climb a mountain, because it's there, nope, in fact I never even got out of my Camaro

You accuse me of being a hermit though you admit to being one and living in a shed in the woods, without power or plumbing.

Yea dude we all envy you

 

Its a glorified cabin not a shack LOL and I have solar power and yes even indoor plumbing. In fact I have a great water system. It's gravity flow from a spring 800 lineal feet from the house and 150 vertical feet above it. The elevation gives us great water pressure and the spring produces 12 gpm so we can run sprinklers 24-7 in the summer and keep the lawns around the house nice and green and my wife has plenty of water for her garden. I'd like to put in a micro hydro power system someday but I'd have to run another pipeline with PVC instead of the irrigation pipe I currently use. It's about cavitation due to the way lengths of pipe are connected. Plus it all has to be buried because animals tend to chew on it in summer and there's freezing issues in winter of course. Then there's the cost of that's actual power plant so it's an expensive project both in money and labor. Maybe someday though.

http://microhydropower.com/our-products/stream-engine/

 

And your poop goes where?

Bye the way, when the government finds out that you are watering your lawn, you will be arrested for depriving the community of natural resources for your own pleasure. Doesn't seem right, but the state is currently on fire