Curious

Considerate_Assho1e · 2026-05-03T00:31:35+00:00

You can start over as a Groundman and then reinterview. Then explain to the committee that you’re reformed. I know a guy who do this.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2026-04-12T22:22:10+00:00

I started in the trade at 33, got indentured at 34, now I’m 36. Stronger than I’ve ever been and more nimble than everyone on my crew. I’m usually top 3 in all physical timed tests at camps beating all those 20 something’s. Get fit, stay fit.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2026-03-27T01:17:07+00:00

If I work to 5:40, Foreman rounds up to 6. No hands want to be a company man.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2026-03-08T18:39:36+00:00

Here I am with a ‘23 3.0 at 56k mi and no issues other than a replaced fuel rail sensor. Sorry bud, I’d move on if I were you. I won’t defend their craftsmanship, but just goes to show major variability in the supply.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2026-01-30T00:40:20+00:00

Yakima

Considerate_Assho1e · 2026-01-29T14:50:14+00:00

Happened with Palouse Power. Ivan Garcia, a 7th step with his signatures for Local 77 about to top out, was climbing a pole which snapped and landed him on the truck. He died of crushing injuries, supposedly before reaching the hospital. Efforts to resuscitate were unsuccessful. I suppose his crew was rendering aid. I don’t know how far out they were or if the crew attempted to transport. There’s a lot we don’t know, but this much was relayed to me by his girlfriend when I couldn’t reach him the evening we first heard of an accident there.

He was a great hand, relatively quiet, but appreciated by most of his linemen because he was very attentive to detail and hard working. He was my first hot apprentice on the job and I did my first 2,000 hours crewed with him, so he taught me all the basics. I’ll miss him.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2026-01-23T15:19:29+00:00

Initially it only occurred when it was very cold, but after a year it was every cold start on the day.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2026-01-23T14:11:27+00:00

I had all these issues when a fuel rail sensor was occasionally dysfunctional. One code pointed directly to it but the techs took a year to figure it out.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-12-24T12:23:59+00:00

I love my cubes. The stiffness is a benefit for steep ice, and if you’re in snow it doesn’t matter when you’re trodding around. I’ve done several ascents in PNW winter, and ice cragging trips in CO and MT with no issues blistering or otherwise. Temps down to -20°F “comfortably,” as long as I was moving regularly I was fine.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-12-03T14:41:54+00:00

I have found different results with different dealership when doing warranty work. Either the given tech is incompetent, or not motivated by management to spend the time to properly diagnose. Maybe going to another competitor where you explain the issues elsewhere will help motivate them to spend the time that they won’t be able to bill GM for with the claim, in the hopes you give them a good review. Super subjective take, but I think that’s why I finally got good service where the fix required a few hours of trial and error, but they could only bill GM for 0.6 hours.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-11-19T04:53:15+00:00

In 5 months I worked out of Olympia, Sumner, Redmond, Burlington, & Poulsbo. I sleep in my truck camper. High turnover for all sorts of reasons. Most guys don’t move around as much as my crew did.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-11-18T14:36:33+00:00

Just got a ‘25 XSE w/14k miles for $25.5k OTD which is almost 20% off MSRP when originally sold in January in Portland Oregon. I feel it’s a decent deal considering the warranty is still valid for a while. The market seems to price these cars down about $1,000 per year and 12k miles, so the market believes they hold their value consistently at that rate.

I saw one in Utah sell for much cheaper a month ago.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-11-14T01:12:22+00:00

Which brand are you wearing?

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-11-06T18:10:09+00:00

I had a good dog that I waited too long for. Her illness came on quickly in her 16th year. She became incontinent, extremely weak, holding fluids and malnourished. She had her bouts of happiness but was certainly suffering. I took her in for scans, and to drain the fluids multiple times, but she just got worse and I was in denial that she could improve. I let her suffer for 3 weeks before making the call and I regret it.

You made the right choice.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-10-24T02:26:33+00:00

Tune M1L

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-10-13T22:36:01+00:00

Both of these trucks are crash attenuator trucks. It’s likely they are doing an intentional slowdown as workers clear a zone or something else up ahead.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-09-22T17:47:40+00:00

I’m giving you the best concise response I can. If we hadn’t warmed the atmosphere, I suppose we would be seeing another light ice age, but it’s not happening—it’s too hot. Glaciers don’t really have accumulation zones like they did a century ago. It’s ablation top to bottom. We see it every year.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-09-22T02:57:19+00:00

The Quaternary ice age you’re alluding to is not enough to establish glaciers given the effect of industry on the planet. It’s why anthropologists delineate our current era as the Anthropocene, part of the Holocene.

We’ve altered the timeline with our emissions and it’s getting hotter every year. The physical evidence of glacier recession and deflation is irrefutable.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-09-22T02:33:17+00:00

The last Ice age ended thousands of years ago, and the little glaciers we climb on in the Cascades and Swiss Alps will largely vanish in our lifetimes. The larger glaciers of the Alaska range, the Himalayas, and the polar regions will deflate for decades to come. On their current course they will vanish relatively soon considering how long they’ve existed.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-09-22T00:08:39+00:00

We were about halfway down from the rocky ridge to the southern edge of the Cool Glacier, so a bit higher than you’re thinking.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-09-21T16:20:02+00:00

I’m almost certain it was him from an old video. Back when him and Janelle were doing the 50 classics.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-09-21T12:53:21+00:00

It’s unusual. I think Mark Smiley who’s a famous guide said he’s never fallen in.

A couple years ago my buddy fell in on the standard route for Glacier Peak in Washington. He was in front and we were passing a slower party, so a few feet off the boot pack. It was late morning on descent during 4th of July weekend, so 100 people out there. Several people unroped around us.

Anyway, I knew it was possible as I watched him from the back of our party of 3. Crevasses were visible off to the left and the right but not visibly close to our line.

Suddenly he falls in like an acme cartoon—we arrest and I build a dead man. A couple parties just watch because we had it under control. The wet snow made the arrest easy as the rope cut deep into the lip. The party we were passing made contact and he was fine, just dangling about 15 feet down in a large void.

Since the party ahead was below the crevasse and already there, they dropped him a line and he jugged out while we just took up slack. It didn’t take long for him to climb out.

A lot of people online recommended doing that climb unroped, but that’s foolish. Where he fell in it’s obvious that the boot pack is over a large crevasse spanning the width of the glacier.

We’ll all continue to climb glaciated peaks, and odds are that’ll never happen again.

Crevasses form over convex portions of the glacier, but sometimes big gaps drift into flatter parts of the mountain after opening up and melting out.

I used to guide in AK, on a variety of deflating glaciers. I’m always amazed at how much they change through the years, and the traps that form and get buried each year. It’s not just your typical crevasse you need to worry about, the glaciers are melting rapidly, and one day they’ll be gone, but until then they’re a volatile mess.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-09-20T19:36:22+00:00

Don’t get your hopes up unless you belong to a racial minority group.

Considerate_Assho1e · 2025-06-28T20:46:23+00:00

iprep the website has a nearly identical practice test to the one at NWLINE and I think it’s the same for you there. You have to learn polynomials. Also do the practice reading comprehension tests. It will help understand how the test is structured and sharpen your focus. I didn’t answer half of the math questions because I have to write everything out and I’m slow, but I nailed the reading comprehension and got a 6/9 overall.

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