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Yes the infamous killer volcano Mt.St. Helens. It's about 15 miles to the crater from here as the crow flies.

Same here,I came out here in 1985 and was considered a newcomer for about the first 30 years. Back then the town was just 400 people,it's tripled in size and then some but still tiny and still off the beaten path only accessible by county roads. Bought my acreage back in '87 on a dead end road and still live on it,sold our mobile home and built a new two story in 2012 and expect to stay 'till they carry me out in a box. I have a great view and good neighbors,love it out here. I'm a trucker so I've been to LA and other cities plenty of times,local driver in Portland,Oregon now and can't wait to get out of the city at the end of the day.

I live a few miles out of a tiny old timber town nestled up in the woods miles from the nearest two lane state highway,of course there are a few bad apples in any town but for the most part it's loggers and ranchers and other salt of the earth folks out here. Only about 1500 people in the town limits and the rest of us on acreage with the national forest just east of town a bit. No bum camps,you won't find needles and other waste from druggie bum camps out here,it will not be tolerated. We are a little red zone in a blue state,our little town voted it'self a second amendment sanctuary city if that tells you anything. Damn near everyone is armed,we all know the local sheriff deputy and anyone not from here sticks out like a sore thumb and will have eyes on them, That's not to say it's an unfriendly town just that we look out for one another and it's not a good place to mess around if you're riffraff. My kids grew up having campfires in the woods not hanging out on the streets and now in their 30's going jeeping in the snow and having get-togethers with their friends in the woods is still their thing.

You couldn't pay me enough to live there,I'd rather be poor and live up here in the woods.

Hey it has a safety lock,WTF more do ya want?

I'd love to retire early but since I can't afford it at 63 and will have to go to 70 I got myself a pretty good union gig,$168 a month gets me medical ,dental and vision for me and the wife. If we still had kids in the house they'd be covered too at the same price. Medical insurance is more than half the reason I'm still working.

Indeed,we have some of the best water in the county here far and away. We're way out in the sticks but I've heard some folks out here have hit salt water of all things. Neighbors down the hill have a spring well,I think we're in the same aquifer but our well is 315ft deep,it's a big steep hill. Lookn' out my back door.

Depends on your water source I think,my mountain well water is the best drinking water I've had anywhere.

Sometimes I grind beans when I have some if I want to feel upscale.

I guess I'm really old school,got a blueray thingy for Christmas years ago and don't even know how to hook it up. lmao! It's still here somewhere new in the box,I do have a CD player but mostly I spin vinyl. I do have my PC piped into the system so I can listen to youtube,not a total caveman I guess.

Let's dance

Bumbles bounce!

Not to mention these things are not exactly easy to load unload and move around,my drive was 6 hours round trip and it took a lot of effort to get them upstairs to my entertainment room. I did it by myself with a small hand truck,about all I could do by myself.

He was the second owner and had them for over 30 years,they are 1972 vintage and looked like these when new. The guy I bought them from said the original owner had covered them in shag carpet. I thought about doing veneer but I'm afraid with all that's been applied before it would end up a mess. I'm an old cabinetmaker from way back so my plan is to get a realistic woodgrain and textured formica type product and do a new overlay. I can get the old plastic off no problem and the oak edgebanding as well. Some of that p-lam looks like real wood unless you look really close and it's very durable. I gave only $1400 for the pair,one tweeter was bad so I bought two new ones from Crites at about $200 so I'm in them $1600.

Nice but that made my neck hurt.😂 Mine were in simple plain fir ply when new,prior owner put gray formica and red oak veneer on them and added the speaker cloth and emblems. They were designer series I think is what they were called. I plan to do a cosmetic upgrade at some point,that gray plastic and oak has to go but they sound great and I got a fantastic deal on them.

Is there a link?

I still love camaros,wish I could afford another '69 but I have a 2001 SS in the garage highly modified,not one piece of stock suspension under it including the front K-member,all race bred tubular parts with subframe connectors and Koni shocks. Original LS1 and 6 speed manual but with LS6 (Z06)heads and a big cam,long tube headers,aluminum flywheel and late LS7 clutch etc etc. 92K on the clock at this point so still low miles for a nearly 20 year old car,not a daily driver of course.

I have a Chevrolet book so I looked it up to refresh my memory. I'm probably lucky to be alive after dropping a built Corvette 427 into a plain jane '69 Camaro at age 22,it had drum brakes and didn't even have power steering. lol) I ran a super T-10 4 speed with a 3:90 geared 12 bolt behind it. That car was scary fast in a straight line but heaven help you if you had to stop or go around a corner.

602 1967 Z28's were produced and most went to the race track,survivors are worth a mint today.

Happy T day from the PAC NW.

Maybe have the heads done and a valve spring upgrade,should go another 150K.

I drove one a lot back in the '70's,my roommate and good friend like to party a lot so I often drove his '69Z with him riding shotgun,bone stock we'd launch close to 7000 rpms. I had a '69 with a big block Vette 427 solid lifter cammed monster at the time but his Z got a lot better gas mileage so we took it and parked mine a lot heh heh. My built 427 would turn 8000 rpms,I usually shifted at 7500 when hammering on it ,some people don't believe it but it's true. I had an Accell dual point dizzy with a cable drive tach so I know it was accurate.

YeeHaw! Of course that LS7 is a completely different animal than the good old small block Chevy that we enjoyed for so many generations starting with the 1955 265 cubic incher and making it's way to 400 inches eventually. The LS engines are completely different engines,the only thing they have in common is that they are small blocks but not the same old small blocks, that LS7 is 427 cubic inches of it and all aluminum to boot so a total beast even before any mods. One of my Camaro club friends has a late model ZL1 with the factory supercharged LS7,it made 650hp bone stock. The architecture of the LS blocks allows for bigger cams than the old small blocks,my little 2001 LS1 (346 inch) with 2004 LS6 (Z06 Vette ) heads is running a .617 lift intake and .624 exhaust cam which is a little lumpy but still streetable,my AC etc. still works and I don't have to burn off to leave a stoplight. lol

I hate that,I get one every month or two.

I don't remember exactly when or where or even what the music was I just remember back in the mid '70's hearing a set of Klipschorns for the first time and being stunned. It was the '70's after all,they say if you remember the '70's you weren't there. lol At any rate I never forgot that first impression and wanting a set forever,took me about 45 years but I finally acquired a set and I'm loving them.