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renownbrewer t1_ir3xq63 wrote

Reply to comment by E36E92M3 in To get to iconic Pilchuck lookout, hikers must brave ‘hell on wheels’ by precip

> It's a rough drive but seriously what do these people expect when they take a damn prius down these forest roads?

We went al over the Cascades when I was a kid in a Datsun 210, a Prius might be more capable. We hiked through an lot of clearcuts, perhaps the logging roads were being more actively maintained in the '80s.

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vast1983 t1_ir5ht3p wrote

They were. Public parks and forestry services used to receive a much larger portion of taxes and federal money. 40 years of tax allocation to new programs have resulted in less going to things like maintenance forest service roads, and regular roads, for that matter.

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