The Marmot Pass hike has an unending, uphill, rock-slide-crossing stretch with the giggle-inducing name "Poop-Out Drag," a moniker presumably, well, monikered by Boy Scouts in the the 1940s. I decided to Google the phrase--why not?--and lo, behold, and hoopty-hoo: it's mentioned in a biography of L. Ron Hubbard, he of Scientology (and unscrupulous pseudopsychoreligious) fame.
Like countless fellow scouts, Ron's favouritc trek from Camp
Parsons was the 'Three Rivers tlike', which started with the
'poop-out drag'- a long climb up a sun-baked southern slope
- and ended in the late afternoon at Camp Nlvsterv at the top
of the pass, where there were meadows full of wild fluwets and
thrilling views over the Olympic mountain wilderness. [sic]
(By the way, it's "Camp Mystery," not "Camp Nlysterv," and those "fluwets" are mere "flowers." Ah, the perils of scanning copyrighted documents.)
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