Two encounters with MiB

[Cactus]

Sprig,

I don't need to drive that area to know that there are no roads that go from the Nisqually Indian Reservation to the LaGrande Dam following the river. As I said, any road that followed the river towards the dam would have to pass through McKenna as well as back through Yelm. Why would one go through Yelm towards Olympia, and then follow a road that goes back to Yelm? Why not just get on the dirt road at Yelm or McKenna if it existed?

I go through Yelm and McKenna about twice a month (last time was 7-8-00) and I have seen no new roads built along the river at McKenna. Furthermore, if you are familiar with the Alder and LaGrande dams, you know that the river runs through a steep and deep canyon and these dams are at least 20 miles upstream of the Fort Lewis boundaries.

As an engineer with Pierce County, the county that borders on the Nisqually River and contains most of Fort Lewis and all of Mt. Rainier, I am intimately knowledgeable of the roads in this area. I feel 100% comfortable in saying that what the writer described is not only untrue but impossible.

As I stated before, I can not comment on the Wyoming incident, but the Fort Lewis "incident" lacks any credibility due to a complete inaccuracy of geographical features.

 

[Sprig]

Cactus, OK!
I understand that you are familiar with the area. I understand that the poster was directionaly challenged (lost as hell). However, might there be something within a couple of miles of Nisqually that someone might describe as a "dam" even though it really isn't?

I really don't believe it either. But, I suppose its possible something new has sprouted in that area and mayhaps could be popluated by men in black.

I'd just think its not good logical argument to say, "there aint nothin there" when the poster said it was new.

We can agree its unlikely. We can agree the poster was totally lost, and we can agree that the poster can't tell a dam from a hole in the ground. But, that doesn't mean there isn't something new in an area that the person wasn't articulate enough to give good instructions to.

I'd like to go out there, with my camera, and take some wonderfull pictures of scotch broom to post as a rebuttle. Then maybe others will not be so hasty to offer such garbage. Then, when it really matters, we won't be so used to cry foul of the claim of wolf when it really is a wolf.

Sprig