A whole lot of FUCK NO..... (pic)

[mrkalashnikov]

Our manual told us in case of a chemical leak to run away and don't look back. The ground it touches won't be habitable for 100 years. That chemical has long since been banned.

Dioxin?

[Full Otto]

In the Rockies.

I did 600 miles in Colorado on a ten speed back in the 70's
Not much room for error between the traffic and the edge of the road I'll tell ya

[Krupski]

In the Rockies.

Uphill both ways.

[FunkyPertwee]

Dioxin?

Can't remember. We would carry a concentrated version one way and the diluted version back the other way. I think they used it for treating telephone poles and such.

I'll ask my father and see if he remembers.

[FunkyPertwee]

Uphill both ways.

Downhill may have been scarier, but it was lots of winding uphill and then winding back downhill. We were pretty much doing spirals from mountain to mountain. Being in the passenger seat meant looking over to see nothing but dark ravine.

[mrkalashnikov]

I think they used it for treating telephone poles and such.

That would have been creosote. It's carcinogenic but wouldn't have rendered an area Chernobyl-like.

[FunkyPertwee]

That would have been creosote. It's carcinogenic but wouldn't have rendered an area Chernobyl-like.

Found out it was pentachlorophenol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentachlorophenol

[JTHunter]

I can admit that I TURNED BACK on this one Go ahead, make fun of me. This is halfdome in California. My friends scaled all the way to the top. I was like "Hell no"....

TM - for some reason, your links to the picture of Half Dome didn't show up in the original post but did show up when I hit "reply with quote".
Go figure.
I thought you were calling the OP picture "Half Dome" which I knew it wasn't. I was out there for a week in '66. We did hike that trail up past Vernal and Nevada Falls but our mother wouldn't let my brother and me try the Half Dome hike.

Of course, we were only 10 and 12 years old. That might have had something to do with it.