pickets

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Gerbin envisioned linking up the previously established North Cascade high routes — the Redoubt-Whatcom High Route, North and South Pickets, Isolation Traverse, and Ptarmigan Traverse — to create a unique traverse of the North Cascades.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022

In Alpine County, evacuation warnings went out for Highway 89 south from Luther Pass Road to the Pickets Junction, as well as Highway 88 west to Kirkwood, according to Cal Fire.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2021

Pickets formed at midnight when the old contract expired in a dispute that focused on subcontracting, work rules and seniority over wages and benefits.

From Washington Times • Jun. 22, 2020

The Flying Pickets came about "by chance", said Lloyd.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2018

Flames snapped all around them & the Smoke wyas great & the Men skipped backwards through the Grass like Morris-dancers, trailing their flaming Pickets.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson