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So here is my experience with these things and bear in mind it is a generalization but still on the mark.
I price the job as per scope with a little bit of cushion built in, for say $12k.
Someone else who has been in business here for 4 decades prices it at $5k
Then one of folks who trained under him offers up a price for $4k and he is declared the winner and he works his butt off and dies a penniless broken man wondering what went wrong.
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I worked on a couple of them on the Olympic Peninsula and to this day I believe that the boss never looked at the quad map. Steep terrain with vertical faces and hundreds of feet of gain or loss in a mile. Not to mention what seemed to be endless devils club.
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