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Question for all you hardware/software gurus .... is there much differance between Linksys and D-Link gear. Getting ready to do a wireless network in my home looking at my options. Thanks, wes

years ago I saw the moutain girl of my dreams .. a ranger girl at the Sherman Hut, looking very delish in her skin tight polypro

good time gang .... had a great time catching up with everyone, it's been too long .... My only bitch is every time I drink TG's beer I am reminded that I can't get it on tap in Vancouver ... TG .... werd !!! We need to fix this.

So ... the crew be hitting the brew .... when and where? Wes

Just got the latest Shoreline catalog in the mail. I noticed that the "redesigned" Trango cams in the smallest 5 sizes are now advertised with "an innovative, direct-offset cam design". They look just like the Splitter units which have been littering ebay for months now. I'm wondering if Trango bought Spitter out.

are you doing some marketing work for Jacko?

Many moons ago I did the Washington-Ellinor traverse with my brother and a friend of his (Ron)who was in a "non red meat" phase of his life. On our drive to the trailhead we stopped for breakfast and Ron orders up some "Clam Pancakes". Need I say more ..... best part was in the afternoon as the weather went to shit on us, Ron puts on his fancy new (at the time) Gore-Tex bibs (first generation)which didn't breath worth shit ... and Ron spent the rest of the day "smelling himself".

And who says the Cascades are all climbed out ..... seek and ye' shall find ..... nice job fellas ..... looks SSCHWEET!

CCW Chernobyl - call/email them and tell them you want the old style tools loops ... no problem Cold Cold World custom orders

Anyone have experiance using the Excalibur as an AT ski? I like the low weight and the stiffness but at 94-70-84 I am wondering about the amount of float.

Shit I can't believe it I am actually in town and got the time. Looking forward to hearing Fred spew forth his great wonders. I picked up an extra ticket for the Mrs. however after I explain that Mtn High would be bringing forth his vast amounts of testosterone she opted to bail and stay home with the little guy, up for grabs if anyone wants it. So ... Shred et all, Dot's before hand and than Winter's after the show? Chris I bet your one neighbor is really loving you about now. It's been quite some time since I have been able to hang with "the crew", looking forward to catching up. What time should we start showing up at Dot's, say .... 5:30?

Hello Kitty Chalk Bag

Anyone have any experience with these yet?

use "tie off" or "hero" loops

Alex ..... if you are looking for some decent cheap screws ... take a look at these ... Black Diamond Tubular Screws @ REI-Outlet.com for $17.93 (10, 13 and 22 cm)

sounds like the two dudes TG, RBW1966 and I chatted with @ the Boston Basin trailhead ... they mentioned heading to SCW or Prusik ... driving a diesel Dodge 2500 xtra cab .... if so I wouldn't say they got "weathered off" (at our recomendation, the two we talked with never made it out of the parking lot) as for ourselves, well it was wet .... very wet ..... see TG's post above

Yo Jon and Tim .... I know that this subject has been touched on before but my site search ended up fruitless .... anyway that PM's could be set up with a "cc" function for multiple people in our address books? Keep up the good work, Wes

worked for Mexico in the 70-80's

bush just appointed him head of the EPA President Bush Picks Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, an Advocate of State Regulatory Power, to Head EPA AP News Back to News President Bush Picks Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, an Advocate of State Regulatory Power, to Head EPA 8/11/03 10:09PM By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer President Bush has picked Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, an advocate of shifting environmental regulation to the states, to become head of the Environmental Protection Agency, a senior administration official said Monday. Leavitt, a three-term Republican governor, would succeed Christie Whitman, a former New Jersey governor who held the post of EPA administrator for the first 2 1/2 years of the administration before resigning in May. The EPA post has been a lightning rod for critics of the administration's environmental policies. Bush, on a Western trip to talk about timber policies and wildfires, was expected to announce Leavitt's nomination late Monday. Leavitt, 52, has championed the idea of increasing environmental cooperation among federal, state and local officials. Over the objections of environmentalists, he advocated a major highway extension through wetlands near the Great Salt Lake. The 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals halted the project, saying the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not pay enough attention to wildlife or look at alternatives before approving it. As governor, Leavitt has made several environmental arrangements with the Bush administration, most recently settling a long-standing dispute over ownership of roads across federal land. He has also negotiated several exchanges of state and federal land, some of them questioned by Interior Department auditors. Administration officials described Leavitt, the nation's longest serving governor, as a leader on environmental issues with a record of improving air and water and conserving land. He has been co-chair of the Western Regional Air Partnership, and officials said he was instrumental in bringing together states, tribes, environmentalists and industry to address the problem of brown haze over the Grand Canyon. Leavitt also oversaw his state's preparations for and hosting of the 2002 Winter Olympics, and since then has served on a presidentially appointed advisory committee on homeland security. As Utah's governor, he has fought against plans to build a temporary storage facility for high-level nuclear waste on an Indian reservation in western Utah. The state is also home to a biological test site, a chemical weapons incinerator, a low-level nuclear waste dump and a company that is one of the nation's largest air polluters. In 1995, Leavitt called a growth summit to deal with Utah's booming population and economy. The meeting resulted in calls for local-based, free-market approaches to preserving open space, but yielded few tangible changes. Whitman, who had a record as an environmental moderate when she was New Jersey's governor, clashed several times with officials in Bush's White House and other agencies. Her views often lost out to concerns raised by developers and energy companies. Bush, for example, reversed his campaign position in favor of regulating carbon dioxide from burning coal and oil as a pollutant. Whitman had stated the administration's position would be in favor of placing a ceiling on CO2 emissions. Against her advice, Bush also rejected an international treaty on global warming negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in 1997 by the Clinton administration. Leavitt had met with administration officials in early June to discuss the possibility of taking the post, but he declined then, saying it would be "highly problematic" because he was considering running for a fourth term, a spokeswoman said at the time. Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, a former Republican senator, also had been mentioned as a candidate for the EPA post. Kempthorne confirmed earlier this month that he had talked with White House officials about the job shortly after Whitman's resignation. © 2002 AT&T and The Associated Press. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The information contained in the AP Online news report may not be republished or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. Enter city or US Zip

don't forget your trail pass

since when was a mission statment required to get together with friends and fellows climbers, drink beer, do some climbing and howl at the moon?

granted offsets and hybrids are the best thing ... I've had decent success in vertical flaring cracks with the old rigid stem friends as well ... surely I can't be the only one

I'd say if a person (Man or Woman) is dumb enough to do something like this, the gene pool is better off without them.

should this not read more like "any time any climber puts in a bolted route they are deciding what other climbers GET for protection"