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Planning on heading to southern Utah in late March or early April. Will be down there for approximately a week and hooking up with a non climbing buddy. Have read a book or two about the area and looking for additional input on fun, interesting, must do hikes.

The first one was stupid and so is this one.

Both New Balance and Saucony have been good to me. Last pair of road runners were Asics and I won't buy another pair. If you live in the South End check out South Sound Runners in Tacoma. On Pacific Ave next to the UW. Very similar to Super Jock and Jills.

Your spelling and grammar suck.

Lummox is correct. As my MD sister in law would say "fecal to mouth" is how you get sick. As stated before, who cares if you use a filter, iodine, or boil it as long as it works for you. BTW, I have done all three in different parts of my life and never gotten sick.

I agree and had this conversation with my wife the other day. There have been countless POWs who have suffered far worse fates than her. Read "Ghost Soldiers" which is about a POW raid in the Phillipines in WWII if you want heros. BTW that story is the funniest damn thing I have seen all day.

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Man who walk through airport sideways going to Bangkok.

'95 Nissan 4x4, XEV6, King Cab w/ canopy that has slider windows, 79K miles, 5 speed, PS, AC, ABS, AM/FM/CD, Drivers side airbag, $8200, PM or 253.863.7770. I can't get the pictures to attach but can e-mail them to anyone interested.

I believe you get to it via Amphitheater Lake which is a "Y" in the trail when headed to Garnett Canyon. Instead of taking the left branch, take the right branch.

Yeah, when you get to the base of the east ridge start climbing up. Place pro as you need it and stop when you run out of rope so your 2nd can climb up to you. Repeat as many times as necessary. Eventually you will get to the summit. You will know you are on top when there is nothing else to climb. Let me know if you need additional info.

Rochester - Go to Ingraham Flats and look straight up the mountain. If it looks good continue up, if it looks sketchy take a right.

Go look for yourself

Welcome to the world...and I would have to disagree with your analogy. Who do you think makes the big $ at Starbucks? The baristas? How about Costco? The checkers? Do you think Jack Welch(GE) knows shit about making refrigerators or light bulbs? Probably not but he is one of the most succesful CEO's of our time. I have know idea about the accuracy of your claims but assuming they are true, REI made a corporate decision and chose a business plan to follow. Though you may not agree with their decision, it has been fairly successful. Buy your gear at the indy shops or on-line.

To clarify further....I do not want a camper or a trailer. It will not be used for commuting, just for week-end type trips with the family. I was thinking along the lines of a Westfalia pop-top or a extended top Ford/Chevy van. I have never had any of the above and am looking for pros/cons of both. Gracias!

Thinking of selling the Nissan Truck and buying a camper van. Family consists of mom, dad, baby and dog. Will have a budget of approx. $8-9k. Never owned one before. Would like to have a little refrigerator, at least a one burner stove and be somewhat comfortable for overnight road trips. What kind of van would you buy and why?

Just curious, do you hande his finances? Balance his checkbook? Manage his assetts?

Just an opinion there tiger. Another opinion of mine is the entire mountain is a fucking heap and I would not go out of my way to climb it.

I was down there in late May last year. A friend and I went up to about 10k, looked at the route, nicknamed it "Chossaval Ridge" and went back back to parking lot. We loaded up, drove to Smith and spent 4 wonderful days in the sun. IMHO - Chossaval Ridge is a heap and I would rather spend my climbing days else where

Catbird Seat - Do you or have you spent a lot of time in the construction industry? If so you would surely know in the overall picture there are very few construction companies that have the resources, i.e. manpower, contacts, money, expertise, legal advice, equipment etc., to perform work in foreign countries. Do you think you just load all your tools in the back of your Ford and go to foreign nations to rebuild them? Erik - Give me a call when you can put together a comprehensible sentence.

DFA and SC, et al - The really sad thing about all of this is you will probably be in the same crowd that bitches because nothing was done to protect you after some asshole blows up the Space Needle. Though I do not agree with what you say, I fought for your right to say it!

I can not speak for the winter but was down there early last May. IMHO, Shasta sucks and is not worth the drive. If you are interested in volcanoes there are a lot more interesting mountains and routes north of the California border. A buddy and I went down, set up camp at approx. 10,500. We got a real good look at the Chossaval Ridge, decided that there was nothing interesting about it (unless you like loose roock), packed our stuff up and drove to Smith Rock for a week of sun and Prana Mommas. By the way the guy at the mountaineering shop told us the route was in great shape. Our question was, if that is great, what is bad? Hood has lots of interesting winter routes and is a lot closer. If you do go, post a report, I would be interested to hear another opinion.

I was standing on a concrete slab Down the river of a useless lab It was such a wonderful day I heard a witch doctor say "I'll turn you into a toad stool."

How about this...We have never been up in Boston Basin before, I injured a finger in early August and have not been able to climb since(have been doing a lot of running and hiking) and my partner is willing to forgo more ambitious climbing else where to go up and check it out...Is doing Sharksfin in a day worth it?

I appreciate the info. To be more specific we are planning on doing Sharksfin on Saturday.