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T-a-seko?

i have motivated baker-seeking partners into climbing new routes, several times by telling them how if they wanted to climb a pitch and a half of ice there were spots where we could do it with less than a 7 hr approach

There seem to be a lot of people dying recently. Friends, acquantainces, people you just read about online. Some people die fast of a fall climbing or whatever. Doesn't have to be climbers, my uncle caught a fish, had a heart attack and was dead in a minute. To me this is the same as dying in a climbing accident - doing what you love and over quickly. I was just looking at some of the WTC jumper photos and what can I say - I would way rather die quickly, of rockfall, a lightning strike or whatever, than die slowly of senility in an old folks' home or of cancer in a hospital. It must have taken a lot of courage to throw yourself out of one of the collapsing towers in order to die quickly of impact rather than being burned to death. Thank you for listening. Now back to our regularly scheduled spray.

Indian ajones

INDIAN SUMMER IS COMING

Also this weather sucks! :<

Vantage. Although I did not fail on anything there, nonetheless I still think it sucks.

load em into the galley and use image tags!

Hey: Remember when Lambone was I-am-Bone and Dwayner was funny? Only 3 years or so ago!

double 0wnz0red

Also the constituents weather at different rates. Feldspar weathers much faster than quartz, and physically disintegrates too - both breaking apart and chemically changing from feldspar to clay minerals like chlorite as it hydrates and oxidizes. Eventually granite weathers down to a high-quartz content sand, like the soil at J Tree, or the granola you have to climb through on Yak Crack.

Put another way, there is no more a "granite mineral" than there is an "ethanol atom". If you break down ethanol into its component atoms, all you are left with is hydrogen, carbon and oxygen. Damn

But your "one chunk" won't be granite. It will be a mineral, either quartz or feldspar, or mica or hornblende or whatever. There is no thing as "one chunk of granite". The individual pieces that mnake it up are minerals, but there is no "granite mineral"

Granite is not "a chemical compound". It is an assemblage of minerals. Just like a molecule is not an atom.

Yeah, granite is a rock, not a mineral. A rock is made out of minerals like a cake is made out of raisins, sugar and flour. There is really no rock called quartz, except I suppose you could call hydrothermal deposits and veins quartz rock as they are 100 quartz crystals. There are pure quartz crystals (Silicon Dioxide Si02), and quartzite rock, which is a type of rock made of grains and pebbles and so on quartz. Also you get chert which is a hydrated amorphous Si02... blah blah!

Ya but those draws don't get as weathered cause the projector tend to replace the sketchmo ones... the draws do vanish off of abandoned projects.

granite is not a mineral. neither is diorite. the differences between granite, granodiorite, monzonite, quartz diorite, diorite, nepheline syenite, gabbro and dunite are chemical - the relative composition of the minerals making up the rock. quartz, three types of feldspar, mica, honblende and amphibolite usually. so granite has a lot of quartz and sodic feldspar, then as you go across the spectrum the feldspar changes with ratio of sodic to calcic and then potassium feldspar, and as you move into granodiorite and diorite you tend to lose the quartz altogether, then gabbro has almost no feldspar but is mostly mica, hornblende, amphibolite and other mafic rocks, finally you get dunite which is 100% olivine like the Twin Sisters. Chemically the light-coloured granites are equal to the light-coloured lavas like rhyolite and dacite that form volcanic ash... diorite and gabbro are equivalent to andesite and basalt... take Geol 100 to find out why.

lets face it, draws left hanging for a year get all ratty and uv-bleached, and they aren't very desirable booty, it's probably the only reason they are still there.

what did the mathematician do when he was constipated.... worked it out with a pencil

"granite" also includes monzonite and quartz monzonite smart guy Diorite is pretty common. I have a lump of it across the street from me I can look at as I type.

Fixed snafflehound left on pagetop!

here's schuldt saving some dog from the fire last year... a hot dog!

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