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see here for more on how they use the patriot act to target marijuana smugglers. the war on drugs is now part of the war on terror!

hiking on ross lake can be a lot of fun but don't forget your sandals cause it's a real pain when you get lake water in your stigmata!

hey is that tori allen?

Maybe it was Ms. Self Timer.

But I love my job - I just need to think about how to word my reports a lot. In fact I've written 2 reports so far today in between spraying

As long as I meet my deadlines and don't bill for hours spent spraying my boss doesn't care what I do

In the R&I article by Kennan Harvey about the Coast Mts traverse didn't he say their ascent of the W/H was the 7th? Or maybe he meant "Of the south face" and the Bitterlich rte is counted separately?

yes, push the limit a bit and you could take Mom up Three Brothers Mountain in Manning Park. Drive up to the alpine at Blackwall Peak and hike a 10km long trail with an average grade of 3% through flower strewn meadows. If its a bit far for a day trip there are two campgrounds along the trail and plenty of whiskeyjacks and marmots for comic relief.

Having a boss who is also an administrator on this site would be hell!

u r such a gaper

But it's a CLIMBERS CARNIVAL! Maybe you can be the official stick clipper for the speed climbing contest!

I seem to recall a K value for some deep granite in the Canadian Shield, being considered for Yucca Mtn style nuclear waste disposal, of 10^-23.... I don't have my Freeze and Cherry here to check though

I hear they are having a carnival there on Labor Day. You could volunteer. Maybe they need an extra clown!

There are cracks in the alpine? Most alpine climbs involve much more face climbing than crack climbing - news flash!

Maybe he's talking about allowing gay marriage in the Armed forces.

ever hear of alpine climbing?

from wired.com

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but the nice snowfield to glissade down on the n face isn't there at the moment?

More decisive like reading "My Little Goat" for 7 minutes waiting for someone to tell him what to do.

did you descend the n face or back down the w. ridge?

the sunspots are mellowing out so no big auroras forecast, but the perseids should peak aug 11 and 12. moon will be low in or out of sky, and there's a rarely seen extra group of meteors this year that earth hasn't passed through since the 1860's that should add a few hits per hour. so keep watching the skies!

rockfax.com has lotsa Spain guidebooks and online info in english. even if it is British english, blimey!

well - it's like hydraulic conductivity. we think of unfractured granite as impermeable but really it just conducts water at a rate 1X10^8 to 10^20 times slower than a pourous sandstone....

the difference between hard and soft rock is not that soft rock is damaged by brushing when soft rock isn't - soft rock is just damaged much more quickly and observably than hard rock by brushing.