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no it was on a page that also had the neruda ode to wine.

I will admit while I have the word power to rhyme with the individual words silver, purple, month and orange, I cannot write a relevant 4-word poem to do so. But silver orange purple month is itself pretty meaningless And on the grounds of surrealism Elver doorhinge nurple fronth Is undeniably poetic.

I happened to be searching for a specific quote online and by accident came across some Charlie Brown zen wisdom that might be applicable to this situation "Nothing takes the flavour out of peanut butter like unrequited love." Of course, peanut butter is a controlled substance in Canada, which only adds to the problem!

there's a eating nuts on the next step

daisy chains rock, tying in with the rope sucks. thats fundamental. not that it matters but evidence of the diversity of opinion on this subject, while possibly confusing, can only be of ultimate benefit for the newbies reading this thread.

tying in with rope uses up rope you could be using to stretch out a pitch also it makes it harder to escape the belay under some circumstances finally, for single pitch cragging the only times you need anchors are 1) anchor belayer to the ground or 2) when threading rope for rappel at top of pitch. in both of these circumstances daisy or sling is better anchor than using rope.

no shit sherlock

What jk said and also like Freedom of the Hills or the John Long instructional book(s) to read for when you want a second opinion on something you saw at the crag or that someone didn't explain well.

with choss like that it must be a volcano

Daisy are better than a single sling in my opinion but for the new climber I would advocate spending the extra $$$ and buying a Metolius PAS (personal anchor system) this is a version of the daisy with full strength loops all the way along. Of course you can make a home made daisy with supertape and tie a couple of water knots but these have a higher incidence of tangling on things in my experience and always seem to be the wrong length when you need to use them.

We took a right after crossing the bridge and drove up that road about a km ,then took a left at the last fork and parked at end of that spur. After bushwacking for 20 minutes we came out on the road we would have driven up if we had gone right at the last fork , followed that for 500m to its end and then from the end of that road it took us an hour to treeline and the start of the scrambling. Coming out the trail via the lakes was sooo overgrown we couldnt even really find a tread to follow.

isn't a "trade show" one step up the wipeout scale from a "yard sale" in terms of gear spread all over the fuckin place

Climb: Sloan-NE ridge Date of Climb: 7/17/2004 Trip Report: Snoboy and I climbed this route in a day return from Squamish. Alpine Select says "fast parties" can do so so I guess that means we are a fast party. I had been on Sloan twice before and in the area 3x before. It's pretty cool up there. First time in I got rained off the NE ridge at start of the rock/end of the forest. Second time I soloed the NW ridge after crossing the N face glacier. Third time was with stemalot and jordop on Mt Land. Still hadn't done NE ridge so this, my 4th trip, was specifically with that in mind. This is a pretty good route, not "great" but pretty good. I had fun anyways. It took us about 4 hours up from the car. The rock quality features lots of shattered blocks in some places, solid in others. Looking at the ridge from the start you think the first half is going to be the hardest then easy scrambling to the summit. But in fact the hardest climbing is all in the second half of the route. The rating for this one is supposed to be 4th class by easiest line, 5th class if you stick to the ridge crest. I did do a little bit of 5.8 on the ridge crest but backed down because the 4th class bypass option was much faster. We didnt take or use a rope, if you did a short one would be ideal because the longest section you'd pitch out would be like 20m. Helmets are good. On summit we decided to go down via Ault Lakes rather than reverse the ridge. I think this option (Ault Lakes) is a faster descent, esp if you already know the area. We took the second gully west of the west summit and this is the one that will be in the new scrambling guide when Matt gets it out. The gully I had used before (first one west of west summit) still had snow in it and would have been tricky glissading in mtn. masters. Time round trip from Squamish (including pie and coffee stops in P'town and Whistler) was ~14 hours. Left with a super alpine start sometime just after 8 AM, back in Squamish just after 10 PM Gear Notes: helmets Approach Notes: Ault Cr. road now goes to km 8, save time on approach but have to hike back to get car

buy your own rope

camming nut eating

try buying purely range fed beef. just try. on the other hand, mutton is purely range fed. and you can feed pigs inedible swill.

it might work if you were a kittiwake, but you are too fat to fly.

it's about 10x more efficient to feed grain directly to people than it is to feed grain to cows and then feed steaks to people.

please do not post lycra pictures

oh really? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3879841.stm Strange things are happening in the North Sea. Cod stocks are slumping faster than over-fishing can account for, and Mediterranean species like red mullet are migrating north. Several sea birds are also in trouble. Kittiwake numbers are falling fast and guillemots are struggling to breed. And, earlier this summer, hundreds of fulmar (a relative of the albatross) corpses washed up on the Norfolk coast, having apparently starved to death. Scientists suspect these events are linked and they are trying to work out how. Nothing is certain yet, but some believe a dramatic change in North Sea plankton is responsible. And, what is more, they blame global warming. Global changes Plankton are microscopic free-floating marine organisms. Globally they are of vital importance. Phyto-plankton (tiny plants) are behind 50% of the Earth's photosynthesis. And, along with zoo-plankton (tiny animals), they form the base of the whole ocean food web. But, over the last 20 years, these little organisms have been undergoing a radical shake-up in the North Sea. Broadly speaking, as global temperatures rise, cold water species are moving out and warm water species are moving in. "The North Sea was a cold temperate ecosystem in the 1980s, but since the 1990s it has changed into a warm temperate ecosystem," explained Martin Edwards, of the Sir Alistair Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science (SAHFOS), Plymouth, UK. "So all the cold water species of plankton have moved much further north, and they are being replaced by more sub-tropical species." The decline of a particular species of phyto-plankton, which blooms in early spring, is key to changes further up the food chain. Many small animals feed on this spring bloom - and even time their own emergence to match it. Now it is going, they are dying. Dr Edwards said: "The spring bloom is declining, and the cold water zoo-plankton that feed on the spring bloom are declining as well - and so are the fish larvae that feed on the zoo-plankton." And so - presumably - are other fish that feed on those larvae and the birds that feed on the fish. Over the edge Martin Edwards and bird expert Sarah Wanless, from Nerc Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, have got together to try to pinpoint how this is happening. "We have already shown that kittiwakes are declining and declining quite rapidly - but at the moment we don't know the mechanisms," said Dr Wanless. "And that is why we are joining up the bird work with the plankton work, so we can see how these links actually operate. "What Martin Edwards and his colleagues are showing is that there is a profound difference in the plankton in the North Sea, and we are seeing a decline in the sand eels that many birds feed on." She continued: "We speculate these are climate driven changes, which are working their way right through the food chain. And we are seeing signals emerging from the birds. "In some cases we are finding a whole lot of adult birds dead and in other cases that the birds are abandoning their chicks." And there might be worse to come. Because sea birds are generally long lived, changes happen rather slowly. So what we are seeing now could be, some fear, the tip of the iceberg. "Some species might decline to the extent where they are no longer present," said Dr Wanless. "And kittiwakes might well be one of the first to disappear." Emerging picture Amazingly the role of plankton, and how they are affected by climate, has not been extensively studied in the past. "Work on plankton is hugely important," said Dr Chris Reid, the Director of SAHFOS. "The world's oceans make up more than 70% of the world's surface and 50% of the primary production in the world comes from phyto-plankton, but as yet we have very little idea about how this changes regionally or with time." Now, the story behind some of the North Sea mysteries is beginning to unfold. Dr Wanless said: "Everybody working in the North Sea is seeing big changes, but what we need to do now is get everybody together, to try to piece the whole jigsaw together."

i say snugtopia or pagetopia would be even better than ecotopia

even playground bullies have a rhyme for purple when they deal out the nipple tweaking purple nerple

the nearest bestest rhyme to silver is the word for a baby eel - elver

looking through rhyme dictionaries from the back to the fronth when you lithp loth of thingth rhyme with month

door hinge porridge Rhyme battler challenged me to rhyme with orange But I busted out a rap that left him more inj- ured than before.