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Im glad I caused some angst with that one simple cut n paste Have fun in Lillooet chuffers remember to slow down and honk when you see a rusty Subaru parked on the shoulder somewhere in the FRaser Canyon

"So tell me am I wrong to hate hate? 38 countries 51 states now who in the world gonna compensate? To take a *'s loss: act against the state, rebellion aint gonna put food on the plate"

no it isnt

The score is 420 to 420

Road closed due to avalanche hazard: http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/roadreports/roadreport.asp?filename=closure.txt Provincial highways Road Reports are updated as new information becomes availab le. NOTE: Times are shown in Pacific Time. An asterisk (*) preceding the road name denotes changes made during the last up date LAST UPDATED: Fri Jan 30 AT 09:18 AM 2004 Closures, advisories, etc. Date: January 30th, 2004 Time: 0900 hrs ©Provincial Highway Conditions Centre (Please check individual road reports for further road closures.) ******************************************************* LOCATION: Highway 99 - DUFFEY LAKE ROAD INCIDENT: High avalanche hazard. STATUS: Closed TIME OF CLOSURE: 0420 hrs January 30th, 2004. TIME OF OPENING: Unknown. UPDATE TO FOLLOW: Yes. Better check the update or you could be spending your weekend in the Pemberton Hotel bar Actually if the Plum was in that's be OK

pads are aid

Weather: Periods of snow, strong winds and warmer temperatures will continue in the region right through to Friday. Heavy snowfall (10-20 cm) is forecast on Wednesday, with another 15-30 cm overnight Wednesday and into Thursday. This will be topped by additional snow on Friday before things dry up for the weekend. Forecast winds are moderate to strong (30-70 km/h) from the southwest, so hold onto your goggles. Freezing levels should reach 1300 m on Wednesday before dropping back down to valley bottoms on Thursday. Snowpack: Additional snowfalls have added another 10-20 cm of snow to the snowpack, overlying various crusts and windslabs. Strong southwest winds on Wednesday transported this snow to lee slopes, forming yet another windslab. Some areas report that winds scoured some windward slopes back down to a crust from mid-January. Easy stability test results are reported in the top 35 cm of the snowpack, failing either on storm snow weaknesses or on a surface hoar layer buried on Jan. 22. The forecast strong southwest winds will continue to build windslabs on north and east aspects, and these slabs should become more reactive to human triggers. Avalanche Activity: Observed avalanches were surprisingly few, limited to some small explosive controlled avalanches on northwest facing slopes in the alpine and small natural avalanches. Natural avalanche activity should increase on Thursday and Friday with increasing storm snow amounts and continuing southwest winds. Forecast of Avalanche Danger Up To Friday Evening (January 30, 2004) Alpine – HIGH Treeline – HIGH Below Treeline – CONSIDERABLE Travel Advisory: Despite the lack of significant avalanche activity, danger levels are forecast to remain high at treeline and above until Friday. The danger may decrease if the snowfall is lower than forecast, but it will become increasingly probable for human triggers to initiate avalanches, especially in wind exposed areas

i saw a doc about a similar volcano-mining job in the andes... they all hated it and died young too.

if you only have an hour just set up a tr and use your ushba or rocker.... you could climb 5 routes. and none of this silly clove-hitch shufling or loop tying.

they're all wankers however it is an interesting speculation... how badly would TTV book have sucked if Krakauer had written it and not Simpson

you know all these self belay syytems are so much work and boring. aside from aid soloing which is even more boring for the belayer and hence ok for rope solo wouldnt it just be simpler and more effective to develop some social skills and find a partner, OR, go freesoloing?

hmm mmm if you clip the loop into an intermediate piece and then whip on it isnt that a factor 2 fall on that piece

Mudede has written some good CD reviews in the past.

This is that rare instance where camera tilt is used to make a slab look LESS steep Look at the background trees.

if you read "A Soldier of the Great War" by Daniel Halperin, which is partly about WW1 alpine battles in the Dolomites, once you get past the anachronisms there is a great solo self belay setup described.

I got the assist

Whatever happened to fleblebleb?

Right now I am listening to CAN: Monster Movie

i remember seeing the movie as a little kid and bawling while Hal has his memory disassembled and is singing Bicycle Built For Two

1) If you check the weather forecast for Clinton (please no jokes ) it is usually pretty close to Marble Canyon conditions, as measured at Butterfly Springs store. 2)You can check the actually measured temperatures for Lillooet on the same webpage as the text forecast. They are usually colder than forecast when it's cold. This is because 3) the Lillooet forecast is a regional forecast. It's almost always nearly exactly the same as the Lytton forecast. But when cold air dominates Lillooet is usually getting a colder outflow than Lytton and tends to be 2-3C colder as actually measured although its only about 50-100m higher in elevation (I think - I didn't look this figure up.). 4) The amount of sun recieved will also affectr local microclimates. MC climbs are in the shade all day and hence local air temp will often be a few degrees colder than, say, a south facing cliff of a similar elevation. EVEN THOUGH air temp should be measured in the shade to be accurate... a big chunk of sun warmed south facing rock can warm the air around it. This is why Twilight Teirs isnt in as much as Nigh N Gale even though both are at roughly similar elevations... but you knew that right!

Songs of the hump backed

it doesnt say if he wore Carharrts on the send but he probably did