Text Forecast from Environment Canada
Lillooet: Issued 11.00 AM pst Tuesday 30 December 2003
Today .. Cloudy. A few flurries. High minus 2.
Tonight .. Occasional snow. Low minus 5.
Wednesday .. Cloudy. 60 percent chance of flurries. High minus 1.
Thursday .. Cloudy. 30 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 2. High zero.
Friday .. Cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Low minus 5. High minus 3.
Saturday .. A mix of sun and cloud. Low minus 10. High minus 8.
Normals for the period .. Low minus 6. High zero.
Snow every day through Saturday forecast for Chilliwack. Probably sucky avalanche conditions in mountains. If you want to climb and not ski, Lillooet's gonna be the place to be.
the consensus on the TONMO.com discussion board is that the eye is the coolest part but many on ceph-list are saying the eye makes them think it's fake
"Kea have the interesting habit of flying above climbers on route and dropping pebbles and small stones on them" - Murray Judge in the Darrans guide.
Snaffle trundlers!
archaeopteryx was not a "true bird" tsk tsk
however - good point. during the Mesozoic mammals were all small and rat like. obvious conclusion: WE ARE ALL THE DESCENDENTS OF SNAFFLEHOUNDS! have some respect for your ancestors
screws with cranks are good but you can save $$$ by buying a couple of non-cranks (about 20-30$ cheaper a screw) and using those screws for belays and suchlike where speed placement is not so necessary.
red rocks, j-tree, and bishop, and queen creek arizona. max drive is about 6 hrs between any one to the other so its easy to spend a half day moving if weather sux at one or the other.