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How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb? "One, and THAT"S NOT FUNNY!"

10, 000 points on yer 8a.nu scorecard!

I have made more posts than any of you

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DID YOU WATCH THE FILM? The bank gave him a gun. So he called ahead and told them he was coming - how does that change the fact they were willing to give him a gun on film? CBS you are coming from Planet Clueless with extra strength today!

If your C is assessed as a fatal accident before you forget your helmet, then forgetting your helmet does not increase C.... Basically its a trade off - you go light and decrease T, exposure time, in return for accepting some increased hazard (PxC), in order to reduce risk. Case in point: Slipstream. You have at least two hazards: death from fall, and death from avalanche. Yet you go light, and solo most of it, vastly increasing your exposure to death from falling, in order to reduce your exposure to death by avalanche - "speed is safety" and better the 2 hr Twight solo than the 20 hour belay every pitch ascent.

I'm sure the bank thought "Hey we wouldn't give a gun out to just anybody, but let's give one to Mike Moore so we look like idiots in his next documentary!"

Matt - it is as true for deaths as for injury. Cascade Waterfall is the most dangerous route in the Rockies. However it is impossible to accurately calculate the accident probability per ascent because complete ascent statistics are not available. It may or may not be the case that there are something like 5 accidents per 1000 ascents of Cascade and 3 per 100 on Slipstream but we do not have the data to confirm or deny that hypothesis. Certainly a lot of the accidents on Cascade were caused by judgement errors that would likely not have occurred on Slipstream but Cascade also has a lot of avalanche deaths due to the "bowl of death" above, just like Slipstream and its seracs.... There don't seem to be almost any accidents on the Trophy Wall (Terminator etc) and those routes get sent a lot nowadays, take a number style line ups and everything...

stats show the majority of accidents occur on technically easy routes - ANAM in any year will tell you this. Also the vast majority of mountaineering accidents occur on gaper type alpine routes. There are obviously exceptions to these statements - I can think of Slipstream for instance - but more way more climbers have been injured and killed on Professor Falls and Cascade than on Slipstream. They just weren't famous climbers.....

isn't sisu suomi an alaskan gnome? True fact: Yellowknife has special hotels for the Japanese tourists to come and see the aurora. Concieving a child under the light of the aurora is reportedly lucky in Japanese culture. The hotel roofs have big skylights over the bed

actually i have to go into my bosses office to see it but he isnt here today so the principle is the same

well that explains why i can't seem to get a date EXCEPT WITH TRASK !

minx=daisy

looks like about 2-4 inches of freshiesz from here ( i can see it from my office window) and there are wind gusts to 60kmh, so it might be loading...

Hallowe'en is tomorrow - party time! What are you dressing up as? A ?

Have you checked out Exit 38 yet? no, nor have I cragged in Bellingham! ( altho I went bouldering at Larrabee once) so my personal worst is qualified I did climb on Weetbix rock in New Zealand but it was just choss, not dangerously tottering like Vantage.

Karma is full of cool groove samples which are still being used today by DJ's. The only samplers of Gong EVER seem to be FSOL on the Elysian Feels album and that was prog-techno anyhow. Karma is Gong is prog-rock psychedelia. I also see you got your van Der Graaf generator on here - why not some Yes and Peter Gabriel era Genesis too STINKY PROG ROCK HIPPIE [i know, I know, I put that FM album pic up, but only cause Nash the Slash was in the band ]

Naw it was Castle in Manning, good guess though.... I betcha xxxxxx has some ice forming up high but nothing low down yet. Although there is snow down to 4000' with these outflow winds!

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I have run into smart young climbers and dumb old climbers...not all the bold climbers who survive are smart some are just lucky for a while... so i would say your "only young bold climbers fail to" is a bogus generalization.

i found this picture of scott and his fiancee double dating with another couple

this thread is no longer a 'rediscovered discs" thread its a "what cool old shit do you liike and who is the coolest" thread Altho AlpineK lost serious coolness for Gong talk about stinky hippie music !!