Dru

you can't hurt me by calling me a geek. i wasted 10 years of my life playing Dungeons and Dragons

we vote for the MPs the MPs vote for the leader. (except they don't really - the party does - but in THEORY they do...) if you dont like the leader - change your MP. as I recall the Americans vote for the leader but due to the electoral college system, the one the majority votes for, often loses. I guess democracy is such a powerful weapon it can't be trusted to the masses. on the other hand the most democratic thing both Canadians AND Americans could do is get rid of political parties entirely. all they are is machines for siphoning up money from lobby groups in return for guaranteeing a vote from their elected members in favour of the lobby group's desired outcomes.

hunt something that can fight back

What about: Names like Sem7Am (the 7 is a glottal stop), Xwitaoz, or Xit'olacw? They are very hard to pronounce for an English speaker. Should we use these names or make the "official" name an Anglicized phoneticization? Like "Tomyhoi" for instance. You can look up the actually used Halqomelym spelling in the Sto:Lo Historical Atlas - it isnt Tomyhoi. Its got a couple of those diacritical marks and weird aspirated h-sounding x'es in it too. How "Native American" do you want to get? The real deal or some 18th century European explorer's misspelling of the Native name?

Call us when you manage to elect a leader democratically or make the top 5 list of best places to live in the world

M & M Wall

i thought solid rock went defunct about the same time as lycra and doug englekirk. guess i was wrong.

dude with rug chest and nipple bling, Layton has a pinup, ask to see it.

What is the point of naming anyway? In my point of view it is to distinguish between peaks. For instance giving Sherman Pk a separate name from Baker. If you don't climb separating out the different peaks and naming them individually is not so important. The Chilliwack natives called the whole Border Peaks area "Putlushgohap" or "Tomyhoi" according to good ol' Henry Custer whose adventures I am now devouring (thanks Harry!). Now we have five separate peak names in there, ABP, CBP, Larrabee, Pleiades and Tomyhoi itself. (And Petlushkwohap is up near sKihist in the Fraser Canyon ) So basically my view is that it's OK to name anything with a distinct route to the summit. No matter how much "prominence" or other arbitrary criteria, the summit has. As for new names: what are the most overused mountain names? Around here there are TOO MANY Red, Green, Goat, Bear, Needle, and Cathedral peaks. NO MORE!

Icicle Butt. Any good? Full pitch traverse? Underclinging or edges/straight in?

HAPPY IMAGES MAKE DEPRESSED FOLKS EVEN SADDER suffer, bitch!

shit, i totally forgot a resumption of flood basalt vulcanism!

Prize

what about the cosmic string smartypants? what about a dinosaur killer type comet impact? what about catastrophic release of clathrated methane ices from the seabed due to global; warming resulting in runaway greehouse effect and a new Venus? what about proton decay?

sounds like a real fun weekend of seracing

trask, let me spell it out you dont win a you win a Nobel PHYSICS Prize for Physics!

the implications for WORLD PEACE are soooooo obvious

painted toenails Lycra "look at me" haircut freak flag juicy chicken t-shirt faux Kiwi accent beautiful women on each arm blingbling piercings yup, it all adds up to POSER!!!! HA HA, you forgot the A5 flipp flopps... A5 flipflops lowered H2 with neon pimplights underneath 100 copies of NEW GUIDEBOOK available for custom autographing tattoos of climbing resume starting on neck and continuing to left leg dog named "Chomolungma" gold tooth conversation consists entirely of grades and name dropping email address: gradevii@hotmail.com uses portaledge for ascent of Saber on Castler Rock - to practice for Thor!

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how did he win a peace prize for physics?

painted toenails Lycra "look at me" haircut freak flag juicy chicken t-shirt faux Kiwi accent beautiful women on each arm blingbling piercings yup, it all adds up to POSER!!!!

nice try!

jon none of the links on your post work

I heard Fred Beckey is gonna be doing that this winter with some 20something blonde Whistler chica as ropegun

I was wearing shoes and socks. And, carrying a pack. This is an important clarification. I was trying to make a nude ascent in the same fashion as Guy Edwards and the earlier Marching Kitchen Utensils crew. This allows for harness, chalk bag and rock shoes to be worn (also kitchen pot as helmet and/or paper bag over head). I wore no harness, pot, chalk bag or paper bag.