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quote: Originally posted by Alex: that sure looks alot like valley of ten peaks... where's the teahouse and the million tourists then smartalex? HINT: the strata in the 10 Peaks is horizontal. The strata here is steeply dipping Im not 100% sure but I think its Clemenceau area?

have you tried right clicking and checking properties????????????? if this solves your problem you owe me

quote: Originally posted by michael_layton: Isn't that some aspect of Yak? Yeah sure, you are welcome to think so... and you can see from the photo that the rock is choss I may find where you live, break into your house, and steal your mtn porn photo, and scoop your routes...naming them names that insult you and your family. Watch out! I will name the routes I do this weekend "Mike Loserton is a Wimp" and also put up a 5.4 route and call it "Layton 10b".

quote: Originally posted by RobBob: Yes, wiseguys, got the disease, and trying to graduate...no chance you'll shed a little light on how to do it RIGHT??? the url of the image should end in an image file like .jpg or .gif tag... i can't tell you how to do it right unless you tell me what you're doing wrong... for example if i put the following text http://www.gifs.net/animate/kitty.gif in between the tags I get this

quote: Originally posted by RobBob: Since this thread is all about length, can someone answer a technical question? Why the hell do most of the images not work when I insert URLs? What's the secret? maybe you're doing it wrong?

keep this thread alive

Must be cool, and able to read my mind. Being cuddly for spooning at unplanned bivis is a bonus.

You gotta wonder if any of these Dicks and Harders married and used the surname "Harder-Dick" Posted on Wed, Sep. 18, 2002 MOUNTAIN LAKE, MINN.: Confusion reigns in town full of same names BY BRIAN OJANPA Free Press Of Mankato On some occasions, people have paid the bills of others. One time, a man dutifully answered a court summons meant for someone else. And long ago, one Henry Harder, weary of continually being mistaken for all the other Henry Harders in town, up and changed his name to Mike. Mountain Lake is a Cottonwood County town of 2,000 residents and an ungainly preponderance of people with the same last names, frequently the same first names, and in some cases even the same middle initials. Years ago, Jacob W. Harder was ordered to appear in court on a tax issue. Gloomily assuming he was about to be audited, he gathered up his tax records and trudged to meet the judge, who dismissed the matter in quick order. Right name, wrong Jacob W. Harder. It was an honest mistake, because Mountain Lake has a hoard of Harders. It's also full of Fasts and Friesens, dense with Dicks, and home to a clump of Klassens and an effusion of Everses. "We like living in confusion," said Carol Harder, one of four Carol Harders in town. Sometimes, she said, this is not a good thing. "Several years ago I went to the doctor for a routine physical. After that I got a letter telling me to report to the Mayo Clinic neurology department. My heart just sank," she said. Oops, wrong Carol Harder. At one time, the town also had three Peter Fasts, five Anna Stoeszes and seven or eight Jacob Harders. Also, two Elmer Friesens, who took to employing their middle initials — E. and G. — to avoid confusion. "I'm Elmer the Excellent," Elmer E. would say, "and he's Elmer the Great." Mountain Lake's abundance of alike appellations originated with the town's settlement in the 1800s by Russian and German immigrant farmers. Each family had many offspring, who in turn spawned many of their own. Families begat, and the same surname population increased accordingly. The situation is compounded by people's pronunciation preferences. Some families with the Loewen surname prefer 'Low-en," while others opt for "Lay-ven." Over the years, Mountain Lake postal officials have used a variety of means to get ill-addressed mail to the right parties. For example, if a letter arrived addressed only to "The Harder family," post office might check with the patriarch of one of the three Harder clans in town. If the correct addressee can't be deduced, someone from another clan would be solicited and so on. Sometimes, the post office would simply scrawl a question mark on a piece of mail and put it in a resident's mailbox. Same surnames in a small town can also lead to embarrassment. One resident who asked to remain anonymous said she once opened a letter she thought was meant for her, only to discover highly personal correspondence intended for another person by that name. The upshot: When the right person finally got the letter, she not only knew other eyes had seen it, she also had a good idea who did. And in one instance, Mountain Lake's name game netted one innocent guy a full ration of heat. Friends royally chewed out a Dick family member for not showing up at a gathering he was invited to by mail. The invitation had been mailed to someone else with the same name.

We are used to treating myths and legends as things that do not actually exist. However, if we take a closer look at the cultural inheritance of a people, we notice remarkable things. For example, some cultures that live absolutely separately from each other have legends that describe one and the same thing or event. Such legends surely have certain differences, but they are basically the same. Scientist Vladimir Shemchuk has studied the curious peculiarities of folklore and compared them to certain facts from the history of our planet. Shemchuk got the following picture of life on planet Earth over thousands of years. The Bible contains a legend that there used to be a Golden Age on the planet. Then, it was replaced by the Silver Age, then there was the Bronze Age, and it was all over with the Iron Age. The legends of American Indians and of the African and Australian tribes say that planet Earth was first inhabited by demigods: the Assures (Titans). Then, there were the Atlants. The Atlants were smaller than the Titans; they soon died, and they were replaced by the civilization of giants. We are used to judging ancient civilizations as badly developed and primitive. Yet, some findings in mines prove that the people of ancient civilizations could mine coal. They even had electricity and manufactured plastic items. All ancient written sources of information mention giants. Most likely, those abundant written legends about giants give certain reasons to believe that giants actually lived on our planet thousands of years ago. This theory explains why ancient constructions and buildings were so huge. It was not simply because of the wish to show their power. They were needed for giant people. Five stone figures are found in an Afghan village not far from Kabul. One of them is two meters high, another one is six, then there is a figure of 18 meters, the fourth one is 38 meters, and the last one is 54 meters high. Local people do not know the origins of those statues. Some of them think that they guard their village. However, Shemchuk believes that the height of each statue corresponds to the true height of ancient people. The Assures could not live in the atmosphere that the planet had during those times. They were too big; they would kill themselves with their own weight. They were 50 meters high, they weighed 30 tons, their shoulders were 12 meters wide, and their bodies were five meters thick. A Russian legend about a man called Svyatogor says that he was basically lying all the time, because it was too hard for him to carry the weight of his own body. Our ancestors were all long-lived, to say the least. Alapar, the second divine Babylonian ruler, reigned for 10,800 years. This means that the Assures’ average age reached 50 thousand years. Shemchuk calculated that having a height of 50 meters allowed one to live for tens of thousands of years. The civilization of Assures lasted for 100-200 generations. In 1965, Italian scientist Kolossimo summarized the information of all archeological expeditions that people knew. He came to the conclusion that planet Earth used to be the arena of battles using nuclear weapons. Many ancient sources mention weapons that remind one of modern nukes. Melted stones were found in the Gobi desert, in the Middle East, in Europe, Africa, Asia, and North and South America. Shemchuk believes that the global catastrophe on the planet was a nuclear one. Ancient legends described mutations (Cyclop monsters with one eye only). Archeologists have found strange skeletons with several rows of teeth. Another radioactive mutation is the Mongolian race. Numerous nuclear explosions resulted in hard rains, which, in their turn, led to the global flood. After the flood, there was a nuclear winter, which is scientifically known as global freezing. Fires made the atmosphere of the Earth less rarefied, which was not good for giant forms of life. Practically all nations and tribes have a legend, a myth, or a tale about dragons. North American Indians have a legend about the invasion of monster dragons that killed our ancestors’ civilization. One could assume that our planet was seized by dragons. A civilization will inevitably vanish if it does not think of its own immortality. Scientist Shemchuk urges everyone to pay attention to ecological issues and to the development of people’s psychophysical abilities. The work of scientists has only one goal: to make people understand that it is time to take serious measures. Otherwise, our civilization will be ruined.

quote: Originally posted by Necronomicon: I bought a pair of Beal 8.8(?)mm x 60m half ropes, they work the balls, but have a somewhat slick "hand", which can make rapelling a bit interesting for fat lodes like myself. You work your balls with a slick hand

you can use your ski poles to pitch your tarp so you dont carry a tent or bivi sack... you can fight off bears with them... practice fencing moves... balance over the crevasse shitter without falling in..toast marshmellows (dont forget to take the basket off)... ski poles are cool.

can you hear dem cryin in the street dyin children they aint got no meat little children starving away if only dey had a PAGETOP with which to play dying children at their feet generals wrangling over whom to eat generalissimo still in power ruling from his ivory tower cause he has all the pagetops and the world dont stop

I got poles for snowshoeing, i started to use them hiking, now I look like some Euro, im trying to find fluorescent pink gore tex covered in sponsors logos to complete the trend. I dont know that they really help knees all that much but they do add a lot of stability & balance when hiking with a heavy pack esp. through talus. they suck if you are going to do much scrambling.

quote: Originally posted by gapertimmy: i still see freshiez you sound like the 6th sense kid. them freshiez are DEAD!!

quote: Originally posted by jordop: quote:Originally posted by Dru: quote:Originally posted by jordop: quote:Originally posted by Dru: quote:Originally posted by michael_layton: El Puerto Chico???? You totally gave it away w/the border crossing remark. It might not cause I went on recon today and found the ice is not present or is well camouflaged when I look with my high powered work binoculars. Maybe I will go climb Cathedral. That also involves illegal border crossings. Somewhere up the newly 2WD Nesakwacth I presume? Can you do Cathedral in two days? Or ya gonna knock off sick for a third?I love the fact you have so no idea where it is Im talking about. I can take 3 days off every other weekend, AND I DO !!! Maybe I do know where it is you're talking about and I'm just using some of your famous reverse psychology Ok I was talking about the obvious unclimbed snow face on the NE side of Mt Redoubt

Im waiting until Im a better skiier so I can on sight the NF ski descent Mountains that you have to wait a week for a weather window are not on top of my list. If i was gonna do it though I would go for NF or Emperor Ridge. Wishbone looks jive ass, lots of shitty rock climbing to a shoert gargoyle section. You could fly in to the Clemenceau for the same gargoyles with less suffering and to simulate the rock climbing just do a hundred laps up the side of the moraine by the hut.

quote: Originally posted by j_b: perhaps someone could enlighten me: what is the reason for wanting to drown this discussion? If I am mistaken on your intent please feel free to explain. we're hastening the time until the next PAGETOP

quote: Originally posted by jordop: quote:Originally posted by Dru: quote:Originally posted by michael_layton: El Puerto Chico???? You totally gave it away w/the border crossing remark. It might not cause I went on recon today and found the ice is not present or is well camouflaged when I look with my high powered work binoculars. Maybe I will go climb Cathedral. That also involves illegal border crossings. Somewhere up the newly 2WD Nesakwacth I presume? Can you do Cathedral in two days? Or ya gonna knock off sick for a third?I love the fact you have so no idea where it is Im talking about. I can take 3 days off every other weekend, AND I DO !!!

quote: Originally posted by michael_layton: El Puerto Chico???? You totally gave it away w/the border crossing remark. It might not cause I went on recon today and found the ice is not present or is well camouflaged when I look with my high powered work binoculars. Maybe I will go climb Cathedral. That also involves illegal border crossings.

Its across the street from pt. 7001 Actually, hint, its also called Cedar Creek wall. Hmmmm. Could it be in the drainage of Cedar Creek? Beckey Red anyways.

I took up home canning Whoop Ass. I bought the equipment from Walmart, a Ronco Whoop Ass Canner for $66.69 and a 20pack of cans for $5.83. But I can't find wild STFU growing anywhere so I have substituted with Bitch Slap. Anyone want a nice Bitch Slap I got plenty canned and ready for ya.

What's more, omnivorous dinosaurs traveled in groups, so when they had sex, the sounds that they emitted would have killed off all the small dinosaurs around them. That robbed the carnivorous dinosaurs of their food, making them extinct, too Sounds like Trask and his honey gruntin and moanin...

Go up there with Pot'teryx and Dan Kine Larson.

quote: Originally posted by rbw1966: I don't think it mattered to Bush much if Saddam allowed inspectors back in or not. You'll recall that he preempted this posture by stating that Iraq has to deal with all 16 UN resolutions in order to prevent war. Allowing inspectors back in is but one of those resolutions. My moneys on Bush pushing this all the way. I don't want to see war but I bet its on the way. Wasnt Hussein pretext for kicking out the inspectors the last time the incredibly overt actions of US & Britain Covert Ops teams posing as weapons inspectors and placing bugs while they diligently searched for bombs and germ warfare factories under saddams bed, etc.? I hope they pretend to be weapons inspectors a bit more proficiently this time around.

here is a pretty current conditions report on Robson from Raphael Slawinski stolen off www.live-the-vision.com Peter Smolik and Slawinski Sr. and Jr. climbed Robson this past weekend, up the Kain, down the S face. No fresh snow on Robson Glacier until well above the Extinguisher, getting progressively deeper higher up, but travelling is still fairly easy. The icefall getting up to the Dome has some tricky route finding through giant crevasses: as a rule, when in doubt, look left. The NE face is good step kicking snow, while the summit ridge is windblasted to neve. On the descent, we decided to bypass the Schwartz ledges by rappelling the seracs above Little Robson. Bad idea: between a lot of the ice being little more than stiff snow and us having only one rope, we spent a long time finding decent anchors and making lots of short raps. Not exactly minimizing our exposure to the seracs! Even with double ropes, though, I would not recommend the rappel option. Fortunately the rest of the descent, while tedious, was uneventful. Having now seen both "regular" routes on the mountain, namely the Kain and the S face, I am not sure why anyone would choose to climb the latter. It is a grunt, not very aesthetic, and dangerous to boot. But whatever route you climb, make sure to take a bike to the far end of Kinney Lake. It will save both time and effort (especially if you forget your climbing boots at the lake and have to go back to get them...).