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Funny how? You haven't seen me since last summer. I blew up since then like that girl Violet in Willie Wonka after eating the 7 course meal gum!

As Steve Martin quotes in the "Jerk", "I was born a small black child....." Actually, I am about 5'5", weigh approx. 285lbs. and am bald. If you see me at the crags, ya can't miss me! I am probably the only climber out there who is wider than he is tall.

WHoops, guess that looks kinda bad. My apologies to NAACP. I am not a racist or biggot. Hell, I had an avatar image with a small black child on it for over a year now!The statement was more for those that copy-catted me and had the same avatar, hence why I got a new one.

Way to go Erik, now the cat is out of the bag!!!!!!

Depending on where you work, The Butte isn't too much farther.

I refuse to ever be associated with that gang for the rest of my CC.com life. As founder of that gang, I denaounce anyone who uses such a lame avatar. Death to black kid with ski goggles!

Not even completely balanced, since they still had a carry over of $1k+. Hey Mike, did that go to customizing the white van? I guess in all reality, it is only going up $5 for those of us who buy the season permit, but for those folks wanting to climb it one time, they are getting screwed! Especially those coming out for routes like Liberty Ridge, and Finger, Thumb and Nisqually Ice Cliff routes. You are paying to access the park, then paying for zero services in order to climb a mountain. In the investment world it is called, "No return on the dollar." Many will say you can't put a price on the experience, but I fel that it should be a tiered system. I have no problem paying the $30 for the annual permit, and a slight problem with paying the old $15/person to climb, but understand what the money is for, but to double it is obsurd. Why not have a tiered approach? Say $30 season and dog routes (Ie. anyone using Muir or Sherman) and $15 for those using other routes. The more technical climbers will be happy, and those wanting to do the "dog" routes have to pay for services provided. I bet the overall outcome in annual budgets is not that much difference, since the majority of climbers in a given year are on the more standard routes, and those that climb the more technical routes are often visiting the park multiple times a year and buy the annual pass, so there will only be a few who would pay the one shot $15 on the more technical routes. My two cents. I would love to hear a response from Mike on this concept or others that were considered. I would also like to voice my distaste for the lack of public participation and climber considerations given in this process, since, after all, they will be the ones who will support the program. Hope this doesn't backfire on you guys and you end up with a smaller budget than last year because people decide to boycott the fees and/or mountain. I also estimate you will have a tougher job fighting poacher issues, in that more people will be less willing to pay and therefore will refuse to register. Good luck catching those on the more remote sides of the mountain!

From what I understand, No, the state pass won't work. This is being administered by Pisgah itself. I just won't go there anymore if it passes. Plenty of other hills around to hike up.

Hey Bone, here is the link to the book: http://www.climbsworegon.com/GUIDE/climbing_guide.htm There are some ex ellent climbs down your way, and awesome sport climbing in the summer too (unlike the heat of Smiff)! I head down there to climb regularly in the summer, spending my mornings and evenings climbing, and then swimming and fishing for summer steelhead on the Umpqua. Good way to break up the day! There is also some excellent bouldering on the N. Cali coast, but if I tell you where the cove is, I'd have to kill ya.

They don't send the test results, your "IQ" number is immediatly posted as soon as you fill in the information required. DFA, be honest, you didn't even take the test did you?

135. Asking only that many questions, on 2 pages of testing, I call bullshit. Anyone actually order the 15-page I.Q. report?

I have actually seen this style of sport climbing quite often. You will also see it on a lot of Euro routes that are super steep. The reason it was explained to me why folks clip into a single biner is cause typically they are on over hanging routes that are left up for a long period of time. Due to the break down of materials in sun and general weather, they leave biner there as the draw webbing breaks down over time. I would have no problem climbing just with a biner, if that was all I had. I am not sure what would warrant someone to place just a biner if they had draws available, but I wouldn't look at it like it was a serious issue at all. As for the benefits of a draw in the place, there seem to be few. Many draws like Petzls can be fairly stiff anyways, so a biner camming improperly in a bolt with a draw seems almost as likely. Again, this is straight lined sport climbing and not trad or routes that wander. I'd be more worried about back clipping then falling on just a biner! I confess, I have never actually done this.

I wanna see! Shit! Goddamn, Get on that Crack and Jam!

I have to say, that if done properly, fake boobies can be fun to play with and can even look somewhat real!

Whoa, that is FAST!!!!

Ah, but my geology is still with me! PbS ie, Lead sulfide. However, I do not know of many lead veins to be climbed in the midwest like Kansas and Missouri!

Well, you guys are over my head cracking out phydics equations, although I vaguely remember PV=nRT! Anyways, I will find out how "I" feel at elevation on Denali and compare it to how I remember feeling on Chimborazo and Aconcagua, although a lot more comes into play like how I am training now! Really interesting topic though. Also, someone I think made a comment about there being no deserts in the tropics. This is not true. They may not be enormous deserts, but they are classified as desert areas by the annual amount of precipitation received: Look at the NW coast of Costa Rica, the Islands off the coast of Venezuala (Bonaire) and N. Chile (not sure if that is tropics or temperate). Not all areas in the tropics are lush and green!

Check out these sources: http://www.cc.utah.edu/~sa11170/Part%202/4altmed.html http://www.storysmith.net/Articles/Altitude.pdf The second is a good read!

Thankfully, weather is good during a high pressure system and not the other way around. It would suck at high altitude for good weather to occur during a low.

As for bug's question, I have lost weight on Aconcagua where you spend more time above 16k than below, but on Orizaba, this is not the case, as you go from 14 k to the summit typically.. An expedition climb you could expect to lose weight (mass). Whether that translates into fat cells, I don't know. I do not have much fat cells (i think) and I still lost ~15lbs. of mass (muscle and fat?) anyways, it came right back on after a few days of eating and celebrating! As for Dru's question: I have heard this is a bogus statistic Can anyone comment? I had it expalined to me by a doctor who is steeped in altitude related illness and this is generally what he told me: There are roughly the same amount of oxygen molecules at 20k as at sea level, but due to profusion pressure, your body can not readily absorb the oxygen, hence the feeling of receiving less Oxygen into the blood stream as you go higher in elevation. He explained that the weight of air above you pushes the Oxygen molecules into the blood stream, absorbed in the lungs. The less pressure (ie. the higher in elevation you are b/c of less weight above you), the harder it is to take in O2 into the lungs. As you go up in elevation there is less pressure (less atmosphere pushing down on the body (similar to diving with atmospheres but air weighs less, so it takes considerable more air mass to notice a difference, whereas in water an atmosphere is every 33 ft.) So, the shape of the Earth also dictates the thickness of the atmosphere. The atmosphere is thickest at the equator and thinner at the poles. So, at 20k at the equator, there is more atmosphere above you than at 20k on Denali hence less profusion pressure on a climber at 20k on Denali than at 20k in the Himalayas or N. Andes, hence the feeling of Denali feeling like a "24k ft mountain in the Himalayas" (ie. the amount of air (hence pressure) on a climber at 20k on Denali is equivelent to the amount of air/pressure on a climber at 24k in the Himalayas or near the equator. The doctor could have been bullshitting me, but he seems credible. He studied altitude for his dissertation and has been a climber for 25 years. Anyone have anything to add. Did my rambling make any sense?

A little to the left. Hey not to drift here, but today is the official holiday again of Steak and Blowjob Day! Kinda like a guy's valentine's day! I think I celebrated this holiday May 9th last year (or so my girlfriend tells me) but nothing wrong with every day being STeak and blowjob day!

Who you talking 'bout here, GregW? Muffy?

Agreed.

Scattered snow showers now,but not 3 days ago when CO got dumped on

I ain't talking about an entire season, I am talking about a single dump, like CO and WY are experiencing as we speak. It ain't happened since I've lived here, hence my 1999 reference to Baker. I know for a fact Baker did not receive 7+ feet of snow in 24 hours last year!