Alasdair

Oh and if you decide to do CMC take some tricams they are the only thing that will protect it well.

CMC route on Mt. Moran is a great route. I highly recomend this is you are looking to get away from the crowds of the grand. If you decide to do just the upper exum, or the owen spalding route on the grand then think about doing it car to car in a day. Go super light, and you will have no problem doing it in a day. Unless you decide to pitch class 4 rock then you will spend a cold night out, and it will suck. The lower saddle is a nasty place to stay, it smells like piss, and can be really windy.

just a slight exageration... Try about 120+ "the record highest temperature ever measured in the U.S (134 degrees F at Death Valley, CA in July of 1913), and the hottest temperature ever recorded anywhere on the globe (136 F at Al' Aziziyah, Libya in September of 1922)"

Orbital

Hey I've got a novel idea. Get Israel the fuck out of Palistine. Allow them to have their own state, at the pre 1960 borders. Burn down the settlements. And take the Israelis to international court anytime they go into the Palistinian state. If the Isrealis continue to bulldoze the palistinian olive orchards (which is their lively hood) then the UN should saction the shit out of them.

Bush is a cunt. He can go fuck himself. Fucking token jestures to make the stupid soccer moms fell better about themselfs.

Good for them. Al Sharpton, although not taken seriously was the only one in the debates who asked many of the questions that need to be asked. It was great to have him in the debates, and I would give $25 if it was the difference between having him there and not.

Yep had that too. Do some leg extensions and you will be fine.

IT band. Start stretching brother. Took me many months to get over the exact symptoms.

Everyone around you is apparently retarded.

I think that guy might be related to Dave Schuldt.

Muir hut

Yea dont go to the midwest. It sucks. I made that mistake once after moving out here, and have never been back since. There is no reason good enough to get me to spend my summer back there.

I am a scientist, and I can confirm this. Heavy metals is a crappy term for them also. It refers to just about anything. Toxic metals and Metaloids is the correct termanology. To put it simply dont drink water around a mine site. If you do not have a choice, use a filter to filter out possible undisolved solids, and find an area of surface water that is not comming out of the ground or a mine shaft and is not discoulored and drink that. Better yet, go thirsty and continue walking.

I did not say that filters will remove disolved metals, THey wont. But they will filter out the undisolved sediments that are much more likely to be a problem.

Oh and if you are filtering then there really is not likely to be any problem, as there are likley to be very few disolved metals in the water, unless you are drinking water that is comming out of a mine shaft or a spring near it.

Dont drink the water if it appears to be comming out of the mine shaft, through tailings piles, or running throught the mine site. Go up hill a bit and you should be fine. The worst thing you can do is stir up the sediments in the bottom of the water. This is where nearly all of the nasty stuff will be. look for an area with high water flow with big rocks on the bottom and you will be fine drinking it.

NCl3 is an explosive. Try mixing Amonia and Iodine together you get NI3. Also a very unstable explosive it can be a lot of fun for practical jokes. On second thought no one try this you will kill yourself.

also possible: 3NaOCl + NH3 --> 3NaOH + NCl3 or NH3 + NaOCl --> NaOH + NH2Cl NH3 + NH2Cl + NaOH -->N2H4 + NaCl + H2O 2NH2Cl + N2H4 --> 2 NH4Cl + N2 Hydrazine and nitorgen trichloride. not good.

yes it is. 2NaOCl + 2NH3 --> 2NaONH3 + Cl2

I have a whole pile of those nice yellow write in the rain notebooks, that I managed to get for free from this place I used to work. I think you know the ones I mean. They work pretty well.

I second this. Not only does leaving the guide book at home open new possibilities, it's fun to spend the afternoon with friends grading routes based on how they climb, as opposed to just accepting the rating in the guide book. I find to that I am more willing to hop on something if it looks 'doable' than I might if I know the "official" grade and I think I'm not climbing at that grade that day. This will sound silly, but I love hopping on boulder problems or routes in the gym before the routesetter tapes up the little sheet with the really clever route name. It's cool to look at the route or problem, guess the grade, and then hop on to see if you're in the right neighborhood. Then, in a day or two, you can see how far off your rating was from the routesetter's rating. Agreed. Last week in Yosemite I did not have the guide and jumped on a bolted line that I thought was difficult, hung a couple of times but did all the moves without much dificulty. Found out later that the climb was rated 12b/c. Due to the fact I have never climbed a 12 before I would never have gotten on this if I had had the guide.

yep

I have some extra time on a work trip this weekend, and am going to go to Yosemite since I have never been there. I figure I will get there about 4 PM tomorrow and have all day sunday and monday to climb. Any suggestions where I should plan on sleeping tomorrow night, and what the best way of getting a partner to climb with on sun, mon? Any help appreciated.

Jesus dude, you need to mellow out. Its all a little fun. Why dont you try throwing it back at us rather than getting all pissed off. Oh and saying "everyone sucks, you cant climb as hard as me" is a pretty pathetic way of throwing it back, so try a little harder, and you might even make us laugh.