Alasdair

You obviously dont drink as much as I do.

Spray it with water? How bout gasoline?

So several weeks ago I just about killed my neighbors cat with a hockey puck at about 6 am because it was fighting outside my window. Since that wonderfull day when I acctually hit the cat with a solid object, the cat has been using my yard to have battle royal with all the other cats in the neighborhood almost every morning... BETWEEN 5 and 6 AM!!!!! So I now have a stack of solid objects (mostly hockey pucks) on my window sill and throw them every morning. Does anyone have any less violent ways to get rid of cats? I have thought about rat poison, air rifle, Paint ball gun, dart gun, cat trap etc. Any one else ever had to deal with this? Oh and I dont know who the cat that does most of the fighting belongs to or I would have talked to the owner.

Dido on the squirrel. I have watched squirrels do this to trees. They use it for their nests.

According to my roommate (the one whos car the ticket was placed on) his fighting it in court may get the ticket thrown out, but would also get him his ass handed to him by the federal magistrate. He is a lawyer. According to him judges dont appreciate lawyers who waste court time getting things such a parking tickets thrown out. Then again my roommate is a lazy fuck, and if it means paying $50 or going to court, he would rather pay the $50.

You should be very concerned. ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

Thanks for the info so far, but let me add some info and questions. - The ticket looks much more official than ones I have got in the past. Includes phone number to get court date for federal magistrate. Does this mean that just ignoring the ticket will cause it to double and then fuck me more in the long run? - Will sending in a check for "No dollars" (the amount of the fine) piss these people off more and cause them to fuck me by making me fight it by standing up in front of a magistrate?

Any one know what the fine is for not having a NW forest pass at Stuart lake trail head? The fuck wad who put it on the car neglegted to fill out how much the fucking thing would cost. Does that mean that the ticket is void and does not need to be paid because it was filled out incorrectly?

I dont share my computer with anyone. Last time this happend I got logged in as PLC.

So I have now managed to log in as other people on more than one occasion after rebooting my machine. Why is this happening? I am assuming it has something to do with the fact they probably work at the same place I do and when I reboot I get an IP address they they have used at one time or another and I am auotmatically logged on. Is this correct?

You are correct it was steve house... uh ma gaw!! STEVE MOTHER FUCKING HOUSE!!! who cares if it was baby jesus! just another climber out having fun, i think who it was is iirelevant? if y'all see me you gonna get all excited and shit? Exactly! That is why I did not feel the need to state that in the first place.

You are correct it was steve house...

There are SO many shitty stories about the mountaineers, that I tend to believe that they are in fact the problem not the people who are complaining about them. I have no problem with the students in the class, and never have. It is the attitude of the fuck wad class leaders which is the problem. I have twice ran in to groups of mounties on climbs and both times the leader was a total prick. Note these were Everett Mountaineers. It seems that there are way too many stories of dick head group leaders for it to all be in the imagination. Or maybe we are all just making these stories up.

What was the route like? How are conditions?

Never mind I spelled it wrong in my search. You can call me Dave. I will still take beta if anyone has anything to add though.

Anyone got good beta for NF Greybeard? I managed to find Laytons TR, but have not been able to find anything else. Colin, Forrest you two did this last year right?

Agreed Jason, Last winter some dumb fuck snow shoers decided to tell me off because I was soloing McClellan Butte. "Your on your own?" YES... "Dont you think that is dangerous?" NO... "Do you climb on your own alot?" Several times a year... "you really should not be out on your own" OK... "your the type of person we end up reading about on in the newspaper" Thanks for the vote of confidence. Have a nice day. This week I have had so many conversations with the people at work along the lines of "You dont climb on your own do you?" I now know that the correct answer to this quesiton is "No of course not. Why would I do that?" This answer saves a lot of bullshit conversation with people who I only talk to because I have to see them at work.

I ran in to a couple of climbers comming off the route last weekend and they said it was relativly strait forward. They climbed in crampons but "mostly because they wanted to". From SEWS it looked to have snow on ledges and the chimeny appeared to still have snow in it.

This could very possibly be worth heading up to the tooth bowl just to watch.

http://www.nwclimber.com/climbing/trips/hunter2002/hunterclimbinfo.htm

Ade and I climbed this route on Saturday. Route was in OK shape, but the ice was a little rotten in places. Fun route. Left car at about 3 am. Hiked to base of peak (via a somwhat roundabout way due to route finding error in the dark. Dumped snowshoes at base of route and then headed up just as the sun hit it. Simulclimbed to the first step, and then roped up. Ade led first step and then the crux in one 60m pitch. First step was crappy ice over a boulder "chockstone" in the gully. Only a couple of moves. All ice on this de-laminated as I put weight on to it, and there is now no longer ice on this part of the route. The crux open book had a fairly solid covering of ok ice with some rotton sections. Most of this crux could be climbed with very little ice in it by using the rock on the left side. I led the third pitch with one well protected small step. Simul climbed to summit, with mostly crappy protection. Desended by rapping strait off summit in to a coulior that meets the regular decent coulior about 100 ft down from the ridge. Downclimbed the rest of the way to cliffband and then made two rappels, one off of a really crappy dead tree anchor into the SW basin. Wallowed in snow for endless hours getting back to the snowshoes. Back at car about 4:00pm. Snowshoe postholing sucks ass. Went to David's cabin and met with the rest of the CC.com crew and drank beers.

Dont know about you, but I personally think that driving 113 mph anywhere on the hwy 2 is dangerous and completely reckless. That hwy is dangerous even without people driving 113 mph. Dont get me wrong I am not one to always go the speed limit, but there is a point at which your speed endangers everyone around you. Keep in mind the most dangerous part of climbing is getting the trail head.

Lummox, are you retarded?

There is no doubt in my mind that that was our bag of food. It had been sitting there since May. Well frozen I would guess.

Oh and ditto on what timmy said. These things do have some issues, although not serious ones. They are fairly reliable, but I do find myself with the occasional reboot. I am not sure whether I would wait or not, as the 2003 OS (not shipped yet) for the thing is a complete peice of shit right now. It should get better soon.