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There's a nerve in the lower back that when inflamed, can make the boys ache pretty bad and burning around the groin area. Ice on the lower back and advil help.

Sobo: A lot of hunters don't take interest in hanging heads in the house. Hunters that are interested in trophies won't shoot until they determine if it's a trophy or not and place thier shot accordingly, avoiding the head or neck of an animal you intend to mount. This does not appear to be a trophy quality animal and the head was simply disposed of/left in the field. Most taxidermists that I've known would not bother to attempt to mount the head of an animal that has a wound like that anyway. There is no guarantee it'll turn out acceptable and would probably end up looking like Donald Trump.

I'm surprised not one poster has brought up the importance of appearing EXTREME. "Looking good is feeling good." I run warm and have found my hooded windshirt to be good for 90% of when I want a jacket. If it's really that wet out, I'm headed home. I will usually pack a puffy but leave the hardshell at home to wear around town or resort skiing.

Yup, builidng a resistance to demoralization is pretty valuable.

Black Peak (Pick a route) E. Wilmans Spire (5.4) Colchuck (Glacier Route) Whitehorse (Standard Route except use rocks on the left instead of the snow finger) Main Peak of Mt. Index (probably a long day) Sloan (Corkscrew Route) Gothic & Del Campo near Monte Christo are doable in a day. Weigelt Route on the North Face of Vesper would also be a good choice at 5.7 if you are comfortable climbing at that level with sparse pro.

FWIW Gene is a solid and competent partner.

Get an AT ski setup and learn to pack lighter?

You guys need to try this again, by getting off route that early, you should've encountered hard, unprotectable slabs and been forced to rap off of twigs back into the first "obvious bowl". Shame on you!

It seems like someone would've exended the 5.10 route down to the glacier by now if the rock were as good as the two upper pitches are. We tr'd the top pitch in 2003 and the rock seemed excellent.

Awesome, thanks for putting that up Tom!

I like ride my bike in the dark and rain without rain gear or gloves. Try box jumps and lunges wearing a pack and fogged up goggles while someone intermitantly sprays you with the garden hose and slaps you with a wet cedar bough. Get used to being discouraged/cold/wet/fatiged/miserable for a couple hours.

If the easment is on her property and the car is on the property/easment and it's not parked there for the purpose of utility maintenance then YES I would say she has the right to have it towed.

Here's my advice: Call a Towing Company and get a form for having the car towed. Put it on his windshield the next time he parks there. This will probably make him angry but cause him to go park elsewhere. Nobody really wins when a car actually gets towed (except the towing company) so hopefully it doesen't come to that.

oh yeah, I'm not a lawyer but I play one on tv.

Rudy - If the intended purpose of the parked vehicle is to perform utility work, that would be difficult to prevent them from parking there. You could write them a letter putting them on notice that they have hurt your feelings and it is your understanding that once the maintenance is done, they will promptly remove the vehicle. Don't feel too bad, most properties have a utility & maintenance easement somewhere.

THE SYSTEM FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY LOOKS WEAK AND IT DISSIPATES SATURDAY AFTERNOON OVER THE CASCADES. THIS WILL ALSO BE A LOW QPF EVENT. HOWEVER THE ACCOMPANYING UPPER TROUGH IS DEEP AND THE MOUNTAINS WILL COOL OFF SIGNIFICANTLY THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. THE SNOW LEVEL WILL FALL TO 6000 FEET...PERHAPS EVEN 5000 FEET IN THE NORTHERNMOST CASCADES. THIS IS A BIG CHANGE FROM THE SUNNY AND WARM CONDITIONS IN THE MOUNTAINS OVER THE LAST THREE WEEKS OR SO...AND WILL ISSUE A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT THIS AFTERNOON TO HIGHLIGHT THE CHANGE.

Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. Thanks, that should be stuck in my head the rest of the day.

I am gonna round up a bunch of raging assholes and be at your place at 4:30am. Make sure to bring the burn barrels and picket signs you commie.

Ivan - most teachers are underpaid, not sure a Union is the answer but probably effective negoitating contracts in a lawful and rational manner. I served as chairman on a rural school board in Montana and my hat's off to you - Gene - I should clarfy that it's certainly not my intent to paint ALL union members as bad people, everyone knows it just takes a few bad apples in an organization and I'm sure there are 10 good ones for every bad one. Keep up the good work, guys like you are hopefully setting the pace for the rest of the members. Just don't round up your electrician brothers to storm the jobsite at 4:30 am.

In my personal experiences working on the University of WA hospital in 1995-96 as a non union sheet metal installer I experienced threats, theft of tools, destruction of materials, being spit on and berated for "taking food out of their kids mouths" mostly by the Iron Workers. We had to go to a swing shift to keep them happy and were rewarded with having to run the guantlet every afternoon while being spit on and threatened as the Union crew left. Arriving on the job we would find the previous night's work destroyed, tool boxes cut open (with a torch of course) and fall protection gear cut to shreds. Returning to our vehicles at 2:00 am we'd find flat tires, "scab" etched into the door, blah blah blah. Same deal on the REI flagship store around 1996 or 1997. Nobody deserves to be treated like that becasue they don't belong to a Union and it chafes my hide that it still goes on. I think this is the part of the conversation where I say, "You're a commie" and you say "well you're a corporate shill"........

you must not have read "the jungle" plenty of folks out there who have been out of work for a long time now who have a good attitude and skills. Not only have I read The Jungle, I worked in a (non-union) meat packing plant for one summer. I thought the conditions in the plant I worked at were worse than what was detailed in the book.

... or someone with discipline and good work ethic. As a small business owner I can tell you we don't hire contractors who are organized. We simply won't do business with them beause of this sense of entitlement, irrational and irresponsible behavior and inflated labor rates.

That is called "media sensationalizing" wherein they take liberties and graphically blow up and push the story so they can sell more advertizements. I believe it's more the norm and not that rare. If you can find someone who was actually there at an event like this, it is rare that they concur that a news story is factually correct. Add to that the fact that none of the longshoremen will ever be ad revenue while whomever owns the grain elevator might have 4 more company's and be spending shitloads of $ with this very newspaper right now. The papers and media rarely disclose that kind of thing. Are you suggesting there were arrests that were intentionally not reported by the media? I believe reporting of arrests would create additional "sensationalism". Why would they pass up that opportunity? I think this is a case of out of work guys being frusterated at not getting a job they were counting on. Times are tough but this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to react. Hopefully some of them take responsiblity for their actions.

I always thought the point of the unions was to provide collective bargining and level the playing field in negotiations. Vandalism and indimidation sucks when you're the victim of these goons. Interesting to me none of them were reportedly arrested. What's up with that?

From Here: http://www.komonews.com/news/local/129457903.html TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - A federal judge ordered union protesters to stop using illegal tactics Thursday as they battle for the right to work at a new grain terminal in Washington state. U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton issued a preliminary injunction to restrict union activity, saying there was no defense for the aggressive tactics used in recent days. Protesters twice blocked the pathway of a train carrying grain to the terminal at the Port of Longview on Wednesday, and early Thursday morning hundreds of them stormed the facility, overwhelmed guards, dumped grain and broke windows, police said. The dispute halted work at four other Washington ports, including Seattle, on Thursday as hundreds of longshoremen refused to show up or walked off the job. Leighton said he felt like a paper tiger because the International Longshore and Warehouse Union clearly ignored a temporary restraining order he issued last week with similar limits. He said he now wants to hold a hearing to determine whether the union should be held in civil contempt. "The regard for the law is absent here," the judge said. "Somebody is going to be hurt seriously." Six guards were trapped for a couple of hours after at least 500 Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha said. He initially referred to the guards as "hostages," but later retracted that after the guards clarified no one had threatened them. "The guards absolutely could not get out," Duscha said. "They feared for their lives because of the size of the crowd and the hostility of the crowd." No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested - although Duscha said that could change if police are able to use surveillance video or other means to identify the protesters. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines and spilling grain from a car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said. They also pushed a private security vehicle into a ditch. The union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor that's staffing a workforce of laborers from another union, the Portland-based Operating Engineers Local 701. Representatives of the engineers union did not immediately return a call seeking comment. In Seattle, Tacoma, Everett and Anacortes, hundreds of Longshore workers failed to show up or walked off the job Thursday in apparent solidarity with the Longview activists, halting work at those ports. Union leaders said they had not called for any such actions. "It appears the members have taken action on their own," said ILWU spokesman Craig Merrilees from union headquarters in San Francisco. He said some workers might have been motivated by a photograph of ILWU President Bob McElrath in police custody in Longview. Police arrested 19 protesters as they blocked railroad tracks on Wednesday night, allowing the train to finally arrive at the terminal. The protesters in Longview have portrayed themselves as being on the front line in the struggle for jobs and benefits among American workers in an economic downturn. But while union strife has flared up around the country - most notably in Wisconsin - the aggressive tactics seen in Longview have been a rarity in recent labor disputes. Labor activists insist that after receiving tax breaks and promising to create well-paying jobs at the new $200 million terminal, EGT initially tried to staff the terminal with nonunion workers. Following a series of protests by the Longshore workers this year, the company announced it would hire a contractor staffed by workers from a different union. "Today, the ILWU took its criminal activity against EGT to an appalling level, including engaging in assault and significant property destruction," the company's chief executive, Larry Clarke, said in a written statement. "This type of violent attack at the export terminal has been condemned by a federal court, and we fully support prosecution of this criminal behavior to the fullest extent under the law." Police from several agencies in southwest Washington, the Washington State Patrol and Burlington Northern Santa Fe responded to the violence to secure the scene that followed a demonstration Wednesday. One sergeant was threatened with baseball bats and retreated, Duscha said. "One officer with hundreds of Longshoremen? He used the better part of discretion." --- Associated Press writers Donna Gordon Blankinship, Doug Esser and Gene Johnson in Seattle contributed to this report.