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Forgive a silly question but, aren't those telemark boots? They may not work in your AT bindings. Check out the new line of boots from Dynafit, they sound like more what you're looking for as an all around boot.

Awesome list!

Summitpost works fine on my 'puter. I usually research routes on that website because it seems easier to me than using the search function on CC.com. It may be that I just don't know how to use the CC.com search very skillfully. For example, searching for "Tooth" turns up several thousand posts that have nothing to to with a route description or topo. I find this entertaing but not very helpful. What is it you're trying to find there?

Willing to Sell for $85.00. Sweet rock climbing harness, just would prefer adjustable leg loops.

New with tags Arcteryx R320-A harness Size Medium would like to trade for a Medium Arcteryx X350-A in good condition.

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"........