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Cool, thanks for the info Pete. That Leupold scope is the one most of my hunting buddies use and it's pretty nice for the price. Most of them favor the Remingtons or Savages in 30.06 or 7mm. I've recently converted from a bow after 15 years of chasing pacific blacktail through the underbrush around here and took a nice mule deer in 2003 after about 20 minutes of hunting with a borrowed rifle. I'm hooked and my wife offered to buy me a new rifle for a gift. Leaning toward a Winchester model 70 super shadow but, still unsure of the caliber.

Minx - playing football isn't going to corrupt your son. Be thankful he's interested in that instead of other crap like sport climbing.

What did you end up getting? I'm looking for one now and curious what you got.

Welcome to the mounties Paul!

nope, he sold it.

Now we can really make fun of trasks mom!

Reminds me of the Cellphone posse troll.

breast?

Can't you see it? I'll just post it here: It's a goat in a white out on Mt. Sumbitch, pretty bad huh? MMMMM, black berry cobler.

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Check this out, one of these guys seem to have his contact info. http://forums.backpacker.com/thread.jspa?messageID=520097񾾡 And if you were buying the I-Tent, it looks like he still owes some money on it. He is so busted.

I'm pretty sure gotterdamerung and GregW are as well so that's 4 right vs 3 wrong.

I'm self employed and a right wing leaning son of a biatch.

ken, I had a severe sprain last year and it took 4 months to get back to running comfortably. Your mileage may vary. Good luck.

As long as it's not a harley, you'd be able to lift it pretty easily by yourself, (hopefully you deadlift as part of your training). I'd think a quad/atv would be what you want for hauling two guys and two packs though. Motorcyle is designed for one guy to go real fast. I think those motorized scooters you see at Schuck's Auto with the beefier tires would do ok on a logging road with one person. The electric version is asking for being stranded a long way from your car IMO. Just get the 2-stroke version and be prepared to get a tounge lashing from the anit-everything people when you see them.

did you intend to post this in the "alpine eats" thread?

Will: When we built our cabin in Montana, we cut our own logs. I figured about 100 would be right and about 2 hours after cutting my last tree, a thunderstorm lit up the ridge four miles from our place. Nothing but mature (dry as tinder) lodgepole pine between it and us and it was slowly heading our direction. Sheriff came by to let us know that if we were staying, we needed to keep out stuff packed and in the trucks. Once the desicion is made to run, just go, don't try to grab other stuff. He said he wouldn't be back and it was up to us to decide to leave. The women packed the stuff and me and my friend hauled ass to get as much work done as we could. My uncle showed up at some point to join the fun. We had a laptop and could stay abreast of the forecasts as well as the fire updates. A couple days later the fire got to within three miles of our place, had consumed 40,000 acres and the neighbors were all gone with the windows boarded up. Occasionally FS trucks would go by but, nobody stopped. I guess they had more important stuff to do and figured we'd take care of ourselves. Realizing the if the winds picked up, it could easily push that fire down to us in 10 minutes, I decided it would be a good idea to get out of there. There was ash and little black cinders coming down everywhere. Ignoring the sheriffs advice to "just go" when it was time, I tried to get things cleaned up and organized, construction materials in what I figured was a protective position. The rental place was telling me that if the fork lift burned, I'd be responsible. The women were driving me crazy telling me every five minutes that we needed to leave but, something in the back of my head (stubborness) was telling me to ignore them and keep going. I had several thousand dollars worth of timber on the ground and I was doing what I could to protect it. All of a sudden, I noticed the smoke was a little thinner and I wasn't being snowed on by ash anymore. Within half an hour, we realized the winds had shifted. Unfortunatly, it shifted sideways and kept burning for another 10 days. The fire eventually burned 65,000 acres and sadly, claimed the lives of 2 fire fighters and a helo pilot. RIP dudes. We finsished the exterior walls and got the metal roof on before we left. I figured if I could handle the stress of building a home with a wild fire (and my wife) breathing down my neck, I could handle just about anything. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center a couple days later changed that attitude pretty quick. Good luck.

Does this mean our weeklong expedition to Fossil Rock is off? To tell you the truth, I don't think you should form any opinions about people, based on what they post here. I've been consistently surprised when finally meeting some of my fellow cc.comers as well as not fulfilling others expectations upon meeting them. " You're Bronco??? " Maybe they meet me and think a more appropriate screen name would be "foul_mouthed_leprechaun" or "graceful_like_sealion". Seriously though, how often do you and your regular climbing partners talk about politics or religion when you're out in the mountains? Sounds kinda boring to me. One time I listened to JayB and GregW discussing the finer points of the "Libertarian Manifesto" on the hike into Colchuck Lake and I really thought my head might explode at one point. Fortunatly I had packed some diamox...

Shadup Rob, I'm losing my hair over the demented arguing on this website and I won't give up.

I badly wanted an Andinista but couldn't shell out for one. I settled with a Nozone I picked up on clearance and with a gift certificate at Cascade Crags. It's pretty nice but, still an Andinista would be so much nicer for crankin 5.10 in my mountaineering boots. The Nozone would fit your criteria erez but, I've done 3 day trips out of my Khamsin 38 with no problem and it's about 2 lbs lighter. If you want a load hauler and are willing to use the lid as a summit pack, check out my Lowe Alpine Crossbow in the Yard Sale, it will comfortably haul any load you can get into it. Another popular (and cheaper) pack is the Wildthings Ice Sack. I'm pretty sure they were on sale at www.wildthingsgear.com last time I looked.

I'm dropping the price to $100 and will throw in some kewl glacier goggles. Will trade for camalots or wc friends as well.

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