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You forgot to mention your Makrov in the Gear notes pal. Mighta been handy for triggering that windslab.

Me and my naturally destructive friend J picked up a side job from another property manager guy that involved limbing several little fir trees up to about 8' and chipping the branches. The reason for the project is a homeless dude had constructed a camp under the trees and the Tenants in the building were freaked out when he started aggressivly panhandling and harassing them. Anyway, we get done with the limbing and chipping and I call the rental yard to come pick up the chipper and comment on how nicely done the hobo camp is with an old kitchen chair and some planks for a table. J is feeling his destructiveness that day and starts grabing anything made of wood and shoving it through the chipper. Pretty soon, he's got this homeless guy's entire camp chipped up and is trying to feed his sleeping bag through it when homeless guy arrives on the scene with a look of shock and awe on his face. He just turned around and walked away.

Throwing rocks into the chipper is not a good way to earn a latte.

I thought having a plab jacket/pants combo was the highest priority.

Were the folks who prolly left it a leprechaun looking guy, his wife and daughter out for a hike later Saturday afternoon near the tunnel?

I believe this sort of generalization of the Irish is discrimination of the worst kind. They don't wear green and get drunk all the time. And it's always noon somewhere so what's the big deal anyway. On behalf of Irish descendants everywhere, I demand reparations paid in...Guinness.

Soak it in cider.

Seems like I read some stuff about ankle strengthening here: http://www.bodyresults.com/index.asp I had a pretty nice ankle sprain las fall and it took about 3 months before I was 100% recovered.

Rope stretch and slack can do that especially if der climber is near the end of der rope. I don't care if your "calculations" prove otherwise either.

THAT WAS ME YOU DIRTY HIPPY!!! True story - for some reason, my wife and I were invited to a fancy dinner party with special instructions "no hunting talk" as some guests might be upset. Well, I was upset about being invited then told not to do what I do best, which happens to be telling huntin stories. What to do? Put a bunch of hunting stickers all over our "nice" truck and drive it to the party. Let me tell you, there was a couple of long-hairs that looked a little grumpy when they arrived and parked their honda electric 4 door scooter next to our truck. They just got out and stared at the truck and bumper sticker, got back in their car like they must have the wrong place, got back out, looked at the truck again, then slowly made their way to the door with a glum look on their faces. I'm not sure if they were more upset about the truck or the hunting stickers but, I said nothing about hunting. The look on their faces was worth having to mind my manners the rest of the evening. Enviro-vegans!

Wazzup with the personal attack on the guys vehicle! Of the few people who have a good justification for driving a 4X4, I'd say a logger is right up there. Let's see you get 4 guys, thier lunches and equipment up 20 miles of logging road to the job in whatever "economical" POS you drive. (nice troll butt muncher) And catterd, the guys who put in logging roads generally don't take time to put in parking spots so you park wherever you can. You're having a good day when you can actually turn around and not have to back up the 20 miles to the pavement.

party pooper!

Love the new avatar Scott! How about Minx's title? I mean come on, sex industry worker, that's just insensitive.

Look how upset he is! Dang uppity trees!

Tree attacks logger's vehicle http://www.madsens1.com/ouch.htm

In Gator's book on climbing Rainier, he suggests taking one asprin every 8 hours starting a day or two before the climb and continuing through the climb. Twight is suggests Garlic tablets for increasing circulation. I take them once per day just prior to and durring the climb. I don't know if it's mental or not but, I tend to stay warmer in the cold and experience less difficulty at altitude than most of my partners. Maybe it's because I'm just "stout".

Nice TR Tom! Bug, Mt Baring sits NORTH of HWY 2 so it's properly placed in the North Cascades Forum. I think you can easily do the trip in 5-6 hours car to car in late season. However, I also went up there once in April and glissaded down one of the creek beds from the top of the ridge to the road. They were scoured out from spring avalanches. Pretty fun jumping the occasional moat over open water.

What do you know, I found a black and white, but it looks like a doug-fir. That Madsens gallery has some sweet pics!

You mean like this big old cedar?

cool!

Check with local community colleges also, they usually offer evening/weekend courses. I took a course in college to be a "certified" first responder and leaned a lot. It seems that most scenarios discussed would be easily applied to a "wilderness" setting.

Ditto for me. Also seems to help with altitude related problems. Regarding one of the above posters, I saw a dramatic improvement in the speed I completed my early morning run when I started wearing less. It's been my experience that it takes more work to get your heart rate up when your body is trying to keep warm. Run naked!

kill 'em.

I've been trying this with the applications to the Sierra Club I've been recieving for the last couple years. I send back pictures of oil wells and logging and whatnot. They just keep sending them to me.