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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?

He must not have seeen the memo. Fortunatly I have an extra -

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.

Can't get anything past you, can I? (note to self, lay off the self depricating humor, it's just not working around here, must be too subtle, even for the "thinkers")

Here's some good reading on an account in Australia where 4 men suffocated in a snow cave dug into a cornice. It's not that hard to do aparently. http://www.vnrs.org/Trivia_etc/Deadly_White_Blanket/deadly_white_blanket.html Oh yeah, it's just CO not CO2 dummy!

Man finds pack loaded with $500,000 cash WENATCHEE -- A pedestrian who found a backpack filled with nearly $500,000 near Ellisforde likely helped disrupt a drug deal, Okanogan County officials said. The pedestrian found the pack full of money hidden along Highway 97 north of Ellisforde on Friday and called authorities, Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers said. He declined the name the pedestrian. Law enforcement officers believe the cash was destined for use in the drug trade, Rogers said. Deputies took the cash and replaced it in the backpack with police magazines and other police materials that gave it a similar weight and size, then they put it back in the brush. David L. Taber Jr., 35, of Oroville, who allegedly drove to the location about 7:30 p.m. Friday, picked up the backpack and drove away, was arrested and made a court appearance Monday on money laundering charges in Okanogan County Superior Court. Associated Press

I climbed it a couple years ago, stopping to TR the top pitch of the "sport route" in about 10 hours car to car. Pretty easy day trip.

I think he's talking about CO2 build up, not O2.

Sounds like you're criticizing this youngster for wanting to buy a ticket from a private party who legally paid for the voucher but did not use it. I have no problem with this. I don't think loaning your season pass to a friend is ok though. Like most businesses, the resorts will probably increase ticket prices by "whatever the market will bear" not just what they figure they lost to fraud the previous year.

Definetly rent and borrow ice tools before you buy. Pick a few you think you like and try them out. Search for ice tools on this website and read up.

You guys seem a little uptight. I've been in sani-cans when the villiage idiot (there's usually one lurking around) trys to pry the door open with a shovel, takes pleasure in dropping bricks down the vent stack, wails on the sides of the sani-can with a 2x4 and the best prank, using a dozen screws to fasten the door shut and take the sani-can (with you inside) for a tour around the jobsite on the forklift. Try taking a crap with all that going on around you and you'll pray all you have to tolerate is watching someone just rinse off their hands instead of trying to concentrate on not getting blue "sanitizer" all over your ass.