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Is this an attempt at a process of elimination? Great! those are NOT the Hogar mountains.

It's great for a piolet. It's not the ticket for extensive water ice climbing.

BJ

Folks in these parts have been speed dialing and sending emails for the past hour. Amazing. News conference at 5:00 tonight.

Flaws in your math, apparently. The answer will always be a multiple of 9.

Lick the boot http://www.fishproducts.com/powerandrubber/prpics/pr1.jpeg

Some people need an R and L painted on their boots, too.

for some, marriage is war.

Check out a movie clip.

FREEDOM toast, FREEDOM fries, FREEDOM tickler, FREEDOM maid's outfit, FREEDOM champagne, Tour de FREEDOM

The secret is found in the Beatle's White Album: #9, #9, #9 . . .

Check out this buffalo: and that furry thing on the ground in front of him.

How's about changing the moniker of "French technique" to "Freedom technique"?

I wouldn't want to have the job of wielding the knife. I've whacked many fish, but they don't squeal, or look like Wilbur. Maybe they get someone on work furlough?

Why is the combo spoon and fork utensil found in KFC packs called a "spork" instead of a "foon"?

And what's the likelihood of a Goverment official asking an Indian chief for advice. But the lifestyle idea . . .

redundancy eliminated

An old Cherokee Chief sat in his hut on the reservation, smoking the ceremonial pipe, eyeing the U.S. government officials sent to interview him. "Chief," one official began, "you have observed the white man for 90 years. You have observed his wars and his material wealth. You have seen his progress and the damage he has done..." The Chief nodded that it was so. The official continued, "Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?" The Chief stared at the government officials for over a minute, and then calmly replied: "When white man found the land, Indians were running it with no taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver. Women did all the work, medicine man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing, all night making love to the women." The Chief leaned back and smiled, "White man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that?"

Though few like to ponder first-aid on a trauma victim, we all expose ourselves to that possibility. A new product by an Oregon based company offers a real breakthrough. Hemcon makes a bandage that stops bleeding better than anything else. A blurb from their website: "The HemConTM Bandage has been studied in pre-clinical models including a spleen laceration model, carotid artery laceration model, an aortotomy model, and a model of extreme liver injury. In the aortotomy model, all swine treated with the HemCon bandage promptly stopped bleeding and survived, whereas all control animals treated with conventional gauze dressings died of massive bleeding. The severe liver trauma study demonstrated a significant reduction in blood loss and increase in survival rates with the HemCon BandageTM compared to the gauze controls." www.hemcon.com

Rob, sent you a PM. cheers

It can get complicated quickly. The big parent company has made it clear that they have the resources and motivation to contest any litigation. I might have to pay for a consumer survey and a marketing expert in addition to executing a lawsuit and defending against the probable countersuit. I am investigating acquiring additional legal representation on contingency. Meanwhile, I've been bummed about this since I noticed the problem at the OR Winter Market in January, and brought it to the attention of a salesperson there.

Article in the LA Times about the conversion of Leavenworth.

I could definitely "use an extra 50 or 100 grand". I've has an attorney send a cease&desist letter, and recieved a terse response. It's litigate, not negotiate. But litigation is a complicated decision, and what's right, or wrong, isn't the only contributing factor. The parent corporation of the offending company has annual revenues of $50 billion. Bringing a lawsuit could cost me $200,000, or more. What's the risk/benefit ratio? As my father told me, life is hard.

Consider a Big Agnes.

Cams do have a life-span, but it depends more on wear (use in sandy rock will shorten the life as will use in marine environments) and the force of any sustained falls --not a set number of falls. In the past, I've shifted my older cams to the aid rack and bought the shiny new ones for freeclimbs.