Stefan

I like the picture on the summit with the rope bending in the wind. kinda cool showing what wind does with a rope.

whimps. nuf said.

fricken a. thanks for breaking our stereotyping.

most excellent read. thanks for sharing your minor epic!

-the earth is warming up. fact, and everybody agrees to this data. -not everybody agrees it is due to humans. fact. -so why not try to stop the earth from warming up? who cares if it is humans or not. if you can't stop it, then what are the alternative plans? (thank god for $4 a gallon gas) this is a blessing to the environmentalists....I am sure they are chearing on for $5

there are plenty of peaks to do right now. you just gotta know where to go with the road conditions. everything up the mid fork snoqualmie stuff off of the mt. Baker highway se olympics search and you will find

Rumr. Take a chance. Quit playing your life as safe--even at work. You are a climber for godsakes.

Yes. 4-8 weeks does something different to you mentally than 1 week of vacation. A good mental. Only go if you are in the know about your company and the economy.

good article. kevbone, what would be the symantex you would use if you were caught doing something against the company rules at work, but you were not fired? what actions would they take?

support the troops is the same as saying: no on taxes for a new stadium but chear on the team.

He probably would replace Dick Cheney, but he would still be vice president.

I take cortisone shots one a year in my ankle....the shots do help.

Thanks for sharing. Welcome back. You had said, "I had survived my first major epic". Hope you don't have another one. Any way your partner could share their downclimbing effort?

you guys have done a little tour in washington over the past of dasy. good to see. excellent.

If this dude was an illegal immigrant coming into the US, that is one long walk especially along that Skagit Silver road before the snow melted out. Dang.

Interesting information. I was that accountant. Nobody ever told me of any errors I committed after I left. It would have been nice to be told instead of reading from a 3rd person account. I told Christine I was no expert on tax matters and have somebody handle all tax matters and could not do them. She told me to do the best I could and she would evaluate my work. I took over from the old accountants, and Christine had informed me the old accountants had taken some money--I never checked into it. I left becuase I couldn't do the free work any more. Too much time. It was also at that time Washington State had implemented a new law for travel agencies where they had to put money into escrow before a trip went. This was to protect the customer with the cash when a company would go under bankruptcy. Kind of like what the credit card company did with Frontier Airlines recently. Anyway, I expressed this concern to Christine, and she told me to keep a lid on it. I also got only one trip out of working there for just over 5 years. A good trip...but one trip. Mark is a good guy. I wish him the best of luck with the omen of ownership that looms over that company.

I don't know...but you can always check out the Trinity webcam: http://www.zeitcam.com/showcam.php?cam=trinity&day=20080507

Thanks. Great pictures!

I can't find peak 5919 on the map. Where is it?

Saw a bear in Federal Way once. He was eventually caught.

Pass is open.

wow. way to spend some time down there!

I am jealous of your problem. Our helpdesk always fixes the problems we have. That means our networks and our computers by the most part work correctly and functionally all the time. Which means we can usually never have an excuse to slack. Ever. Take this as a blessing.

I enjoyed the local flea market called Tianges on Sundays only in the town of Bucerias. Its like a Wal-Mart on a narrow dirt road.

happened twice to me--both times playing soccer in games when I was a teenager....we just stopped the games for while. pretty darned cool.