Stefan

I have a 100oz bladder. On single day outings I put in 2 cans of frozen concentrate Apple Juice and then load the rest with water. Total calories = 1400. Higher than any gatorade or cytomax combo I have found. In addition, two frozen concentrates are equal to $1.76 (Winco) and I have found that is cheaper than gatorade or cytomax. In addition, the only ingredient is: concentrated apple juice: No chemicals whatsoever. Cheaper. More calories. No chemicals.

Mt. Anderson West Peak?

Awesome. Fricken awesome. I feel for you in the bushwack sense. OI!

human evolution is now at a crawl with the advancement of medical wonders. people who are alive that were deemed to die by the way of natural evolution are spouting offspring....which means more nominations in the future for the Darwin awards.

By that same token Woodinville, Chealis and Centralia should be abandoned. Good point. Becuase I do not believe in FEMA. Especially for all those hurricane folk. If you decide to live in the path of hurricanes, then you gotta pay for it. Your choice.

crapola

Archy: I am glad the government helps out in mountain rescues. Most of the time a rescue is issued becuase of poor judgement. So I try to keep the same philosophy. Most of those people who have the bad loans did not want to be in this same predicament either. I am sure most feel terrible. They made poor judgement. And although it takes my money or reduces my equity I realize I live in a world where others and myself make poor judgements all the time. I have a hard time with New Orleans. I think New Orleans should be abandoned becuase of the geographic location--Mother Nature is going to win the battle. But what do I do?

If you do "cascade climbers" it sounds as if he is wooing you. pretty cool

funny!

sweet! thanks for sharing!

I agree. I do think the Yakima detour is the best--becuase other people are thinking exactly like you are. Especially the truckers where time and distance is money.

You must not have children.

Excellent read. I like the suspensfull build up.

Agreed. Now enjoy this. bGTZoyARvnQ

I like Ron Paul. I would have a tough decision if it was Ron Paul versus Dennis Kucinich. Neither are perfect, but close to what I believe. I like Ron's libertarian stance becuase people do not understand that health care and social security are a privelege and not a right in the U.S. It goes back to the basic philosophy of people WANTING rather than GIVING. You don't like it? Then change the US Constitution. Education and Health Care? Is the state's responsibility IMO.

Eventually I would like to meet this person becuase he is all over cc.com:

None of the discussions above make any relevance in reducing costs until people start to "shop around". Hell if I had "gasoline insurance" I would never shop around for the lowest cost provider.

Have you ever asked?

then why don't you move to die Schweiz or Sweden? Hmm? I would love to. But the wife said NO--becuase it would be too far from her family. yeah, blame it on the wife. got to blame it on the wife. Climbing in Switzy and Dolomites beats the North Cascades and she knows I would climb more if I lived there. More choices. Better rock. Better access.

I haven't decided yet if I would have had the surgery or not if I'd known about the cost. Wait until I can see the complete results of the work that was done and then I bet I will know the answer. In my case, there was no alternate procedure. The alternative would have been to continue living in constant pain, as I had for 8 years prior to having the work done. That said, I still don't know how the hell I'm going to pay for this. Shop around for the cost. Ask, "How much will this cost, and what do I get out of this?" In addition, don't just shop around in the US. See if going overseas to Singapore will benefit you too. I have heard of places like Singapore and Hong Kong that have US trained doctors. After you are done with the surgery, you get a 5 day vacation at the spa where you have the surgery. Find out how much it costs, talk to your insurance company and see if they would be willing to pay for your airfare too.

then why don't you move to die Schweiz or Sweden? Hmm? I would love to. But the wife said NO--becuase it would be too far from her family.

Economy sucks becuase of irresponsible people. I aint going to see social security. Health care is fricken astronimical. Better than living in Sudan or Niger....but not as nice as Switzerland or Sweden. Still pretty nice. Gotta count my blessings.

The main reason health care costs are always going up is becuause people do not "shop around" for cost. Can anyone tell me they knew the cost of going into a surgery or investigated the cost before they did the surgery? And if you knew the cost, and it affected your pocket book, would you look for a different procedure? People just do not do that kind of investigating. Hell, not even the doctors know how much some of the stuff costs.

Do not be complaining about the cost of health insurance if you are for keeping illegal immigrants here in the US. Many, but not all, illegal immigrants do not pay anything..which falls usually under some state plan...which means you pay for their health care. It is not the major cost of your health care bill, but it is a small part. Oh, and don't complain about state taxes either...your state taxes pay for teachers who are teaching many illegal immigrants' children.

All this gay stuff about republicans. Sounds like they are trying to become more mainstream. I give them an "A" for effort.