Peter_Puget

You can stereos on the installment plan but the retail store you are buying from isnlt making a loan. I don't know the details of the transactions you bring up however I think you are in error if you think HBC is still in the fur trade.

FROM HBC WEB page: The Company's rapid expansion during the 1970s, however, added heavily to its debt. This, combined with rising interest rates and the economic recession of the 1980s, strained its resources severely. In response, the Company concentrated its energies on its retail businesses. Consequently, it divested itself of businesses and investments including its Wholesale department, Northern Stores and Fur divisions and Markborough, which it considered peripheral to its central interests. The Company continues to expand its retail operations with acqusitions such as Kmart and new outlets like the Outfitters store in Toronto.

Then they got back in!

Here is a trivia question for you Dru: when did HBC get out of the fur trade?

Now your talking about something ole Peter remembers quite well....ah the old days before the conquest of the Southern picketts. PP

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Here is a voice from the Iraqi the Wilderness: Khaled Al-Qishtini wrote - "The coalition forces will not withdraw from Iraq until they complete their mission. They are in Iraq at the will of the overwhelming majority of the people, and their mission is a noble and blessed one. They strengthen their presence [in Iraq] every day, with forces from other countries [whose leaders have] grasped the nobility of the mission carried out by the coalition forces. This mission is to sow the seeds of legitimacy of rule and of law, to establish a democratic government, to liberate women from the slavery and backwardness to which they are subject, to spread transparency in [public] administration, and to spread rationality and the spirit of science in education and in defending human rights." PP

I may be a dirtbag, fag, adulterer, psuedo-intellectual and punk but don't call me a hippy!

Not my bolts! It was so long ago I was a very clean no bolt climber!

When I was young and stupid!

Did it years ago..but it was worth the effort. PP

What's everyone climbing this weekend? PP

The tie is broken second place is Hard Boiled! The hospital scene is simply the best action sequence ever shot!

It's a tie for second: Hardboiled Bullet In The Head A Better Tomorrow PP

The Living End! PP

RIP

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Mattp – In all seriousness I think you way overstate the quality of Squamish. Squamish has lots of great climbs but its main attractiveness is its volume of middle grade climbs. If you take the best of Wa Pass, Index, Darrington or Leavenworth and compare to the best at Squamish, the top half dozen routes (that are relatvent here) are pretty comparable. By the way the Grand Wall would be no where near the top of my Squamish list. Remember her party has a day maybe two of climbing. Would your suggestion of DH-Lovin Arms and then add another day on Outerspace really be eclipsed by two days at Squamish? I think not. Some of the routes at Darrington compare quite favorably to Squamish. For instance, I cannot think of a Squamish 5.9 that is better than Dreamer. I agree with you comments on approaches. PP

Nels CLine will be playing for free at the West Seattle Jazz Fest on 9/14 not with his own band tho. John Mclaughlin will be at the Moore on 9/25 with Remember Shakti. PP

OW - I think these guys are all too young.

Anyone ever use the drop down trick to avoid a 2 factor fall on the belay?

..that they are one screwed up people! Poll results PP

Here's a former Wa resident: Here is the caption: CP Little at work on his route, "Suzanne Summers", a yet undone project at Dry Canyon. The route traverses about 50' to the lip of the cave, then follows the headwall for another 50' or so. CP later broke both feet against that lip during an all-out redpoint attempt on what will likely be one of Southern Arizona's hardest routes PP

LOL AS much as I hate to write this in the open, I have been sport climbing entirley too much. Whenever I day dream about climbing it is never sportclimbing! I need to wear a rack and wrestle an OW. Win or lose a memory is certain! PP

Ok I lied. Didn’t even make it to Squish. Go pushed into going climbing off hwy two east of Index but west of Leavenworth. I wanted to try that beast in Squamish!