ScottP

aka: route flossing

Time isn't after us...

The only instance I can think of is where one bails from the route due to an insufficient rack...

What if it's an aid line that went free solely because of pin scars...? "Hey thanks for the pin scars that allow my fingers to fit in the crack. Oh, by the way, now that my fingers fit, you can't use pins on this route."

citated? new one for Websters! Citated is a perfectly cromulent word!

Bailey Range in the Olympics

Shrubbuyuh

No mistake or big pancake Underclings or angel wings Finger Stacks or Plastic Sacks Fingerlocks or Cedar Box Make That Move or Six Foot Groove Lose Yer Stance, Shit 'cher Pant

Mike led up the pitch and bailed, so I never saw it. It was on the 7th (extension) pitch, so I assume it was a new one.

My grumbling was largely tongue in cheek (except for that one button head where you can view a good 50% of the shaft by looking behind the hanger). I want to say thanks to those who refitted that route. It was well done and much needed. The meathooks that used to protect the lower crux were about as grim as they get. Mike didn't mention the missing hanger on the 4th(?) bolt of pitch 7.

MPD/DID

Looks like Uday Hussein: after the troops were finished. Nice photoshop Tex. Uh...no...

Castle Rock has got to be one of the coolest crags in WA, made even more special by having the place to yourself. My favorite is hooking up Old Gray Mare and Canary for a longer, more sustained experience than the standard Canary. Give Diretessima and Century a go sometime. Also, The Fault to Catapult to The Bone makes a nice alternate approach to Logger Ledge and the upper routes.

If Microsoft made cars... 1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car. 2. Occasionally your car would just die for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this, restart and drive on. 3. Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too. 4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a "Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats. 5. Amiga would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only run on five percent of the roads. 6. Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars which would make their cars go much slower. 7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light. 8. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for many years. 9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas and all auto fluids but the packaging would be superb. 10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt. 11. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off. 12. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened. 13. They wouldn't build their own engines, but form a cartel with their engine suppliers. The latest engine would have 16 cylinders, multi-point fuel injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you could use Model-T Ford parts on it. 14. There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be slower on most existing roads. 15. Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes. Unless of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff. 16. Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own any roads, all of the road manufacturers would give away Microsoft cars free, including IBM! 17. If you still ran old versions of car (ie. CarDOS 6.22/CarWIN 3.11), then you would be called old fashioned, but you would be able to drive much faster, and on more roads! 18. If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow your friends, and then copy it. 19. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganise the ignition for a few days before it worked. 20. You would need to buy an upgrade to run cars on a road next to each other. 21. You would have to hit a Start button to turn off the car.

Type "national park fee increases" into Google... You get a who's who list of proposed national park fee increases.

I climbed some hardened mud they call rock climbing in Iowa with my brother in law a few years back at a place called Palisades-Kepler State Park. The climbing itself was mildly depressing, but the Cedar River that cut the banks we were climbing makes the Crooked look like pure alpine goodness. Even the carp couldn't live in this river judging by the multiple cacasses I saw. I am color blind, but even I couldn't miss the orange hue of the water. The smell was that of water coming from a primary water treatment facility. It was pure disgusting. The only saving grace was the awesome marine fossils to be found in the gravel beds lining the river.

Like a dog peeing on a hydrant, Dru will soon be around to mark his territory with a link to his original thread...

Looks like he burned a hole throught the toes of his shoes.

Dru has an I'm-better-than-you-and-I'll-point-it-out-at-every-opportunity complex...

What is "middle age"?

I think one can read the information less for its predictive qualities and more for its contextualization of the "Iraq situation"; as such, it's much better than any prediction it might be making (what was the prediction, by the way?). The political allegience of those who point out the truth has nothing to do with the quality of the truth itself. To say so is to fall in line with the worst of the McCarthy efforts. I'm wondering if PP even read the article I linked...it seemed to me more of a historical perspective than some kind of "apocalyptic" prediction. The Prediction (as I see it): "The hour of the invasion draws near. As we write this, on December 28, 2002, the Iraqi government has told a solidarity conference in Baghdad that “he who attacks our country will lose. We will fight from village to village, from city to city and from street to street in every city....Iraq’s oil, nationalized by the president...from the hands of the British and the Americans in 1972...will remain in the hands of this people and this leadership.” The Iraqi armed forces may not be able to put up extended resistance to the onslaught. But the Iraqi people have not buckled to American dictates for the past more than eleven years of torment. They will not meekly surrender to the imminent American-led military occupation of their country. And that fact itself carries grave consequences for American imperialism’s broader designs."

WTB: Kids rock shoes... Sole lengths: 8 and 9 inches EUR : 29 and 33