The NE Butt as a descent route gets my vote over the gully routes as well, but it helps to have been up it before trying to descend it.
That basin in the springtime (with snow in it) is quite a kick. It is a fairly nasty place to be when the avy danger is up, however.
According to google:
Peter Puget was an officer in the British Royal navy who explore the northwest coast from 1791 to 1794.
Darryl Cramer is a regular contributor to democraticunderground.com and climbing guide book author who is actively seeking online information about his ancestry.
"Clueless" invokes the idea that the guy didn't know what was going on. From what I got out of the article, Brown Eye and his staff had been informed in advance of that particular restaurant missive that the shit was going to hit the fan. "Selfish" is probably a better moniker.
does the bird flu virus mutating to infect humans qualify?
only if FEMA doesn't do their job.
Some guy named Stewart Simonson is the shrub's main man for a flu pandemic. The only problem is he has no public health management experience. Before joining HHS, he served as a corporate secretary and counsel for AMTRAK. He got his job because he is a close associate of ex-Health & Human Services honcho Tommy Thompson.
Sound familiar?
("Stewie's doin' a great job!")