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Brian Landeck was his name.

When YOU began your focus on vertical motion YO. 1983 here. I fell out of a tree and broke my left femur in 1964. 1st roped climb, 1979.

I'll add...toulene? mehtyl ethyl ketone

Whay kind of beer was it?

"Joy turned to horror in Italy on Friday when an Italian journalist..." "...and killing the Italian agent who had negotiated her release..." "...The Italians' vehicle..." "Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has asked the U.S. ambassador for an explanation." "...coalition forces will co-operate with Italian authorities..." "Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of the Italian citizen."

I suppose if I had a job where cars rushing at me might suddenly detonate with enough explosive force to turn me into a gelatinous mass, I would probably have acted just as the soldiers at that checkpoint did. Diplomacy be damned; I would just want to get back home in one piece.

Why isn't this in Spray?

George Bush , a President slight, Has an IQ which possibly might, Reach double figures With cranial vigors, And a large intellectual fight!

Is it really a cover if the song is traditional? Versions of The Itsy Bitsy Spider are found in cultures throughout the world and are not attributable to any one author/composer. Well, it's not really relevant to the fact that it was a nauseatingly bad rendition of the song, but if you wanna split hairs, then sure, it's probably not technically a cover. Whoever it was, though, didn't write the song, so from that standpoint, it fits under the cover umbrella. Sheesh.. I'm sorry, did I hurt your feelings? I was just curious if a known originator was necessary for a song to be a true cover. Works for me.

Is it really a cover if the song is traditional? Versions of The Itsy Bitsy Spider are found in cultures throughout the world and are not attributable to any one author/composer.

In my opinion...

Warning!

...which was ahead of the party of two who were ahead of another party of five which was ahead of the party of four, one of whom was sounding like an emphysema patient.

It is about more than just keeping the land pretty... It seems to me I read somewhere how ecological and biological diversity play a pretty important role in sustaining life on this planet. Two things that don't tend to happen with human encroachment.

I helped install one of the two pitch routes toward the south end of this crag. We guessed it to be about 10a. The first pitch starts in a corner of sorts and then face climbs up through a slight overhang. The second pitch climbs a face on positive edges to the top. The originator of this route, Eric Hirst, also put in one or two others I never climbed. There were other people developing routes at the time. Susan Bolton knows more, but last I heard, she wasn't talking.

"My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things. Whoops, that's it folks. We are out of time. Sorry. Mahalo." HST

is that Mt Baring? Is there an Arete climb on it? Looks like some slab ice...anyone ever checked it out? Oops, sorry, it's a "prow" Dolomite Tower-Prow Route V, 5.9, A3 or "A new route established by Brian Burdo, at considerable effort and expense, ascending the north arete of Dolomite Tower. 13 pitches."

My cannabis farmer post was legit. In certain places in this country (Humboldt County, CA for example) pot farming is a big part of the local economy and many people use it as their livelihood. Those who choose the crowns of redwood trees as the site of their operation use ropes and jumars for tending to their crops. My post is more on topic than the software developer, used car salesman or climbing gym manager posts.

Cannabis farmer specializing in potted plants nestled in the crown of old growth redwood trees.

Lars forgot the Andy Rooney attribution.

An acquaintance borrowed my ledge and while his belayer sat on it, pulled a flake off Uncle Bens that punched a hole through it, inches from slicing his belayer in two. Not a route you would think of as having a death pitch, but Susan almost got the chop on that one.

Your expert opinion.

I would like to read Pope's essay.