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A major factor in the decision to bail was what we saw looking up that gully.

Midsummer approach to the Tower Route on Big 4. I felt like I was caught in a big maw that was gumming me to death. Temps in the upper 80's, humidity in the upper 80's, hideous amounts of foliage. We bumped into a house-sized boulder that we climbed on top of to get our bearings and looked out over a sea of nastiness. By the time we got to the start of the route (?), we were so spent we turned around and schwacked our way back to the Ice Caves and trail. Nasty descents tend to fade from my memory, but the old school descent off of GG Buttress earned a permanant spot in long term storage. We dropped into the gully, waiting for the "few" raps to cease. Too many raps later, we bailed out of the gully and began a contour around toward the base. At one point we entered a weird space of bleached gray cedar limbs from a downed old growth. It was like picking through the rib cage of a giant. At one point I impaled my shin on an unseen branch and to this day have a hole in the front of my shin I can stick half the tip of my index finger into. If I flex my foot just right, a big lump of tissue pushes out through the gap. We continued contouring around to the south, alternating between slide alder holding us 6 feet off the ground and apalear de diablo. I have no memory of how long it took, but by the time we hit the creek we had crossed that morning I was soaking wet and covered head to foot with flora detritus.

If this were coming from someone talking to himself while walking down the sidewalk, people would cross to the other side of the street to avoid him.

You have a fruitful imagination.

The US

Do you think she knows what she's talking about? The prison population is over 2million, gun deaths average over 30,000 per year and the number of people waiting to be put to death hovers around 3400. What a bunch of animals.

Grains and legumes.

Then how about a plausible explanation as to how light can be emanating from the blackhole. Ka-ching!

Think outside the box.

Yeah, but that's one stylin' belay jacket.

Some people climb for fun. Some people climb for ego enhancement. I believe it is latter who feel the need to do something "great" to validate their climbing experience or that doing something great validates another's climbing experience.

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I know squat about copyright law, but doesn't this: "Copyright ©1996-2005 Dirtbag Clothing Inc. All Rights Reserved" at the bottom of the dirtbagclothing.com page mean something?

I'm looking for suggestions for reggae bands along the style lines of The Itals and Toots and the Maytals. Please and thank I.

After reading 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bryson, I mentioned to my 8th grade students the idea that to go back even 20 generations in a family involves over a million people who were parents of parents of parents, etc. 30 generations is over 1 billion. Going back to the time of the Romans gets you something like 1 quintillion individuals who are parental units. They kind of shrugged at this, being more cognitively concrete. Further explantion that 1 quintillion is more than all of the humans than ever existed, which means that if you look around the room, the person you are sitting next to will most likely be related to you in some distant way, got their attention in a big way. The "popular girls" looked at the greasy-haired, pimple-faced kid like he had just vomited on them.

How many 'yahoos' here do you think will actually catch your reference to "A Modest Proposal"?? Huh...what? Duh... that's so fucking obvious it's pathetic. Even responding to something so intentionally obvious is what's really pathetic. Did you forget your haldol today?

How many 'yahoos' here do you think will actually catch your reference to "A Modest Proposal"?? Huh...what?

and which industrialists would that be?? "I have been assured by a very knowing Industrialist of my acquaintance, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." (with apologies to Mister Swift)

Big Business about to get some reach around.

more hyperbole from an overwrought Bush hater... You claim "Bush went out of his way to reach out towards American Muslims immediately following 9/11" which really seems an opinion touted as fact. I merely provided a counter example to your unqualified statement. There was nothing overwrought or hyperbolic in what I said. I initially searched for anything I could find on Bush reaching out to the Muslim world and the only info that presented itself from several queries using a variety of search terms was the one visit to the Islamic Center and the religion of peace quote. Please, provide me with the info I sought. I would really like to know the extent to which Bush reached out to the Muslim and Arab populations in America after 9/11.

OK, here is a glaring counterexample to your unqualified statement: Bush went out of his way to reach out towards American Muslims immediately following 9/11 - irrespective of their political affiliation, and appealed to the American people not to make the mistake of demonizing these fellow Americans. That is integrity and tolerance exemplified. A token visit to the Islamic Center in DC and a declaration of Islam as a "religion of peace" was hardly "going out of his way" in my opinion. Subsequent "reaching out" included surveillance, search, seizure, and incarceration of Muslims and Arabs in America without notification, evidence or an opportunity for the victims to access legal advice (see PATRIOT Act).