ScottP

The "poke-with-a-sharp-stick" sort of opinion. Ouch.

From the summit of the Middle Teton

What expressed opinion got you banned?

...and that is an understatement.

Nice tie.

Not trying to stir the shit, Mr. White. The link was related to this thread. I was merely providing a compelling lead-in.

Somebody got a nasty spanking over at ascendancy.com from gutteraldemagogue for doing a big time neenerneener. There's gonna be a fight behind the church!

"Drive State Route 2 for 1.7 miles east of the Skykomish (sic). Turn south onto Foss River Road #68. Continue on Road #68 for 4.1 miles to the trailhead and parking area on the left."

Make like you're wrapping your right hand around your cock. Now trace a line from the thumbnail to the index finger nail. The direction you are tracing is the direction the earth is rotating. Don't do this in public.

Clearly...

Obvious Descent Gully

Yeah, the plot thickens as the Prisoner is yet again chased by a giant bubble gum bubble.

Minus the high rez aerial photo

I am sure there are many.

Just read in todays Seattle times that the Pentagon reversed itself on billing Robert Loria after intervention from a number of senators.

Currently 40 F at Snoq Pass. 41 F at Stevens

I don't care how the guy ended up in Iraq, suffering wounds like this shouldn't result in wages being garnished by the Pentagon: link

Like many soldiers wounded in Iraq, Spc Robert Loria's injuries were caused by a roadside bombing. It happened in February when his team from the 588th Battalion's Bravo Company was going to help evacuate an area in Baqubah, a town 40 miles north of Baghdad. A bomb had just ripped off another soldier's arm. Loria's Humvee drove into an ambush. When the second bomb exploded, it tore Loria's left hand and forearm off, split his femur in two and shot shrapnel through the left side of his body. Months later, he was still recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and just beginning to adjust to life without a hand, when he was released back to Fort Hood. AFTER SEVERAL MORE MONTHS, the Army is releasing Loria. But "clearing Fort Hood," as the troops say, takes paperwork. Lots of it. Loria thought he'd done it all, and was getting ready to collect $4,486 in final Army pay. Then he was hit with another bomb. The Army had another tally – of money it says Loria owed to his government. A Separation Pay Worksheet given to Loria showed the numbers: $2,408.33 for 10 months of family separation pay that the Army erroneously paid Loria after he'd returned stateside, as a patient at Walter Reed; $2,204.25 that Loria received for travel expenses from Fort Hood back to Walter Reed for a follow-up visit, after the travel paperwork submitted by Loria never reached the correct desk. And $310 for missing items on his returned equipment inventory list. "There was stuff lost in transportation, others damaged in the accident," Loria said of the day he lost his hand. "When it went up the chain of command, the military denied coverage." Including taxes, the amount Loria owed totaled $6,255.50. The last line on the worksheet subtracted that total from his final Army payout and found $1,768.81 "due us." "It's nerve-racking," Loria said. "After everything I have done, it's almost like I am being abandoned, like, you did your job for us and now you are no use. That's how it feels." link

Take your pick

I like The Rattlesnake Ledge trail. The first couple of miles are nice and wide. The view from the top of the ledge is good and it isn't too far out of town.

•A biner with a bunch of heads on it below Town Crier/Green Drag-on while rooting around for a place to stash water. •#3.5 Friend on the first pitch of Dark Crystal at Index •A #? (3.5 inch) DMM cam on West Buttress of Blueberry Hill •An original Leatherman in it's case on the trail into Gothic Basin •An entire 3 point top rope anchor (5 biners, slings, two wired nuts and a yellow Lowe tricam) buried in the snow at a deserted Devils Lake, Wisconsin one snowy fall day. •A fat, greasy roach in the summit register of Guyes Peak a long time ago. Did anybody happen to find a blue(?) bivy sack in a red stuff sack below the slab routes at Index about 10 years ago? A cousin of the previous booty was the reason for the loss of that one.

...and a heaping helping of Eisenhower's fascination with the efficiency of the German Autobahn from his experience with it during WWII.

Whoa Nelly!