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I thought perhaps phrases like "Painful Viewing" and "Very Graphic" would have done the job.

If you watch much local news, you see the results of them all the time. It's a matter of context I guess. I have observed something regarding my students and use of laboratory burners. I 've noticed that when I have shown them the result of hot metal or glass touching something flammable (I use paper), the incidence of minor burns has lessened. Again, my intention wasn't to sicken or sensationalize, but to merely provide a context for the result of not being extra careful and redundant when doing this very dangerous thing we do. If I offended anyone, including you, I am sorry.

Coming from you Trask, that could only be a compliment. It was meant as a reality check. I'm sorry if your sensitive tummy had problems with it.

This video clip might have been linked here before, but it seems like a good example of why we shouldn't be too complacent with what we do, or trust our gear implicitly. Very graphic. Video Clip

Go to it.

On the ridge to the north and east of the summit is much potential for bouldering and short toproping routes. There is a really nice handcrack that splits a 30' face that I've done. From the lake below the north side, traverse east to the top of the ridge. There is also some good bouldering around Bathtub Lakes. It's a great place to hang out on a hot day-boulder a little, swim a little...

Oh, come on Allison. He's such a "man's man". Wait...oh...now I get it.

you must be suffering from the DTs -- I've never been to TV's -- ever. And, If I "owed" someone something I certainly wouldn't repay them by giving their card to YOU! Oh, I remember now -- I gave you the curly redhead's card!!!! He told me you called!!! So Jim Foreman is gay.

I'm pretty sure that's the start of the Prow. That crack on the right is JoJo. Just to the left is the start of the South Face route. Looking down the first pitch

Rattletale. Definately good jamming on that. I can't quite understand liebacking either. I guess it's for people who don't know how to jam.

I've been using my set for up to 18 years now. Some of them have gone through 4 sets of webbing (the ones with the nuts on the ends of the axles.) They are definately indestructable and my only complaint is the extra time needed to get them into horizontal placements. Combined with the 3 smallest HB quadcams and the 3 smallest tcus, I have never desired anything else in the cam department. Well maybe some of those slider nut thingys that I borrowed once that got me through some weird aid moves when nothing else I had would work. It was the weirdest thing; I stuck one into this labia-looking crack. The only way it would stay is if it was so deep that I couldn't see it (n I hate it when that happens.) Stepping on and bouncing was way creepy, but it held.

Yeah... we could try to convince them that martyring themselves will not result in spending eternity in Paradise, being fed honeyed cakes by 67 virgins in a tree-lined garden. We'd have as much luck with that as convincing the Shrub that a war with Iraq is a bad idea.

A four month suspended sentence? That's okay. This is what he'll eventually get.

Thanks for the reminder Chuck. There's nothing more scary than nearly eating it when your alone. Glad you're okay.

What's wrong, Trask? Something wrong with the results of nuclear war? Don't worry, it was probably just some stupid kid. -- FDA This forum isn't the place to showcase it fuckwad. "I am of the mind to use them (nuclear weapons.) Anybody have any thoughts on the matter? Pro or Con? What do people think about the fallout, both physical and political?" You asked...

Yeah, you're right. I guess my disdain for revision by opinion got the better of me. Sorry. I'll shut up now. Lector, I believe.

Correction: Bolt Ladders are A1 unless they are french-freed, then they are A0. Link

No, not whatever : History and consensus will show that bolt ladders are rated A0 and slotting nuts in pin scars would get a C rating. I agree with your opinion, however.

I really hate to do this, but... Bolts aren't clean. The bolt ladder of City Park is A0. The crack of City Park is C0... about as straightforward steppin' in aiders as you can get without it being bolts you're clippin'. It doesn't get much more eloquent than that.

... arguably equal to that more southern range called the Sierra Nevada...

My Grandfather (born in 1900): "Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it."

If Trask was really fired, I'd help him try to find a job.

The Anthrax cover of Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin Heart." Motley Crue covering "Love Potion Number 9" by The Searchers. Boston Philharmonics's 1986 cover of the Ramones "Talk Dirty To Me"

William Shatner doing Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds has to be one of the more original covers (if that's possible) that I have ever heard. Or Leonard Nimoy's hatchet job of CCR's Proud Mary.