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my new choice is some funky cotton garment sopft shells with a DWR finish, works reat great, cool in the heat, warm in the cool, breathable and quite wind resistant...

mesquite marinated cheap cut of beef, with spinach, yokon gold potatoes, green beans and brussel sprouts...

don't worry, I'm not a meterologist, didn't consult a barometer or isobar graphs, I'm a boozy newspaperman looking out his office window-and i like it it the middle of blizzards, personally, so the fouler the better as far as I'm concerned- howl, mama nature, lets see you roar (just not today)

just got some snow porn in the mail, the Black Diamond winter 03-04 catalog! I forgot about the BD Nuyno, my favorite inbounds generalist in the new lineup. Skied mank well, quick, responsive, just not at speed as well as the rossis. the nuynos wanted snappy edging and lots of turns, not long, lean fall line rippers. way to go, Andrew Maclean and Armond DeBuque, on Mount Hunter ski descent- plus the photo page 50-51 is so drooling!

sounds like some loser forgot their leashes, i'm thinking! LMAO

plus its all cash, and i found a stack of bills on my desk this morning, etc etc how much of this stuff do you really believe here at cc.com? I'm not in the habit of lying, and when it comes to stewardship of a place like the Pike Place Market, I'd be more than happy to do it for free!

its actually only 5,000 annually, for three days worth a month of work, plus all the free beer i can drink on the other 27 days

and, looking at the clouds two hours later, and seeing a NOAA forecast, i'd say,not this weekend! maybe in a couple of weeks... pow.

low clouds and higher stackers are rolling in across the olympics right now, i predict rain in the next fourty eight hours in the lowlands and snow above 7000 at night easy, plabulicious... freshies of pow pow this weekend if you go high enough!

no, man, those K2s just rocked the tight and dark world of scrub brush like a Fuller Brush man at the Manson's house right after the big party. These skis put the wish in wishmas! I found their carving skills to be akin to the gold medal winner at the local snowdome's Iron Chef contest- hot doggies, part the ground cover, dodge the big sticks, we're coming thru, at speed... that's a personal opinion about the K2 skis from a rabid telemarker.

K2 has got an incredibly solid telemark boards throughout its lineup for 2004 as well... they have redefined telemark ski engineering and really taken it up a notch... even with last years offerings like the piste pipe and the super piste or the offpiste, i can't remember which , both skied exceedingly well. EXCEEDINGLY WELL to which each ski was designed for. piste pipe, short radius and acrobatics off terrain features, solid edging on hard pack, gentle in the softer stuff... super piste or off piste , man, quickest driving ski in the trees I have ever drove. Man, were those doggies TIGHT, just think the turn and those suckers sliced and diced the shrubbery with the deft exactness of a sushi chef on a Ginsu speed fix!

I walked to work today, Kitten thanks. I'm going to go home in a little bit and make some potato and ramps soup, maybe with some great organic spinach I got today from my friend Shannon the organic farmer... so I'm doing fine. I don't necessarily like having employer supplied beer, it kinda makes me feel obligated though I can't see many jobs like this one in the 'help wanted section' so I'm taking advantage of the company 'perks' so to speak... not to mention that dammed yacht trip with Sound Tourism and the Summit at Snoqualamie...

...free beer...million dollar view... BURP Mary lou, even you're invited, if you can bring sphinx NOT. you kids can't even climb into the clubhouse, but i WILL lob free brewskis out the window if you are thirsty, it has nice dormers above the view...

I'm actually sipping a canadian brewski at my bosses' desk, surfing CC.com on his computer (we haven't yet ordered the new G5) he keeps the fridge stocked full of beer. If it weren't for the beer, the sixteen foot picture window with a view of: Puget Sound, Olympic Mountains, Pike Place Market Sign and clock, and plenty of gurl watching, I wouldn't be down here as much... yes, I do drink beer at work that my employer pays for, if that was the question. And I offer an open invite to any boozers who like beer and atmosphere to converge at the workplace...

I buy cans of funky wax from filson that works pretty well if you really get grovelling, and a good cotton soft shell is your three season best friend, although Mattp reccomends 4 seasons of cotton, I go to wool Nov-March. soft shell ROCK! for a sweater, retreat with lanolin, oilcloth, oil. waxed cotton, wax. polyester, i can't say. I'm a bit crusty about all this new technology in outerwear...

looking for help with the crime syndicate, Dru... we could be an INTERNATIONAL crime syndicate, with your help... party on, Dru. Drink 'er up, company time is Miller time as far as this shop steward is concerned, screw OSHA!

miras skied fine but were a bit generalist IMO, they didn't rock in any category, but were damp. most of the tua skis were quite damp, except for some of their ultralights(where you could get a much better performer from atomic or even Kahru!) The rossis were some wierd 1,2,3,4 version prototypes we ran at Bachelor in March, but these were the speedster kings! if you telerace, go rossi! but the miras would serve anyone just fine. I recommend to never pay over a hundred bucks for skis and look for skis you can take out of the dumpster and put ten dollar used bindings on 'em...

its now 12 hours past first post, 3:30PM or thereabouts, and I'm drinking complimentary Labatt's down at the office, scheming up world domination and trying to figure how to go public on NASDAQ with the crime syndicate...any current crime syndicate leaders that have gone public in the last year or so, PM me.... we can go do lunch...or a beer at the office...maybe a start on NYSE would be better positioning...

snowboarders are invaluable slope stability indicators, sorry... RIP IT UP, I'm going to ski freshies right after ropeup at a top secret central cascades location that will offer up plab freshies, and snaffle HC ripe for the taking. trouble is, you can't exactly drive there. It a bit of a wank getting in there, like 16 miles from the car, i think. any takers for powpow freshies in October?

hey, but its free Dru! I can't get the boss to buy anything else, but he keeps the fridge stock full of labbats so I'm not complaining, I'm offering to share!

well, I'm usually drunk you bastards! just kidding ...got to head down to the office pretty soon, though. - Anyone in downtown Seattle that wants some ice cold labatts to go with lunch, give me a call at the office 587-0351 anytime after 12...

actually, my boss at the newspaper supplies all the labatt's I can drink to go along with a million dollar view down at the Market, sphinx. I've invited you down there before, but I 1) don't think you're very nice 2) don't think you're mature enough to drink 3) would rather hang out with icegirl or kitten BURP!

I saw the havoc mentioned as a 'mid fat' as that is the way the testers are going, but thought it was a bit on the wide side....certainely not the days of the Rossignol Randonees. Speaking to the Rossis, they all skied fast VERY WELL, so if you do inbounds, try the rossis... they are not too soft and shaped just right. I thought the havoc had some wood in the core. my mistake. Otherwise, it will ski out in a season or two, just like all the atomics or any other foamie

thanks a bunch, off white, and I'm sure your self important job as 'moderator' of an internet bulliten board causes you to become all inflated about other peoples opinions about rock climbing- I will maintain my assertion that a comment about Royal Robbins ceasing to bolt chop is still relevant to a discussion about bolts, and I only reference Holly as I forgot the name of the movie, wheras you reference her several instances... what's wrong, are you smitten, off white? Can't see parallels between royal robbins chopping bolts and people in the NW chopping? are you denser than the rock we climb on? do you need a couple of bolts so you can pull yourself up, and roll out of bed, out of bed? "every day in the morning, I get up, and I roll out of bed, roll out of bed. " Leo Kotke

look for a semiwide wood core ski that's DAMP! try the new Black Diamond Havoc..... It's a hot ski for 2004, skis like a dream thru chowder and other mank, yet turns responsively without overdriving, and not too bad at speed, although the tele boards by rossi all ski the inbounds particularily well, these bastards RUN!!!....it really depends on where you want to go with them,- the new Carbon Surfs from Voile really handle mank much better than I expected, about 3 times as well as tua hydrogens from 2003...which are defunct; as an earlier post mentioned, the voile carbon surfs are more of the lightweight, touring mode type of ski that this year, ski great. I loved driving these skis at the end of the day- lightweight, (PBR) sorry, the beer got onto the keyboard, satisifing.... mmm, snow. mmm, beer- .