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Raukous! how about "I think he said...blessed are the cheesemakers..." or "...You think YOU had it rough? We lived in a shoebox at the bottom of a septic tank and our parents whipped us before breakfast!!" Someone should throw a Python party in Seattle and have a pubclub at their house!

hehehe funny stuff! I've done both, depends on the conditions, but blueice glacier glissades- OUCH! To avoid the glaciers altogther you could run up the NW route on Colchuck, cross over to the gully up Dragontail, then work back along the plateau and drop off closer to Little annapurna- I think that looks doable from Little A, thought there was a shorty section of cliffy ramps you could either downclimb or rappel- I don't want to qualify that as good beta, as I've not been up on it to test its' doability and can't find my damn CAG right now.

has anybody tried replacing old sewn slings on tricams with flat/tube webbing? Also, on old wild country cams with the wire stem and forged thumb nob/sewn sling, will it take to 5.5 mil spectra, or should I just bring them in and get them all reslung?

sorry for the thread creep, JEEZ... just putting out some variety for the lawgoddess' thirst...for a beer that's kinda funky, those beers with smoked hops have got a taste akin to lapsang sooshong and not that enjoyable in a malt bev.

Rusty nail on crushed would be sure to cure you! Got any current drink faves? I used to make so many old fashioneds at a country club I gave one a try once, not to bad if you don't make them too sweet. If you like them sweet, a golden cadillac is a very decadent summer concoction, one best sipped thru a straw in a porch swing. Let's not forget how good a classic mint julep goes down in the heat, too! For liquers, a Drambuie is a mighty fine sipper after some home cooked haute cuisine, cuisine verite.

What kind of drinking do you prefer, lawgoddess? Something mixed, or a Grand Cru from an excellent harvest of some sorts or other? i'm partial to french country stuff and exploring Washington's excellent offerings, or a vodka gimlet, muddled, with fresh squeezed lime instead of Roses, spash of soda- tasty!

I bet the Mounties don't even cover standing glissades, too dangerous! Show everybody how to slide on their asses with axe in perfect self arrest position in case they actually get moving too fast!

Now that'd be a reason,!!!

his chest harness/gear slings are the shizzy.

do you guys remember when drug testing was entering our work culture, the postal workers' took the federal government to prohibit the practice of random drug tests? They won the suit, if I recall correctly, but the truly ironic thing was, it didn't apply to the private sector! Just them. I can help you guys randomly test any drugs you got!

C&S is one way crazy bartacker!!! I'd forgotten about that manufacturer, we should get him to do a demo at one of our pub clubs!

Tyvek will work well, but for a cheap ready made alternative, check out Adventure Medical- they offer one for twenty bucks that are durable, have a little nap like Toddtex so they wick/insulate- I 've used one both with and without a sleeping bag when conditions got foul and the work good. Twenty bucks. Or, true dirtbaggers choice- sneaking around a pathology department and scoring one of the body covers off a gurney - they are Goretex!!!

there was no snow in that gully as of two weeks ago, just choss, if you're talkin' about the obvious gully up from Colchuck Col on W side of Dragontail

hey, I'm down with Santa, yipyaws. Have you even tried a Crystal?

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Aaas Pils' has Santa hauling a sledge and he t'aint go no reindeer, not a bad brewski either!

...doing some fact checkin', Crystal from Chech Rpg. or, it's Aas Pils from Norway (mit umlaut und Santa Clausmeister) but maybe I'm biased to it coz' it's label- looks like Santa's going to a party!

not to mention you can drive 30k over the limit in Can and get away with it! All those wackos are going 140 easy.

...a better smoke would be kinnicinck, a rather low shrub with oval leaves and a fuzzy reddish underside, mix it with blueberry leaves for a mellower smoke. Moss is good for wiping your ass, or eating when you're REALLY hungry on a climb. Don't forget to try the lichen.

..What's that one from Norway that's got Santa Claus on the label, can't remember the name, can't find the label, Jytte pils?? Or the one from Check Republic NOT Pilsner Urquell? THAT'S a good beer!

At last nights' pub club, some good options were raised about a ski party- A great suggestion was a spring highway 20 party down on the east side, sounds like the camping/parking/skiing are going to be right there, also the weather/daylight would be in our greater favor. I'm still down with coming togther for some BC ski parties this winter, New Years' Eve or therabouts at Threeway Peak by Crystal, or SmithBrook road- the Baker option sounds problematic, with official "no camping" type of BS- methinks we would want a big raging fire weekend type of partying thing, with skis on! But I'll still haul the keg anywhere you want it.

What a friggin' SAUSAGE FEST last night, but since that's what Schultzy's had to offer, it certainely didn't dissappoint. I'd try to list off who was in attendance but, we all know who was there, and if you don't, well, YOU MISSED OUT, lurkers... I haven't "closed a place down" since I my college days (or maybe it was this summer!) but going to a place that closes at 11 added a certain jibe to the evening- how did the rest of the evening go? I'm pretty sure I DIDN'T crash my bike on the way home, but reccollections remain hazy due to the consumption of dunkel and wurst-great fun, good to see ya'als!

Ya, the focus on injuries sustained out in the sticks requires a different approach to care than what typical first aid covers, wihich is geared to the "golden hour" theorum of patient care- which is mainly about stabilizing the patient. Issues specific to patient care when help is far away is an important distinction from "first" aid in the woods like,keeping focused thru extended care ordeals, records of vitals, maintain or evacuate, whe to discontinue CPR, how to deal with this shit in the woods, and other issues. I don't have any specific book reccommendations, the wildmedinstutite dude up at northcascades base camp in mazama hasd got some texts available, I think., Wildmedinstitute.org? or something like that. Paul . . . ?

Ski PARTY New Years' Eve below Threeway Peak up Crystal Basin way, should be able to have dogs, big roaring fire, a keg of beer. Anybody game?

The road crews last year worked very hard at NOT getting the road open on time or at all, even if they had it cleared, sometimes you'd hear the AM radio traffic to the extent they just weren't gonna open. Might get worse later, or lessening chances of accidents, reasons like that.