Beck

...if your golf partner is in the habit of selling your ass for a couple packs of smokes!

Isn't the unofficial management plan for the Olympics something along the lines of"let mother nature close it?"- Now they won't EVER have to fix the bridge on the approach to Mt. Anderson, right?

No doubt on the skins need to NOT be wider than your edges-when you switch over to Randonee having a few mm of ski bottom uncovered isn't going to be that much of a performance issue. you'll be much more secure on traverses on your current DH skis with skins not overlapping your edges.

Dwayner, i think the club might be in Monroe- does anyone remember enough about last night to post a report? I left early to ride my shwinn sled home all drunk like.

I think he was trying to get his a-- sponsored, and push his soon to be written book/articles/slide shows. I'ts the "Return of Great American Adventure"-what a hoser!! At the same time, I don't fault him for having that goal for HIMSELF, and not make it all big puffery-if he was doing it for a charitable cause and was going to raise funds for "Climbers without Egos" twelve step programs or something

Road gets gated just past the Silverstar drainage, just on the North and East side of Valskivi(sp?) Ridge and Wine Spires, if I'm remembering things correctly.

I don't remember the name for sure but it's probably The Chopping Block- I'm thinking of the bar that has a biggish rock in the middle of the floor before you get to the actually bar, guess there's some dude buried underneath it- Bronco, if you're close enough , wanna check it out?

...I think they send out a warning whan an avalanche is about to occur and you set them to how good of a skier you are, like DIN bindings.

Buzz on Inn in Monroe sounds good but isn't the "bar" section kinda small? Much better would be across the tracks, the bar with the dead guy buried in the floor? Right down from Tijuana, IMO serving the best, most authentic Mexican food this side of the Cascades. Where I'll be having dinner, not one of those 2.99 "steaks" you get at the Buzz

Rich n Rare makes a smooth cheap sipping whiskey for out there, I used to just buy the Jim Beam travellers flasks until Lisa Garcia turned me on to this R&R stuff on a trip up in the Chiwawas. You can always try to slip the twelve pack in with your buddies "group gear"

Come on AlpineK, You'd probably fit in with all those uptight f**ks on Mercer Island- obviousily, you've not been to the Roanoke Tavern, the oldest business on Mercer Island and not uptight at all. More like a very rustic clubhouse kind of place, with the Scrolling Oly beer signs and pickled eggs for sale- But, what does everyone else think? We did north of the ship canal last week- Downtown? or a foray to poverty rock to drink up at the Roanoke?

Get me "Teddy's Climbing Bitch" willya?

The feds at the dept of interior hired hackers to break in and steal information from the Bureau of Indian Affairs site. Once they did, instead of hiring the hacks to fix the leaks, they agency (D of I) took their own dept, Bureau of Indian Affairs to court- the result? No external connection to the internet by ANY of the Dept of Interior agencies- that's government for ya

Regarding doobage (it's DOOBIES,dudes) and performance, in the sixties, anthropologist Colin Turnbull(sp?) went to study the M'buti pygmies in central Africa. The M'butis were a VERY primative people, living in bands of less than fifty people, living in temporary dwellings, with no written language or knowledge of agricluture- with one exception. The men tended to herb plants, whixh they would smoke as an aid to pig hunting- seems the dope would let them sit on their asses all day waiting for the pigs to run into their net- I don't know if there's any parallel or message in that, but I just thought I'd share- Dwayner, any reiteration/clarification on this one?

Chicsdigit rock

I managed to get home without crashing my bike once! from last night's pub club- Chris, that climbing game has got to come along to more pub clubs, I can see it as a centerpiece at the CC.com's annual banquet!

Tim Horton's is one of the reasons Canada blows-no refills! Whatz up with that? Not to mention "The Beer Store" in every small town closes at, like, 6pm is it? What a sorry excuse for proper hydration

"The Adventures of Teddy and Oprah in Kazhakstan" -coming soon!!!

Sowna!Sowna!Sowna! No sausage, please! but ya, sauna time is the best- in a distinct geographical area of the US, a combination of ethnography and climate ensured almost every home had a sauna out back or built in the basement. Everybody sauna'ed. A buddy of mine had a sauna built on a 8 foot trailer, he'd tow it around to parties out wherever it was needed. A great homeade stove design I've seen was a basic Alaskan barrel stove with a water barrel with water coil that ran through the main body of the stove- it would heat the water right quick. As to sauna parties, there's a very social element to sauna time. Guys and girls alike, all nekkid, drinking in a sweaty dark room, then sprints outside to roll around in the snow or a dip in the creek...what a way to spend those long winter nights! The sauna also is great in romance, as Pope and Dwayner have alluded to... [ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: Beck ]

We're too busy taking the pistenbully up to Camp Muir for early morning corduroy runs down the snowfield!

This years' road crew is not terribly interested in getting the road open any earlier than nine AM, I wouldn't expect the gate to be swung earilier that 9 until spring. Even if the road's ready. Beck

You quazi scandihoovians, you don't COOK SAUSAGE IN SAUNA, though I imagine Dwayner fed Pope a little "Sauna Sausage" of his own in there-

This is a great day looked forward to by this bicyle commuter

Life on the run isn't very fun, man, and it precludes you from much of a normal life.A life on the run is best spent not settling down. Better to spend it living out of your car, making money at daylabor gigs, then dirtbagging for a month at a time up the end of some overgrown logging road close to the crags.

Taut line fore/aft on bed legs, prussiks prstrung with runners in a lark's head lasso ready- just slip her hands into the slings, then slip prussiks to the ends of the bed, all tight and restrained! ready to go!