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Right on Bone. We're defenitly on the same page on that one. Fuck ice festivals.

Sounds like quite an adventure with some climbing thrown in to boot. Nice work!

The Mike Layton "drug cocktail" bivy: tobacco or cannabis, six shots of whiskey, sleeping pills.

Neither MGear nor MountainGoat carry the LaSportiva Trango Extreme S. That's what I was looking for.

1 five yr old and his/her lawyer.

I think Thrutch is in Colorado waiting for his jacket. He also may be at the farm attending to the Llamas.

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Yeah Smith is just so much more convenient and clean than any of that shit in the Cascades. And a way better scene to pose and shit.

Sometimes you can get your conviction overturned if you make a good argument that you got bad advice from your lawyer to plead guilty or something. Then Canada can't fuck with you.

It fell off some cliff ... so its just a big piece of choss.

My name is Peter and I would like to come out of the closet to admit that I too have been raped by alpine vegetation while climbing choss in the mountains. I feel very violated.

Sub-alpine garbage choss heap. Don't boulder in the real alpine though you'll ruin fragile plants and cyptobiotic soil and shit.

Are there any? (besides Mountain Gear and REI)

Bullshit. You just don't know, Smokey.

Deferred sentencing is kind of silly concept. Just a way of getting around mandatory sentancing guidelines. Which is good since it puts the discretion in the hands of the judges (at least as far as imposing lighter sentances), where it should be.

Probably true in King County, but might totally be different in other jurisdictions.

Thats a differed sentance you speak of. You'll still have to plead guilty, and it DOES go on your record.

Well done grasshopper.

pursuant to RCW 46.61.502(5), Driving Under the Influence "is a gross misdemeanor." And no, most first time offenders are not offered differed prosecutions. Unless they have a good lawyer, of course.

Way to go Ed, once again you have completely missed the bus (the short bus). My axe weighs 20 ounces and does not extend past my pack. My skis/boots weigh...what.....15pounds and extend 3 FEET from my pack. Again....for the slow kids different tools for different situations. good luck pulling nails with that screwdriver. you are aptly named. Have fun riding your axe down the hill bitch

Nothin like a man in the depths of an ether binge.

No, it is a difference of opinion. I like my ice axe, you like your ice hatchet. My grandfather was a carpenter and he always told me to use the right tool for the job. Same applies here. Don't use a screwdriver to pull nails, don't use a 80cm axe to climb steeps. I am just choosing the tool that best suits my "job". You do the same and together we will cure cancer, end world hunger and make the Balkans a better place to vacation. God bless Texas!!! (and your axe) Yup. Except that the right tool for glacier slogs are ski poles and skis, not a big heavy old school axe.

Tall Skinny People

No. Forbidden climb was weekend before last. Last weekend took all weekend and climbed N Buttress of McMillan. NE Ridge of Triumph looks like a fun day solo though.