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Sorry about the pedophile joke. I had totally forgotten that the Joke Police were patrolling today. My bad. Let's see if I can remember the rules (for future consideration, of course): 1. jokes about penguins eating cum are O.K. 2. jokes about woman being treated as slaves are not only OK but encouraged 3. Jokes about ass sex, urinating in one's anus, and the like are similiarly encouraged 4. Links to games involving one hunting and killing homosexuals with a shotgun is OK 5. Whole threads espousing the glory of hate is defenitly OK 6. However, any references to pedophilia, regardless of how satirical or jestfull they are intended, are definetly NOT NOT allowed. Good. I'm glad we have established these bright line rules. I feel much safer now that I know the joke police are out there protecting the sensitive feelings of those like Chuck. The last thing I would ever want to do would be to make the lad feel uncomfortable. Cheers!

Spring's almost here... start packin!

"Yup son you're definetly going to need a few #3 bugaboos and some HB offest micronuts if you want to start climbing, and some of those lightweight alpine etriers. Just start with basic gear like this, then go from there..."

From where did the band Steely Dan take its name?

I think the Epicurians had it right. Life is all about cultivating appetites and then fullfilling them. What most people miss is that its not about glutany, because if you overload your appetites they stop being enjoyable. That's why its all about moderation, and / or some sort of self sacrifice. It can all be summed up as: the best tasting is after a day of climbin hard.

Fuck So Cal!!!!!!

depends what you are looking for on the city streets!!!1 set myself up there didn't I ? oops I just ment breathing cleand air beats the hell out of smog. And I would rather look at trees and rocks than people and houses What smog???; and Eugenes got more trees, and old trees to boot, than most other cities/towns I've ever been to... Do we even live in the same town? But really, on to subject, you can hike to the top of dimond peak, but most would claim to climb it... hands? how could you use your hand on that one? I think it is a matter of elvation/distance... if you travel a short distance, but gain a lot of elevation, your climbing the terain... I think you're confusing smog with the omnipresent cloud of cannabis smoke and petuli oil that always hovers over Eugene. Sometimes you have to go "hiking" or "climbing" up the nearby local "mountains" just to get out of it.

Now we've got a whole other ragin' controversy: who did the FA of the second pitch?

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Maybe Wiggins led it first, then rapped. Then Webster led it and brought Becker up?

Randall Green: "Five years later I was back at Indian Creek photographing Earl Wiggins as he smoothly jammed the first ascent of Supercrack, methodically placing his hands in the crack and protecting its long sweep with a handful of large hexentric nuts. "The ascent of Supercrack by Wiggins, Ed Webster, and Bryan Becker swung open the door of possibilities at Indian Creek." I guess that means Earl Wiggins did the first ascent and the first free ascent simultaneously. Then Becker and Webster followed? But I could swear I read in an old issue of Mountain that Supercrack was aided before it was freed. I dunno

I don't get it.

Looks like Scoterix and Dwayner were the only people keeping it alive. R.I.P. lame ass CC.com wannabe

Don't know for sure, but I think Webster made the first ascent, Wiggins the first free ascent!? Or maybe it was the other way around.

FUcckk snowboarding. Though: I ski but have a lot of friends who ride and use a split board. The general concensus seems to be that they ride fine on pooder and soft snow but not so great on hard pack or crust due to insufficient lateral stiffness. I think you would probably not want to try to tele with a split board because: a. the bindings aren't made for that - not strong enough or stiff enough, b. boots aren't stiff enough, c. there's not inside edge on split boards - which might not matter in deep soft snow, and d. split boards are funny shaped skis when split and probably don't turn or ski for shit, and the flex is probably fucked up too, not to mention the bindings are probably mounted in the wrong spot. That's what I think. Also if you don't want to throw down for the Voile job and you have an old board lying around, you can get kits for modifying your old board into a split board. That way you can see if you like it without spending all the $$

So there's a hermaphroditic canadian snafflehound pregnant with Dru's love child running wild in the British Columbian wilderness?! Call the Enquirer!!!

Good plan except for the -30 windchill (most days) and snow (little that there is. How sad. We need a normal winter.)... I've got plans to climb on the shore as soon as it warms up though! You Northwesterners aren't gonna know what hit ya when I get out West this spring after training on all of this supposed great climbing around Duluth. Ha! Only kidding... I've been climbing for... what? one month? I won't be able to talk smack for a long long long time! Oh Oh. Addict + Minnesota = apply for new Visa card to buy ice tools and 'poons.

Dude whatever. I climb hard. You climb harder. Who cares. Yes some of my "pointers" were taught to me by an old slabmaster with amazing footwork. But it totally works for me to think about climbing within that framework too. Sorry for being a prick this morning. No worries, look forward to havin a sometime yo.

That dude should not be aid climbing. Or free climbing for that matter. Atleast before he hits the stairmaster or visits the Jenny Craig clinic or some shit.

Exactly. Courts have ruled that people can peacefully hand out political fliers in malls without restriction. Which is a lot more intrusive than just wearing a peace t-shirt. I think its pretty safe to guess that if this guy took this issue to court he would win. Even though the mall owner might claim his business is being compromised because people won't shop there if someone is allowed to wear a peace t-shirt, the balance would shift in favor of free speech over property rights, in this instance.

Property Rights are not absolute. Often property rights and issues of freedom of speech conflict. However, when one opens up a shopping mall they invite the public into it, thereby compromising any right they previously had to exclude anyone from their property.

Bullshit. You probably don't even remember where it is.

Anyone know how much permits to slack line on Forest Service land are going to be this year? I can't decide it I want to get a hacky-sack permit or a slack line permit - I can't afford both.

Damn Dru, all the chicks are gunna be on your tip now. There's nothing like a Water Temperature Monitoring Program Report to turn on the mommas. You should see what happens when the ladies get a hold of my TPS Reports!