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Some white person should go chop all the bolts on Honky's Lament in Leavenworth. Pope? You can whistle this little ditty while you work.

There's Vesper on the left, viewed from Del Campo on 5/29: There was a couple feet of snow on the north side of the ridge before you get to Gothic Basin, which is at about 5k'(?). It's melting fast, though.

Teanaway River Rd to the end of pavement, then take the right fork dirt road until it ends at the trailhead in several miles. Stay on the main road. Hike up the trail 1/4mi. to a fork, turn right. Stay left at the next fork. There are signs on the trail at the junctions, you're looking for Ingalls Way Trail and Ingalls Pass.

Freeway Park? So the junkies can order a fix online?

That's the South Ridge in the background, sort of hidden behind the rock fin on the right. I took the photo from very close to the base of the route. It's gotta be bone dry by now.

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Your mom stole all my towels for use as "sanitary napkins", old boy. I'm fresh out.

Your mom's already in the kitchen bakin' me a pie, so flour is just the most convenient way to get the job done.

What's your stank-nastiest piece of gear? My old windstopper gloves are repulsive from the other side of the room after the average trip and the scent lingers on my hands after repeated washings. Please, no stories of ten-year-old polypro briefs. That's cheating.

Like so: Just after Ingalls Pass: South Ridge on Ingalls Peak North: Click any of the images to download bigger versions.

I was up there Sunday 5/22. Snow started a few hundred feet below Ingalls Pass along the trail and the basin around the lake is under about two feet of freshiez. The sun sure melts it off fast, though, as there was much more bare trail on the hike out midafternoon. The road is indeed open to the trailhead. Stuart sure is perty with a nice dusting!

You place a yellow Friend and yard on it to start Leap of Faith

Either the Nisqually Glacier on Mt Rainier or the Coleman on Mt Baker are easily accessed and should have some crevasses for you to practice falling into.

Admit that you thought of that as an SQL query.

Studies have shown commercial health insurance in the US to be quite a bit more inefficient than social health programs in the US and in other countries. Here's a biased link for ya: http://www.amsa.org/hp/myths.cfm

Ya don't need a 70m rope to rap off of Godzilla, just make sure you even out the ends of your 60m rope. Are there many climbs put up where 70m ropes are required to reach between fixed belays? Any around here? It would suck to have to start buying 70m ropes because route developers used that length as a standard.

Gee, can we stop comparing whose people suffered more? The genocide one-upsmanship is kind of sickening.

What's the deal with the piracy-detection scheme that MS Office for OS X uses? After my firewall started getting lots of hits on port 2222 while working in a hipster coffeeshop, I looked into it and found: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/techbull/CIACTech02-003.shtml Is this sort of thing really necessary? How many other Microsoft products do this? I'm sure there is some clause buried in the EULA that says a "licensee" agrees to have their product ID broadcasted everywhere, but who would read it, much less understand it? I guess this old news, and more of a security problem than a privacy problem, but one leads to another.

Looks like everyone's chiming in on this one I'd say Orbit's harder than Outer Space. There's a chimney on Orbit, which some folks aren't used to. Then the transition move between the two face cracks on p3(?) is pretty interesting. The face climbing on the next pitch is exposed and intimidating, too, with rusty quarter-inchers. You gotta climb that finger crack on OS! Cool exposure and easily protected with nuts at the start. I agree with chucK that the pedestal move is worth putting in two pieces for if you're at all concerned about it. It's a long runout before you get there...

You'll only be missing out on certain features of Microsoft's websites, or other non-standards-compliant websites. So basically nothing, in my experience. You won't be able to use windowsupdate.com to update your operating system, but that's no big deal, since Automatic Updates does it for you.

Anyone know when a second pitch was put in above Poultry in Motion at Clem's Holler in Leavenworth? It's pretty dirty (but good) slab climbing after a couple moves up a thin flake, ending at the Honky's Lament anchor with the huge rap rings. I'm curious because it's not in the new guidebook. I'm also curious if anyone's climbed Sweet Home on Condor Buttress... is it in this photo, left of or in the broken-up area? How about some of the other routes on the main slab, particularly Heads?

44.7 mi/gal for that 747 is pretty damn good. Assuming your truck (?) gets one-third that gas mileage, then Jim is still consuming less fuel than you if he drives a mere 2001 fewer miles per year than you using the same truck and still takes that 6000-mile trip to Italy. And assuming you don't fly down to California to pray at the Temple of Reagan.

You're just jealous that you can't muster up the narcissism to do it yourself.

You need one of these: http://bigshocker.com/ (My brother's college friends started the company.)

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