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There are plenty of waterproof gloves out there, but you'll probably have to shell out a bit more than $46. That REI One stuff, if I remember correctly, is a softshell, so it's not even advertised as waterproof. You might try getting some minimal waterproof shell gloves with enough room for your cheap liner of choice (wool, fleece, etc.). Or if you're really cheap, get some big rubber gloves and put liners in 'em.

I thought that was in the Upper Lip area?

If you don't care how people react to your invective, then why do you bother? You'll never convince anyone that you have anything useful to say if you belittle them in the course of saying it. Maybe you just like to hear yourself speak.

200-round drum magazines are legal? Maybe the ban only affects cosmetic features of assault weapons because the NRA pressured the gov't on the law so much that the resulting compromise gave us a stupid, cosmetic law instead of a robust ban. Just speculating.

Merv, people would probably listen to you more if you didn't act like such an asshole when voicing your concerns. When people are condescended to, they tend to tune out or lash out. I agree that leaving draws hanging indefinitely on a project is bad style and that Roger should clean up his mess.

What exactly is a knee lift? Are you standing or on your back?

Argh! I've had the very same problem for about two months now. I would take a week off from soccer and try playing again, but it just got worse. I've quit all running activities for the last month and it's getting better, though very slowly. Climbing or biking doesn't bother it, so I just do more of that now. I'd love to hear about some stretches that might help.

It's gotta be very discontinuous by now. In mid-July it was already spanned a few hundred feet up by a twenty-foot band of muddy scree.

That type of climbing sucks. I always want to do Sickle Crack as a hand traverse. There's a brief section of that stuff on NR Stuart where JayB placed a nut that took me long minutes to clean, balancing in a crouch on an inch-wide flake yarding and poking at the stupid thing... ugh. Nice job on the climb 'n stuff.

The guitar was visible (it's pretty hard to hide), dunno about the laptop. We talked with the campground host for a while about the thefts. Apparently someone had their car broken into at the campground parking lot (beyond the gate) during the day, too. And some people have had their tents searched for valuables. The host said that it's local meth-heads who do the thieving. The Mounties caught one pair of guys a while back, but as soon as they got out of jail (a few days), they started stealing again. A short jail stay is apparently not working as a deterrent. We talked to a cop who happened to be patrolling the campground and his attitude could be summed up as "not my job." I've heard there's a campground near Squamish that has someone watching over it all day. Anyone know if this is the case, and if so, where is it? I'd certainly pay an extra buck or two per day at the climber's campground if it would pay for a full-time attendant/guard. Otherwise, how about hiring some local loggers to hide in the bushes with 2x4s?

Short for "flat hueco"? "Flaccid cornea"? Google says: "FLACCO. Flacco the Elder and Flacco the Younger, Lipan-Apache chiefs, were both friends of the Texas settlers and were frequently used as scouts and guides against the Comanche Indians and the Mexicans."

WTF is "flaco"? Is that like "Falco"?

Found on the ground underneath Fist. Identify it and it's yours.

I got sick of reading whole paragraphs like this in Yuji Hirayama's article: Awesome photos, though. I haven't read a single one of Steve Seats' stories all the way through. is right.

I just read Pat Ament's short story about climbing Chasm View Wall with Layton Kor... it was pretty funny. Maybe the guy should have stuck to short stories.

Yeah, but those are really Wien (German) and Firenze (Italian). Does anyone know how to pronounce Vedauwoo?

Wow, quite a leap to blame the whole of Islam for the actions of an extremist few! I guess we can blame all white people for things like this, then: From their use of violent methods, we can determine that white people only respect power and violence, so we have no choice but to exterminate them all.

Not too good at the ol' reading comprehension, huh?

Hey Lars! Howard Dean never said such a thing: http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=138711

Only dirty hippies ride bikes when they could drive instead, so Bush could not have possibly given this as his reason for purchasing the vanilla custard: What do those liberals at CNN think we are, a bunch of simpletons? Hey cracked, guess what? MoveOn.org is not a news organization!

Hmm... maybe Sean Hannity doesn't count as a biased member of the media since what he practices can't really be considered "journalism": http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=138711

Lars, be careful! Don't let your knee hit you in the face when it jerks. And show some respect for Bill!

Thanks, JayB! PP, you should really read that Alterman article, it's very good.

A Russian official quoted here calls them "bandits", though elsewhere the dreaded "hostage-takers" is used. The same Russian calls the hostages "hostages", if you can believe it. From the New York Times, even! The lead story! Oh the audacity! http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/international/europe/03CND-RUSS.html?hp I'd say this one's neutrally-biased. "Bandits" + "hostage-takers" = 0. This single data point neutralizes your single data point. Begin presenting your case anew, if you please. I would search foxnews.com for evidence of right-wing bias, but it's not responsive at the moment. Probably brought down by e-jihadists or liberal hackers.

Jeez, man, relax! Have a , kick a "granola", whatever it takes.