Fairweather

Fond memories of this route from July of 1984. And the same shitty descent down the North Ridge then too. Nice trip report!

How many fatal flaws can you find in this story? Let's begin with the title... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8146995.stm

God forbid! State employees to suffer the same indignation as the little people in the private sector? Absolutely outrageous.

Trip: Sluiskin-The Chief - West Face Date: 7/11/2009 Trip Report: Our MRNP summer adventure series continues. Pope and I left Carbon River entrance station at 7am on our mountain bikes to climb this 7100 foot peak that stands sentinel above Windy Gap. Stashed our bikes at Ipsut Campground, hiked the Carbon River trail to the lower crossing, and traversed the river easily on a series of 5 new foot bridges that MRNP crews have constructed. The hike to Windy Gap on the Northern Loop Trail is a switchback-fest to rival any in the park, and we found the pass-area still about 90% covered in snow. X-C traverse from here and up a moderate snow gully to the saddle between The Chief and The Squaw. A large alcove makes up the west face and it is climbed to the ridge above in one pitch--low 5th class--that we protected with small-to-medium stoppers, a yellow Alien, and a large hex. An exposed scramble from here to the top is belay-worthy. Rappelled the north ridge with our single 50m rope and scrambled the rest of the way down. Hiked out and picked up our bikes for the classic Cascade mountain finish--a 5 mile downhill mountain bike speed-fest. This trip is a very long day. Good times: Gear Notes: small rack. Approach Notes: Kudos to the MRNP folks who have been working hard to fix the Carbon River mess! All included, this trip is almost a 6000 foot day and covers a lot of distance.

Because I climbed it three years ago. To the tippy top even. You ok now? http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/581636/Searchpage/1/Main/43526/Words/k%27s+spire/Search/true/TR_K_s_Spire_7_08_06#Post581636

Spare us your sandbox level stupidities that illustrate well why the Palin/Bush2/Reagan of this world are taken seriously. Just what I thought: an uneducated reply from an uneducated little debtor. Someday my boot will be pressed against your commie-geek throat. Metaphorically, of course.

Happy Birthday, Off.

http://cdn.theladders.net/static/pdf/Senator_Obama_Resume.pdf I'm just going by what Obama puts on his own resume. If you and other Obama faithful want to pad his resume for him, well, that's the normal course of things I suppose. I hear that your Dear Leader, Kim Jong Ill, once climbed Mount Everest barefoot and without oxygen, and landed a hole-in-one the first time he tried his hand at golf too! It's absolutely amazing what the hive drones will attribute to their messiahs.

Better check your facts. Only by the loosest of definitions would Obama be considered a "professor". He was a part-time lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Other factors aside, I would put Bush's Yale B.A. and his Harvard MBA only a short stroke behind Obama's Columbia B.A. in Political Science and his Harvard J.D. But I'll certainly grant that Bush had advantages not available to Obama getting started down the Ivy League path. If you want to call him a professor, that's fine. But it isn't necessarily so.

Trip: K's Spire - Fryingpan Glacier/SW Date: 7/6/2009 Trip Report: Drizzle and fog on Monday. Pope, his friend Rob, and I left the trail head at 5am. IFR from Summerland to Meany Crest and across the Fryingpan Glacier put us right at the base of Cornelius' mighty tower. Sleet, poor visibility, and a unanimous loss of interest at the base of the spire kept us from the tip top. Of course, the sun came out once we headed back down the Fryingpan. Fun trip anyway with great partners. Emmons teaser: That's the spire up there: North Face of Little Tahoma: Pope admires da mighty Emmons: Summerland Marmot Mocking Me: Gear Notes: Glacier gear and small rack to 2" Approach Notes: GPS and slop.

No problem. All I was trying to do was escalate in-kind rather than my usual X4. I gotta go to bed. Gonna climb that spire in the rain. Up at 3am.

Not sure why you've chosen to go personal at this point...

Sounds like its all coming together... President Biden gives final approval? Saudis OK with Israel flyover?

You do understand that even under GWB we spent far more on social services and entitlements than we did on defense? And, right or wrong, we have long footed the bill for the bulk of the defense of our allies in western Europe and Japan. The post WWII/Cold War "escapades" you speak of ultimately exhausted a communist political and economic system that was inherently wrong in every aspect of its design and its implementation. I don't hear too many South Koreans I know lamenting. Honestly, Matt, if Obama came out with new taxes that were designed retire a portion of the national debt, I'd be in favor. But all he is seemingly doing is paying off public employee unions with make-work and political allies with promissory notes. He has added a couple more floors to our economic house of cards.

You are mistaken. Do you understand the difference between the national debt and annual deficits? While Clinton may have reaped the benefits of Republican congressional fiscal restraint post 1994--which resulted in good budgets for 1999 and 2000--he left the presidency with the nation still around 5 trillion in debt. There was never a "surplus" as you claim. One party rule from 2001-2006 nearly doubled this debt, and I've bashed Bush for this often. But note that while Bush's annual deficits ran around $400+ billion, Obama's budget for next year already runs $1.8 trillion in excess of revenue forecasts--4 times what Bush was running up. The U.S. bond rating is about to take a big hit because of this. Do you think this is responsible?

Funny; I don't recall you taking this position when Bush was president.

i'll go with the "there are no dumb questions" tack on this, and answer that of course (as you know) you are wrong. your position reeks of the paranoia that some exhibited about bush's plan to declare martial law in order to remain in office (most people don't perhaps understand that bush stayed in office! except for some (very important) changes). WTF? Are you insane? Or just a poor communicator?

Economists were predicting we'd hit 10% employment in '09 before Obama was even elected, you dumb cluck. No. Obama was predicting we'd be below 8% by summer's end.

You have a viral mistrust and lack of faith in humanity, even within your own culture. I like to assume people have good intentions even if I disagree with their process. How do you function in everyday society without totally imploding? You're kidding, right? Are you saying that in order to have faith in humanity one must have faith in Obama? I have faith in the humanity of individuals, yes--but history clearly shows faith in the humanity of the masses is not often well placed. Obama is showing a tendency toward the evocation of populism. Sorry if you're too blind to see it.

The only thing I like less than Sarah Palin are addled-moderators who allow--and even participate in--the kind of nastiness we saw pre election: Some Feck Quotables: "lipstick saves the day... she can play the whore ... just enough. lipstick saves the day... russia she sees from her house..she is tough.. if i was a moron,heck i would vote for her and dipstick. at least they can garantee war. dipstick wants to rule... he was a hero...in war he believes.. without it he is unknown... dipstick has no depth but the oil . McCain is a dried up, mummified, moldering, half-dead, wrinkly, prune-faced, shouldn't be driving, poopy-drawered, Metamucil drinking, prescription drug popping, liver-spotted, rotten toothed, haggard, wizened, varicosed, walker needing, red scooter driving, Clapper using, Lawrence Welk listening, Matlock watching, vestigial head growing out of the side of his face old coot! Look at The Incubator; their new mascot. She's stridently, confidently and aggressively ignorant on just about every issue of national importance. The woman couldn't change course if she wanted to; she doesn't even realize she's on a ship. Does she even know what a ship is, for that matter? Harsh man. I don't think porn sluts deserve that type of comparison. Every time I see this ho-bag I can't help but think she looks like the "naughty librarian" from some B-rate porn flick. Unfortunately she doesn't seem much more intelligent than your average porn slut either. In other words, the perfect GOP pick for second in command; a fucking moron. Who installed your breasts? What would be so bad about letting the daughter get a little older and letting her get to know the sperm donor a little more before getting hitched? Oh, that's right, because otherwise it's a sin. None of this would have happened if only she was wearing a burka Bristol isn't really pregnant this time. She really is Trig's mother and when the McCain Camp found out that Sarah had pretended to be pregnant and falsely claimed the child to be her own, the McCain's invented this new pregnancy to quell the rumors. News sources are reporting that the "child" is a product of incest. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Sorry. She is fodder now. Her mother knew it going into the acceptance speech. What else do you expect from a secessionist. One has to have a defective brain to be a republican these days. They're just wrong on everything. Nobody even brought up the pictures of Bristol drinking the Captain Morgans....Her little kiddo is gonna be named Morgan...cuz she's got a little captain in her... Well, if she picks up cocaine and sticks with the booze, 20 years and she'll be the Prez... Can you say "teen bukkake???" Long term consequences of actions mean nothing to a young kid who wants to fuck. irony is funny hilarious means funny the palin daughter is preggo thang is ironic so the palin daughter preggo thang is hilarious gotta give the stupid award to bristol on this one... gary's a tool, but a 17 year old who can't figger out birthcontrol is a fuckin' moron i think he's trying to throw the election...or he wants in Palin's pants... There are photos on the net that show Bristol Palin and her friends holding alcohol but so far no drugs. Did her Mom And Dad know or care that she was a party girl? "One day you're awkwardly humping away in a backseat after the hockey game; the next you're standing next to the presumptive Republican presidential nominee at his party's convention. Looks like McCain's got 'em a big ole chaw tucked in his cheek...or a giant tumor...or a vestigial twin emerging. Oh be fair now, this young mans dreams of "I don't want kids" and being a "fuckin redneck" are now shattered because he made the mistake of pulling the goalie. That is so f*kin' redneck! It's exciting to see republicans finally sucking McCock. She may win the election but she will also denigrate the process once again. republicunts republicunts "republicunts!" Hey man, lay off Hot Lips. She's hot. Way hotter than Mitt Romney. I'll bet she looks good in a blue dress. Hmmmmmmm.... you have a very old man, and (well, not to be crass, but frankly speaking) a MILF FROM ALASKA! Damn!! Kind of cute, until she had five kids, and decided that she was a Republican... All I see is "country dough face".... Funny...where's the 5th kid? Guess the mongoloid and 'pro-life politics' don't mix. Nobody should refer to her as a MILF, but in this case a GILF. Dude, that place is like oatmeal . . . lumpy, bland, and grey. The guy has malignant melanoma, and apparently his brain is going because he could not remember how many houses he has. That and all of the other stressors involved with destroying humanity means that statistically he is going to die very very soon. As for that women... she should just drive her ATV off a cliff. the repugnicans are fucking crusading kooks...i wish they'd just drink the koolade already... I thought Hot Lips' speech was great, she looks smoking hot with those glasses on. She reminds me of a high school friend's hot mom! No she's not going to be the president unless McDumbshit wins the election then kicks the bucket in office. She is an example of McDumbshit's decision making ability. It makes him look dumber than the idiot he already was. she has assigned the job of family management to her husband. apparently she needed to hire someone else for the job Lets see.....she allowed her teenage daughter to be alone with her boyfriend where he fucked her. Good managing. McCain doesn't look like he's going to make it through the next 5 minutes much less a presidential term. you don't lose your girlfriend in Alaska, just your turn... Maybe her son was just jealous because she was exploiting Bristol to score all the political points. "Pork my daughter and meet the next president on national TV" Also remember that little thing called slavery? good enough for palin i guess. That was money well spent! She looked like a cross between the mother on Bewitched and Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS. Not all retards are evil!! At least she's not a Proud Injun. Soooo, we're supposed to admire her cuz she's got two dumb kids? The disenfranchised Hillary set is really going to flock to a militant pro-life, NRAtard, polar bear killing driller like Palin . . . Good choice John. It will also draw that aging Dungeons and Dragons constituency that has lost Ron Paul. It all depends on how shes "polling" right now I bet she was knocked up by Cheney's daughter!! Nice airbrushed mascara though. LYING SACK OF SHIT..... As for Bristol, well, um, I'm probably the father. Did I omit that from my TR? Not to worry; the consent age in Alaska is, like, 9. I fucked the lights out of Mom, too, but the mongoloid kid...definitely not mine Bristol didn't have much experience, and she got the job done. "

...and yet the terrorist attack on the United States nine months into dumbya's reign were the previous administration's fault! Now turn that 180. Scorched Earth arguments leave the whole world blind.

Just making sure the Obama faithful aren't eating their cake. I propose that the blinders currently rest on the nasal bridges of the president's flock who ravenously devour the bits of class-flesh he tosses out even as he (intentionally?) steers us toward the edge. One parishioner here is willing to let civilization burn for another year--and that's better than most--but I suspect the true believers are hoping for total economic collapse. Am I wrong?

News flash, moron: Obama has been president since January. Those June unemployment numbers belong exclusively to Obama-brand class warfare. But I'm sure once Cap and Trade legislation is signed their job prospects will brighten.