Fairweather

22,000 dead, and up to thirty thousand missing in Myanmar/Burma... Hey! I hear Hillary and Obama split the big win yesterday. Have you seen the price of gas? And I hear REI is having a 20% off sale on neat things soon.

Inthe Butt

Alumni--like you and Matt--should be embarrassed by the recent crop of students and profs. Activism/peaceful protest is OK. Promotion of anarchy isn't what the vast majority of Washingtonians are paying for. Write a letter. Save your school.

Nice trip! Lover's Lane looks pretty filled-in too.

The debacles are many, and are often instigated by staff including at least two mass expulsions from Mexico for illegal interference in elections there. Of course, Rachael Corrie's parents see things differently, but I can't help think that poor girl would have had a wonderful life had she been offered more balanced curricula. And lately, things have just gotten downright ugly in Olympia--and all roads seem to lead directly to The Evergreen State College. I think some profs and staff owe the public an explanation. Now...you were saying something about a privately funded school that appears to offer a focused, albeit narrow curriculum directed toward internal security? I guess I'll agree it's odd--but at least we're not paying for it. BTW: I only recognize four names on your list. I'll bet most other state schools produce superior alum lists annually. I also see a whole lot of "activists".

50m/year of state tax dollars going to keep the doors open at TESC is wrong... http://shiftshapers.gnn.tv/blogs/27131/Washington_Riot_at_Evergreen_State_College

Except I have yet to see where the fees being charged support more than enforcement of said fee.

We had a great time. Not sure why you think otherwise. Not sure how expressing concern about the parking at Paradise is any different than...say...you bitching about MLU's on Mount Hood, super stud.

Editing after original post is poor form. You went off on KK before he elevated the discussion in-kind. The question remains: Is the parking availability at Paradise going to return to its pre-construction levels? Not sure why that possibility upsets you so much.

Dooooood! That's totally rad and awesome! How proud you must be of yourself. Don't you have a real job?

Visiting Fidel's deathbed in Cuba? Rotting in a Bolivian prison? Enrolled in a local 12-step program (again)? Sequestered away as a contestant on next season's The Biggest Loser? Reincarnated avatar? Dead? Banned? Ahhh, dare to dream...

Here is KK's original question: I couldn't help notice how the new visitor center takes up some of the already limited parking up at paradise, and was wondering if the old visitor center will be demolished to make up for the lost spaces. He doesn't sound angry to me. Maybe you're the one who has "issues"? Sounds like many here agree with his unspoken premise though. Maybe you should get out from behind that NPS desk and do some recreatin'.

Sunday

The psychology of control.

I'm not sold. This would be akin to The Audubon Society or The Sierra Club being granted the exclusive right to administer the climbing permit program at Mount Rainier and collect fees. Bullshit. "The Institute" can keep their brochures...and show me some pictures of their "trail work/repairs" as related to actual climbing routes. This is a scam masquerading as public education. If I am stopped along the trail by a ranger I will just politely tell him/her that I am a snowmobiler.

Exactly. Note to any MRNP personnel watching this site: The folks who use the park will not take efforts to restrict access in such a manner lying down. When you tear down the flying saucer, use the space for parking.

It sounds like you're bitter that no one else will come and clean that algae off of your trailer.

Trip: Camp Muir - Date: 4/27/2008 Trip Report: Hiked to Muir today with KaskadskyjKozak. Good trip! A nice boot-path exists path above Panorama Point and the public shelter is accessible. Windy and cold at Muir, but warmer below. A couple of parties summited this morning via Gibraltar Ledges and told of good conditions.

Just planted a Golden Chain. Hopefully, it will look like this someday:

how much biodiesel is made from rice? rice is not known as an oilseed.... Kind of narrow thought. More corn production for ethanol = less land for wheat and soy = higher prices for smaller supply = more price pressure on commodities (including rice) world wide.

discuss More glaciers to climb? Sweet! From a peer-reviewed article (Pike et al. 2008) I was reading just today: "The recent rate of glacial loss in the Coast Mountains is approximately double that observed for the previous two decades". Hmm? There could be other factors at work besides ambient temperature. Think soot.

Sorry Steven, but the onus of proof falls on the group making the claim. I hear a lot about these "scientists" claiming they know with certainty, yet I haven't spoken to a single professor in person who's not at least somewhat skeptical. I'll grant that most of these teach astronomy and/or physics, but the point is, there are a lot more educated folks than you think out there who aren't convinced.

Al Gore's movie is a documentary about "truth". When he stands on stage and trumpets fiction as fact--all the while images of prophesy realized flashing across the big screen behind him--it should be clear to the average thinker that there is a big credibility issue ala Pat Robertson, Benny Hinn, or Tammy-Faye Baker. Combine this with the movie's many other fraudulent claims, and you have what is commonly called a lie. It is clear that you worship at the altar of The Church of Global Warming and I apologize if I have challenged your belief system or insulted one of your prophets. Unfortunately, the jury is still out on anthropogenic global warming.

Gore clearly states "that when you fly along the shelf in a helicopter" leaving the impression that he, or someone, did just that. There are so many claims in his little production that have been demonstrated to be patently false that this little fib is just the icing on the cake. You are either stoopid...or willingly ignorant.

Try to stay on topic, Bug. All it demonstrates is the length that the left will go to to support their global warming orthodoxy. Apparently, they will even lie.