Fairweather

My son and I are doing a circumnavigation and climb of Mount Adams during the third week in July, but if the weather isn't good on the west side I figured I would hedge our plans with a permit for The Enchantments. 25 years of hiking and climbing and I've never been to The Enchantments. I just sent my permit application off in the mail for a party of two. Four mid-week-only dates in July w/alternates. Do I have a #*%ing prayer of getting this permit? What are our chances in the daily lottery if we are denied reservations? Will the daily lottery get us in for all four days? Thanks!

My spicey avatar represents to all of you.

The soot from bio-diesel has been implicated in glacial recession in places as remote as Greenland.

WTF? They don't have internet access in Nevada? Oh well, hope a couple years in a 'red state' will bring you back to your senses.

I agree; it's a bad thing to waste tax $$$. But I love to see land managers squirm about their precious Wilderness Act (and the ridiculous 'mechanized' provisions therein) when it butts heads with the ADA. I really like that snowpod. The guy engineered it himself, I read? Is it getting any use now? The guy must have had some freaking incredible upper body stregnth.

jmace. What the fuck are you talking about? Are you just pretending to be a complete moron? Actually, I was hoping the gravity this weekend at Squamish would act on your scrawny form in a bad way. Just run along, pest, before someone drops a house on you.

The most convoluted and bizarre comment of the week. Better go back and read what comrade Prole is writing. You are both attempting to have your cake...and eat it too. Prole: What are your thoughts on Hugo Chavez?

You forgot "mass starvation", "forced labor", and "wholesale slaughter". Ahhh yes. The old "we haven't done it right yet" lie. So how many more millions of innocents must die? How thorougly should the spirit of individuality be crushed before 'true' communists finally get it right? How many more chances do they need? And are you really saying that outside capitalist military/economic aggression is the reason attempts have, so far, failed? Former USSR? China? Cuba? N Korea? How are/were workers faring in these places? Of course, you're talking about the western left, and I would have to say that some of the pressures they have put on rampant, unchecked capitalism have been just. You mean other than unprecedented economic prosperity, employment, and a place where scientific innovation can be properly rewarded? ...And how do you explain China's somewhat successful flirtation with capitalism? Too bad you can't show examples where this is so on a national scale. Your attempts to separate Marxism from its experiments-to-date are dangerous. I asked in the previous post if you were an adherent, or were merely using marxism for your example. I think I have my answer. I see you reside in Bellingham. Forgive me, but I sincerely hope you're not in a position to influence young minds at WWU.

Is he the guy who spent two years trying to get the NPS to approve the use of his "snopod" because of Wilderness Act bureaucratic inflexibility, and was so pissed off about it he forced the NPS to build a wheelchair accessible toilet at Muir? If so, I give him

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I believe I understand that you are espousing Marxism only as a tool for understanding societal class structure and not as an ideal in and of itself. Am I correct? If not, I'm sure you understand the violent hurdles that the attempted implementation of a communist system here in the USA would face from my side of the political spectrum.....and probably from the liberal side as well. For those who harbor such utopian dreams in our free country, I have a suggestion: Make no attempt to impose them on me. "Better dead than red" isn't just a redneck rant.

Drivers stopping at green lights would cripple our transportation system.

You profess: "I've got some issues with a couple of themes that are running through "liberal" and "conservative" posts on this thread." OK...we can all see in your subsequent rant that you don't adhere to the conservative ideal, so when do you plan to reveal your displeasure with the 'liberal' side of the coin? Is it possible that you were simply trying to frame yourself as a neutral, thoughtful, moderate in that first sentence when it is so blatantly obvious you are not? I can (somewhat)respect a liberal or left-wing poster who freely admits his/her bias before - or after stating their opinion. But I have no tolerance for someone who wraps themself in the cloak of moderation only to then breathe fire down the opposite side of the fence. Weak. Oh yea; welcome to the site.

Three Fingers.

The link you left was great. But it still seems a strange coincedence that the annual periphelion matches so closely to the annual axis-tilt (seasonal) cycle, and the article doesn't really get into the physics. If I were to guess, I would say it is some astro-gyroscopic formula. Like spinning a top and watching the way it's tilt cycle and wobbles match the circle it paints on the floor? This could also explain why the moon's rotation almost exactly matches it's orbit around Earth? (Hence, why we never see the "dark" side of the moon.) Any physicists out there?

jmace, I'm not sure if you're just an antagonist, or a high school moron who just finished his first astronomy class. Regardless, the knowledge you so boastfully share in no way reflects on the state of the 21st century educational condition. It is not what I would consider common. http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/seasons.html Note that while apogee and parigee are not technically correct, they are commonly used. Aphelion and pehiphelion are more appropriately used for the eccentricity in the earth's orbital path around the sun. So what?

Unlike our constitution, Liberal is a living, breathing, ever-changing doctrine. It's meaning is broader than conservative. I do believe you've posted on the nature of the word liberal, and its applications both modern and traditional, on previous occassions. I prefer to apply the pejorative; 'fucking liberal', 'dumb-assed liberal', or my favorite; 'cock-sucking liberal'.

Fairweather likely prefers a good read over a picture book. Fairweather has never been called high-brow. Dr Flash paints with the broad brush he stole from his imaginary right-wing friend. Fairweather admits his sentence in the previous post was a bit choppy and rife with irregular consanants and syllables. But it was clearly not run-on.

My favorite: The org-chasm. It's where the non-profits hang out.

Jim...Dr Flash...Foraker...Luna... All you need here is a little j_b and you guys can break out the love oil!

So do you support firearm safety training classes in public schools?

Just bought a Betalight and a Betabug for those nasty skeeters. Set them up together in the yard and seems pretty tight. Hope it's a good compromise between weight and versatility as I can take the 'bug' or leave it at home depending on the trip. The Betalight alone is lighter than my bivy sack. Can't wait to try them out.

Snowshoes weren't necessary. Ankle deep on the way up at worst. Shin deep on the way down in places. A boot track exists. Snowshoes wouldn't be worth their weight.