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Introducing the "North West South East Forest Pass". $1,631 for a year of access to all federal sites...excluding national monuments, BLM lands, and National Forests. But you can buy a "Let the Eagle Soar" John Ashcroft memorial pass that also allows access to these lands for an additional $857, and a $37 per day parking fee while accessing Your Public Lands! Fuckin sweet babay!

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Heard some rumblings through the grapevine that Mike sent City Park last week.

"Green Party nominates Cheney for 2008 Presidential bid"

There is nothing unclear about the regs: If it has a name on the 7.5 USGS, don't climb it. I'd wager that the literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions of pro and amatuer photogs and tourons who photograph the feature each year would have their experience seriously compromised by some climber clowns on the arch. This feature is an icon for millions who couldn't care less if you're climbing on the 3 gossips or the penguins, but DO care if you're on this Arch. If you felt the need in your soul to climb the fucker, why not do it at night, when nobody was there and shut the fuck up about it instead of spraying it all over the media where it will surely negatively impact climbers in the perception of land managers...the very people who can screw us the hardest. Is there a shortage of rock in the greater Moab area? Not when I lived down there. WTF is Patagonia thinking?

And I stand by mine, having climbed at both Static Pt and Stone Mountain North Carolina. Stone is much better than SP. About 600ft vert relief, around 100 routes from 5.easy to 5.12, with a heavy concentration in the 5.9-5.10+ range often very runout. Stone is known for the infamous "running belays" where the belayer needs to sprint during a fall to avoid 50ft wingers. Give Capt Crunch a shot, .11 with 3 bolts in a 55m pitch.

Stone Mountain, NC is better than Static Point, IMO. Stone Mountain, GA although closed to climbing, would yield tons of great slab routes in the 8-10 pitch range. It's a dome, rather than a cliffside, about 800' relief. With a tram and walk off already in place. Wheee.

I expect to see a sledneck's high mark on that bitch by early winter....and a new darwin award to boot.

Oh ye of little faith. 2 months, 6 days.

Fascinating, asshole.

Maybe next time he'll get drunk and shoot someone in the face.

Try sticking that in your pocket.

Wouldn't much matter to the US if Venezuela was at full production capacity, because their large fields are primarily very heavy crude and we don't have the refinery capacity to deal with it. The "price of oil" you hear quoted in the MSM is for WTI front month. The various grades all sell at different prices related to the heavy/light sweet/sour characterisitcs...Brent, WTI, etc. "Sweet light" is the ideal, meaning relatively thin, high gasoline yield, less intensive refining required, and low sulfur. Jay, this ran about 3 days and was covered at theoildrum.com, a site I use and recommend. Lots of industry insiders, academics, etc. It's a "peak oil" focused site, but follows all the data releases, news, runs in depth tech articles and so forth. It's not overrun with greens or doomsday types.

Bought an engagement ring. Followed shortly by the smartest thing I ever did...didn't propose and took the ring back to the store.

WTF is that govt measures of inflation, whether CPI, core CPI, PEI, or any others are designed to understate inflation by stripping out everything that is rising in price. Allows the govt to borrow at lower rates, and degrade the fiat currency at will with minimal repercussions. You can thank Nixon for taking us off the gold standard, allowing craven politicians to effectively run the printing press at will, and the Greenspan era FED for throwing money around like a drunk sailor. Value of the pre-Federal Reserve era (i.e. circa 1914) dollar today...$0.14. The US dollar is backed by nothing other than the hollow promises of politicians (i.e. the "full faith and credit of the US") which means fuck-all when they expand the monetary supply beyond the growth rate of GDP. You can maintain the quality, or quantity of a fiat currency, but not both. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) is about the only person in your congress that understands the game. This speech is worth reading: http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2006/cr021506.htm NEVER buy govt debt tied to inflation, as it will be understated and in real (i.e. inflation adjusted) terms, you will lose purchasing power.

Oh shit! We better bivy here brah!

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1 packet pop rocks + 1 can coke = Mikey's dead.

At least he wasn't bivying on top of Cin slab.

Black Ice couloir on the Big Titty. Non-existent.

'79 Last of the breadloaves. Too bad it's NOT a vanagon. They take a Suby 2.0 or 2.1 pretty well and there are a couple places down in SoCal that make some tranny adapter plates for them. Real heat, real power, and they don't breakdown/have head gasket probs like the early watercooled ('83 1/2-'84) VWs. '87 Syncro Westy w' a suby engine conversion is a pretty sweet rig.

If it's a single family dwelling, it depends on the zoning: RF, R10, R20, R7, R5 all have 30ft limitations and R2.5 has 35ft. However, this is for the dwelling itself. I assume outstructures are limited to the same restrictions. 29.30.020 of the Portland city code addresses accessory structures thus: "All accessory structures on residential property shall be maintained structurally safe and sound and in good repair. Exterior steps and walkways shall be maintained free of unsafe obstructions or hazardous conditions. " Here's a good place to start: http://www.portlandonline.com/planning/index.cfm?&a=64609&c=36238 TG, IPA. Thank you.