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Duuuudeee, that's a QP! QP is a fat sack...keep you goin' long enough to get those next Kali Mist x Dhurban clones through their 61 day flowering period anyway... which makes a nice segue into the hermaphrodites thread because: Plants will often "reverse" sex usually becoming herms in the process. So, say you're going to move and can't keep cloning momma. No worries, just tweak the light cycle or let the latest clones get quite old before flowering (there are plenty of ways you can almost force herms to form). Then, you've got some male flowers on a female plant, let it pollenate and save the seeds...they will all be female seeds assuming you made your herms from clones. At least that's what my friend uh, Bob, told me...yeah, that's it.

Appeals court denies marijuana case appeal By Associated Press ANCHORAGE The Alaska Court of Appeals has rejected a request by the state to reconsider a decision allowing adults to possess small amounts of marijuana for personal use. In a ruling Friday, the court denied Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes' petition for a rehearing in the case of David Noy, a North Pole man who was arrested in 2001 after he was found with marijuana in his home. Renkes said the next step is to ask the Alaska Supreme Court take up the case. In August, the appeals court reversed Noy's conviction and ruled that Alaskans have the right to possess less than four ounces of marijuana in their homes for personal use. The court based its ruling on the broad right to privacy in Alaska's Constitution, as interpreted in the 1975 landmark Alaska Supreme Court case of Ravin vs. State. The Ravin decision had led to the legalization of at-home use of small amounts of marijuana for several years, giving Alaska the most liberal pot laws in the nation. That ended in 1990 when Alaska voters passed an initiative to criminalize the possession of all pot. But this summer's ruling in the Noy case interpreted the Ravin decision as meaning that Alaska's constitutional right to privacy is so strong that the voters _ and the Legislature _ are restricted from just deciding that pot should be illegal in the home. "The state contends that this view of Ravin is fundamentally flawed and that Ravin did not announce a constitutional restriction on the government's lawmaking power ... we are convinced that the state's interpretation of Ravin is wrong," the state appeals court said Friday in its ruling on the Noy marijuana case. Dean Guaneli, the chief assistant attorney general, responded that the appeals court misunderstood arguments made by the state. Despite what appeared to give all indications of a negative ruling for the state, the attorney general's office issued a press release Friday classifying the decision as at least a partial victory. While the decision denied a rehearing, the release states, it did give the state permission to challenge the Ravin decision. Guaneli said the office based this interpretation of the decision on the last sentence, which reads "the state remains free in the future to challenge the continuing vitality of Ravin." William Satterberg, the Fairbanks lawyer who is opposing the attorney general in the Noy case, said the Friday appeals court ruling gave the state no power to challenge the Ravin decision that it didn't already have. But Guaneli said the state was worried that the appeals courts ruling on the Noy case was couched in terms so ironclad that the state might be unable to go back and attack the Ravin decision. The ultimate goal, Guaneli said, is for the state to be able to prove to a court that marijuana is stronger and is causing more harm in Alaska than back when the 1975 Ravin decision came out. Then the state might be able to show it has a strong enough interest in making it illegal to override the constitutional questions.

Serious? Dignified? Mmmm Molly

Somehow I expected this to end with "so I took the obvious cue and banged her in the bathroom"

They're on their way....

4. Complaining about others smoking weed in the hut is taking the victim stance. I will not be a victim, I will partake of the herbage.

Thanks Forrest! Issue is Sept 2000.

Yeah, that was a rough one too. Rob Taylor on the Breach Wall was pretty rough as well, but more from the hospital conditions and sadistic nurse after the fact.

Indeed it's referenced in the 1991 AAJ, but I don't know if it's the whole story or just the blurb about his new route. If anyone has a '91 AAJ, it's on p. 272

Can someone point me to the complete story of Takeyasu Minamiura's 1990 solo of Nameless Tower? This was where he soloed a new 30 pitch route over 40 days, summitted, chucked his haulbag, and parapented off. He was blown right back into the face where he was stranded at 20,000 ft on a 16inch ledge for about a week with virtually nothing...(only a jacket, radio, and pocketknife) until his bros could climb an adjacent route to rescue him. The adjacent route had only seen one or two ascents and was pretty tough in it's own right. I read this sometime in the past (seems like the 1991 AAJ but might have been in one of the rags), and recall someone mentioning it over a campfire recently. Along with Endurance and Alive, this is probably the most intense epic I've heard of...anyone care to add?

Dru, I think you're confusing my TR post with my "bitch and whine about someone nailing on C1" post which concerned the same climb. Anyway... About pictures: I think pics definitely elevate a TR to a higher level, but there's a slight problem. Not all of us have a web host where we can place the pics and link the url. Yes, we can upload them to the gallery and I'd assume link them from there, but there are (understandably) size limits on both the total space of pics you can upload and the individual size of a pic. Now sure, it's not hard to resize them, but the uploads take a loooong time (for my connection anyway). It just turns into a bit of a hassle to put the pics in by the time you convert them, resize, upload, figure out how to link, etc. Maybe someone has a better way..or maybe my cheap ass should get some hosting space (yeah, I've got some free space on one of the many free services, but they also have small space limits and spam the sheeyat outta you all the time.)

Personally, I enjoy reading TRs. Probably because I can't get out as much as I'd like, and it's vicarious adventure. Also, since I'm not a native of the NW, I find out about alot of cool things to add to the "to do" list. I've written a few TRs that I posted here. Usually I just write up an account in my own climbing journal, but if something novel or unusual happened, or if I think someone might get a laugh out of my gaper antics, I might post it. I think by and large my stuff is personally deprecating rather than chest beating. I'm a hack, and I'm well aware of it. As for the TRs themselves, I'm guilty of work that could be better. I didn't edit the last TR I wrote at all. I spent an hour and a half typing it off the top of my head and posted it right after that. After re-reading it on the board I realized that I should have held it for a few days and done some editing for grammar, clarity, and spelling. I'm not Hemingway, and for me to write at a reasonably readable level requires alot of work and re-working. I think that if I am going to post something for mass consumption, I owe it to the potential readers to take the time to make it the best it can be. That said, I've posted about trips out of haste at times because I needed the catharsis of getting it out there. Kind of like using cc.com as a shrink (given, a shrink that berates you and smacks you around)...because few people can understand what we as climbers go through.

True. It works something like this: The "rock" is silt/mud/sand mixture that was formed under tremendous pressure from overlying layers. The mud coating is eroded material. When the outer surface of the rock gets saturated it dissolves into a mud that flows in the runoff. Once the mud runoff dries out, it congeals, but without the huge amounts of pressure and long periods of time (geologic time), it doesn't get compressed and solid like the rock it came from - it remains in a mud-like state. I've only done AA as well, and I was pleasantly surprised at how solid the rock was.

The "why" of the mud is, in short this: The precursor to Cutler was very fine silt and mud (and some grains large enough to be sand) deposited by an alluvial fan (waterway enters a flatter area, causing the velocity to slow, leading to suspended solids settling out). So when Cutler erodes, the result is mud. It's basically a mudstone, to begin with. Even the more erosion resistant overlying caprock, which is Moenkopi, is a siltstone/mudstone.

State and Federal politicians here are banking on it happening. Murkowski is pushing hard. Stevens is pushing hard. We've got an impending budget problem / revenue shortfall and Alaskans don't want to hear 'bout no damn state income tax. I can tell you this: Pipe manufacturers are expanding their storage facilities in Fairbanks...one is consolidating operations and quadrupling in size. Draw your own conclusions....

Surely you can't be serious? About any pint can of brit beer has 'em...Guiness, Boddingtons, Murphy's, etc...

C'mon Pete, Look at some statistics buddy...war has historically boosted the economy. Now do you think that the $300 rebate check you got has kick-started the economy (personally, I used mine to pay a stafford loan payment, and offset the money I lost in an index fund holding Enron as part of assets)...or the countless billions spent on the war(s). Check out this site Cost of War With all the loot being pumped into Lockheed-Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics, United Tech, Litton, etc...we should have a big recovery. The question is: Are the lives of our servicemen worth it? I'm a DOD employee, I'm around alot of soliders and airmen on a daily basis and I workout with some of the Arctic Warriors...alot of these guys are not happy with BushCo..in fact I heard one Cpt who was citing Carol Mosely Braun (threw me for a loop) and some stats on budget cuts for VA services (I can't elaborate because I didn't see the speech he was citing). If you've ever been around a VA hospital, you know how understaffed and underfunded they are already...not everyone buys into the hype...including those who are willing to put their lives on the line for this nation. It's not about Clinton, it's not about the left or the right...it's about deceiving the populus into supporting what is rapidly turning into a quagmire the likes of which we haven't seen since, oh, about 1964-1975.

The buddhists say that we need to free ourselves from samsara (suffering) which is caused by our illusion that we exist as a discrete entity in the universe (ego). Understanding that we are one with everything and nothing exists apart from anything else is the basis of enlightenment. Reaching this understanding doesn't imply mentally/cognitively understanding the concept, but understanding it with your entire being. Most descriptions of the moment of satori involve a feeling of a dissolving of self and melting into the universe. Brings to mind a groaner of a joke: What did the buddhist say to the hotdog vendor? Make me one with everything.

Mr Bunny says Pegmatite is the shizz

Granite is pretty much tops but I still think the best rock I've climbed on is the Gneiss in North Carolina (which is just metamorphized granite anyway). Tennessee sandstone is pretty damn sweet, it's bomber too...stuff has such a high iron content it's bullet. My personal pref is desert sandstone...but that's more for the setting and the nature of the cracks. That tuff is just a petrified volcano fart

I've used Toucans and Auks (the beak sized version of the toucans, which is what I think your asking about) They are sweet, particularly in sandstone. I've hand-placed the toucans a few times, but only in a seam in a dihedral and on a couple of angling cracks where the camming action of the bent stem really cams hard. They don't seem quite as durable as regular (BD) blades though. In general on normal placements they seemed to shift less than regular blades or beaks in soft rock, but then again, maybe I was just more experienced by the time I added those to the rack. A blade shifting after you've been on it for a while is a pants-loading experience, especially when it keeps happening. I own the leeper cam hooks in the smallest through the next to largest size. The medium ones seem to see the most use, and I have pairs of that size. I do find all the sizes to be useful though. I've never seen the Pika camhooks so can't comment.

First point...yeah, we had plenty of help carrying loads to the base, 3 helpers to be exact. I didn't climb pitches 1-2 either as my partner and his original partner had already fixed them. Second, I don't know how you figure I didn't carry my gear down? I made two trips up the ledges to get stuff. One trip two days after we topped out(incapaciated partner required coming back for the gear) when you were topping out. On that trip I went up with an Irish climber from camp (because my partner was still incapacitated) and we carried down just about everything. Unfortunately, I had to leave the shit bucket because my haul bag was full of ropes and hardwear and Johnny refused to carry it. I went back up three days later to retrieve the shit bucket, which someone had apparently already carried down becasue I couldn't find it. I spent about two hours up there collecting random trash and empty water bottles and carried it down, I also made a sweep of the base and picked up almost a full backpack's worth of trash from the west-side two days after that. As for the anytime, any place and we'll see who gets pasted shithead. You'll be able to find me in C4 just about any fall in late Sept early Oct.

I got issues alright, and that issue is that you were clearly unprepared (experience wise). I don't deny that you had great determination to see it through, and that it was a formidable goal. I've soloed and it's hard and lonely fuckin work. But your whole statement of how it wouldn't have been possible for you to continue (without all the nailing) kind of exemplifies the mindset I abhor...summit at all costs. Did it ever occur to you that "hey the party ahead of me wasn't nailing this" Luckily granite does not take quite the beating that sandstone does. If I'd been nailing on clean routes I've done in Zion, there would have been an angry posse waiting on the ground.

Likely the nut on 7 was the one we left fixed, differential temperature expansion can loosen pieces, or maybe I spaced it and went right by it. Red camalot was definitely not ours since I own no reds with non-original sling, if it was on 15 and you mean had a runner-sling attached to the cam's own sling, partner might have left it without telling me when lowering out, I don't know since I led 15 at sunset and didn't watch him clean the pitch.. Sorry it was so much trouble for you to haul all that weight of booty gear to the summit, must have been grueling to transport your trophies so far. Prick.

Yeah, I'm sure you would have, especially after you told your bro how you were just gonna keep it instead Dude, as I said in my initial post...it was rightfully yours as booty. I've bootied plenty of gear, but I also don't offer it back of my own accord and then recant and gloat about it on the radio to my buddies like some punk ass bitch.