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??? now you are just making no sense at all.

Hmmm, sounds about 80% libtard/20% anarchist to me: http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/12/us/chapel-hill-shooting-suspect-craig-hicks/index.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/craig-stephen-hicks-atheism_n_6661438.html that makes sense. all liberals are atheists and all atheists are liberals. good logic on ya. but he is also a gun loving asshole. sounds conservative to me.

once again pointing out the lies. where is the evidence that this guy (craig hicks I assume) is a liberal? claims he has no political affiliation and if you were to look for a group to associate him with, it would be gun loving angry assholes. http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/everything-we-know-so-far-about-the-alleged-chapel-hill-shoo#.kcWyD3V1E This does not sound like Craig Hicks is a liberal by any stretch of imagination. So go ahead and call him a liberal if you want, but he is not one. not that it really matters but where is the evidence that this Hicks maniac is a liberal or even a democrat or even political in any way?

there was some show on TV about homosexual men married to a woman while practicing a monogamous heterosexual relationship, cause God told them they needed to live that way. At least a bisexual woman can be attracted the man she married.

cool if one could customize your own collection of locations for the chart. good find.

of course you are allowed to think or say what you want. (within reason such as the "Fire" example) I believe our constitution has sections dedicated to this. But these protections of thought and speech are there for everyone else. So why do you attack so many people for speaking their minds? and use slander?

once again pointing out the lies. where is the evidence that this guy (craig hicks I assume) is a liberal? claims he has no political affiliation and if you were to look for a group to associate him with, it would be gun loving angry assholes. http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/everything-we-know-so-far-about-the-alleged-chapel-hill-shoo#.kcWyD3V1E def of liberal: Classical liberalism, a political or social philosophy advocating the freedom of the individual, parliamentary systems of government, nonviolent modification of political, social, or economic institutions to assure unrestricted development in all spheres of human endeavor, and governmental guarantees of individual rights and civil liberties. This does not sound like Craig Hicks by any stretch of imagination. So go ahead and call him a liberal if you want, but he is not one.

I don't need any outrage. the courts are dealing with it.

it is not about PC but people saying stupid things which is the FW / Fox news usual mode. There is reality and there is the stupid crap and lies spread by our countries Right /conserva-nutz.

this is completely incorrect. while there is no quantifiable definition of "a lot", as in 30% of whatever is "a lot", there is a assumed quantity the "a lot" means. For the sake of discussion, lets say that "a lot" means in excess of 10%. I would bet that most people would think that "a lot" would exceed 10% of a given population, but lets stick with that for now. But to say that "a lot" of muslims are terrorists is to say that a good number of muslims are terrorists. There are about 1.6 billion muslims in the world. If "a lot" of them are terrorists, there would be 160 million terrorists in the world. There is no way anyone could resists at group that large. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140506/14033627137/how-many-terrorists-are-there-not-as-many-as-you-might-think.shtml there is an estimate that there are 184,000 terrorists worldwide. Assuming they are all muslim (as most white americans do regardless of Oklahoma bombings show) this comes out to 0.000115 or .0115% of muslims are terrorists. This is NOT a lot by any reasonable person. I find it shocking that you would say such an obvious stupid thing. a better way to phrase it is a lot of terrorists are muslim.

this is just silly. you will not be guilty of anything for yelling "fire" when there is in fact a fire. everyone knows that. you need a better example of what you are trying to say.

haters gonna hate. same ole tired song

if rule changes are so upsetting, then how about these folks just go climb outside, where there are no rules. while I am sure there are exceptions, comps lack spirit and camaraderie. When climbing with friends, why would I get upset when my friend climbs something I can't? (usual for my climbing days)

mr glass is half empty. though yes, any forecast beyond 3 days is suspect. certainly a 10 month forecast is as good as a lottery ticket. But I prefer to live in optimistic denial of reality.

well, at least in the long long term forecast, next winter should be "normal". http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/multi_season/13_seasonal_outlooks/color/churchill.php

I could climb decades at index and never get up a 5.11 I need to drive a long way to find new 5.9's that I can get up. there is a simple reason why the same climbs show up on many lists on this thread. A person writing their list after reading the previous posts are affected by those previous posts. Those climbs get "remembered" while the slew of other great climbs are neglected. I can do the same thing with my kid by getting the answer I want by framing the question a certain way.

winter over? how about winter has not started. it will be ragin snow storms all june and july.

would like to see what Drew's best / favorite / climbs of future list looks like.

I bet dad is as close second to mom in belaying their kid. I thought I heard a women voice in the video. maybe the videographer?

who is belaying him? I would think the best belayer in the world would be my mom. That would be the only person who I know would not be distracted. awesome job!

throw in a healthy dose of cragging rock climbing and some ice climbing to wi-3. A solid technical base makes everything in the alpine a little bit easier.

1) Have climbed. (nothing big in the grand scheme of things but big for me) polar circus n rib slesse ne buttres slesse beckey chouinard howser ham n eggs mooses tooth 2) Capable of but have not climbed. cassin ridge denali university wall squamish mt Huntington moonlight buttress zion zodiac 3) Admire but will never climb. 5.12 M6 WI6 anything scary (cassin ridge being one of them)

there is a couple of cliff bands at the bottom of the slope. also moat forms to the right of these cliffs. these would suck to fall over if there is a unarrested fall. in a usual winter, I would say these features are buried but this is not a normal winter. March may be like a typical may conditions if things keep going as they are. jason brings up a good point. adding a setup of a ultra light axe and aluminum crampons would give safety without a lot of extra weight. If this is a start of a alpine scrambling future, then these would be very useful in the future.

you probably want to do the aasgard pass way. the other way will be longer and more bouncing around trying to find your way. the route finding is easier via colchicum lake. make sure you have good visibility. up high above treelike would be a bad place to be in a whiteout without good nav experience. by that I mean nav by map and compass alone. no landmarks. use snowshoes if it is a large group. is everyone a good skier? I doubt it. you may need some winter backpack experience for the group. read some books. have everyone go out for a couple weekends and hike to a camp and spend the night. You will learn by making mistakes in a forgiving place. either snow pass or stevens pass has plenty of short hike/camp destinations. I wouldn't say aasgard pass is technical but kinda steep for snowshoes. doable but not easy. you may end up packing the snowshoes for the pass ascent. obey the avi warnings but don't let a good forecast fool you. be aware of avi's.

while I have no real knowledge of canmore and their climbers, this smells of Mike Barter style.