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That's weird, but interesting. Poor naked porn monkey. Look at his sad face. Probably didn't get the movie contract.

This is Ade <-- On this page, you can send him a PM (button at bottom of that page). Cheers, Paul

Also, I want to take exception to Kurt getting some free advertising on this website. This kind of crap has got to stop.

Aint ready. Mid winter: good. Last Thursday. {Note that this thread should be in the Alpine Lakes Forum. Southern Cascades is too far south of Chair.}

We are talking Nike here. (Gosh, they make watches now?). I bet the blinking is a marketing scam to get people to buy a new Nike watch. You know, like how their shoes wear out and they expect you to buy a new pair of the same brand name.

Say, wouldn't a rat's ass be considered part of Mother's nature? This would mean she could indeed give a rat ass.

I would suggest visiting a watch store or maybe something like REI's watch/sunglasses counter. Or maybe try their online database. The guy at the jewelry store showed me both a stainless steel version and a titanium version of the Tissot watch. The titanium version felt much lighter, as is to be expected. The band and case are titanium. Casio, Sunto, and Tissot are three altimeter watches I can think of off the top of my head. There are more, I'm sure.

Ever got stuck behind a semi truck on a logging road? Either have I. Now that would suck!

With a beer special like the one you provided, it was a given we'd drain those kegs. Thanks for putting the fest on, Jon. And it was good to finally meet you in person.

I think Cracked's point was valid. If you want to speed climb for your own experimentation, then so be it. If you feel like telling us what you've learned about yourself, then it more often than not comes across as chestbeating.

I met The Man too...at Dixies BBQ.

So, I was in a jewelry store today getting a new strap for my old Casio altimeter watch (still works after 10 years) and the clerk showed me the new Swiss-made Tissot altimeter-temperature-compass watch. Anybody got this bad boy? Only something like $599 in the store I was in... Tissot Bad Boy The watch operates by touching the face over the corners to initiate the features labeled in the corners. One thing I found cool is how the hands move to point to due north when in compass mode. I certainly didn't like the way touching the face leaves big fat fingerprint smudges on it thus curtailing efficient reading of it. Other than that, too pricey for my needs. The store said they were selling them out fast. I think he was just giving me a sales pitch. But then again, this is a yuppie town (though Ballard aint that yuppie).

Troll.

Catbird, Trask wasn't talking to you. He was talking to Catturd. Say, doesn't Catturd = Trask?

I'd wait till this cold snap snaps if you want warmer temperatures. I was up at 6,300 feet today and it was very cold. Maybe something like 15F (0F with windchill) at that altitude. Seems to be a large pressure gradient across the Cascades right now making things, at times, uncomfortably windy.

Stanton: you should have gone with Toast and me up Kaleetan if you were out today. Not too much snow up there but it was Brrrrrrrrrr! I'm guessing it was 15F up there but with a windchill making it feel like 0F. 4.5 hours up, 1/2 hour at summit, 3 hours down. Would have taken about a half-hour shorter going up but we wound up doing the 3Gs Route (as in Triple Gullies) when we could have stayed on the ridge crest bootpath the whole time . Melakwa Lake is beginning to freeze over. Chair Peak looked spectacular in these conditions. Saw lots of hints of ice climbing ice forming up on the hike in--particularly the first falls (the one below Snowshoe Falls).

Mt. Jupiter (NE of Brothers) has a trail all the way to the top. It's a long way I hear (I haven't done the climb but want to sometime), but totally doable in a day. Summit is 5,700 ft. Trail goes up the length of the East Ridge. Mabye something like 10 miles one way.

Paco: take a digi camera and get a picture of it. I'd like to see it, as would lots of others probably. Is this one of the Rumors in the new ice climbing guide?

He probably was doing a search on "decayed penis."

A new article on Yahoo concerning this device: All Hell Breaking Lose? Scrambler: I'm pretty sure the FCC has jurisdiction over IR wavelengths. Remember, it's the Federal Communications Commission. Any device that communicates with another via some transmitted signal (be it IR or UV or anything in between) ought to be covered by the FCC. If not, then there's a big loop hole just waiting to be taken advantage of. Highly doubtful.

You and your pictures of naked monkeys. Sick! Just sick!

Saw this just now over on summitpost: Gran Paradiso. How about that face for an ice climb?

Then I will be serious: there was a time when Muhammed Ali was The Greatest. Now that he's old and suffering from Parkinson's, this means that I am now The Greatest. End of Discussion. Everybody kowtow now.

Attached is a slimy topo of Round Lake and Breccia Peak (it is "slimy" because I had to reduce the resolution to fit it into cc.com's 100kB limit). "Encircle" is obviously not exact, for there is one side open for the outflow. What word would be a better descriptor? "Surrounded" maybe. At any rate, here is what Beckey has to say about the area (on his Lost Creek Ridge route description): "Round Lake (5,040+ ft), surrounded by colorful volcanic cliffs, is reached by a short spur path;...The water fills a large breccia pipe and volcanic conduit." Heck, it's only 3 miles to Bingley Gap and then another one mile east to the spur trail. Easy day trip. I might have to go and check it out from up close this month. I believe access to the trailhead is still possible.

Okay, I realize no one gives a rip about this cuz no one made a guess, but I care. So here is your answer.