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How about mailing used blue bags with your NW Forest Pass citations! Tax this! [ 07-18-2002, 04:21 PM: Message edited by: payaso ]

Go Lance!!!!!!! Show those pussies how its done!!!!!!!

quote: Originally posted by Figger Eight: Bikers have the advantage of having both the same rights as a motor vehicle (space on the road), and also a pedestrian (right of way in crosswalks). Actually I took note of something a few years ago to the contrary. A bicyclist was trying to sue a motorist who clipped him while he was riding across a crosswalk. If the bicyclist had been walking their bike, they would have been considered a pedestrian. Since he was riding his bike, he was a moving vehicle and thus lost the case. Once in Bellingham, a bored cop pulled me over for riding my bicycle through a stop light. I must have looked slightly amused so he decided to give me a breathalizer test. I really started busting up and laughing my head off. The more I laughed, the more loaded he thought I was. I was stone cold sober. When the test came up with nada, the look on his face was priceless! He went off grumbling about being to busy to give me a ticket. I was actually a little disappointed, I would have framed the thing!

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NEWS FLASH! UNEXPLAINABLE JUMP IN WORKER PRODUCTIVITY AROUND THE PUGET SOUND AREA EARLY TUESDAY MORNING! I was able to wile away the time clearing my desk and managing my fantasy baseball team.

Out of curiosity I just wasted a half hour of work time cruising around on barrabes' site. While they did have the BD ice tool, and rock shoes for cheaper, the BD and WC Tech Friends were about the same price as they go for here. It seems like only some of the prices are really good, while others are only normal. BD may be trying to break into the Euro market by selling gear at cost with the axes. Why aren't the cams cheaper? I'm not shopping for anything right now but when I need to I'll probably use this site. You would really need to know the EXACT size of any footwear you buy because it would REALLY suck to have to send something back to Europe.

If you provide the government with a source of money, they will spend it.

I used to play Mine Sweeper but then I discovered this enlightening website.

Relax everyone, the Mt Si trailhead isn't on there so what's all the fuss about?

Jobe, next time walk. Those guys have enough on their hands without dealing with whiners like you. Step back and look at the BIGGER picture and just be really thankful that you can fly in there at all! It's a privilege to be able to have them scoop you up so you can relax with a cold one back in Talkeetna. Why shouldn't he take tourists on flights? He has a great point. Just accept it.

If you got back to your RV and your wife had up and left ya, and yer dog up an died you'd have a hell of a country-western song.

Nice job Joe! Sounds like an epic!

Yeah, the duct tape works better than any athletic, or medical tape because it stays on your foot for a few days. When I'm breaking in the boots, I'll tape up the feet in the usual places BEFORE the climb and have never gotten a blister when I've done that. The Invernos are unusual in that they are chafing my shins. I'll be taping my shins quite well next time I wear them. Otherwise they are way more comfortable than I ever thought plastics would be.

Jedi, I just got a pair of Inverno's and I really love them but the shin bash thing is a bit too much. I don't get any blisters in the usual places. If I could find a solution for the shin bash, they would be perfect. If I keep wrapping my leg in duct tape I might as well just shave my legs. What was the solution you were describing in detail?

quote: Originally posted by mr.radon: Only a couple of items we brought that were never needed. Which ones? The headlamps possibly?

Ahhhhh, to be a student again. That's pretty funny stuff. Have you bolted any of it yet?

Amber

Any info on the road from this weekend? Has it been opened up farther?

Thanks, I'll look into Bogachiel!

I was thinking about doing a leisurely 3 day 2 night trip to climb Mt Carrie this weekend and am looking for a little beta. Anyone been around there yet this year? Any preferences to entering via the Elwha river TH, or the Sol Duc Hotsprings TH? I heard there is a traverse with a bit of exposure between Cat Peak and Mt Carrie which could be interesting under heavy snow cover. All the info I've seen is from people doing this in September or something. My friend will be new to the use of the ice axe so we might be biting off more than we should chew. Gracias.

They are giving valuable radio time right now to a Kansas City climber. WTF! I think Amber is going to speak next.

It's on right now.

I find it amazing that this subject always rears it's head when something tragic happens. Mike made great points about not being legally required to perform a rescue. If that were the case, then all it would take is one shithead and their lawyer to gouge the park service for millions. The actual cost of a rescue is a bargain considerring that almost everyone is a volunteer. By contrast no one seemed to be very upset when about a month ago, on an abandoned Indonesian freighter near Hawaii, they rescued a dog that had been left on the freighter at sea. Apparently the rescue cost about $50,000! WTF! All for a friggin mut. How much money is it going to cost both USA, and Canada to do something with this orphaned baby killer whale in Puget Sound? Probably half a million! I think the general public needs to place the costs in perspective.

The circumstances of the Hood incident seem to reenforce thoughts about climbing less popular routes. Last year I climbed the DC route on Rainier with the masses and felt nervous about it. 100 or so people swithbacking up the mountain above the DC following the same set of tracks led to a bit of a backup. At one point an RMI guide who was tied to about 7 clients insisted upon passing us and other groups who were following the beaten track method. This irresponsible act of passing left many people quite vulnerable to a similar accident in my opinion. The guide passed us with 7 in tow. You cannot pass fast enough under those circumstances so for way too long, we were crossing ropes and getting way to cozy with members of their group. Had someone fallen it could very easily have become a big tumbling ball of string, flesh, and ice axes.We ended up having to pass them 10 minutes later anyway. I learned that I would rather kick my own steps or wait 10 minutes for them to go away. It is easy to see how this accident (Hood) could have happened.

Pretty sure it's the 15th of June when permits go into effect.