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    Is the Answer Jesus?

    in Spray

    Posted

    Reggie Dunlop: . They spent their own dough to get here, and they came here to see us! All right, let's show 'em what we got, guys! Get out there on the ice and let 'em know you're there. Get that fuckin' stick in their side. Let 'em know you're there! Get that lumber in his teeth. Let 'em know you're there!

    Ned Braden: Bleed all over 'em. Let 'em know you're there.

    Is the Answer Jesus?

    in Spray

    Posted

    McGrath: Are you crazy? We could all end up in the clinker for this. You can't put a bounty on a man's head.

    Reggie Dunlop: I just did.

    [Hangs up, Phone rings again]

    Dave 'Killer' Carlson: Coach, I want that hundred dollars.

    Reggie Dunlop: Ya gotta earn it, Killer.

    Dave 'Killer' Carlson: My attitude's right.

    Russian pro?

    in The Gear Critic

    Posted · Edited by crazy_t

    Try posting on this forum:

    http://www.go-elbrus.com/cgi-bin/forum/forum.pl

    It's a russian guiding outfit's forum page, most of the content is in Russian but a lot of them can read english and you may get some replies. Gets a lot of traffic. A lot of the banter at this time of year is re: skiing conditions and logistics for Mount Elbrus. But maybe someone there could identify the brand and direct to to their or their distrubutor's site. I have seen that Russian pro while over there, but never used it. Super light. But I'd almost think of it as leaver gear too, I don't know if I'd trust it to falls (at least the stuff I've seen).

    How old is the Grand Canyon

    in Spray

    Posted

    Anyone here had a near-death experience? Or equally powerful experience with similar results?

     

    When you completely transcend your ego, your mind, and your body...

     

    We can't intellectualize these things, as Virendra noted; our minds are not expansive enough to be with that level of experience. Language can't really express it either (evidence this posting). But the experience is overwhelmingly "real", and clear. We aren't meant to dwell in that space; otherwise we couldn't help our body sustain it's necessary functions. But if you have seen that light, it gives you something to refer to while living in this experience, and a sense of peace.

     

    Now that was my experience. I don't "believe"; I know what I know. But I also know that other people may have not experience anything like that (heretofore not spelled out) and may have had their own powerful experiences that are not accessible to me. So respect and open-mindedness comes in. But that's what's funny about warring religions, or dogmatic religious thought, like taking the bible so literally. Those who have really known "God" type energies have to know that these religions all refer to the same thing. And that trying to push other people around on the basis of "truths" (for example the Noah's Ark stuff) is folly, an opinion, and ultimately limited and limiting and missing the point. Can't trust that stuff or those people, at least when they are telling others how to live.

    Hood Conditions?

    in Climber's Board

    Posted · Edited by crazy_t

    Has anyone been up on Hood the last few days? A friend is heading out tommorrow (1-13) and I told her I'd check here for any recent first-hand reports of snow and avy hazard. She's going up the standard route. I appreciate it!

    Yes, another easterner gonna climb Rainier

    in Mount Rainier NP

    Posted

    Guides are chiefly concerned with ensuring a client's safety on a climb; "success" whether that be making a summit or whatever else should be secondary. Most guides are invested in the developement of their clients' skill and experience base too, and as teachers can help their clients become aware of and avoid dangerous or time-costly situations that they might not otherwise recognize. Often a summit climb is the ideal venue for teaching specific lessons, ones which could not be practiced or intellectualized in another, less complete situation or venue.

     

    For some, losing the enhanced experience of excitement, stress and risk that comes with making your own "big" decisions in the mountains is no loss. They have a full experience as a second on a rope with a safe leader. For others, it takes the fun out of it. But many of those who climb with a guide eventually lead on their own, with a good skill-set and smart decision making experience to refer to. Rather than an inspired but lucky, learn-as-you go approach that may be exciting but also risky (that was my original experience; I have since gone back and received training and instruction and built my skills up from a base focused on safety and technique) many prefer to gain their skills from a professional teacher who can help them get more efficiency out of their time and help them develop respect and experience in the mountains, which deserve and sometimes demand your best.

     

    It's just that there is judgement and arrogance in your words, Jamin. And you clearly have a lot to learn (for example "Terrain is class 3.", and this will be on a winter outing where you may not even see the "class 3" through the 3' of snow sitting on it; the cruxes of this climb will likely have very little to do with "class 3"). The challenge of the mountains is gaining a relationship with those elements: snow, rock, ice; weather, avalanche hazard; and as well with partnerships in the mountains. Then coming into your ventures aware, respectful, and kicking ass when conditions are right. There's a satisfaction to the art of the practice, and the venue of the mountains is like no other. Humble yourself, lad! And why judge others? Just do what makes sense for you, and hold off on the potentially uninformed diss.

    Yes, another easterner gonna climb Rainier

    in Mount Rainier NP

    Posted

    How many wildcards like this Jamin have you met in the hills? And how many times have you had to bail them out. What's dangerous is that with his ego, and lack of respect for the mountains as well as his partners (and other people, in general), he will be able to corral beginners into getting out with him. Hopefully no one gets hurt. Jamin, I don't know you, so maybe I'm wrong about you, but your posts speak fairly clearly. You're at the stage of climbing where you have some basic skills, but more energy and ego than is balanced by experience and skill. It's a dangerous period, most all of us have made it by it, I hope you do too. It seems like you have a lot to learn. And you have a big mouth! Epic.

    Pub Club Colorado 1/12 - 1/13

    in Spray

    Posted

    I remember skiing Winter Park/MJ one day in the late 80's. We drank some tea on the drive up from the front range in a growing snowstorm, by the time we got there the passes had closed behind us and we were ripped. 3' fresh from the night before and the storming that day; patrol opened a few lines in front of us (hole in the wall, etc.) for the first time that year. Epic, epic day.

     

    Culminated in a pub club style session at the bar at the "Vintage". The four of us eased down for a few hours with multiple + beers and food. When the waitress (the girlfriend of one of the group) brought the check for the damage, it was $11.32 total. It was a happy day all around.

     

    Even if it's just you, raise a glass to the good life! Colorado living is awesome.

     

    Cheers!

    fun weather

    in Climber's Board

    Posted

    from "weather.com" at 3:15 today:

     

    Special Weather Statement

    SAN JUAN COUNTY-WESTERN WHATCOM COUNTY- SOUTHWEST INTERIOR- EAST PUGET SOUND LOWLANDS-WESTERN SKAGIT COUNTY-EVERETT AND VICINITY- SEATTLE/BREMERTON AREA- TACOMA AREA-ADMIRALTY INLET AREA- HOOD CANAL AREA-LOWER CHEHALIS VALLEY AREA- OLYMPICS- EASTERN STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA-WESTERN STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA- NORTH COAST-CENTRAL COAST-WEST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES AND PASSES- WEST SLOPES CENTRAL CASCADES AND PASSES- 544 AM PST TUE JAN 9 2007

    ...MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES AND POSSIBLE LOWLAND SNOW COMING TO WESTERN WASHINGTON...

     

    A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL BARREL ACROSS WESTERN WASHINGTON LATER TODAY. THIS FRONT WILL USHER IN A MUCH COLDER AIR MASS OVER WESTERN WASHINGTON. TEMPERATURES WILL FALL TO NEAR OR BELOW FREEZING LATER TONIGHT...WITH HIGHS ONLY IN THE MIDDLE 30S ON WEDNESDAY. A MODIFIED ARCTIC FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH THROUGH THE AREA WEDNESDAY EVENING...BRINGING A REINFORCING SHOT OF COLD AIR.

     

    WINDS WILL INCREASE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA TODAY...ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHERN PUGET SOUND AND THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WINDS MAY GUST AS HIGH AS 60 MPH IN THOSE AREAS...AND TO 45 MPH ELSEWHERE. WINDS WILL EASE LATER TUESDAY EVENING.

     

    THE OTHER BIG ISSUE IS HOW MUCH SNOW WILL FALL ACROSS THE LOWLANDS. IT NOW APPEARS A WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL ROLL INTO THE AREA EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING...BRINGING SNOW SHOWERS TO MOST OF THE LOWLANDS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEAR FREEZING SO SNOW WILL LIKELY STICK TO SURFACES. SNOW AMOUNTS STILL REMAIN UNCERTAIN...BUT A TRACE TO 2 INCHES IS POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS COULD FALL...ESPECIALLY NORTH OF SEATTLE TO AROUND EVERETT AND WEST TO THE STRAIT WHERE A CONVERGENCE ZONE MAY FORM.

     

    AS THE ARCTIC AIR ARRIVES WEDNESDAY EVENING...SNOW SHOWERS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE FRONT. IT IS TOO EARLY TO SAY HOW MUCH SNOW MIGHT FALL BUT SOME ADDITIONAL LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS ARE POSSIBLE. TEMPERATURES WILL LIKELY FALL INTO THE 20S ACROSS THE AREA SO ANY SNOW THAT DOES FALL WILL STICK TO ROADWAYS. TRAVELS AND COMMUTERS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ICY ROADS AND POSSIBLE SNOW COVERED ROADWAYS ON WEDNESDAY.

     

    ARCTIC AIR KEEPS THE REGION IN THE CHILL THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. HIGH TEMPERATURES ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY MAY STRUGGLE TO REACH THE MID 30S ACROSS THE INTERIOR LOWLANDS... AND POSSIBLY NOT REACH FREEZING IN SOME AREAS. OVERNIGHT LOWS WILL FALL INTO THE TEENS AND 20S...WITH THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE NORTHWEST INTERIOR.

     

    CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ON THIS CHANGE TO COLDER AND POSSIBLY SNOWY WEATHER.

     

    A little variety at least..

     

     

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