Figger_Eight

I'm with Ray on this one. It's bad enough around here when an accident happens and all the armchair mountaineers pop-off. Providing a forum for them to do so would make it worse. That's what Accidents in NA Mountaineering is for. If I wanted to read more speculation, I'd just pick up the paper.

Next Pub Club: strong-armed to the bar down the street from Trish's house.

I just got off the phone with Erden. He is spending the night in a small town 30 miles south of Prince George, BC. He just broke the 500 mile mark and is doing well.

Ah yes, the ever-present "pseudo hippie wanna-be", outnumbering us "normal" folk by such a wide margin! I guess it depends on what you mean by normal.

Yup...join the festivities this weekend and hang with the pseudo hippie wannabes who are living off their trust fund and have "No war with Iraq" banners hanging off their Nissan X-Terras. Oh yeah...and don't forget to wear turtle outfit. It's a little cold to be dancing in the streets naked.

Absolutely...that would be a friggin' kick in the pants. Not to mention a great excuse to go skiing with your buds...not that you'd need any excuse at all.

I agree with the stuff on rescue, brakes and orange petzl pulley things. Symmetry is a wonderful thing.

Geez...how tragic.

Standing calf raises are a great way to strengthen your calves. I might suggest doing them as a seperate exercise versus including them with your squats. You might be doing it to save time, but I think you'll find if you do them one after the other you'll be able to push more weight around. Also, if you only do 1/4 squats, rather than going through a full range of motion, you're not allowing the muscle to develop to its full strength potential in that last 3/4 of its ROM. On the flipside, going all the way down so your butt touches your heels loads your knees and their respective ligaments quite severely. The recommended ROM for a squat is standing to femur parallel with the floor. Knees take enough abuse from the stuff we do...I like to try to give 'em a break as much as possible.

Another reason to make sure your interval training makes it into your routine is to maintain a high lactate threshold. IMHO this is nearly as important as high aerobic capacity.

That cracked my ass up!

The Alehouse is cool. It hasn't been there for awhile.

Yeah...and I could spray Krylon on my jacket and it would work just as well. I haven't noticed a considerable advantage using Revivix over TX-Direct...I still need to reaplly it at least two or three times a season. The wash in stuff makes it so much easier though.

Right on Timmay...it looks great.

Adjusting your diet doesn't need to be that much more expensive. Don't buy into the "you need supplements" nonsense. Make sure your personal trainer isn't getting a commission if he sells you supplements. Also, I second the Colgan book. It's a good one.

No shit.

"You couldn't pour sand out of a boot even if I put the instructions on the heel."

"If my dog were as ugly as you are, I'd shave its ass and teach it to walk backwards."

Oh yeah...Sarah McLachlan's cover of Blackbird rocks too.

The Smashing Pumpkins cover of Landslide, however, did f'ing rock.

Yeah...great idea for sure! The thing is, it has to be in Ballard or else I ain't showing up.

Yeah...but it's the only one I know

After the penguin's car starts billowing black smoke from the tailpipe, he takes it into the shop. "This'll take a few minutes," says the mechanic, "why don't you go down to the Baskin Robbins and get something to eat." The penguin walks back to the garage with a vanilla cone, which since he doesn't have a tongue, must dip his beak in it to eat it. He meets the mechanic in front of the building. "Well, it looks like you blew a seal." "No...it's just ice cream"