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This statement seems kinda fucked up if you ask me... And thats coming from some one that kills, butchers, and eats 90% of the food in the freezer and the food I consume. its a way of life! if your not going to eat the beast you kill, its life was taken in vain and there is something very wrong with killing based on an intellectual experience. the creatures life ends up with no more meaning than a couple of pages in a book. who said anything about not eating it, what do you think the steaks are for? That would be the whole point of doing it. I can't imagine myself taking any recreational or aesthetic pleasure from the experience of ending an animal's life and then chopping it into pieces. What's left is the intellectual (and culinary) experience of collecting my own food. I've done it with fish (catch, clean, eat), maybe someday I will do it with a deer. plus ... I make bambi joke you laugh hahaha don't take so seriously.

there have been a few other threads here on this topic. One of them mentioned something about (I think) Chondroitin possibly being linked to higher cholesterol levels. something to look into.

I stopped eating meat except fishies in 1990. I ate a few burgers and bacon slices this last year though, they were tasty. But I don't think I will ever go back to eating much meat. Chicken and turkey tastes like dirt, I don't know why people eat that junk. I would like to go hunting someday, although I am pretty squeamish, but I would like to learn about chopping bambi up into steaks, as like an intellectual exercise.

I don't think the G3 email has ever worked. Phone them.

I have never been in a climbing situation where I was prevented from doing my business because I do not own a freshette. If someone told me I was inconveniencing them or slowing them down because I wanted to stop and pull my pants down for half a minute I would sock them in the nose

rock the double helix!

Why do you say this Iain? How much have people been charged and under what circumstances? Is it only non-Canadians that get charged?

watch out if your elbows start to tweak though!

I did a 5 day trip over an Easter Weekend. 1 day drive from Vancouver, 1 day approach up Athabasca Gl, 1 day storm/Snowdome, 1 day Mt. Columbia, 1 day ski out and drive home. We ascended the gaper routes, mostly on skis.

I have never got the impression that a guy invited me climbing just so that he could look at my ass and boobs. I have rarely got the impression that a woman has invited me climbing because she wanted to become my friend. I have been associated with lots of all-female groups both formal and informal. (Not the least of which is the all-girls private school I went to for 12 years). I don't make new friends easily. The sort of group that Junebug advertised is something I might have gone to as an opportunity to meet new people with something in common (climbing), someone else did the organization so it requires little investment on my part to go and expand my social circle. This website makes for similar opportunities to meet new people and make new friends...hello pubclub!

well I wouldn't have but I want to know what trask means by coyote. Is that the same as a cougar? You all know I am always working to improve my vocabulary!

traces are the stringy bits that connect you to the sled. the things you pull on.

you don't have to fold up the back end if you put everything in bags and tie the bags together to the traces.

yeah I never got around to putting in the building plans. You can use grommets or rivets to engineer a front end and the necessary lash points. You need to cut a couple of notches out of the plastic sheet then start doing some origami. ____ __________________ | o \ / X X X X X X | \/ o | @ top view | | @ | /\ * |_*_/ \_____X_X_X_X_X_X__ ^ | fold here and rivet * to * and o to o thus: | folded and overlapped on sides V ______________________________ \ *\ X X X X X X \@ / side view \/__________________________ the X along the sides are fittings to run lash straps to hold the load together. The @ are reinforced holes through which the traces run. I put the load into sled bags and connect the bags to the traces directly so that the sled itself is not load bearing. this is a nice sled for Coast Mountain touring, but not a good choice for Denali. It's good for loads up to about 60lbs.

my favourite part of the Japanese dude's story is the sidebar about the British FA where the guy got a kneebar hopelessly jammed in an offwidth and had to sharpen up a knifeblade and hack away at his flesh until the blood lubricated his escape. FUN!

we'll look for the trip report on Monday! Be sure to spell check and proof-read for clarity!

... I bet I have been trolled

duh! this is a good thread. The clues are all there, can you put them together?

Murchison Falls . I guess it is obvious that to minimize driving and maximize climbing on a short trip you need to go to a section that has good routes close together? In that respect Canmore itself is not always the best center. Gravity is high there. The Ghost is far, the Kananaskis is far, etc. Lake Louise is good for being closer to all the Parkway climbs (Bow Falls, Mt. Wilson, Polar Circus), as well as Field (the Beer routes) Also nearby is Johnston Canyon if you want to monkey about with an audience. The higher elevation stuff on the Parkway is fairly dependable even if a Chinook comes in. I spent 3 days there on a November trip while it was raining in Banff

thanks for organizing Jon. It was nice to meet some of you

I am way meaner in real life. Y'all are getting the kid gloves here.

Board or Bottle?

Forrest suppose you change your example to one where you are out for a ski tour and forgot your avalanche beacon rather than your jacket, but it hasn't snowed in a while and temperatures are cool and the snowpack is settling well so you go anyways. Do you need to change your risk assessment then? An argument some people make is that whether or not you carry an avalanche beacon should have no effect on your decisions, because it is not a magic charm that wards off danger and your priorities should be on avoidance rather than rescue. Does this train of thought work for your example...i.e. that the fact you forgot your jacket shouldn't matter to the risk you are assuming because your travel choices should be independent of the equipment you carry?

have you climbed a route that at the time you thought was awful and swore never to recommend or repeat, and yet with the distance of time you find your memory has mellowed and you consider repeating the adventure?

I wonder if trying to get out on the basis of a speech impediment might backfire in that they wouldn't want to appear as discriminatory. To take a more blatant example I doubt they could get away with rejecting a person in a wheelchair for jury duty because they failed to make the courtroom accessible. I think catbirdseat might have a point about the scientist thing though. Play up your education, play down your mastery and facility with English and spice it with a little bigotry.