Gordonb

humm, I don't see anything.

Placements being equal, I always prefer passive pro. I use a lot of cams, but if I have the stance and the placement I will always try to slot a nut.

A gift certificate is already paid for. If you don't use the full amount then that cash goes straight into their pocket. The best thing you can do for REI is to buy a gift certificate and not use it. Pure cash.

You can't go over the limit. 256kbps is just the speed that you can download the data. It will just affect how fast you website will download. If you expect lots of visitors or are serving up large film clips you may need more. Otherwise you are probably fine. 256kbps should be fine for a personal site. I would be more carefull about sites that say something like $50 per month for the first 10Gb then $5 for each Gb after that. That is a way to have a lot of unexpected costs.

Bandwidth is the data transfer rate, how fast you can transfer the data. Data transfer is the ammount of data you can transfer. Many places will give you a data pipe and you can fill it with as much data as you can cram into it. Others will give you a fast pipe, but once you transfer X amount of data they turn it off.

You are playing with fire. Unless there are layoffs comming that you can volenteer for, I would stay out of that game. If you screw around trying to get laid off you may get fired for cause and that screws that company up for references in the future. Most companies will check why you left a previous company. Even if you succeed to get laid off and you drop your performance to do it, it may come back to haunt you later.

I like the DBBB because of the ease of untying after it has been loaded. Plus once it has been properly dressed it is much more compact than a figure 8. I have never had the knot losen even a little when climbing.

It was a repeat from earlier in the season.

If they don't restrict access and are able to maintain the park, who gives a shit what it is called?

The problem with the desert is that the ecosystem is very slow. Not like the PNW where after a couple years it may be hard to see that the whole forrest has burned. In the desert a 10 foot burn circle may be visable after many years. I was at the top of cyclops rock last month, looking down on intersection rock near the hidden valley campsite and you could clearly see where the road went before it was moved. You don't fuck with the desert because it is very slow to recover.

I have a handspring and I love it. I have never lost info because I sync regularly to my laptop. The one time I had to reset the system in the last 2 years I was able to reload all my contact info in just a few minutes. I would be in trouble if it got lost.

Bastard!

So are any of the camp gounds open?

We are thinking about going the next weekend. Anyone have any beta about the camp areas or snow coverage on the routes?

The "shock force" has everything to do with it, but Dru you are right the fall factor is most important because that is how you would calculate the "shock force". The lower the fall factor the longer the rope and anchors have to absorb the energy of the fall and thus the "shock force" is less.

We were down in Bend over new years and with the crappy snow, by Brother in law called them up and they gave us a guided tour of the facility. Pretty cool. Got to see some of the new products comming out and pet alll the dogs. No free gear though.

Just make sure you tape well. That should take care of most of it.

I think massage would help your climbing. The masusses that I know have very strong hands. I would think that it would help you hang from the smallest nubbins of smiffy tuff.

We have looked into the VW team, but the time comitment is a little high. Living in Federal Way makes it worse. Both kids are involved in so many activities as it is. My daughter wants to do the Smith Rock climbing camp, but at $2000 it is a little expensive.

I have a 14 yo daughter and 10 yo son. They both are climbing 10a on TR. I have not gotten them leading yet. We are going to Disneyland then J-tree for spring break and I thing they are more excited to climb at j-tree than ride the rides and Disneyland. Between the strength to weight ratio and their flexibility they can really kick ass. We signed each of them up for a technique class at VW and their climbing improved easily one whole grade.

I have a 50 meter rope and have come up short a few times at Smith. A lot of routes seem to be set now for 60 meters. My next rope will be 60 meters.

Also, if locater beacons are required for mountain use, what is defined as moutain use? Climbing Rainier looks clearly alpine. What about the hiking the Wonderland trail? Are they going to require rescue insurance and locater beacons for everyone on Tiger Mountain?

We try to make it lunches on Mon, Wed, and Fri, for an hour or so. We usually make it at least twice a week on those days. If you are interested PM me and we can try to hook up for at least a couple routes.

Doesn't kryptonite have a guarantee that they will replace you bike if it was locked with a kryptonite? Or am I mis-remembering?

Actually the unix epoch is jan 1 1970 GMT, but since this board is running PST the epoch (time stamp of 0) is actually displayed as Dec 31 1969 4:00PM. unix stores its internal time as GMT and displays the correct time zone based on the TZ variable.