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Per page 11 on the PDF: Hit scroll lock twice.
Thank you Stretch. [scroll lock] it was.
Erden.
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I have an IOGear GCS612A KVM switch to manage two computers.
The toggle between the two computers used to be hitting F12 twice as I remember it, but that does not seem to work. I left the country for a couple months, now I cannot figure out how to get to my second computer!!!
Does anyone have a clue for me?
Thx.
Erden.
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The event is going to take place between 5:30-7:30 pm.
Erden.
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When posting D a n Mazur's name, "D a n" gets replaced by "he" in the system. Mods maybe can address this???
It happened in my posting about the Jan 4th event as well.
Erden.
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Mountain Madness is hosting a fundraising event on January 4th between 5:30-7:30 pm at Seattle REI for the Boskoff-Fowler Search and Rescue Fund. D a n Mazur, NOLS and area companies are involved to make this event successful.
As Around-n-Over, we are helping Mountain Madness in this fundraising effort since 12-30-2006, hence all donations since then are tax-deductible. All funds raised will be used specifically to defray costs related to the search and rescue effort. Any surplus funds will be used to honor the legacy of Christine Boskoff and Charlie Fowler at the discretion of the Mountain Madness Board of Directors.
Please consider contributing to this fund and attending the January 4th event.
Thank you.
Erden.
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I appreciate your consideration. I believe that the January 4th fundraising event that Mountain Madness is hosting at Seattle REI for the Boskoff-Fowler Search and Rescue Fund is important.
For that reason, I have added an event posting to the Events forum.
As Around-n-Over, we are helping Mountain Madness in this fundraising effort since 12-30-2006, hence all donations since then are tax-deductible. All funds raised will be used specifically to defray costs related to the search and rescue effort. Any surplus funds will be used to honor the legacy of Christine Boskoff and Charlie Fowler at the discretion of the Mountain Madness Board of Directors.
Please consider contributing to this fund and attending the January 4th event.
Thank you.
Erden.
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Wayne Wallace is an accomplished Seattle climber with many significant ascents to his credit. Wayne recently soloed the mile-long Mongo Ridge, rising over 4000 ft to the summit of West Fury. His five-day effort followed two summers of first ascents in the Pickets Range of the North Cascades.
Erden Eruc is an extreme traveler, on target for a human powered circumnavigation of the globe. His task includes climbing the highest summits on six different continents along the way as a tribute to a fallen friend. In 2003, he bicycled roundtrip to Denali from Seattle, walked into the base camp with his friends, and reached the first summit in the Six Summits Project. Between Jan 29 and May 5, 2006, Erden rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean. He is now preparing to row solo across the Pacific from San Francisco to reach Kosciuszko in Australia.
These two Seattleites will explore the common ground in their solo pursuits, and will share the highlights of their respective journeys.
We hope that you can join us.
Wayne & Erden.
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It seems the bees provided the biggest objective hazard, I see the nicely placed sting
Good job Wayne, congratulations. I can't wait to see more of your pictures sometime soon.
Erden.
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Interesting. Do you have a picture of that?
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Just got mine in the mail today.
Erden.
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The First Northern Pickets Traverse
On July 16, 2005, Wayne Wallace and Josh Kaplan completed the first summit ridge traverse of the Northern Picket Range.
Approaching via Access Creek and descending the Eiely-Wiley Ridge the climbing team sa the tops of: Luna Peak - East Fury - West Fury - Swiss - Spectre - Phantom - Ghost - Crooked Thumb - Challenger in one unprecedented effort.
Please join us for a fun overview of last year's Southern Pickets Traverse followed by the presentation of the Northern Pickets Traverse.
We will also hold a raffle to benefit Around-n-Over, a nonprofit organization based in Seattle which seeks to empower people throughout the world to realize their life's goals through motivation, education and inspiration.
Presented by Feathered Friends and Around-n-Over
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Hi guys;
Maybe one of the mods can move this to events forum. I will have our ocean rowing boat on public display on Tuesday evening between 3 and 9 pm at the Seattle Vertical World Climbing Gym. I will take this boat from Miami alone toward Panama and Ecuador on the rest of my journey to reach Aconcagua.
We are shipping the boat in a container on Wednesday. So unfortunately, there is not another chance to show the boat.
I hope you will bring your friends as well.
Best,
Erden.
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What they did was wrong even though the tracks are their property. Perhaps the next time there is a train derailment and the railroad company spews chemicals into the streams and the atmosphere, the rest of the society should shotcreate over their tracks so the trains never come through again...
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no, it's not.
The url's are not images.
Then grab the address for the image - I am not into hand holding with strangers, you will have to do with a hint in the right direction!
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the tag is:
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There are no terrorists in US. In the US, the media and the government reserves the terrorist label strictly for muslims. Everyone else gets a sexy label for which they are remembered and immortalized for eternity.
There are:
Abortion Clinic Bomber
Unabomber
Oklahoma Bomber
DC Sniper
KKK
Skinheads
White Supremacists
Aryan Nation
Citizen Militia
Branch Davidians
IRA fundraisers
Mafia
List goes on...
When not in the US, there are separatist militia, freedom fighters so on. Funny we do not read the term guerilla any more, seems out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union.
E.
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Theodore Roosevelt said in 1910 during a speech he gave at the Sorbonne:
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the triumph of a great achievement; and who at worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. For those who have had to fight for it, life has truly a flavour the protected shall never know."Then, there was this guy who rowed across an ocean single handed for the first time - John Fairfax, (First man to row an ocean single-handed, Canaries-Florida, 1969; first to row across the Pacific with Sylvia Cook, San Francisco-Australia, 1971-72) who said:
I DON’T think that those of us who have felt the need to climb a mountain or row an ocean have done it, or will do it, "because it’s there" but "because we are here." Without us mountains and oceans have no meaning by themselves: they "are there" and always will be but, for a very, very few, their presence inspires a dream of pitting our puny strength against their might, and to conquer not them but ourselves. The quest to prove worthy of an almost inconceivable challenge is our greatest reward.To us it is not the final result that matters but how we measure up to our self-imposed task to confront and do battle with Nature at its rawest. And those who die in the attempt do not die in defeat; quite the opposite, their death is, in many ways, a triumph, the symbol of that indomitable human spirit that will break before it bends. To test what we are made of, that is our pursuit.
So it is not the opinions of the observers and critics that count, but the inward journey of the doers that give meaning to the experience.
We will always climb at the limits of our own mental and physical abilities as we progress through life, not necessarily at the hardest levels that may draw accolades from others, and that is the beauty of the game that we have chosen for ourselves called climbing.
Cheers,
Erden.
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It was a great show, a reflection on years of accomplishments and the friendships which helped make those possible.
We should all get busy now to go climbing for it takes a life time to get it all done.
Erden.
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Did not row a total of 12 hours.
Erden.
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As one who needed the competent help from MAST at one time, I see this 'redeployment' as a loss.
Erden.
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Hey Erden, I was the guy climbing the ice and pulling that sled in the Lexus commercial. Have you never set foot on a glacier without a rope on? Have you ever herd of Reinholt Messnier?, he walked across the entire arctic without a rope on, theres a few holes in them parts!, not to mention all the 8000ers he's climbed solo!
I've been climbing for 20 years from the Pakistan to Peru, put up many big ice climbs in Canada and Alaska, believe me I was swinging my freshly sharpened pick into that hard, over vertical glacial ice, not my adze, tape the commercial and watch it in slow mo!
Its rather sad how you armchair climbing Joeys can sit in front of you laptops and your TVs in your middle america bugalos and rip the ass out of anything you see on TV that relates to the climbing world. I suppose you like those studio car commercials better, circling around the truck, with Keifer Sutherland telling us how tough a Ford is. Stick to the row boat, looks like you good at it!,... and hey try and lighten up a bit, I think its great to see something different in a car commercial for a change, who knows maybe there next ad campaign will be a guy rowing across the Atlantic, just to find a car that starts with the push of a button!
So I was wrong, and I imagined the whole thing.
So sorry about the adze thing.
Erden.
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Had a very interesting article on the residents of Easter Island. I never realized it was a relatively well populated heavily forested island til we showed up, and stripped it bare.... When the English(?) arrived the island was just barely capable of sustaining it's then small population, and there wasn't a tree or shrub over 10ft tall.
One explanation of how the island was stripped bare has to do with the numerous Moai stone monoliths. In order to cut these shapes out of rock, and to transport them overland from the quarry to their current places, wood was used extensively. It seemed the islanders just went nuts over this obsession to chain their shores with these Moai. see map
So it is suggested, just like you say in the last part of your first paragraph, that the stripping bare happened before the arrival of the white man.
E.
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Thanks for posting, just fixed your links.
Erden.