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camera strap around the neck, but around my chest I wear a length of rubber tubing that I tuck the camera and strap underneath, this usually keeps it tucked in... If weather is an issue, I tuck the camera under my coat, this also keeps it warm and keeps the batteries from freezing. If I'm worried about getting it wet from sweat, I put it in a baggy. So far all my cameras still work, so far so good. I used to carry them in a case on my pack, but same story, it was just not easy enough to pull it out and shoot when you see that sunbeam breaking through the clouds.

Last time I tried to put a wig on my dog, they both ended up in the front seat trying to kill it. HEY! Why you tryin' to put a snafflehound on my head! Here, let me help you with that! Quick! Get it get it! I got it! Now we gotta tug on it! Needless to say i had to pull over as I was laughing too hard to drive...

All I can say is ...amazing... TRASK!! Check it out, you gotta ask santa for one of those!

Geez, I have the same problem. I take off climbing for a week with the guys, and the ex-Man at Home gets all worried. What I need is someone who cooks, cleans and happily sits my dogs while I'm off climbing in Canada.

Super Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have the opposite problem, I have midget hands and feet, and no one makes gloves and socks small enough (other than shopping in the kiddie department as marylou can attest) I found the "guide" gloves way too bulky when they make them in a size XS or S or whatever the hell I got on sale at Marmot to be terribly useful. The fingers are so thick with the leather that my poor little piggies are spread miles apart. Someone, somewhere, please make gloves for the smaller people??? (or if you have experience with something that works that is not a childs mitten, let me know) The last great glove I found that was super warm and fit like a "glove" was the smartwool ice glove, can't remember the name, got them at PMS. I've used them for 3 seasons now, and the only negative is they don't have a gauntlet. This is easily remedied by going to any fishermans store and getting neoprene gauntlets like the fishermen use in the bearing sea. They are great, as they improve the lifespan of the glove and make your glove/sleeve super low profile. -L

Does he not have a B-day coming up? Maybe CC.com-ers should have the Jan 13 PC in honor of the Man... Any thoughts?

My boxer boy has been on Mt. Rain-dog more times than I. His previous owners took him all over the cascades. He LOVES it. He's from kodiac alaska, so I guess that might have helped prepare him for the more adverse conditions. He is a hiking machine. Go go go go... My boxer girl runs full speed non stop through any conditions, she bounds like a bunny through deep stuff, and just rips it up. Pretty funny to watch, it's not a long term thing though, and hour or two and she's exhausted and getting cranky and picking fights with the Boy. Just like a woman

female urinary directors are quite nice for those really cold windy situations. I am much happier NOT dropping my drawers on ice climbs. Brrr... http://staff.washington.edu/ljames/girl.html

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I'm not clear on the paying thing. Is that above and beyond the $$ we already pay to be a member there? If it's not, then it's a great deal, Annual membership is like 100 bucks. If so, then yeah, that sucks.

TR's are aid Then again, so are ice tools...

Uh, like dru said. have you been around banks lake in the summer? Not a lot of irrigation going on and the ice still forms in good years, and doesn't in bad years. Water table is water table from where the well diggers stand. Either you get a regular one dug, or an extra deep well dug (We went for the deep variety and have not had a water problem up in the highlands above Omak) Water's been doin' it's thing for a long long time.

Jealous? Uh, yes... I want my own picture of that rock...

Where IS that rock????

Sorry about your problem, I hope it is all sorting itself out... I have a couple of them, and imagine I'd ask the same in such a situation. SO, did you get that rotten bird out of the tree?????

thought someone other than myself would find this entertaining..

copy the html directly into your browser for the last 3, The first one seems to work...

I know, I know, pretty bad, but that's why they are in Spray... www.stanback.net/images/flash/bindayo2.swf www.stanback.net/images/flash/saddam.swf www.stanback.net/images/flash/little.swf www.stanback.net/images/flash/buttplug.sfw

Tonasket and Omak both have some nice climbing... I thought we'd already gotten all the precious metals out of that area with arsenic and mercury and stuff...

What on gods green earth were you doing in OROVILLE???? Speaking as a graduate from Oroville High School, I can say that... Yes, Jumping cactus. they are well known to the natives. A cross between a prickly pear and a mexican jumping bean. They can leap all the way up to get you when you are riding (a horse) too. They are pretty stealthy, you don't see them until they've gotten you. they also jump from host to host. Say your dog gets one, before you can even ask whay she's whimpering about it's got you, too... well camouflaged... the way we used to get rid of the patches of them on our property when I was young and silly was a propane torch. cook the bastards. Hope you got all the spineys out, they can cause a bit of an abscess if left in... I probably still have tips working their way through my body like porcupine quills. Did you get to climb Omak Crack?

Mazama. Sunshine, rock climbing, a river to play in. It's great to use it as a back up for something "alpine" in the N. cascades. Ingalls is not really a 2 day trip even going slow, unless you make a point to camp when you get in.

Does anyone know of a source, or a compatible wick? Thanks!

Where is the Pub Club after the show?

See ya all at the Ballroom!! Good choice!!!