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I was down at Jeff park last weekend camping and skiing. Here's a pic of the upper Jeff Park Glacier: Plenty of snow still at Jeff Park but you can find a bunch of sites that have already melted out. Some pretty sweet skiing too....

For the cable challanged in PDX I'm pretty sure the Lucky Lab will be showing the 5pm OLN recap each day. Too bad their beer kinda sux.

Hey now she ain't legal pope.

GNR rocked until they dropped Izzy Straddlin. He made that band. Ah well.

Yeah, wow, that's a cool pic!

I think Nick Dodge's book has some descriptions too from what I remember.

Yeah I can think of a good dozen routes I've been on at Smith that have been retrobolted and I don't even climb hard.

Thanks gapertimmy!

non-disclosure agreement.

From Salon. Thought this was funny. The "frank exchange" translated When we hear a political conversation described as a "frank exchange of views," we think of two sober-minded individuals talking seriously to one another, making their best cases for their respective positions. But when those words are used in the Bush White House, they apparently mean that somebody got an old fashion, Texas-style ass-chewin'. A spokesman for Dick Cheney told reporters Thursday that the vice president had just engaged in a "frank exchange of views" with Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy. What he meant, it now seems, is that Cheney told Leahy to "fuck" himself. This insight into the meaning of "frank exchange of views" sheds new light on all sorts of Bush-Cheney conversations from the past. Wonder why the Arab world has been so wary of the President's war on terror? Maybe it's because Cheney went to the Middle East in 2002 for what a senior administration official called a "frank exchange of views"with Arab leaders. Puzzled by the lack of international support for the war on Iraq? Maybe it's because Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has had such a "frank exchange of views"with his counterparts from other nations. Once you understand the code -- "frank exchange of views" = "go fuck youself" -- even the strange syntax of George W. Bush himself begins to make sense. Immediately after meeting with South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung in Seoul in 2002, Bush told reporters that their conversation had been "so good that we didn't want to go into the meeting room where there was more people." Now the reason seems clear: Before they stepped before the cameras, Bush said, the leaders had a "very frank exchange."

intellicast is always wrong.

glad everyone's ok. my folks had a close call last xmas with a big fire in the house i grew up in. check your fire alarms people.

really, i didn't know satan had three scrotums. learn something new every day, eh?

also for rent at your favorite independent movie store.

Called the other day, Portland Metro will accept isobutane canisters at their dropoff station (on in N Portland, may be others). No curb pickup though (not even empties). I assume Seattle has something similar.

Will you make some good points. Yes, you need to stick around for a few years, but I guess I don't consider that too tied down. Interest is tax deductible, easily saving insurance and closing costs in not too long a period of time. You're building equity with every mortgage check you send. You don't have to go buy new furniture or do lots of work on the house or even mow the damn lawn. Yes its hard to find a bargain, especially in the last couple of years, but they are there and the rates are low. Historically housing prices rise. Sure there are other reasons not to buy like a house being a time suck (if you let it) or less sex (hmmm, I think I have more now, more options w/o roomies ). I guess my point is that I used to feel buying would make me feel tied down like I'd have to live my life out in one spot, but that's really not the case.

I used to think this, but if you've got the downpayment, there is no reason not to buy. Its not that hard to sell a house and move, you're not really commiting to anything other than massive debt.

In most of the Portland shops you can return Snow-Peak canisters, since they are a local company they'll pick up empties from the stores they deliver to.

Dude that sucks.

Anyone up for the Butte or Broughtons tonight? PM.

Skied in a whiteout. Got cold.

Gotcha.