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Basso isn't exactly 'some nobody', he's one of the pre-race contenders and he's only a minute back on Lance. Ulrich is 3.5 minutes back now though.

Yeah, that's why I liked Bug's post (though a little harsh) - it's all about speeding up the things that you can safely - packing, re-reacking, staying organized, staying focused. I'm still a n00b and tend to lead slowly but I try to be as efficient and fast as I can in every other aspect.

I've been up the DC in early October. Things were pretty opened up and rockfall on the cleaver is definately a concern (a microwave size block crossed our rope team at he toe on the way down) but it was altogether pretty straightforward. RMI leads climbs up the DC through the middle of October so it can't be that bad.

Vintage Hot Wheels!

and manufactured in the USA

Ya, we chatted. We're the ones who pulled that cam from your belay and rapped away Nice meetin' ya.

Hey pnut wazzat you on the summit Saturday with the X-wing / TIE Fighter battle ensuing on your helmet?

ba-bump

Having done it both ways, I'd say I prefer Snow Lakes. It's only a little longer but has about the same overall elevation gain. Going back down Asgard Pass afterwards was punishing to say the least.

Nope. The boot track up the glacier is pretty obvious though and looked like smooth sailing. Not sure what you'll find after that. The summit pinnacle looks like it still has some ice on it. If you PM me your email I can try to send you the pic in a higher res where the line is clear.

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.

Thanks! Will ship then.

Yeah, wow, that's a cool pic!

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

Counter Assault Bear Spray Just got back from grizzly country and don't think I'll need this for a while. Guessing it cannot be shipped. $20 obo ($36.95 new).

I'll also agree that AT&T GSM is worthless as an emergency phone, and I'll add that it is mostly worthless in the greater Portland area. I barely get a reception in my house, at work, or in between ...

You want dirty stinking hippies, head to Horning's Hideout this Friday eve.

Have fun you bastard!

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!

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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."