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Has anyone done the Sherpa Peak west ridge car-to-car in a day? For what it's worth, Smoot says 8-10 hours to summit from trailhead... Basically, we're deciding between a long day with light packs on saturday (and casual drive back to portland sunday), or hiking in with overnight gear on saturday followed by the full day of climbing and driving on sunday. Thanks for any observations.

quote: Originally posted by Fairweather: Bicyclists=Tele Skiers.....arrogant, holier-than-thou, snobs. Now, there's an enlightened viewpoint. What are your thoughts on other categories of people? blacks? jews? people who drive foreign cars? just curious.

technically, portland int'l airport, but for some reason it has become shorthand for the whole city... which is kind of weird if you think about it. I mean, nobody calls Los Angeles "LAX". Wait, what came first, seatac the airport or seatac the town?

erik must have somehow obtained a copy of that sensationalist and unauthorized biography "Snafflehounds Ripped My Flesh"... as I recall, most of the copies were recovered and destroyed after your lawsuit.

quote: Originally posted by texplorer: Despite this my inventory is always being bought up by SE asian pharmaceutical companies. It seems that the chinese deem eating Snafflehound testicles as an aphrodisiac. Careful what you post here, you're likely to find yourself in trouble with the folks at PETS (People for the Ethical Treatment of Snafflehounds), who have been lobbying Congress for years to ban the lucrative asian snaffle trade. Frankly, I'm a little surprised that you have no moral problem with selling your snaffles off for their testicles.

I agree w/iain ... I haven't been up there this year , but I've skied the dome in a lot of different conditions (June-Oct) and never encountered anything that made me even a little bit worried about slides. There are a lot more slots up there than there used to be, though...

the stoppard photo also works well for you b/c he looks pretty baked.

dude, that was a gift....

the delay in further posts on this topic appears to be caused by something known in the medical world as "pagetoppause"....

My attorney informs me that I can't make any more comments on this topic. But I've heard that people can get in trouble that way.

My daddy owned an ink company, so I was encouraged to dip freely...

quote: Originally posted by Dru: [QB HE FINDS INTERNS TO COPULATE. Try it yourself and see.[/QB] dude, I DID try that with an intern at my last job, and I got fired.

A little bit of horsecock will get you a long way in North Dakota. Good to see our tax dollars at work educating the masses about the societal benefits of our misunderstood and maligned snafflehound friends. Although, I wanted to kill that f*&!ng rodent that stole my gaiters.

That's no coincidence. The Mountaineers were a spinoff of the Mazamas, and I'll bet that the Mazamas were responsible for naming the Zig Zag Glacier on Mt. Hood... AND remember that they used a lot of hemp rope back then.... holy hash pipe, batman, I think you may have uncovered the best-kept secret of these two esteemed organizations: that's right, the 11th essential.

Greg, I hope the program doesn't shy away from the political controversy that swirled around that relocation program... the north dakota ranchers got pretty fired up about having a new colony of aggressive, cross-bred snafflehounds stalking their cows. I remember the television footage of mobs of angry ranchers hanging little snafflehounds in effigy. Dru, you and beckey are probably right. Must've been a packrat/hound that took my gaiters (and a significant amount of our cooking gear).

quote: Originally posted by Dru: The True Original Pureblooded Bugaboo Snafflehound in his pride and glory. Can we get some confirmation from texplorer on this photo being an actual snafflehound? It looks more like a large squirrel. My recollection of the giant rodent that stole my gaiters in the bugaboos (in the vicinity of Snafflehound Spire) was that it looked like a giant rat or a small possum, with no fur on the tail.

iain, have you actually done the city-to-summit-and-back ride/climb gig? I assumed Boyer was the only portlander with the necessary combination of fitness and insanity to pull it off.

quote: Originally posted by Eric L Moon: Then there is Eric's posts which always feature a rather intimidating black gang member. I think this is clearly problematical given the lilly white nature of this sport. I wonder why Jon and Tim allow such behavior from their people. No one could be this much of a gaper, even in Smellevue... I nominate "Eric" for the coveted troll of the week award.

New (last year), never-ever-used, tags-still-connected, Salomon Super Mountain 9 climbing boots in size 10 1/2. It's a fairly stiff mostly-leather boot with a plastic "frame" of sorts where the boot meets the sole. I think they retail in the $300 range... I just saw a pair on sale at OMC in Portland for $255. I'd like to unload these for $150.