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  1. It wasn't us. It was the guys here.
  2. "You have been banned from this forum."
  3. Or not. I have nerve issues in my feet that several pairs of orthotics have not provided relief.
  4. If it wasn't for this windshirt, I'd be dead.
  5. Nope, sorry. This ain't the gym, college boy.
  6. Damn! That's the problem! I used neutrinos for the rope end of my alpine draws on our last trip up OS.
  7. I received the screws in the mail today. Thanks.
  8. tomtom

    summer job?

    NOLs Instructors, OTOH, are Gods among men. Just ask them.
  9. The stylish Yoga Vario includes the first technical Yoga foot-glove to help you perform better in Yoga/Pilates classes by giving you better stability during poses. • Supple leather upper • Hook-and-loop strap closure • Diagonal 3-Stripe branding • Non-marking minimalistic rubber outsole • Imported
  10. Intellectual superiority? Buut ... buuut ... Grades aren't everything. ''I always told my Dad that D stood for distinction," Kerry said.
  11. Hell, I can sell you one of these :
  12. Because they were trying to discourage folks from lowering off the chains?
  13. tomtom

    Difficulty Pole

    Everest isn't close to one of the most commercialized peaks. Rainier has thousands of folks hauled up there each year.
  14. Bullshit. 90%? I don't think so. I think you are trying to rationalize your bad behavior. Top-roped climbing wears the chains much less than lowering off. If you're going to take the effort an untie to thread through the chains, you can take an additional half a minute to pull up the rope and rappel.
  15. For Squid: Woman dies after fall climbing inflated wall Operator violated rules, state says By Scott Goldstein, Globe Correspondent | May 28, 2005 A 24-year-old Saugus woman has died from injuries suffered when she fell last weekend from an inflatable climbing wall at a country music festival in Mansfield. Stacy Sarrette died on her birthday at Boston Medical Center four days after the accident at the WKLB Country Music Festival at the Tweeter Center, her mother said. State officials said yesterday that the company operating the wall violated numerous regulations. Just For Fun Rentals of Danvers, the company that owns the 28-foot inflatable rock-climbing wall ''was in clear violation of a number of our regulations that were designed to prevent just this sort of thing from happening," Katie Ford, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Safety told the Associated Press. Just For Fun officials expressed condolences to the Sarrette family last night and said they believe they complied with all regulations. Ford said the device was not properly inspected and lacked the required permits. The company did not notify the state that it was operating the climbing wall, the company was unable to provide maintenance records, and the operator at the time of the fall was not properly trained or certified, Ford said. A preliminary state investigation found that operator error contributed to Sarrette's fall, Ford said. Mansfield police and the Bristol district attorney's office are also investigating. A hearing has been scheduled for Friday to determine whether Just For Fun Rentals should be allowed to continue operating in Massachusetts, Ford said. The company said it is conducting its own probe, but said it would cooperate with the state and other agencies. ''The application of recent Massachusetts regulations to inflatable devices (as opposed to mechanical devices) has been unclear, and Just For Fun has repeatedly requested guidance from DPS on how to comply with these new regulations," the company statement said. ''Just For Fun has complied in full with the advice and instructions it has received from DPS." The company said that Mark Mooney, the chief inspector for the Department of Public Safety, issued 2005 permits for the company's mechanical rides. Mooney inspected the climbing wall April 29 at a Just For Fun event in Cambridge, the company statement said. ''Mr. Mooney inspected both the mechanical and inflatable amusement devices, including a physical test of the Rocky Mountain Inflatable Rock Wall and gave the event coordinator permission to operate all of Just For Fun's amusement devices." But Ford said that while Mooney did go to a carnival in Cambridge last month to attach identification plates to Just For Fun's mechanical rides, but did not inspect or permit the climbing device. The new regulations require that inflatable devices over 12 feet tall must be inspected every time they are put into operation, Ford said. From Lynn last night, Ruth Sarrette said in a telephone interview that her daughter bounced about 6 to 10 feet in the air ''like a trampoline" and landed on her head. She immediately lost consciousness and was kept on life support for several days. When she died her organs were donated, her mother said. Her daughter was wearing a harness but was not wearing a helmet when she fell from the inflatable wall. ''I guess they don't think they needed them," she said. ''But she did. Hopefully, now they'll make them wear helmets." Sarrette's mother described her daughter as ''terribly, excessively" outgoing. ''She was the life of the party, the light of my life," she said. ''She's going to be very, very sorely missed. It's going to be very hard." Stacy Sarrette's sister, two cousins, and aunt were with her at the concert when the accident happened, Ruth Sarrette said. A graduate of Lynn English High School, Sarrette counted skydiving, scuba diving, and parasailing among her hobbies and was preparing to add motorcycle rider to that list. Her motorcycle license came in the mail this week. The department beefed up its regulations in March in response to the September death of a 38-year-old man who was thrown from a whirling ''Sizzler" ride at a church fair in Shrewsbury. Material from the Associated Press was used in this report. Scott Goldstein can be reached at sgoldstein@globe.com.
  16. tomtom

    Yukon Ho

    Is this your new job description?
  17. (Ooops, I was thinking about the eVent tents.)
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