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No big, black spotters out

If your talking shit makes it into Alpinist I will laugh sooo hard

You only get really good resolution on that thing if your target is near a major city: One of the last big problems of the Coast Mountains

I guess it is impossible and unimaginable for someone to be BOTH

The worst carnage I have ever seen anywhere has been between 3-6 am on Saturday mornings on the TCH.

Sorry, but I'm taken, Jane and I have had a hot thing goin for awhile now

BC hwys are/were horribly underplanned and thus, say, on the #1 eastbound from Burnaby to Chilliwackoff, there are only two lanes, not enough for all the drivers to stick to the RH lane and leave the LH to passers. Thus not only the slow LH drivers, but you also get the Abbotsford Asslicker about three inches behind you who has absolutely no concept of traffic flow and thinks with sufficient application he will get there faster. Same goes for Sea-to-Die Hwy. God bless US 16 lane capitalist on-ramps to WalMart and KFC, thanks to a powerful lobby group for the car industry in the early days that bought out all the public transportation and convinced middle America that the suburb was the way to go (get's you away from all those darkies ) and that the car was an integral part of the family unit itself. Dark Age Ahead, Jane Jacobs

pet monkeys, etc

"They expected some difficulty but found something quite a bit more: Class 6 icy slopes" holy shit "Mt. Rainier, considered the premier technical ice climb in the Lower 48" Move over Big 4, Black Ice, Ice Nine, etc

Last time this was discussed no one could sort out where Gato Negro and Off White's routes on Silver Star were in relation to each other. Did this ever get sorted out

Did you read the original article/post? Sounds to me like it's a few lefty scientists that are doin' the . The morality is irrelevant. As you know, sex research has always been difficult to distill. What kills me the most about Bush polciy is the the gall with which they presume govt policy can change human sexual behaviour. Somehow, if we promote only abstinence then kids won't fuck before marriage. Rock hard science

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These are some top notch TRs coming from you Mike. I especially like the gripping parts where you describe where you are. Just incredible.

Good bumper sticker

The gettin's good! Over a metre of powie freshness in the past week in Whistler backcountry

Oh christ man Okay, let me spell this one out for you here . . . You have giant wilderness/park areas but no one ever goes there because it's a mess of canyons, icefields, etc. Hey, I love that shit, but most folks don't. Is a society truly appreciative of wilderness and responsive to threats to it if it is always kept at arm's length? Fuck no. Do you think if we promoted self-powered travel with huts and trails then folks would be more likely to stand up for the idea of wilderness? Gee, that might just work

I love how the place is deserted when the conditions are less than ideal. Just spent a week tuff luvin and while the weather was no worse than Squamish in the spring, there were no more than ~15 people in the whole area on a given day. I was surprised though just how much things have changed; based on observations of others, the following are recommendations: 1. You need a GPS. Preferably attached to you pack for quick access. Trails are in godawful disrepair, whiteouts can come without any warning 2. The latest rage is to toprope three pitch lines with two 70m lines tied together with the ATC already tied in at the changeover. 3. Please sort your gear in the parking lot on a massive tarp, as many times as possible. There will be no other opportunity available. 4. When fornicating in the campground, it is customary to make as much noise as possible. To the chick from Cali who woke us up in the middle of the night with her 30 min multiorgasmic, tent slapping full holler screams, all we can say is 5. And you aint gettin nothin done without a big Sean Combs

I'll be in Smiph Cox Sat thru thurs n. If any of yous blokes happen to be in parts, come by an say "dude, hey". Look for the guy crankin hard 12s. Then look to his left at the guy with the 100' stick clip whinin about the runouts. Also: green honda in the Subaru campground

As far as X-terra and Subaru's, my experieince is that most approaches around here can't be done with a car. If you need a car, just call up a friend or find someone to climb with that has one. A good climbing partner to have is a guy that has a car if you have a truck, or a guy that has a truck if you have a car.

You said it Squidly. Pro Mountain Sports has them on sale for $150, but they don't have all sizes and is limited to stock on hand. I loved these boots but last year sadly realized that they are far too disposable for even the cheap clearance prices around right now. When I returned them last summer to MEC with the entire kevlar sections on both boots blown right off after three months of weekend use, I was told I had reached the lifetime of the boot (the edges on the soles weren't even rounded yet), and that it was common knowledge that synthetic materials don't last Forget that noise, the scarpa freney pro is a bit heavier but is FAR more durable. I will never buy that synthetic kevlar shit again

The fact that in the NBA a player can test positive for steroids five times before he is suspended for a year speaks to how sad and widespread the problem is. Next stop: The All Drugs Olympics: Kevin Nealon: Dennis, getting ready to lift now is Sergei Akmudov of the Soviet Union. His trainer has told me that he's taken antibolic steroids, Novacaine, Nyquil, Darvon, and some sort of fish paralyzer. Also, I believe he's had a few cocktails within the last hour or so. All of this is, of course, perfectly legal at the All-Drug Olympics, in fact it's encouraged. Akmudov is getting set now, he's going for a cleaning jerk of over 1500 pounds, which would triple the existing world record. That's an awful lot of weight, Dennis, and here he goes. [ Kevin steps aside to reveal the steroid-bulked athlete bent over to lift the 1500 lbs. weight. Sergei tightens his grip on the barbells and pulls up, but instead of lifting the weights, his arms are pulled off and blood squirts ferociously out of his pulpy stubs. Kevin Nealon: Oh! He pulled his arms off! He's pulled his arms off, that's gotta be disappointing to the big Russian! [ Sergei's trainer wraps a towel around him ] You know, you hate to see something like this happen, Dennis! He probably doesn't have that much pain right now, but I think tomorrow he's really gonna feel that, Dennis! Back to you!

I'm not a huge fan of the MM either, just saying that when it was taken off the market there was nothing to replace it. The Gore full-on inserts are really terrible, dexterity goes right down. I prefer a gore-panelled glove, like the BD System, but then I seam seal the shit out of 'em. Both designs are compromises.

Wicked. Alladin replacement sounds sweet. You know, I do think that if MEC made a gucci Dimension or Mammut Laser knockoff with powershield or schoeller, they'd sell a tonne Nice to see the technical things will still be there