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Or to put it in different terms, once you resolve your binding issues, you can work on your bonding issues.

What happened to crystal matrix storage cells?

SHEEEEESH! He's written more books than I've read.

Anal is aid.

Makes you wish you could have stayed another night and went up for another try, eh? Well, my knee is acting up again so I propably would have needed to be dragged out. I am really glad I stopped when I did.

Sweet!

YES!!!! The bod harness for kids is great. I used webbing and tied them in knots all over. They didn't like it though.

Dude! Muffy IS the Easter bunny. What did you think she was coming here for?

Buy a cheap one, put your chihauhau in it, and put it in your pack. Then have Ivan sit on it. I have a super light Grivel that would be less than OK tumbling down a gulley. Not enough temple protection. But it does have styrofoam inside so it will absorb shock. The exterior is some kind of composite so it is supposed to hang together even after Mattp climbs with it. Holding together and trusting it again are different concepts.

I haven't met her but I don't think hers dangles.

The angle is different. Apparently we are now 20 degrees to the right.

Come on over to the East side to the Celtic Bayou in Redmond. Good beer. Good cow. http://www.celticbayou.com/default.aspx And my kids eat free.

Just don't put any pets in your pack and we will not think less of you.

ROFL 8D I grew up inside the Missoula City limits. Lots of farm/ranch kids got bussed in to highschool from the fringes. Sometimes they would tease each other about "un-natural acts" but the funny thing was how often they blushed.

My gear lives in my pack. If I get really wet I will pull it out and hang it on a chair overnight. I have no idea hwat all I have after 35 years but I know when I don't have it on lead.

Tvash, how did it go? As we were driving home, the storm moved in. Did you get any snow? How many feet? Beta dude.

She is a lucky girl.

It was in the low twenties until the sun came out. Even then, the shade was cold. It was warmer at the lake. Stuart NF would have been very cold.

That works when I can be active. I had tendonitis in my knee all last summer and couldn't do much. Now I have to burn all that off. Meanwhile, I am old enough that I need to be careful with my joints. At about 40, men stop producing as much cartiledge. Add to that, every pound above your knee adds 4 pounds of force to the joint while walking. Glucosamine is part of the diet. Loosing weight quickly is part of the prescription. Climbing hard again is the goal.

Oh, BTW, Eric is a great guy to climb with. He moves fast, keeps going, skiis well, and has everything he needs. One of the things he needs is his own tent. Many strange noises were emmanating from his end of the lake.

Good suggestion. I like that run and have not done it since early fall. And I could run anywhere more often. And I could brush the dust off my Bowflex. And I could stop eating too much. It ALL must change.

I weighed in 5 lbs lighter this morning. Dehydration will do that. But the diet has begun! I only had the Grand-Slam not the Supersized Grand-Slam. Meanwhile, Eric, show him one of those Stuart pics we took.

Epidemic? Go back 9 months and see what was keeping them indoors. My girls are the best decisions I didn't make.

EricB and I went up to do this route. I was too fat so Eric had to carry me out. His feet hurt and he whined a lot. There was some minor wallowing but it was mostly in good shape which is more than I can say for myself. We got to the Col late and downclimbed the route from there. I dropped a glove from near the top on the way down. It made it all the way to about 200 feet above the bottom. Eric will post some pics and tell a bunch of lies.

ditto. And I'm black.