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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.

Aye Ken. It sounds like you are spending a lot of time with her. Good on ya! The more I put into my girls, the more I get back. It almost sounds selfish in a way but it's good both ways. There are very clear correlations between happy teenage girls and long term involved fathers. I get instructions from my 12 yr old now on what NOT to say in public. It's hillarious. But at home, she is still my little girl. Cheers! Keith

Nothing new but I remember reading an account of an attempt. It was scetchy at the bottom as others have poited out but this team made it up into the ice. Their problem was the incessant flow of spenthrift and other "particles" that have nowhere to go but down the line. They backed off feeling lucky to be alive after one big piece wooshed by both of them.

I am now lacking confidence. Can you spot me a measly million or two?

If you had to hang onto a live hand grenade to get the last word, you'd both die.

But Bush said we could use weeds and grass to make bio-deisel.

No dinosuars were injured in the filming of this sequence.

It took me to a page with very little on it except a link to "buy links here". I didn't buy any.