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406 is a Montana area code.

Life without climbing is like peanuts without beer.

Step 5. Grow gills. I am in Redmondia. Far East side of civilization. Not quite in the redneck zone. If you drive over here I will slurp coffee or beer.

I don't want to know.

The photo you posted looks like the crampons are quite sharp. Tape cardboard over the points of your tools and pons, put them inside a bag of some kind and send them through checked baggage.

For all we know, they may have probed you last night.

Ninties interpretation of the 24th century. There is no need for military in deep space. If there were, we would be dead by now.

Slick. Now make it smaller and insert it behind my ear.

31. I have not been trampled before.

Well, my patent agent is billing me crazy on the Mountain Rescue Maximization Unit (MRMU), to be available for the spring REI catalog, but have your people call mine and they can talk licensing. Never mind. My people just applied for the patent. Oh, and my lobbiests are heading for Salem now.

Mind if I steal this idea and market it?

I'm a dad of 3. I know the "look" and the "tone". My powers are infinite.

While your point is noted, the original poster did say;"We are looking for input from y'all to see if this route had been done before."

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Good points. The movie has already been made starring David Niven who dies in the rescue attempt.

THE PREGANANCY.

Actually, climbing to escape vs climbing for the fun of it are different philosophically. If you love your life even if you do not climb, but chose to climb anyway, what are you escaping? "Nothing" is my view. I do not need to escape. I just love to climb.

You need to get married and divorced twice.

We demand media hype. How else do you explain actors being amoung the ultra-rich? Athletes too. It's about escaping our (rhetorically speaking) own boring existance.

Those aren't chicks. Thats Michael and Feck.

Takes me back to the sixties. Who were those "two chicks" anyway?

You were talking about going somewhere else. NOW you are going to hang with the elite. You may put your nose in the air just like the rest of us. Well some of us are just sniffing but that's spray.

I liked the rest of your post.

Economics is clearly not your forte'. The additional moneys directed for the Iraq war came out of the budget at a particularly bad time. Yes, there are other large factors but those only make defense spending that much less beneficial to economic recovery. For every dollar you tax, there is a multiplier of 5 (conservative) for its effect on the general economy. Conversly, for every tax dollar you put back into circulation there is a 5x multiplier on the Velocity of Transactions. These transactions are what we see as retail spending/ health. Retail spending is one of the 5 pillars of our economy and used as an indicator of consumer confidence. Removing those moneys from the general economy and putting them in the hands of a few elite stockholders is what is known as Trickledown theory or Voo-doo economics as Reagan's advisor called it. It didn't pull us out of recesession with Reagan Bush and it will not now. And that is not even going into the effect this kind of debt has on the value of the dollar.

Fine. I'll be happy then goddammit. But I won't like it.