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This just in, Police are now cracking down on the sale of balloons. It is thought that the purchase of large numbers of balloons may be related to the use of a new street drug called "shit". "Shit is found all over and will be difficult to control. So we are controling the manufacture of the drug by limiting access to the components" said King County Sherrif's deputy Warren Boom. "We may have to start monitoring the sale of toilet-paper too." he added.

Well put.

Coming up from the valley in 88 I took a ride with a guy and his brother-in-law who were driving to Medford to get the sister/wife and take her home. She was apparently not aware they were coming. The car had 2nd, 4th, and reverse and was well stocked with beer. If we stalled out on a hill, he would put it in reverse, oh no tail lights and it was dark, and jet down to try again. Finally the beer took effect and we took out several objects on the side of the road before coming to rest in a creek. It was about 3AM and the driver was mad at me for not waking him up. I grabbed my stuff and went up to the road and split hoping that they never made it to the sister's house.

Listen and learn. This has been carefully orchestrated from the times of Eisenhower who warned the next President that the biggest danger facing the US was the rise in power of the US Military Industrial complex. Then Kennedy was assasinated. No connection though.

RIP. All my best to your family.

Ship em to me. I'll eat em. Great post Ivan. Excellent advice imo.

Has anyone heard from this guy?

June. Make sure there is a high pressure ridge over the mountain. Bring your map and compass and know how to use them. If you count on an electronic device, make sure you keep the batteries warm and dry. Go to the Rainier site and find the list of things to take. Make sure you practice the self arrest and crevasse rescue techniques so that all of you can help get someone out of a crevass if you fall in. Be ready to catch a lot of crap on this site. You should have posted this in the newbie section/nuetral zone.

I went up there to see what it was like. There wasn't enough ice on the slabs off the north side but it is almost in. The big draper on the back side of Lundin is barely even hinting at forming.

How much for the pretty rug?

I was hitching thru Nevada a couple decades ago and was in a small town somewhere near Bumf.ck. I was walking through town and hitching and found a car parked on the road FULL of gear of all kinds. It was dusty and had obviously not moved for a long time. I thought about reaching in and borrowing a dusty thing or two but immediately knew that I was "supposed" to do that. I walked on. Soon a woman picked me up and drove me about 10 miles south into the desert and dropped me off in the desert saying, "I know this is a bad spot but it's better than where you were headed." And she peeled out, spun around , and went back to town. I knew she had saved me a short life of hard labor. So there I was with 1 gallon of warm water, 100+ at 10AM, two lanes dissappearing into sagebrush, twiddling my thumbs. After a few people passed by giving me strange looks, a van stopped and offered me a ride. It was an old guy with a packed van. He said he was driving down the road about 50 miles then cutting off into the desert. He was planning to go cross country for a few days and I was welcome to come with. As tempting as that seemed, I said no. He stopped where he said, made sure I had water, and turned into the desert. Away he went over the horizon. There I was agin. Further from the death camp but still in the desert with 1 gallon of hot water. It was now 110. After about an hour, one car pulled up and stopped. It was an old hippie tripping out of his mind. He asked me for a match which I gave him. He offered me a hit which I took. He thanked me for the match and drove away. Well, now at least I was high. The next vehicle was a pickup and it stopped. He said I could ride in back with his dogs. One of them growled at me for the next hour while the other one repeatedly tried to hump my leg. I made it to Vegas and then Red Rocks that night and slept under the Black Velvet wall. I miss hitching cross country.

I would have to see him in heels.

That was me. Why didn't you stop?

PM sent. Call me or email.

I'll take the jetboil

the second guy was guilty of far worse than any of these latest incidents with republicans. but that's not worth your hateful energy, and smug certainty in how "your guys" are so much better and consistent and moral and less hypocritical than the "other" side. You don't understand my position. Neither party has a monopoly on morality nor immorality. The job entices moral degenerates. As Jefferson said, Democracy will fail when the people stop questioning their leaders. BUT the Republicans MAKE RELIGION, (Christianity, anti-abortion, anti-gay/family values, etc) a campaign platform and thereby open themselves up more to the label of "hypocrite" ON THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE.

Don't tell me. Let me guess. You used a giant photo of a gay Democrat so you can print out a poster and hang it in your bathroom(?).

It is if you're republican.

Am not.

23. You are super-fun.

OK let's call them "super-fun".

22. You're rich and climb.

21. You're Ivan or Dru.

Nuke em all. Why not!? We can. Who's gonna stop us?