Bug

WARNING! Driver doesn't give a shit.

Snaffles always start by licking you but we all know what they really want.

I agree with your statement that poloticians suck. But the rest of the stuff about not coming up with specifics is lame. If every candidate had to come up with specifics we would have an issue oriented campaign. The media will not stand for that. Nor would the public. It would be boring. All poloticians make broad statements about what they are going to do. Reagan was the master at this (or his writers anyway) second only to Goebels (Hitler's propaganda minister (only the mastery of propaganda is being compared here)). Not voting for Kerry because of lacking specifics is the same as not voting for a politician because he is one. Or maybe your post just lacks specifics......

My name is Bug and I breathe through my ass. I don't like bushwhacking and I don't know why I am here. Does anyone have a drink?

I am flushed with excitement at the prospect of GETTING SOME useful medication for a LACK OF PERFORMANCE by some part of my body while climbing at altitude. If my performance is enhanced for more than four hours, should I call my doctor?

Maybe you should expand on that "twisted" theme.....

Sorting gear just got a whole lot easier.

This will give those high altitude bivys a whole new ambiance.... Keep your ice ax close boys.

Frost nut pitch.

Cold snow piss.

I gain a pound if I smell a truffle. Getting out in the mountains is the best way to burn it off. 6000 calories a day is probably an average for me. A long trip in the cold will burn much more especially when donning headlamps and skiing into the night. Eating sufficient protein and supplements afterwards is also important to building muscle and maintaining the burn for days after.

According to The Dieter's Calorie Counter, one domesticated rabbit, meat only,4oz roasted = 175 stewed = 234 stewed diced = 288

BE SILENT oh yee of tender years and little fat.

There are so many variables that you will have trouble getting anything "exact" for your circumstances. I have read in many journals ect. that 6000 calories is a standard burn for a full day in the mountains. That seems accurate when compared to the stairstepper monitor that puts the burn at about 950/hr for me. Variables to include would be temp, elevation, oxygen consumption (it takes oxygen to burn calories.), Weight moved, amount and type of calories consumed. On top of that, figure in the recovery and build time after the exercise, again coupled with oxygen comsumption, type and quantity of calorie intake, fat burning/muscle building. You would need Catbird to figure this one out.

Nice route. Ray's slides are killer.

OK. But if you do a search on me you will find all sorts of embarassing personal adds all over the web. That doesn't mean I'm not abnormal. So I can still post here right?

I am not pointless crap. I am a dignified dung beetle.

Yeah. Let's delete anything JoshK doesn't like in spray.

My s.o. gets back from her 3 month vacation in 30 minutes.

You gave them better service than they gave you. I will be wary of doing business with them.

Woops. Forgot this part. The Beckler river road takes off left immediatly after Skykomish and before the bridge. The Foss river road takes off right immediatley after the bridge. It is not easy to forsee so slow dow down a little after the bridge.

A month ago people were doing the back side of Dragontail without crampons but moving very slowly. Good luck finding much left going down Asgar.

Check out the Foss river road or the Beckler river road (which meets up with GregW's suggestion at Galena summit). Up highway 2 past index and Skykomish. There is a bridge immediately after you pass the turn to Skykomish (Beckler river and Skykomish come together immediately upstream). The Foss river road has some options that will get you really high and near some lakes (one is up the trail about 100 yards). From there, you could even do Malachite peak. The Beckler will have some nice camping along the river and a few places up high with nice views.

No problem. I wove a bivy sack with it. Hope you are not allowing a dangerous plaque buildup.

It's when you go blind that you have to worry.