Bug

1st Ave. Ripple and a hooker for the same price as a microbrew.

"Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle." That's how the republicans keep getting the votes of the middle class and lower.

OK you guys. Take it offline.

Soloing has nothing to do with ego for me. There is no one else around. No one else cares. I don't solo to pump my ego any more than I walk through an alpine meadow to pump my ego. It is all about being someplace cool in the simplest possible (and still reasonably safe) way. There is a lot of talk about "Chest-beating" on this site and certainly there is a lot going on. But there is also the occasional occurrence of a reasonable conversation between climbers who are really excited about a particular climb. They describe it in tones that are raw. Saying something was "really hard" does not imply that they are really cool. It is about the route being expressed in english by someone who is not necessarily a poet. The same often goes for soloing. It is something different from roped climbing.

Knarl. Descend Rat creek instead. You stay in the bottom of the drainage trough the meadows under the Mole. Then stay right along the base of the cliffs on a game trail. Cross the slide alder low andn regain a little altitude then descend talus and various mellow bushwhackings. At the last basin above Icicle creek, vear right ad a little up to the top of the cliffs on the right ridge. Descend left and steep down through the obvious gulley. Swim Icicle at high water or hike to a bridge.

Live happily ever after?

Borsch.

WHAT!!!??? I CAN"T HEAR YOU OVER THE DRONE OF MY HUMMER. CAN WE DRILL HERE TOO OR NOT?

226 221 218 216 218 214 214 Shooting for 185.

yeah, you do break a lot of it Easy there. I'll eat smoked oysters and elk steak and get ahead of you.

Yours is NOT soft porn.

That's harsh. I am starting on my second wind.

Soft porn avatars vs my penis.

If he passes you the bong, tell him Bug says "Hi".

Thanks AOC. I'll be up there next Sat with my 12 yr old daughter and party.

That is all very interesting but I was inquiring about the cuttoff for "older climber".

Nice pics! Thanks

What is the cuttoff Matt? I still solo peaks and recon trips regularly. I love going out and finding places where it seems no one has been in a long time. The allure for me is the solitude and the ability to change plans on a whim. If I ever need to be found, I'll be screwed. That realization is at the front of my mind with almost every dangerous step. It is my last vice.

What can you tellme about snow conditions? Soft, hard, alternating, where? Where you postholing? How deep? etc.

Dork. It's OK for Republicans to screw around. They're sanctioned by God.

No.Porter. Its totally different from letting Haliburton rake in the profits from Cheney's war. He holds stock in that corporation. Gregoire is not allowed to hold stock in an indian casino. But don't get me wrong. Gregoire and the Dems of King county are as crooked as the day is long. They spent $1,000,000,000.00 on the studies for RTA and didn't turn a stone. A billion dollars! Where did it go?

I think the supreme court will strike down forcing churches to marry gays but I do think they will uphold the right of gays to marry. As for me, 2. Love your brother as you would love yourself. You Christian bashers are going to have fun with that one.

I am surprised that you are not willing to address this comparison. I might even accuse you of being closed-minded for thinking that there is some fundamental difference between a 'right to join in holy matrimony in a place of God' and a 'right to smoke.' Or did you mean to imply that the government's restriction on a church's freedom to marry who they please is even less legitimate than its restriction on indoor smoking, because there is not even a health issue involved? No, probably not. ...except for the freedom of religion part. You didn't really address the idea that forcing a church to accommodate the marriage of someone that they don't want to is a denial of that church's freedom of religion. I am just thinking fairly here--if we are talking about constitutional rights, this is fair game. As much as I despise the hand of religion in politics and government, I think it is important that we do not over-correct. Yes. He did. Re-read.

Derek Hersey used to do that. But Derek always stopped to chat a bit.

What is really pathetic is that we are all posting here and trying to argue when anyone from another country would see us as almost cloned. Our freedoms are taken for granted too often.