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How do you spell releif? 3-5-7

OK, OK. When I was in college in Missoula I often went for months at a time climbing at least 5 days a week. All the listed areas are great but what I liked was all the other areas that have not made it into any guide books. Adventure climbing abounds! "Big" is 8-12 pitches. "Medium" 4-8. "Small" 1-3. And that is just thte Bitterroots. Gneiss in the lowlands (short approaches 1-3 miles) and clean alpine granite in the divide country (long hikes in). Lolo domes are spread out but very well developed. Brad Hutchins had a guide out that was last updated in 98 or so. Pipestone mntring in Missoula will have current guides. Ice climbing is just OK. When it is in, it is great. But it is nowhere near as consistent as Hylite. But Boze lacks clean granite crags. Most of the climbig there is smaller crags of limestone and brecca. If you are willing to drive there is granite all over western MT.

I spent 35 years in Missoula. It sucked. There is no climbing and the professors are all on drugs. PM me for details.

If marriage were easy, it wouldn't be a life-long project.

Even if that religion is simply, "love your brothers and sisters"?

It is a looooong ways up there on a direct southern exposure. Do it now while there is still water available. Watch for snakes!

So how does it do in slush?

Is that where your name came from? No. That is a clear misinterpretation of the text. I was originally going to be a dung-beetle as it seemed appropriate for this site. But my daughter shortened it to "Bug". I still smell funny.

Here. http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/14/cookie.super.seller.ap/index.html This is way more important than evolution vs creation.

Ho boy. Another thread where Christians with misunderstandings of their own history are held up as the reason no one should become a Christian. Did you know that an atheist once put a bug in his nose on purpose? Yes, a bug in his nose. Makes you want to reconsider being an atheist doesn't it?

Are those shorts or spraypaint?

My temp is up. I am sneezing. I need a break from Rudyesk doldrums as my current position winds down.... Yes, hello, boss? Ahem. I am , uh, not feeling well enough to come in. Maybe if I am ecstatic all weekend I will feel better. Would it be OK if I skipped work until Monday?

I used to be against the death penalty but with video evidence, eye-witness accounts, and DNA, I think the question comes down to "what is a reasonable doubt?" If there is not a reasonable doubt and a person is clearly never going to do anything but contribute to the corruption of other inmates, why keep them alive? Why inhibit the ability of the penal system to rehabilitate other convicts? If someone rapes one of my daughters, I would probably end up in jail myself. In order to survive, I would now be forced to interact with seriously deadly people and live by their rules. Do you think I would come out as a rehabilitated person or a seriously twisted individual? Manson was "raised" by the juvi system in California. It has not improved in terms of returning felons.

I went through a period of hating my job a couple years ago. I just didn't care about all the stuff I used to. I would sit in meetings and just zone out. That is not my style. Eventually, I was found out and just told my boss, my heart just isn't in it anymore. I was laid off and took a long vacation. When I came back, it was on my terms, at a different company, and I was ready to get back into it. I am still gaining in terms of enjoying my job. It was just the right thing to do at the right time. My situation was kind of bad and I did not really care about the position and the company was on the chopping block anyway. In your position, I would advise total honesty and open communications. Leave them liking you so you can come back easily. If you do not like your job, or just need a solid break, it will show in many ways.

Isn't that how it should be climbed? Seriously, I have never done it as a hand traverse. I pull up and put my left foot in the low spot. Then there is a balancy move to reach a positive left facing hold up and left and viola, you are standing. The walk across is not balancy at all imo.

You definately NEED a vacation. Or sabbattical. Or whatever you want to call it. When you are old and feeble and look back at your life you will wish you had taken more time off. Both for play and to play with your kids. Ask any old fart who is too old to climb and their kids live as far away as possible.

More like damp slush.

Trad climbers don't have this problem. Just a thought.

I have read this entire thread and I decided I might as well post now. Now I will throw up. Thank you. That was fulfilling.

Seeing that you were awake at 3:04am editing your drivel you won't be able to stay away While I disagree with Mazegirl, I respect her way more than people who attack her with malicious stupidity.

Well made points. I would just add that if/when I am in another country or here, I will freely express SHAME at what we are doing in Iraq, Latin America, and even to our own civil liberties. The US is in deep trouble since corporations got control of the supreme court, congress, and the presidency. China is also running roughshod over its poor and Tibet.

Kannst du mich gehoren nicht?

He would forgive you for placing all those bolts.

Mazegirl, I am trying to take your posts as information but you seem more and more to be totally regurgitating the Party line. It would be like one of these guys on this board saying that George Bush and Dick Cheney really thought they had indisputable evidence of WMD in Iraq before they invaded. I want to look at your posts with an open mind but it is becomig harder and harder to separate your posts from Chinese State news headlines. I guess I just have a lot of trouble with ANYONE who backs a huge government blindly.

Mazegirl, I do not beleive a lot of what you say about Chinese gov intentions and methodologies with regards to Tibet. Please do not refer to me as a racist for disagreeing. I deeply respect your taking this debate to a deeper understanding of our similarities and differnces.