Gary_Yngve

Can anyone here characterize what the weather there is like at this time of year? What influences the weather there? Stuff from the Pacific? Stuff from the Arctic? Are there any general insights, like sucky weather here means sucky weather there two days later?

Cracked, add demdates.com to your list and then you'll have all your bases covered.

Doh, I was there all day with a group of friends (and hence away from the computer). Harvey Danger kicked ass! I managed to randomly bump into Pax. (He was only five feet away from me and yelling my name, but because of the background noise hitting me from all directions, I'm spinning my head like an idiot trying to figure out from where the voice originated. I wasn't too impressed with the Pixies, but that's probably partly because the acoustics on the Mainstage sucked. Sorry, gotta plug the sponsor: the acoustics on the AlaskaAir Mainstage sucked.

When I was living in Florida, I enjoyed having Sept and Oct hurricanse roll in. Meant no school.

But then rolls in subsidized social services and health services. If your head injury will cost the taxpapers bigtime, why not enforce (or at least strongly encourage) something as nonimposing as wearing a seatbelt? (I'm playing Devil's advocate)

Sweet, I might just do that. I can check out maps free from the UW Library and use the on-campus large-format scanner, but it's probably better to plop down the money. My only hope would be that their data format isn't proprietary, i.e. I could convert and use the data for my own software.

whew, my aeronautical texts are at the lab, but luckily, I had the numbers entered into some old code: typedef struct { float f; float pres; float dens; } weather; weather atmo[]={ {0,101.32,1.2250}, {500,95.46,1.1673}, {1000,89.88,1.1117}, {1500,84.56,1.0581}, {2000,79.50,1.0066}, {2500,74.69,0.9569}, {3000,70.12,0.9092}, {3500,65.78,0.8634}, {4000,61.66,0.8194}, {4500,57.75,0.7770}, {5000,54.05,0.7364}, {5500,50.54,0.6975}, {6000,47.22,0.6601}, {6500,44.08,0.6243}, {7000,41.10,0.5900}, {7500,38.30,0.5572}, {8000,35.95,0.5258}, {8500,33.15,0.4958}, {9000,30.80,0.4671}, {9500,28.58,0.4397}, {10000,26.50,0.4140}, {15000,12.11,0.1948}, {20000,5.53,0.0889}, {30000,1.20,0.0184}, {40000,0.29,0.0040} first column is altitude in meters second column is pressure in Pascals (N/m) third column is density in 1/meters^2 You can interpolate in between. If you want to convert Pascals to inches of Mercury, 1 Pascal is .0002953 inches of Mercury. As a sidenote, you can use P=\rho R T to calculate temperatures*... temperatures decrease in the troposphere, but increase higher up (in the ionosphere, if my memory is correct?) * assuming atmospheric gases remain in proportion... you can find specific temperature data, I just don't have it on me

Since when do people censor bastard? Do those same lamers censor bastardize?

yeah, that sounds like it. the dude was leading climbs for the Mounties two seasons ago, not sure if he still is anymore. i'll keep the name of the dude to myself.

Too bad the maps don't look as nice as the printed topo maps. I may go through with my evil plans to scan in a bunch of topos and stitch them together.

I'm pretty sure there's a WA local who's an ANAM alum from a few years ago. Something like they were cragging, he's belaying and not wearing a helmet. Miscommunication between climber and belayer, climber expects to get lowered, leans back. Belayer gets surprised and thrown off-balance, bangs head, drops partner. Anyone know the year or can supply correct details? (I only have ANAM back to 2000.)

Good one -- I hear that all the time!

Glad to know I'm not the only dimwitted nincompoop who bangs his helmetted head into things on a climb. On an unrelated note, the head injury I've had from a climb was when I had just gotten back from a climb and was using the bathroom in my apt. I decided to do a pullup off of the door frame, expecting high ceilings. But no, about 8 inches above the doorframe was a box of drywall encasing some pipes. My forehead smacked hard into the edge, and I instantly fell, somehow avoiding further injury as my body crumpled between the sink and the toilet. It was a bloody mess and I had a good solid lump there for a few weeks.

anyone know if Alberta has something similar?

Cunning Stunt.

just PM me your name and email addr and i'll give you one. no need to offer anything.

Wow, I met him once or twice back when he was governor of GA, and he was totally different. I don't get it.

Nike. We pronounce it with a long I and a long E, but the Greeks (she's their goddess) would have pronounced it nee-kay at um vs dI uh tom The word isotropy (i SAW tro pee) gives me trouble because you say ISO tro pic. And then there's all the reading I've been doing this week that has left my mind as complete mush (and an impromptu game of anagram Scrabble Mon night certainly didn't help): Lyapunov Lipschitz Pontryagin and for some reason, I want to say "passivity" as "passissivity"

If you don't resize your helmet after getting a big haircut, your helmet will be flopping around all over the place.

And they pronounce the word "elevator" like "lift" And they pronounce "sucks Bush's dick" as "Tony Blair."

Yeah, you're spelling of the pronounciation is better than mine. I think I turned mine into how a Japanese person would say it British-style.

Yep, about 5L. And loss of a liter can trigger hypovolemic shock.

Since we're drifting from PNW-climbing words, I cringe whenever I hear a Southerner say vie oh la instead of vee oh la. Then there's the classic Southern [bigoted] Eye-rack and Ay-rab.

Yeah, well, Pikard (Patrick Stewart) is a Brit, so you can't rely on that. They can't even spell a simple word like "color" properly. a loo mi nee um