Gary_Yngve

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

Mazama muh za muh Methow met how On a sidenote, Dvorak has two different pronounciations, depending whether you are talking about the composer or the keyboard layout.

I don't remember anything like that on the first pitch? I remember pro being hard to find, but I found a large TCU placement in a pod near the crux, which I think was faceclimbing? Maybe we weren't at the same place on the rock, but nonetheless, thrutching can give the illusion of being more secure than more delicate climbing outside the crack. That said, I often find myself thrutching.

I don't see how trying to enchain some rediculous amount of peaks into a single day (when an overnight would be more comfortable and more scenic) is any less "stupid" than being a TAY dude. Whatever floats your dinghy.

Artist Point, Table Mountain near Baker. Even better in a few weeks when the heathers are raging red.

GGK, CBS says you're a n00b.

ORock is the classic easy Mounties Intermediate Ice climb, just as the Beckey Route is the classic easy Mounties Intermediate Rock climb. All the Mounties ORock climbs are completely booked, and no one wanted to sign up for NW Face of Forbidden. Lame, if you ask me. I was hoping to climb that route (NWF Forb) with the Mounties illegally (I'm not yet "certified" to climb moderate ice with them yet), but the climb got cancelled because 3 people is too small for a Mountie-approved climb. Another climb leader got his Kautz climb cancelled for similar reasons -- lack of interest. Sorry for the rant. Jens, where on the Nisqually did you find the wild stuff? When we were there a few weeks ago, we found some steep walls that were maybe 40 feet high. I'm supposed to have my last Ice fieldtrip with the Mounties there this weekend, but I'm tempted to blow it off for something cooler like Torment-Forbidden. But if there's some gnarly ice to be had... For those of you wanting to check out ORock in the next few weeks, try Sept 9 and Sept 10... they are the only days between Sept 4 and Sept 13 that there's not a Mounties trip scheduled for there.

The nice handcrack to the right of twin cracks is Pisces, 5.6. I remember the first time I climbed it I liked it so much I had to go climb it again right then and there.

JoshK, Kam wanted to do something stupid for his August turns -- not head up from Paradise like everyone else on TAY.com.

With Matt in the foreground on the right? That's Snowfield Peak.

I was at REI the other day (doing my duty in the customer service line getting a broken and abused item exchanged for a shiny new one) and accidentally left a book (on control theory) behind. The lady at the customer service desk looked up my phone number and left me a message saying that they have it and are saving it for me.

Climb: Ruby Mountain-south side Date of Climb: 8/28/2004 Trip Report: Kam Leung, Matt Peters, Chris Cass, and I hiked up Ruby Mountain on Saturday, with, as Matt put it, a 30% chance of an out-of-the-world sunrise. About 2/3 the way up, it started raining on us. With both the rain and the wet brush, we got pretty soaked. We had glorious views from the summit and were surprised to see that we were only the 5th party this year (one of them was a busload of Mounties). Hi to J[im?] Nelson, Ian Mackay, and Jerry Chang! Did I mention it was windy up there? It rained more during the night. So much for letting our boots have a chance to dry out. Chris survived the night in his GhettoMid (cardboard-box vestibule sold separately). Dawn came, and we were still in clouds. Grrrr. But an hour later, the views arrived in fine style. A marine layer filled the valley beneath us, and clouds were whisping around all the peaks to the south. Clouds would rise up the ridge and past us, occasionally obscuring everything. Unfortunately the other directions (Pickets, Jack, Hozemeen, etc.) were completely enveloped, but we really weren't complaining. Kam is a TAY nutcase, so he had to bring his sticks. He put up with this sort of thing (plus all the vert) to get in his August turns. Approach Notes: We approached via Panther Creek, enduring a brutal 600 ft climb and loss that we knew we'd have to repeat on the way out. The bridge crossing Panther Creek is out, but there's a log crossing there that's straightforward. 6300 uphill feet later and probably 12 miles in, we reached the summit. There's an abandoned trail all the way to the top, but it's a little overgrown in places and obscured by the occasional downed tree. Keep an eye out for pink surveyor tape and cairns. And whatever you do, don't follow the temptation to barge on without the trail -- it's with searching for it again. Some beta for locating the start of the abandoned trail near 4th of July pass: Coming from Panther Creek, you'll encounter a short bridge and then 200 feet later, a long bridge. About 50 feet after the long bridge, look for a faint trail on the right. About 200 feet down the trail, you'll see a wooden sign saying that it's abandoned and no longer maintained.

Hiked up Ruby Mountain in the rain. Camped on summit. Kam got his August turns, yoyo-ing twice a 50-ft-vert snowpatch. Crazy clouds in the morning.

A few days ago, two friends of mine sent me their engagement annoucement cleverly disguised as a Nigerian spam.

What about speed climbing?

If the Korean's score really should have been ahead of Paul Hamm's, Paul would have gotten the silver, not the bronze. And whoever had gotten the silver originally would now be getting the bronze.

Those are the same reporters who interview family members who have yet had time to mourn their loss or the same reporters who badger the Pentagon for the latest secret battle plans.