Gary_Yngve

Yeah, he showed the foot slide... eeeew!

crank up the Alice in Chains!

I liked the 5.9 fingercrack variation. I second what thrutch says about the bearhug.

Am I the only one agreeing with Dru that it's about time that Reagan died? He's been more or less a vegetable because of the Alzheimers.

I wish they'd mention this sort of stuff on the news too. It would paint a much fuller picture than the deaths, tortures, and kidnappings that we normally see.

A few years ago, that was done, I believe. http://policejobs.com/img/police02.html http://www.filmthreat.com/Reviews.asp?File=ReviewsOne.inc&Id=3065

picture of Chair from mid-April

I haven't done the West Ridge, but my guess is conditions may completely change depending on what happens this weekend. I'd probably be more worried about what the upper ridge is like (snow/rime if it gets blasted by a storm?) than any of the couloirs.

Robust Nonlinear Control Design: State-Space and Lyapunov Techniques For pleasure reading, I'm slowly working my way through Long on Adventure: The Best of John Long.

Got pulled over about two months ago. Cop tells us she pulled us over because we had left the lid for the gas tank open after pulling out of the gas station in Cle Elum. She asks for ID, runs the license, etc. She asks what we're doing and we explain we're out late driving back from a climb. She lets us go, either not noticing or ignoring the fact that my driver didn't have insurance and had expired tabs or license or something important. Talk about lucky. Got pulled over a few weeks later on the I-5 stretch between Seattle and Everett for going 13 over. Driver just kept it simple, "I'm really sorry; I'll watch my speed more carefully," and we got a warning. I've never been pulled over while driving, though I only drive a few times a year. Closest I've gotten was having a state patrol car ride my bumper in an effort to coerce me to floor the pedal to pass-on-the-right the mofo traveling too slow in the left lane. I was just about to pull the move when I checked my blind spot and noticed that the car tailing me was a cop car.

I grew up in NYC...didn't learn to drive till I was 25. I've only had for a little over a year! My mom was the same way -- learned how to drive in Brooklyn. Crazy thing is that she learned to drive an automatic using one foot for gas and one foot for brake and still drives that way today.

shit, bad news. one of the climbers died and the other one is on the way to Harborview. http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_060304WABrainierrescueLJ.2267197d6.html

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Does "It's raining outside" count as an overhead sprinkler?

ScottP, there's a difference between having a peeve and letting it bother you.

They said that there is another party on the mountain who is assisting the injured party. to the other party helping out.

I'll likely be working this weekend. Staying in the city on the weekends is cool sometimes as well. It's a good chance to stop by the farmers' markets and pick up some fresh produce.

A thought -- if you were involved on an accident on LibRidge and were awaiting rescue, would you get annoyed at the news heli swirling around you all morning? What about when you need to take a piss? Block out the heli and the fact that millions may be watching?

I get a kick out of seeing people waiting for the elevator and then taking the stairs and beating them to their destination. Same thing when jogging on the sidewalk and passing cars stuck in a traffic jam. "Haha, sucks to be you!"

Is that a Suunto Vector I see on the left guy's hand?

Trust me I have thought about it. First thing I would do would be get a third shift job. omfg. you would work more? what an idiot. What if you could do your 40-hour workweek in two days, leaving five days for fun?

If you do go, PM me and I'll hook you up with info. I was traveling there during off-season. Peak season starts after the solstice. In peak season, you will find vegetation that is green instead of brown, much less snow, way more tourists, and more frequent ferry/bus schedules. (During off-season, some ferry/bus routes are just one per day, so careful planning is needed.)

Going to a restaurant and getting served margarine or Country Crock or some other nasty alternative instead of good ol' butter to spread on the bread. Or pancake syrup instead of pure, unadulterated maple syrup. Having two out of six checkout lines open at the UDistrict Safeway, with about ten people waiting in each line, and the manager is just looking around and scratching his head, wondering why people are getting pissed. Bureaucratic assholes who won't cut redtape or bend around assinine rules because they are either powertripping or too stupid to get a clue. People who misspell my surname on important paperwork. Crazy folks on the bus who just won't stop talking to you. And when you finally move to a different seat, they start yelling at you how you are rude and cold and heartless and evil... All the whiny losers and their lawyers who made the American tort system the way it is today, where school playgrounds are considered deathtraps and softball fields may as well be minefields. Corporate labelling and America's obsession with materialism. The Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. The "I'm a rich but short-dicked mofo so I had to buy the name for this stadium" stadium. All the shallow dumbasses who don't feel whole until they are enclad in Nike and The Gap and whatever else they learn from MTV. The dweebs who think they are going to be so much cooler when they own the biggest baddest TVs and a million DVDs. All the advertisers who take advantage of the shallow dumbasses and the dweebs. School bullies. Columbine really wasn't a wakeup call about guns in schools. It was a wakeup call about how repeated bullying can drive kids to mental illness. Greed. Energy tycoons. Folks who sacrifice safety to cut costs (more than twice the amount of people died from Bhopal than from WTC). CEOs who squander/horde money and fuck over all their employees, getting only a slap on the wrist. Anyone (e.g. Bush) who compares WWII to the War on Terror or Hitler to Osama.

Those aluminum softball bats are better. A wooden baseball bat can break.