Gary_Yngve

That's what always happens when people have gotten off easy for crimes and then the public gets pissed. All of a sudden, someone needs to be made an example of. I don't expect for her to serve any jailtime, and the downfall of her business and her public humilation are far more punitive than anything the courts could hand down.

Haha, and she [her business] lost millions of dollars when her own stocks plummeted as a result of the ImClone scandal. Serves the greedy bitch right. Too bad the Enron execs are getting off as easy as they are -- no doubt thanks to their friends in power right now -- if I were pres, I would have sent the Enron execs to the Gulag.

Also Mark Twight mentions in Extreme Alpinism that tieoffs suck. As for "don't fall on ice," that's my philosophy too, but you may as well have some screws in just in case to protect the belay, in case you get hit by rockfall/icefall while climbing, etc.

The first two screws I bought were 22cm, intended for glacial ice. Then I bought a 17cm. Then I picked up two more 17cms for cheap. Now I guess I should fork out the money for a 12cm.

I'm looking at all my screws and the shortest is 17 cm. I want a shorter one!!!

Sorry, but those are not the Mounties. The dude is too high up to be climbing safely without a rope in the context of a Mounties fieldtrip.

Thanks for the responses so far. Well, there's still some more stuff I need to work out before I can play over there. My advisor will be there as a visiting professor at the University of Oslo. I need to get hooked up with a place to stay. I likely won't have a car (as rentals seem pricy over there), so I'd either need to take trains or hook up with someone who has a car.

I'm getting hounded with phone calls, emails, and letters asking me to vote YES for if the UW TAs and RAs should get unionized [under the UAW]. What should I vote and why?

So what was your payrate? Minimum wage? Isn't the standard union cut only like 1-2%?

I may be up in Norway for a few weeks in late April or early May. Anyone have any suggestions for mountaineering objectives up there (or even where to find information [in English])?

Steel Grill is an awesome climb. It's a little spookier on lead because there may be one or two offwidth bulges where your last piece is five or six feet below. (Or at least when I did it I didn't have a rack of large cams, so my pro consisted of hexes slotted at the bottlenecks.)

I think R&D is a good climb for a newbie. Eric, have you done Saber? or Midway? Or another 5.4-5.6 route there? Sure, it may not have the classicness of Canary or something on Snow Creek Wall, but those routes aren't beginner stuff. btw - I thought we did R&D in two pitches? (after that it's 3rd-4th class slabs)

"How come that guy didn't take his ATC off when he started to climb?"

What about the porn movie, "Weapons of Ass Destruction?"

In defense of the the sacrament of marriage, Britney Spears shall be banned from marrying for a day.

"Whenever I'm feeling depressed, I go out to Vantage where I laugh at the sportos stick-clipping their way up 5.11 bolted routes while I prove my toughness by climbing 5.7 trad in boots."

The ice on the NE Butt of Chair on Sunday was amazing. Super plasticy. Exery swing was a solid stick.

My god, the snow we encountered after doing Chair was the cruddiest crappiest snow I've ever encountered. Plus the slope was littered with avy debris. I finally decided to take my sticks off and walk down to Source Lake.

A whole gaggle of us were on the NE Butt of Chair on Sun. Some dudes did the E Face of Chair earlier in the morn. Don't know much about folks doing the N Face... we were planning on doing it originally but didn't feel comfortable with the avy danger (on the traverse to the N Face, the top few inches were shearing off readily). Clearest day I've seen in a long time. Could see the Seattle skyline from the top of Chair.

Do not climb face routes. Cracks and stemming are nice there. Duck duck duck duck goose.

The extra expansion looks like it will work well in a parallel crack, but what about flaring or pod placements?

We're not yet through with this. The bill just went through Senate committee. I guess it would still have to be passed by the Senate, massaged with the House bill (the Ohio motherfucker is in the House), and signed into law by Bush.

http://www.aznofee.org/aznofee/news.php Good job, folks!

Close Calls by John Long is great. One of the stories even occurred locally on Eldorado Peak.

I got a virus once. I got an email from a friend, saying, "Check this out! It's really cooL!" She's a graphics grad student at Caltech, so it seemed reasonable. I saved the attachment in pine (in UNIX), downloaded it to my windows laptop, and ran it. OOPS