Gary_Yngve

I got turned away at the US border last summer because I only had a DL, which is essentially all that Gary had. Not to nitpick, but I had my passport. Two of the other folks in the car just had DL and photocopy of birth certificate*. We were all a bunch of white, born-in-America college students. Our van was full of climbing gear. We didn't look like a bunch of terrorists or drug traffickers (not that anyone smuggles pot into Canada...). *They had both used that combination at least a dozen times this past summer... going to Selkirks, Bugs, Coast, coming back from Alaska....

We had an official document. A document from Canada saying they turned our asses around.

Yes. You have to have: passport or drivers license + certified copy of birth certificate

I know a long-time Mountaineer climb leader who ties in exclusively with a bowline with Yos finish.

The unbelievable happened. We pulled into the border crossing on the way to Penticton, with half of our car having passports and the other half having drivers licenses and unofficial photocopies of birth certificates. They wouldn't let us in. The border crossing dude was extremely rude and disrespectful, despite the fact that we were being polite. We've all gotten into Canada countless times before, even in the past month, but this time we got screwed. We then tried the crossing fifteen miles away in Nighthawk, and the border guard yelled at us for shopping for a crossing (the other place warned them) and threatened to have us banned from Canada for ten years. What the fuck? We managed to salvage the weekend with some cragging at Leavenworth, but we missed out with hooking up with the other UW car and the VOC folk in Skaha.

Napalm is aid.

climbing computer game: http://pc.ign.com/articles/163/163720p1.html

no shite! 80some posts about cracked? cripes and i thought i had no life! It weren't all about Cracked. Some of it was about Trogdor and some of it was about Chimpanzees and some of it was about dictionaries and some of it was about how most people on this site seem to think that Beck is a wanker and some of it was even about CLIMBING! ...at least it was mentioned anyway. I went climbing today! Yeah me. I led the route Goran Kropf died on. It's pretty easy, but the cams do seem a bit sketchy in it. I scored a booty cam on it! Yeah me again. End of TR. The cams seemed to be pretty bomber to me, aside from the thin shit at the bottom. Though I didn't place anything larger than a blue camelot. I'm surprised someone left a booty cam on it... it's not like they couldn't have walked to the top to clean up... but if you scored, you scored!

Sporto, you're going to Skaha with us next week. Consider that an order.

The browsers won't fight each other, but what you may find is things don't look as good in mozilla as IE because dumbasses wrote their websites to cater only to IE. I'm a linux freak, and in general I dislike M$, but I use IE as my browser in Windows because it works the best. Google may have some anti-popup stuff....

Chad was disappointed that he won the comp but didn't get to summit. So he summited the peak a few days later. That shows me his attitude. I agree that there is some sort of contrived silliness behind these speed comps, but who could turn down a trip to the Tien Shen?

cool, found a ride... see yall there!

biked from my apartment to montlake with huge pack, only to find that i just missed the bus across the lake, and hence my ride i only need a ride to leavenworth; i can figure out a way to get back if you can help me out with a ride (i'll pay for beer/gas), call me at 206-543-5143 thanks, gary

Tom Lewis has some photos up on the Mountaineers forum. Don't know if we have any photos from yesterday. It was raining, and the digicam wasn't very happy.

What does the filename for those pictures end in? If it's "tif" or "bmp", then the problem is that the images are not being compressed. With a high-quality "jpg" encoding, the sizes of the files are reduced by up to 90%, but the image quality is nearly equivalent.

A grad student complained last night that the building was too cold and it caused him to get sick. I struggled, but finally succeeded, in resisting the temptation to write back, "Yo dumbass, shut the fuck up and wear a goddamn sweater!"

You are becoming wise! Give up the way of the bolt!

Helping out at the Mountaineers' Crack Climbing Seminar at Tieton.

I heard that it's somewhere in the Nuits and they heli-ed in, but that's second-hand info I heard from one of Colin's classmates.

I think it would be really cool to build a multidimensional database of [landscape] photos. Each photo is indexed by its location and orientation [and zoom] and time. Vision algorithms could solve for location/orientation given terrain data. Then someone could query the database, asking, what does NW Face of Mt. X look like at this time of the year? Or, what does the view of Mt. Y look like from Mt. Z? All sorts of machine learning possibilities exist for extrapolating data for where pictures don't exist. Of course, I don't have time to work on this.

What's a harbour?

Not sure where the Columbias are, but this webpage is nice: http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/recreation/campfire_bans.htm#campfire_bans

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gyngve/bouncing_bear.mpeg

I won a t-shirt!