Gary_Yngve

So yes, I could buy a tent if I wanted to right now. But it wouldn't be a good use of money. (My money this past half year has instead gone towards a pair of tools and a digicam). I use a tent just a handful of times a year, namely when we're looking at a shitty forecast but we're going out anyway. It's really convenient to be able to borrow a Bibler I-Tent or a NF VE-25.

Just to clarify, I had no intent to check out gear over the next two weeks anyway because I won't be able to go to the mountains until August (damn work). I was mainly annoyed by the cheeriness in the guy's voice as he was enforcing Sandi's law. I'll tell you another Sandi story from a few weeks ago. I had to pick up some checks for the climbing club, and Sandi wouldn't give them to me unless Stebbi called her up and authorized her to give the checks to me, and then I came with picture ID. This was after we circulated email among all of us saying that I'd come down to get the checks. Anyway, I came back a few minutes later with my ID and Stebbi's ID, and she didn't even look at the IDs closer than 10 feet away but gave me the checks anyway. Grrrrr...

Get a job? Come on... like working 50-60 hrs a week (and that's not a busy week -- 50-60 hrs was this past Fri-Sun for me) in grad school leaves me with a lot of room to work a job...

I've been extremely moody lately because I haven't gotten any mountain action, especially with having to work insane hours since Thursday. I had a tent to return Thursday, but I was working through the two hour window the gear room was open. So I came down today, the next available time, to return the gear, and the person working there so cheerily informs me that I cannot check any gear out for the next two weeks because I was late in returning the tent. I basically flipped out and spewed a slew of cuss words about Sandi before I stormed off to the UW Rock and discovered that I was too pissed off to enjoy bouldering on it. No doubt this minion has been brainwashed to do whatever Sandi orders, so I'm not holding him responsible. Though I would like to point out that previous people working at the gear room have been far more forgiving. And this hasn't at all been my first dealings with the power-tripping Sandi, who rules over the climbing club (and other IMA clubs) with iron-fisted fury. She's been screwing over the club and its members for years. Grrrr, I just had to get this out of my system...

I xeroxed some stuff from Beckey for him the other day... I'll let you know his top-secret plans for

And all those people who take the boat across Ross Lake on the way out of the Pickets are a bunch of wusses! Give the dude a break... he had a good time in the mountains, which is the most important thing there is!

I have to work. Grrrr...

For $3 US, you can get all sorts of tasty stuff at the Sultan Bakery.

We were there yesterday. It didn't get very cold overnight, so the snow wasn't too hard. We brought a tool each (less clunky than an axe) and single pair of alum crampons for the two of us. We never touched the pons, though the tool was nice for playing games inside the moat and for glissading down Dragontail.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/2325904/detail.html http://www.nps.gov/glac/whatsnew/press03pdf/NEWS0354.pdf Lots of unanswered questions... was he wearing a helmet? Was the rockfall from a party above? ... But most importantly, let's wish him a speedy recovery!

Depending on water levels and your car, you may not want to drive across the creek crossing on the forest road. This would add a few extra miles to the approach.

I'm a Ramblin' Wreck from the other Tech further south.

old news... I first saw this site over three years ago, I think when visiting MIT and they were telling me about this Hahvahd prof who works with them and smokes phatty blunts before visiting.

One time, in New Orleans, I was drunk and had a really painful experience with hot sauce...

Add some lemon/lime sherbert, and it foams up too!

What's an ISO?

Anyone else been up recently? Seemed last year all the cool kids climbed NF Shuksan, and this year it's not the rage anymore.

Turns out I'm not modeling the curvature of the earth, but for such a short distance (6.4 km from Prusik to Stuart, the loss of apparent height is in centimeters...

Yep, and here's proof, a translucent rendering of the view from Prusik. Stuart is circled.

You can get durian gelatto at Uwajimaya. But I agree, I haven't seen Ketchup-flavored potato chips down in the states, except for the bag that a friend of mine brought from Canada... damn those were good!

Eric's head is C1... it's only A0 if I'm wearing crampons.

We poor college students get by just fine with water and Snickers; we save the money for

dude... check out my arm on libra crack... i can't figure out how the hell i made it look like that.

flebfleb hurt his ankle a few days ago while slacklining... not sure if he's ready yet... jule's doing buckner then... if you can't find anyone else, i can probably be conned to going... but i'd have to be back around 2 or so.