Gary_Yngve

Assuming the bill passes, it would be interesting to look back after 5-10 years and ask if there were any differences in number of rescues, mortality, manhours, "cost," etc.

is panorama stitching allowed?

It could be Fred Beavon too.

bummed that i missed it (had a friend's 30th bday to attend) i'll try to make it for the 420 gig

sweet! there's some really great pictures entered so far!

The Mountaineers still teach belaying by having students practice on drop towers with factor-1 falls of 100-lb weights, including with eyes closed. This is a far cry from the belay check at a gym where someone is "taught" by their buddies a few minutes before.

Is it possible to become a billionaire without being a bastard and fucking people over? Or is being a billionaire more a question of entrepreneurship, risk, and irrational drive? Are these traits more likely for males to have? Genetic or cultural or both? Certainly there are fewer women who are tenured science professors or are alpinists. The former category is a hot topic of study and debate. The debate of the latter seems to be are they hot? Family/kids puts a higher burden on women than men in the workforce, both in societal expectations and the whole pregnancy thing. There's also years of prior male domination and sexism that still needs breaking through. What could be done to promote women billionaires? Many universities are actively trying to attract and keep more women in the sciences. But universities are far more socialistic than the capitalism that creates billionaires.

I remember my partner, who could TR 5.10 face no problem, couldn't do the traverse, and I had to haul her up on a 5:1 pulley.

Here's my interpretation of what CBS is saying. The Mounties and FoTH teach that if you are tied in and using a belay device, your brakehand should be on the same side as the anchor to keep things in line. When belaying a climber at the base of the cliff, it's as if the ground is a virtual anchor, so the rope should run down toward the ground.

yay for word of the day! sycophant is a good word that i had forgotten about!

from Saturday on AlaskaAir:

If Kevbone is talking about Burgner-Stanley, a #5 friend is useful in several places on the route.

you don't need to tell me how an altimeter works, big boy. on a large glacier or snowfield, map and compass will put your position on a line, and an altimeter will pinpoint it. i don't think anyone prefers an altimeter to map/compass for serious navigation. an altimeter is great for telling how far you have gone on a hike from X elevation to Y elevation. slopes/aspects of hills are relatively inaccurate, due to local topography and measurement error. they can help a lot with the "big picture." i've never needed to take a bearing off a peak to figure out where i am -- any time i've been lost and wishing i could take a bearing, it's been dark or whiteout or both.

yeah, i think it's fair to say that an outdoorsy person probably wouldn't work right with a non-outdoorsy person. there's a lot of different things that can be argued either way... like a climbing couple will get into arguments when one wants to go climbing with someone else and not the partner, because "you don't love me" or "i'm not strong enough for you." or the case with you and the kayaker... the followup question would be how many times did you go kayaking? but there might also be a difference in levels of passion -- amatuer vs pro -- that could cause conflict. in all situations, it could also be argued that any conflict is just a manifestation of an underlying problem. my personal opinion is i'd rather be with someone who is an expert at something else, who could teach me something else, rather than being overlapping completely.

I disagree. I think it works out just fine for your partner to have a similar hobby/passion (biking, kayaking, skiing, etc.) that requires weekend trips, training, etc.

No, in whiteout, that's where a compass plus a map plus an altimeter can usually tell you exactly where you are. I don't understand what point you're trying to make about accuracy of an altimeter.

Here's Dru's secret to winning:

do you mean consolatory, conciliatory, both, or neither?

Trip: Snoqualmie Mtn - Pt. 4980 Date: 2/25/2007 Trip Report:

What course? What branch? What topics? I'm on the Seattle Basic Climbing Course lecture committee, and we're trying to make things taught conceptually, not by rigid steps, etc.

Didn't realize the two of you are bros. Your bro is a nice guy (I was his TA one summer).

my taxes were easy. standard deduction.

remember that on a 45-degree slope, 450 ft of rope is more like 300 vertical feet.

Trip: Vantage - Sunshine Wall Date: 2/17/2007 Trip Report: Yet another Vantage TR. Was there along with another dozen UW folk, bumped into the CraigG crew and the OlyClimber crew.

Jamin's crampon has become a part of him.