Gary_Yngve

Yeah, it sucks. Even though the brunt of the rain will ease off in the next few days, it looks like we'll have unseasonably warm weather at least the next week.

Dru, you are forgetting that Sandi is both my "boss," in that she controls our budget, but that I'm her "boss", as in whenever she screws up, which is often, I'm the one who has to fix it. Sadly, I can't do the other thing bosses get to do, namely fire people.

Why wasn't he man enough to admit his mistakes during the election campaign?

I have never worked retail before. I didn't have a car in high school or college (and I was one of those mofos on scholarship throughout all of college), so I had no need for a side job other than TAing. I did volunteer a few hundred hours of time for Habitat for Humanity, doing both construction and office work. While I was with HfH, no one treated me the way rude people treat retail workers. While TAing, the system was pretty simple. If one of my students caused a problem, I'd hand him up the chain to my prof (after first warning him that I'd have to do that). That fixed things pretty quickly.

Oh yeah... the lovely threatening title: "Respond immediately or action will be taken" I almost deleted this email without even reading it because I was 99% sure it was spam (i.e. send us your CC number ASAP or your CC card will be frozen). Actually, damn, that's what I should have done. I should have replied back as if the email had automatically bounced from getting tagged as SPAM. I'll have to remember that for next time.

Yeah, you're right. I could have toned down or omitted the last paragraph.

Or along a similar vein: We can't give the money back until I pick up the check from the University containing the money. Then I have to give the check to my treasurer to take it to the bank. Then I need to get my treasurer to write a check. Only then can I give the refund check. That bureaucratic process should only take about six weeks.

I decided to reply to this email nicely, even though it was damn tempting to do so otherwise (one of the annoying duties of the Climbing Club president). So I'd like to see what replies yall could come up with. To : NAME_AND_EMAIL_DELETED Cc : Attchmnt: Subject : Re: respond immediately or action will be taken ----- Message Text ----- Mike was at the Gear Room Wednesday and Thursday 4-6 PM. He's paid to be there, and I saw him there. Sandi is at the IMA, not at the HUB. We don't rent out Cross Country boots. We never claim to rent out Cross-Country boots. When you can calm down and talk to me politely and respectfully, I'll give you your money back. Please re-read what you wrote. It's quite rude, and I don't deserve to be treated like that. -Gary On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, NAME_DELETED wrote: > > > Dear Climbing Club, > > You owe me my $30 back and I want it back pronto. I signed up for the > climbing club yesterday (Thurs) so that I could check out XC skis for a trip > THIS weekend. Michael, who I waited around for on Wednesday repeatedly > because he was not around during the 4-6 gear room hours, neglected to > mention that the climbing club does not have boots to accompany the skis. > Given that information, I would rather rent elsewhere, so I don't have to > shuttle gear around to multiple places. Not knowing this, though, I paid th$ > $30 membership fee on Thursday, waited around (AGAIN) for Michael at the gea$ > room, only to learn that I STILL would not have adequate gear for the > weekend. Now gear room hours are over, I have no skis, and am down $30. > > Michael claimed I could find a "Sandy" in the HUB from 9-5 to get my money > back. There was no one there. Funny, everywhere I go, there's no one there$ > and I can't get either gear or a refund. > > If there is any justice in this world, someone will respond to this absurdly > frustrated email and make me an appointment for a specific time and place > where I can get a refund. I'm tired of organizing my life around trying to > make "gear room" hours and "office hours" for your "club". Please someone > check your karma, check your email, and throw me a bone. > > I'd appreciate your prompt response. > NAME_DELETED

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/13/evolution.textbooks.ruling/index.html

Several of us have a meeting at 7 PM; I'll see whom I can con into dropping by afterward.

Alpinist articles

Sell the stuff to frat boys so they can wear them and look cool to pick up frat girls.

Don't do it. Sure, you might be able to get away with it. But bad things could happen to you and others if you get caught or something runs awry. Beware the trickle-down bureaucracy: Trying to sneak in could make the big bird shit, which is bad news, because while I really don't give a damn about the big bird, there exists lower birds who I do care about.

Wow, that is a great couple!

Nashua is what we borrowed at the ski resort. It was a little stickier than Duck Tape, but it still couldn't do the job given the cold temps.

Who the heck do they hire to write articles these days? Monkeys? Do they outsource journalism to Burkina Faso? Dickert is a 20th-grade dropout and summited the 4,411 ft Mt Rainier, according to the article. Ignoring the crummy journalism, I have to say mad props to Dickert for Goode and Challenger!

You're absolutely right, Dru. I bought my ducttape at the local hardware store. Had I gone to REI and paid 4X the price, I might have gotten better quality. (Seriously, we borrowed a different brand of ducttape from the ski resort, and their ducttape wasn't performing much better.)

Some jackasses smashed out a window on our car when it was about -15C outside. We couldn't get ducttape to stick to anything on the outside or the inside of the car. When we got back to Seattle and the temps were above freezing, the ducttape worked fine. Is there any good adhesive when it's that darn cold outside?

Yep, you need to be directly affiliated with UW. Or be a spouse or a RSSDP of someone directly affiliated with UW. Unfortunately, it's not the wall manager's choice -- it's the idiots above to thank for that strict policy.

I should add that we had five of us plus gear in a sedan. SUVs suck!

With the UW wall closed over the holidays, I checked out SG and VW in the past few days. I think I'm inherently biased in that I like to gain vert and that I'm not a numbers-chaser. So I liked top-roping at VW better than bouldering at SG, though both were still fun. The UW wall is my fave though in terms of the social scene.

Granite Mountain is notorious for slides on the gully I think you are referring to. At least it is mentioned in the guidebooks. I'd recommended looking for such information in guidebooks, or route descriptions (or talking to a Ranger or someone knowledgable about the area). This does NOT replace independent avalanche evaluation on-site, but can complement this analysis, or even rule out a certain route depending on recent weather patterns. Woah, KK the Newbie is trying to give advice to the dude who has backcountry skiied for over 20 years.

Climb: Red Mountain-up NW face, down SW face Date of Climb: 12/23/2004 Trip Report: Five of us headed up Red Mountain, hoping to catch some good views despite the crummy snow conditions. There wasn't much snow, and it was hard and firm along the trail. At Red Pass, we took a gully upward for a few hundred feet that consisted of nice styrofoam snow. The gully exited onto the upper face, where we found nowhere near enough snow over choss and slabs. After painstaking excavations of good holds, we walked to the summit. Descending the SW face was easier, but there still wasn't enough snow to feel comfortable plunge-stepping down. Every once in a while there'd be just 2-3 inches of snow over rock. Toward the bottom we had to meander around some more rocks, but we all got down without too much trouble. I'll post a few pics later. Gear Notes: all of us should have had helmets didn't ever need snowshoes

Andrew's not the primary teacher. The primary teachers are Steve and Kelly. Both are quite excellent. They know how to teach effectively, keep everyone exited, insert humor, etc.