Gary_Yngve

I dunno, maybe I've just gotten lucky. But I've definitely been in situations where one of the involved parties becomes my TA the following quarter and things could have blown up but they didn't.

Klenke, we took a leisurely four hours to get to the top. I don't have a picture or a recollection of what the traverse to Mt. Howard looked like. Kurt, from the summit, there was about 1500 vert of good skiing. We skiied a little further along the trail until it became too narrow and too many rocks. The area looks like it would be way fun with greater snow coverage, though obviously one would have to be more wary of the avy conditions. We skiied the leeward slopes, which had about 1-2 feet of new stuff bonded well to the Oct crust.

As long as you're both mature about it, it really shouldn't make a difference whether you work together or not.

backcountry freshiez near Stevens (see Rock Mountain TR) on Saturday MoveOn meeting on Sunday

Climb: Rock Mountain- Date of Climb: 11/20/2004 Trip Report: Chris Cass, Ryan Forsyth, and myself headed to Rock Mountain, hoping that the name wouldn't be any indication of the snow. We hiked up in our tennies for the first 2000 feet and then put the skiis on. Two thousand feet later, we were at the top. There were a few rocks at the very top that I discovered, but otherwise good coverage. The snow was good -- what we call Cascades "powder" -- which made for slow lazy turns.

??? Assuming two-way heterosexual activity, any time a girl is getting laid, there's a guy getting laid. I don't understand your argument. I'm going to end this post before I start theorizing about bipartite graphs...

Jon, I don't know if AlpineK got back to you, but I'm bringing the digiproc. I can bring a screen too if necessary. I'd also like to show a couple slides from the Rockies. I'll limit it to about a dozen shots.

I don't feel threatened. My iceclimbing didn't improve until my climbing partner became pregnant because I kept offering her the hard pitches that were scaring me, which she readily accepted.

I learned that the hard way. Although my situation involved alcohol, vampiric hot sauce, and at least a hundred people hearing the gossip about the incident the next day.

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Wow, those are cool maps!

I learned that the hard way.

White is going to prevail tomorrow. FRESHIEZ!

The reason why it works in a crevasse rescue scenario is: 1) the snow is firm 2) you are STANDING on the runner just as it leaves the head of the axe. An axe deadmanned should be planty strong. I generally do not trust axes/tools as anchors otherwise.

Forgive me, my partner was German, not American.

It's a gorgeous lake, eh? Our American asses tried to play curling on it two years ago. We walked up the South side of Black Peak; it was an enjoyable daytrip with light packs and cold but clear weather.

Nice job, Dave! You faired much better at the crux of the climb than we did: the approach. We left Seattle at around midnight, without any sleep, hoping to do it in a day. We made good time to the first boulderfield, but then we fell... asleep. Clearly we were missing our Twightian angry-at-the-world mp3s or our Gaddian RedBulls.

Fri night: SnowBash Went there with about a dozen UW folks. Also saw Chelle and Fig8 there. Good music, good times. Sat: taught computer animation to underprivileged minority highschool girls Sun: worked all day

Menachim Begin was a terrorist [one person's freedom fighter is another person's terrorist] too. Heck, one of my grandfather's cousins was blowing up British trains before Israel became a nation. I am disappointed that Arafat couldn't have done more, but he was in a really awkward position. Especially lately with Sharon being a hardass. It reminds me of a high school debate back in 1994 where my teacher made me play the role of Arafat (she did that to challenge me, knowing that because of my upbringing, I was (and still am, but not as much) biased toward Israel). Anyway, my stance was that it was impossible to control all of my people, and furthermore, if I did try to do so, I'd get assassinated by my own people, just like Anwar Sadat. Chilling, considering Yitzak Rabin was gunned down by a fellow Israeli in 1995. So my guess is Arafat did what he did to keep his people loving him while making small efforts toward peace, because he felt that making large efforts would have resulted in his own people demonizing him and perhaps even killing him.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/11/11/no.cartwheels.reut/index.html

You're trusting the news media more than the rescuer? DPS, thanks for posting. I had not heard of an actual climbing fatality with an MOI of strangulation. Maybe this is a little inappropriate, but I would not have expected death by asphyxiation -- I would have thought an injury to the cervical spine or loss of blood to the brain.

There's a new evil virus going around: Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:10:41 -0800 From: Tony Anderson <tandersn@cs.washington.edu> To: everybody@cs.washington.edu Subject: !!!WARNING!!! Email virus spreading!!! There is a new email virus spreading through the UW computer systems. If you receive unexpected messages directing you to follow a hyperlink, BE CAREFUL. This worm can not yet be detected by virus scanning software. It is best just to delete them, unless you are sure it is a legitimate message. Messages may say something about "finding old friends" or "your credit card has been charged by paypal", etc. etc. Thanks. Tony Anderson UW CSE Windows Systems Architect

Jeez, cbs, you seem awfully cranky this morning. Give Paul a break. If he can't find legitimate work to do, he'll make up his own work.

Sure, we have dumb privacy-invading laws. That doesn't mean we have to have more of them.