Alpinfox

The Luxor would make for a spicy lead. Crampons skittering on the glass, newlyweds and nearlydeads yelling at you, rent-a-cops shining maglites in your eyes, picks cammed in the window glazing... Sounds like a blast!

I should have posted this earlier. I'm leaving Seattle sometime tomorrow (Friday) morning or early afternoon and heading down to Portland for the weekend. I'll be coming back to Seattle late Sunday or early Monday (I'm flexible).

This weekend is for dressing up like an idiot and drinking an Irish platoon's monthly allotment-worth of booze. Get with the program "climber".

I buy most of my groceries "in store". Especially dairy products. I once had a bad experience with an envelope full of cottage cheese that got delayed in transit.

Looks like my PDX climbing options for this weekend will be limited to trying to get myself off the bathroom floor on Sunday morning. Or maybe I'll check out the new and improved PRG. Maybe I'll spot DFA!?!?

Discuss.

"If-Nh" What the hell is that!??!? That was supposed to say, "The Tooth". I think there is a glitch in the Matrix.

I don't think Rap Wall is worth the drive, but to each his/her own. Bill, Rap Wall is a dry tooling area near the If-Nh, Alpental Valley, WA.

I'd knockout the poop.

This thread has plenty of leg left. I mean, no one has mentioned GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SNAFFLES yet. Or how about: HORSECOCK made from BSE-knockout cows/pigs/chickens/mystery meat. Oh the places this thread could go! p.s. TRANSGENIC GIANT SQUID!!! Wave of the future!

I believe we will see genetically modified NODDERS before we see genetically modified OTTERS.

Transgenic fish with the gene for "green flourescent protein" (GFP) have been available for a while. Supposedly they look pretty good under a blacklight. Someone also made a GFP-expressing, hairless mouse which glowed under a blacklight, but that one wasn't destined for the marketplace. Quick definitions: Gene - A small piece of DNA that encodes a particular protein. It is the blueprint that tells the cellular machinery how to make a particular protein. Gene Expression - In order to have an effect, genes must be transcribed into RNA by the cell's machinery and then translated into protein. The proteins in a cell are the functional products of the DNA "blueprints". Transgenic - A small piece of DNA encoding a particular protein is introduced into a cell's nucleus during mitosis (cell division). The cell "sees" this DNA as a problem with it's own genome and tries to fix the problem by gluing the DNA into some random spot in a chromosome. Depending on where the gene was inserted, it may or may not be expressed. Knockout - Making an animal with a gene knockout is much more complicated than making a transgenic animal. One must create a "gene-knockout vector" consisting of a piece of DNA that is SIMILAR to the native gene, but contains a deletion or some other mutation that renders the gene non-functional. This gene knockout vector is then introduced into the nucleus of an embryonic stem cell (a cell that can divide billions of times and become a functional embryo). The DNA repair machinery of the cell sometimes (about 1% of the time) will recognize the vector as a fragment of its own genome and try to repair the damage by swapping the vector for the native gene through a process called homologous recombination. Embryonic stem cells that have undergone this homologous recombination are screened for and purified from the non-altered cells. The positive cells are then injected into a early stage embryo called a blastocyst where they become part of the developing embryo. When these baby mice are born, their bodies will be composed of some genetically modified cells, and some of the normal cells from the host blastocyst. With luck, the genetically modified cells will have been in the proper place in the embryo to become sperm/egg cells. If so, the offspring of that animal will be 100% genetically modified. Long process. -AlpinCloner

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3750lbs is approx. 19kN Based on that, they should be fine for climbing. However, if you aren't comfortable with them, then maybe they weren't such a great deal.

Me iz. I'll be driving down to PDX for Hallowbooze festivities next weekend and could stop by NFH for a quick scamper.

Will, I checked these out today at REI. Any of the standard canisters (MSR, Snowpeak, Primus) will screw onto the Jetboil stove, but only the smaller Snowpeak canisters will nest inside the cookpot. Those smaller canisters aren't widely available, so that's one concern. I think this jetboil system is probably the lightest*, most efficient, smallest-packing stove system around and could easily be converted into a hanging system with the addition of some strings/clips. Though I haven't used it in the field, I give it for in-store testing. *Actually, I guess those Nesbit solid fuel stoves or a pepsi-can-type alcohol stove is probably lighter weight and smaller, but their functionality in the alpine environment is questionable.

Ah.... that's better. Beer in hand. Cheers everybody! (except Klenke )

Hold on a sec....

Aww shucks. You're a day early, but I'm flattered none the less.

"173 miles to Hayes"

DON'T FUCK WITH THE JESUS!!

My uncle lives in Florida. Walking out to his car to go to work one morning, there was a baby alligator on his lawn. Not so unusual apparently. He bagged the gator and took it to work, putting it in a coworker's top center desk drawer. Apparently when the guy opened the drawer he managed to flip the entire desk over. I would have like to have seen that reaction.

Milwaukee, WI (possibly the ugliest place I've ever seen) Butte, MT (#1 EPA Superfund site, lots of unusual diseases and birth defects) Most of NJ East St. Louis. Ugly and dangerous. Some town east of LA. The air smelled/tasted like the air from a bicycle innertube.

WHO WANTS A MUSTACHE RIDE!?!?!?

You did that to me once you focker!