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I'm glad to hear you went to see a physician. I don't think it's snow blindness since you took steps to prevent it, only one eye is affected, your symptoms started before sun exposure, and no one else was affected. Is your eye red? Bloodshot? eyelid red? Sounds like conjunctivitis or blepharitis to me. Have you been sick recently or been around someone who is ill? Runny nose etc? Any STDs? I'm surpised your doctor ruled out infection. Did he do a culture? Culture tests take a while to get results. Neomycin eye drops prescribed? Was it windy? Could also be abrasion to the cornea from blowing snow/ice/dirt/etc that might not be obvious under the scope. I've had both conjunctivis (in one eye) and snowblindness (both eyes) and they both suck. Chances are whatever it is will resolve itself in a couple days. The cornea heals faster than any other part of your body. Be wary of taking pain meds though becuase you might rub your eye and cause damage without your the pain to warn you to stop. Cold compresses and eye drops might be comforting. Good luck!

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That is a sweet 'stache. I'm curious, is 14hrs c2c a landmark for some reason?

Were you packing up at the WA Pass overlook lot on Saturday afternoon? Small pickup truck? How'd your trip go fox? We saw the car at the pullout as we were leaving last night. PRETTY GOOD! We ran into Sarah and Oscar coming down on Saturday and they said ya'll were gonna head up Kangaroo Temple on Sunday. Guess not eh? Congrats on LC in a day!

Trip: Paisano Pinnacle - West Ridge Date: 7/8/2007 Trip Report: Fred Beckey, MattP, and I hiked up towards Burgundy Col on Saturday with the goal of climbing Paisano Pinnacle on Sunday. We made camp, fed some mosquitos, found some water, drank some tasty tasty wine (not Paisano flavor unfortunately), and smoked a cigar with the hopes of chasing off the mosquitos (no luck there). We got up the next morning and started hiking towards the base, but The Fred Machine ran out of gas about 300ft vertical below the base of the route, so we hung out and enjoyed the views. Fred pointed out peaks and regailed us with stories of first ascents and epic, pre-highway approaches. We hung out for quite a while hoping Fred might find his second wind, but some rotten cream cheese ("I DUNNO HOW OLD IT IS. NOT THAT OLD. ABOUT A MONTH. IT'S BEEN IN THE ICEBOX THE WHOLE TIME") and a sore back conspired to turn him around. While Fred trundled back to camp, Matt and I headed up the route. It was pretty good. A couple short sections of real rock climbing interspersed with a lot of wandering around corners and licheny, but very solid blocks wondering where the route was supposed to go. From the summit, one two-rope rap and a single rope rap got us to Burgandy Col. After scree-skiing back down to camp and meeting up with Fredley, we had a nice, slow hike down. I enjoyed the pace of the hike as I got to do a lot of thinking, looking around, and learning about WA state flora which Matt knows a lot about, "five nails to the bunch - whitebark pine, two nails to the bunch - lodgepole" It was a fun outing except for the crux pitches between WA Pass and Marblemount (5.11 R) which Fred led at between 25 and 70mph with no direct correlation to road curvature. I got a massive pump from gripping the OH SHIT handle. Pictures: Fred and Matt crossing Early Winters Creek Enjoying the views Evening alpenglow on the west faces of the wine spires and Silver Star from camp Paisano Pinnacle Annotated MattP starting pitch 6 Matt leading us to the summit Take home message from this trip: Slow down and appreciate the little things Hopefully MattP will post a few pics from his camera soon. Gear Notes: Sagelands Cabernet Sauvignon (should have had Paisano) Singles of blue alien to #3 camalot and a few nutz. #1 camalot got a lot of use. Ski poles were really nice for the ascent and descent from Burgundy Col. Approach Notes: Like an amazonian sloth whore. Long, slow, and loose.

Wow. I love it!

SUPAH! Thanks for the report.

Way to disrespect your olympia roots bra.

Were you packing up at the WA Pass overlook lot on Saturday afternoon? Small pickup truck?

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Looking at photos, Camp 4. Left to right: Steve Miller, Fred Beckey, Mike Borghoff, Chris Fredericks (with cup) and McCracken, 1965. [Photo] Glen Denny "When I first hit Yosemite in 1957, I was a mountain trooper from Colorado, as straight as a lodgepole sapling and celibate to boot. Fortunately, two derelicts then in garbage-can residence soon put me straighter with vicious amounts of Red Mountain wine. When not busy laying the groundwork for the Golden Age (that's about all they were laying), it seemed to my neophyte eye they stayed drunk. Why not ? Even many years later women were unknown to that distant world... The only thing down at Camp 4 in the Elder Days was dog shit and Tri-Delts surrounded by their betrailered parents, about as accessible as the Crab Nebula. So we had beatoff contests at the bivouac ledges, drenched our sleeping bags in semen, got drunk and indulged in towering fireside smut." — Mike Borghoff.

Thanks very much for the advice. Police report is filed. Phone interview with insurance company tomorrow. It's a very good company (USAA) so I think I'll do OK. I've heard that some companies have a limit on reimbursement by categories ($5K for computers/electronics, $5K for "sporting goods", etc.) so I'm hoping that isn't going to be be the case for USAA since my loss is pretty much entirely "sporting goods".

I'm interested in hearing from other folks who have had a large amount of gear stolen. Did your homeowner's or renter's insurance cover everything? I assume I will have to file a police report before the insurance will pay up. Is that true? I'm basically looking for any advice about what I should/shouldn't do/say and the order in which I should do things.

Last night someone got into my car and used my garage door opener to get into my garage. They stole quite a bit of stuff including my large cragging pack that had about 75% of my rack in it. If you see any of this stuff on craigslist, yard sales, pawn shops, etc, I'd appreciate it if you would let me know. Black Diamond Ice pack, ~40L, black/orange/gray, pretty beat Brand New Lowe Mountain Attack, 30 Hyperlite pack red/gray Double set of Camalot C4s, 0.5-to-4.0 marked with red tape/fingernail polish One set aliens blue-to-red, w/red fingernail polish One set metolius TCUs purple-to-yellow, w/red fingernail polish & tape A whole shitload of draws (red fingernail polish, tape) DMM Wallnuts set (red fingernail polish) A couple small tricams and random hexes totally beat BD Wizard harness BD ATC Guide belay device BD Spot headlamp (brand new) Patagonia Dragonfly pullover windshirt green Brand new 5.10 moccasym shoes Probably a bunch more stuff. Haven't figured it all out yet. I live in the Lake City Way area.

I got a BD guide a few weeks ago and have now used it for about 20 pitches; mostly single, but with some multi. My conclusion thus far is that even in the "low" friction mode there is too much friction for smooth operation in either the standard belaying-the-leader configuration, or in the autoblock mode. Rappelling a somewhat fuzzy, doubled 10.2mm rope was also a chore. At the start of the rappel, I could pretty much take my brake hand off the rope and not move. Trying to pull in rope in the autoblock mode was a serious work out. Belaying a leader in regular friction mode was annoying because I couldn't feed rope out fast enough when the leader was clipping. The device will likely operate more smoothly after some wear and would certainly be smoother with a newer and skinnier rope, but I'm really considering going back to my Reverso at this point. Too bad.

Skiing champagne powder. Ahh..... high school in Alaska.

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So you have a bunch of DNA sequence tags from an affymetrix chip and you need to know what the proteins sequences for each are? or You have some protein sequences you got from _________ and you need the complete gene sequences for each? Or maybe you just need the gene names? Am I getting close? I still don't understand what it is you are trying to do.

what do you mean?

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No, actually you are wrong. Your statement demonstrates a profound ignorance of human biology which is not surprising.

And by the way, this is what a human embryo looks like at the stage at which it is used for the isolation of human embryonic stem cells: Ain't it cute!? I'm sure it has a wonderful personality.

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