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heresy! okay fine - there are far lighter performance enhancers you might carry for the uphill bit (i should know i almost got run over by a snowcat once indulging in them )

same answer as always - it will likely be fine, but keep your head out of your ass and aware of danger! bring a 6 pack adn stow it on the hogsback and get high, high, high as georgia pine on the way back down

ultimately too, the cause is irrelevant - the indicated treatment would be the same, no? it doesn't matter how you got a fever of a 105, the bottom line is you need to immediately take aspirin, right?

josh, are you telling me you don't have that key ingredient that makes any road-trip, no matter how long, just meeeeeeelllllt away?

damn - leaving wednsday afternoon - my regrets - reckon the awful vista of yosemite valley will have to salve my aggrieved soul

i suprised a herd of probably 50 elk on one of those sandbars at dusk - i nearly shit meself - the light was very dim, and they were within only a few yards of me when we noticed each other - the ground shook as they hauled ass away - there were so many of them it took probably a full minute for them to take turns swimming across the river and crashing up the far bank - insanely cool

josh, i've seen yer girl - watcha worried about how things look OUTSIDE the tent when you know you just gonna be in it the whole time? have you hiked the hoh before dude? it's the only olympic trail i've done - the long flat section to the base where it'd start getting snowy would be multiday and very chill....

looks like a beginner's crag for sure

a rope is entirely unnecessary if doing the south side route, especially if you're going left of the 'schrund - bring a second tool if you want security there's a pic in another thread of the PG - looks icy and more difficult than the old crater route, which will have most of the traffic and thus well-stomped trail

chickenhead anchor!

yesterday's quote was another part of the theme of fucked up conservative sexy-role models: “We need to return to a taxation system similar to the one established by our Founding Fathers. They did not penalize productivity through taxes the way we do today. They had no Internal Revenue Service. They believed in minimal taxation.” -Chuck Norris

this was my quote of the day for my senior classes, complete w/ picture: “While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.” - Ann Coulter

would you people please stop making sense?

okay, this is officially now a fun war-story thread! i learned a painful lesson in middle school: don't play baseball w/ a basketball my friend pitched it in, a bit over my head - i wacked it as hard as i could and got a classic newtonian, equal n' opposite reaction - the ball went flying even as the bat bounced back, full speed, into my forehead! i spent the next week explaining to folks when my evil twin was trying to grow out of my skull to conquer the know universe

should i be looking for bathook holes again, sir wallace?

that sounds nice n' ominious got a good patch of poison oak working on my legs at the moment - looking forward to rooting out the muji route, but if i get into the oak worse, i might have to destroy myself

if you placed it, and niether you nor anybody else can get it out, then you have a moral obligation to replace it i would never, as a second, pay for a piece of gear that you placed that couldn't be removed, and would laugh in your face if you asked me too w/o even trying to get it out yourself! it's a sensitive subject, so applying an iron-law is a bad idea - working it out over a is always best

you could just have a helmet ducktaped to his head or make him a bubble-wrap outfit? getting ridiciously hurt all the time is the fun part of those ages 5ish to whenever you stop drinking heavily. as a wee lad i recollect stitches/er visits from: - a kid jumping off a diving board and sinking his two front teeth into my skull - racing a kid, me on foot, him on his bike - he veered into me and we fell in a jumble and his bike-peddle removed most of the flesh from my kneecap - calling my big brother a cocksucker or something like it, shortly after i got the last set of stitches out - he chased me down and wailed on me, and in the process reopened the whole knee injury for another round of stitches! - taking an elbow to the mouth in baseketball, which led to a fun root canal - snapping my pinky in half making a tackle in a football game - setting a patrol flag on fire at boy scout camp, then setting myself on fire trying (in vain) to put it out and maybe my favorite: falling off my bed backwards onto an old-school radiator, slicing two neat parallel lines into my scalp that i still have to explain every time i shave my head! the fun part of that was hiding in the bathroom for 2 hours putting roll after roll of tp on my head, hoping hte bleeding would stop so my mom wouldn't beat the holy-hell out of me for making us miss church at any rate, get ready for a whole lot more of this shit! (and did i mention i had the fewest number of bizarro accidents out of my 2 other brothers?)

i like having a set of tcus and a set of aliens - what does it matter what my reasons are? i figured my preferences out by actually using a variety of gear - climb w/ folks who have the various widgets and get a feel for what you like.

Will there be any people around to even care? that's my point - it seems unlikely that either a) there will be folks around then or b) if they are around, they'll give a shit (the rich tourists then will be able to beam to the summit dude, why have to actually walk up the damn thing? either that or they'll be transcendent children of light and have cast off thier mortal skins to roam the universe at their leisure, and certainly have the power to clean up a landfull the size of what i bet is still no more than that of a small town in bumfuck, ohio) - the mountain itself doesn't care, and in the fullness of time will go back to being the thoroughly wild, untrammelled place it used to be - in the meantime, adding some safety for the sherpas who actually make a living off this, their one great natural resource, is pretty much a no-brainer

what are the odds those bolts will still be there in 10,000 years? everest is a young mountain - i have a feeling she'll grow outta these pre-pubscent blemishes

hey, it was a highly succesful fuck-up! if you gotta fuck-up, at least you did it right! good look getting back on the leg

if all the pre-existing star trek films and series were to be taken as a holy canon, like the bible, including this most recent film into that canon would be not unlike tucking monty python's "the life of brian" into the new testament, just after the gospel of john

Hillary, Mallory, all same right? goddamn white people all look the same

must be the swede's basecamp - all that shit looks like it came from ikea - is that the oddly sexy asexual instruction-model dude i see amidst the clutter?