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perhaps you're familiar w/ your more local mt. washington? same possiblities on hood.

i've experimented in da hills w/ the only bivi sack or only lightweight sleepign bag and from now on will always go w/ the sleeping bag...the sack always ends up being colder, but then i've never unexpectedly been hit by a rainstorm.

well dave n' geoff, you done met w/ me already so you're over the whole-getting-to-know-you-n'-pretend-yer-not-a-dick part of the relationship, eh?

yeah, but most of the food they're trying to ditch is the crap they didn't feel like eating, so at least bring along your own sweet stash of tasty treats - this also doesn't work so well if you're part of the early rush or arrive at the tail-end of the season.

what i like even better is: fill each of the 12 holes in an egg carton w/ lint from your dryer, then pour candle wax over it to fill it up - cut out each of the firestarters (you'll have 12) - each one will burn like mad for 10 minutes or so - they weigh practically nothing and work great to start fires even w/ wet wood

or, for fat folks like me on rappel, just add more biners to the belay device/rope - at 250 lbs in my harness n' shoes n' gear, i always use 2 biners on raps where i'll be hanging out from the wall

sorry man - didn't get any responses so made plans to take the kids swimming - probably be soaking anyhow, no? how about after work next week?

i learned from my master, Lord Layton. coupled w/ smokes and the aforementioned happy pills and there's no epic that can't be laughed at, even while in progress quarter-pounders w/ cheese. take the box too. nothing better than being many miles from nowhere and "loving it!" tvash's tip from nelson about toe-straps was critical in fixing a severely mangled snow-shoe and sparing me epic insanity in the sawtooth this past winter - duck tape and ghetto-mindedness woulda worked, but the toe strap was much better.

a must for me on multi-day summer trips: baby-powder. lots and lots and lots of it. works fine as chalk too

what's the use of being in power if you can't round up your enemies for questioning?

TMI Onan - he who spilled his seed on the ground. onanist - chronic masterbator

which i mistook as as a homelass camp upon awakening from a psychotropic blackout episode at 2 a.m. a few months ago i seem to recall

apparently this happened in '92 during clinton's campaign too? what possible value could looking at someone's passport do? mine just basically reveals i totally lack any sense of hygeine, but you hardly need a passport for that...

i wonder if she paid her taxes on her illegal income though? it seems like cases like these would bring the other big hairy organ of The Man out to play, no?

so does it count as winter ascent or spring ascent, given that it was on the equinox?

it's the nose...and the complete disregard for all other lifeforms... i got 2 inches on 'em though! linthwaite's a town in central england - they got a pub n' a rugby team n' everything - no doubt so paternal ancestor was on the run and bullshitted his way through the door w/ it

sucks.

i had no idea how dwarfish mccain was till my little brother sent me this picture of him hanging out in the vip-bunny-lounge in mosul this week. message: if my brother's liking him, wave off! wave off! in this pic it looks like the boy might well be shoving a thumb up mccain's pooper

well, perhaps it's a comment on the quality of yer ride then?

that always seems to get dicked up somehow...but then, i am very dim.

Funny how little attention these accidents get in comparison to climbers on Hood/Rainier with the concomitant outrage vis a vis MLUs, rescue costs, etc. it's the fabric - folks wearing blue-jeans ain't sexy, but gore-tex slays!

is it like the tags put on cars that the fuzz think have been abandoned?

what's the tip for keepign the rope strait when doing block leads then?

you must love tom waits!

so what were the details, if it's not too macabre to ask? lost hiker succumbing to the elements or something more unusual?