Alan

To begin with, maybe this is easy stuff, but I'm not really so computer savvy, so please help! I have some music cassettes, as well as video that I want to get transferred to CD or DVD. First off, where is a good place to get this done. Does London Drugs do this in BC? Second, if I just give them the tapes and they burn them for me, is it possible for me to take the new DVD and splice the video footage (or music for that matter) into smaller tracks with some program from my own computer? I'd much rather take the time to do this myself rather than try to figure it out at the CD burning place.

If it can't be logged, it's gotta be mined.

Has it been officially recognized by -? Was a new record set for a non-biological stuffy?

This is really getting worrying now. I suppose we're soon going to have to register our frying pans. Teflon ones probably won't even be legal.

It's certainly the best one you'll ever read!

Remember, one can never be too careful in the workplace. And of course, not to mention that the specially trained union employee whose job it is to put orange warning cones around any non-clearly marked product wouldn't be able to make his $30 bucks per hour making photocopies and posting signs if we didn't have these rules in place.

Like a tempest in a teapot. You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

I wish you were here to see it!

Sounds like this may be coming from experience. Do you have a story to tell?

It surprises me that no one ever mentions Scream Of Stone as one of the better climbing films. After looking it up on the web today, it claims that the basic story writing credits go in part to Messner himself. Nonetheless, while somewhat cheesy, the climbing scenes on Cerro Torre are quite good. It was directed by Werner Herzog. His documentary Burden Of Dreams is also pretty interesting as well if you get the chance.

Get in shape is more like it, but thanks.

I know there are some other ways in, but how much time are we talking and where does a guy end up? I'd hate to think that it'd be 4 hours each way just to access what used to be done in a little over an hour. Weekends are just too short, and I guess I just don't have enough energy to do the approach and then try to pull off a couple of peaks yet all in the same day.

I've been up there a couple of times in the summer. The road used to be driveable right up to Lizzie Lake, if a bit rough near the top. The road is apparently washed out from the bottom, but as I said, I'm not planning to do a ski into the area, just more hiking later in the year. Personally, it's one of my favourite areas for just easy rambling, lots of easy peaks around, total alpine, lots of lakes and tarns. Enough to keep one busy for several days, Cloudraker being an excellent objective at one end, and Mt. Skook Jim at the other. To gain access to the area when the road is driveable right to the top, it's simply a 1.5 hour hike (if that) to the alpine and the cabin. You really start to get into it another half hour or so beyond that. I find it an amazing area. Nothing technical, just really beautiful and relaxing. Next time I go, I'd like to go in and do Long Mountain before heading back down another connecting ridge toward Cloudraker and do that as well. Trip after that, in towards Tundra and Caltha Peaks, maybe even Skookjim. Can't wait.

Last I heard, the road up to Lizzie Lake got washed out right near the bottom during the flood late last year, making it inaccessable perhaps even to foot traffic. Anybody know (Dru?) if anyone is planning to fix it and make it accessible again? Maybe the Friends of the Stein or any other group, or logging company, whatever? If not, what is another good way into that area, and what kind of approach are we talking about (hiking later in the year, not skiing) and where does the approach take you to? What an amazing area, so much to do, but unfortunately weekends are short and don't want to spend most of it just getting in there.

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I'll chip in.

Try "weapons of mass destruction". Actually read the page that comes up. Don't dismiss it.

One of my favourites was Mt. Kitchener at Mount Cook. Hike up the trail to the Sealy Tarns and stay at the hut. Got up for sunrise and went up Kitchener. One of my best mornings ever. Other than that, Tongariro is an excellent area on the North Island. We took mountain bikes to the summit of Tongariro itself, left them and then continued hiking to some hotsprings on the otherside of it.

The strangest one I've seen recently was "The Audition" (Japan). Makes you think way more than twice about which girl you might want to go out with. Watched "The 25th Hour" last night. Not bizarre, but much more than what I was expecting. Excellent film.

Any ETA on getting those fixed up? Any number to call to find out more info? Appreciate your help on that.

I have a question on the logging roads and logging trucks around Harrison. Anyone know if trucks are running up and down the east side of the lake, and then up Clear Creek road these days? Thinking of going up there during the week in the next few weeks or so and because it's a weekday I was wondering if there is much of a logging truck hazard there. Any numbers to call to find out or does anyone just know the answer. Dru?

Saga Triumph Max Webster FM

What, am I talking to myself or the only one still playing golf? 29! Yeah, okay, I am spending too much time playing it, but hey, I could be outside getting some fresh air or going for a hike or something!

31. Don't worry, I'll keep you posted.

32! 6 hole in ones, and 2 three's. Even Dan can't beat that!