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...unless that happens to be your kink.

Had to look that one up, only to find you just mean spit roasting.

News, like any product, must be sold. I'm sure they put a lot of thought into deciding what's going to sell, and missing snowboarders just don't make the cut. I think Sexy is right though, if the missing boarders had a cell phone to make a desperate plea for help, they'd be a better product to market.

I see, there's no new intelligence, just an emphasis by the Bush administration on that portion of the report which says Iran could restart their program. Since they could, they may have already. I think the National Intelligence Assessment of the United States may not be very flattering.

Hot Henry wouldn't have waited six months! Still, that's a reasonable notion, certainly some sort of window is appropriate. If the route is rapped, scrubbed, tr'd, and rap bolted it seems like the "FA" is less significant than the first onsight anyway, modern route development in the NW tends to take a lot of the mystery and fear out of a first ascent and substitute a bunch of hard and grubby work. That sort of sweat equity should give someone a good shot at the first ascent, if that's what they want.

I wasn't much of a Dolls fan, and never followed Johnny's solo stuff. Anything in particular you recommend? I recently saw the documentary "New York Doll" which primarily focused on the bass player, Arthur Killer Kane, who was working in a Mormon genealogy library in the LA area, and follows up through a Dolls reunion show in Britain. Really great film, interesting folks and history. I hadn't realized that the Dolls started in 1972, way way ahead of their time. People talk about The Ramones and Sex Pistols being wellsprings of the genre, but it's clear that the Dolls both pre-dated and influenced them.

Hey, fuck you assholes. This thread is about worrying about ME, not a continuation of this ugly little FW/Tvash bawl & brawl, with the assorted hangers on and peanut gallery personnel.

Thanks for the concern Sobo, but my place is reasonably flood proof, though there's some cool (i.e. non-threatening) flooding all around. I've got a number of friends west of Centralia who didn't fare so well. They'll know in a day or two if their vehicles are salvagable, and the house got hit right up to the floorboards, but not beyond, so they don't have a house full of silt to clean up. I love the over the top weather and I'm fond of a little flood gawking too.

Well, they sure had a kick ass pair of spires named after the company. I've still got an old 2R tent, but the lightweight coating on the floor looks like skin a week after a bad sunburn.

Pink's right, Portland rocks. I couldn't even count the times I saw Dead Moon play. 4nVmnPJgB0U

I found the walk straight up from the road rather pleasant, there are some really great trees on that slope. Thanks for the TR on this, way to snatch a route from the late season .

Oooh, better still, because two snakes are better than one! usc3CPaakV4

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Yep, the closeup of the foot shows one of those things. He must use a stick of chalk or something, they're so very clearly drawn. Which is not to say that any amount of tick marks, top rope, and back rope would get me up that route.

Yeah, the Skiing with the Snakes was nice, those guys laughed a lot, and I like that grimy blues based rock too. Potter was irritating. He was blathering on about what he'd learned, but it looked to me like mostly he learned to use tick marks. They were glaringly obvious on the red sandstone, a total choreography mapped out, you could predict each exact jam, right on down to which hand, just by interpreting the white lines next to the red crack. I first noticed it on the free solo of Separate Reality. Buncha staged bullshit for the camera. I realized the base jumping bit is more about boldness and some basic aerial moves, but the skill level can't compare to the control and balance that trials rider showcased. Olympia ran a two night program, different films each night. What I'd really like is to go to the festival in Banff and get the week of full immersion. Lots of what they show on the road tour are excerpts from longer films. Anyone ever been? Oh, the last thing they showed in Oly was a short called "Great Day for Climbing" which was both funny and cheesy. I was surprised I didn't know any of those folks in it, there where a maybe 8 climbers from Seattle in the 45 to 55 age bracket, and looked like it had been shot at Exit 38 (on Dwayner's BLT crag) and maybe some at Index.

What Porter meant was, "Does this mean we'll be losing the revenue from your sidebar ad?"

I thought the Dawg's been in Egypt?

No, silly boy, you don't so much hunt them as they hunt you.

Be careful there Mister 206, stalking Archenemy can be a lot like hunting polar bears.

off's cubation is something else entirely.

I think the point of the obfuscation is that he might already know of you too!

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Well, I suppose cholera is a green method of population reduction.

Makes sense, So Cal has so many people living in a desert. I think San Diego's annual rainfall is down around 8" these days. As an aside, that source, the International Herald Tribune, is a pretty great online paper.

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