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Echo Lakes?

Gorgeous pics

Pfft, gear is easily replaced, sounds like you made a good call. I watched a friend do a similar elevator shaft routine (though not quite as far down) on the Stuart Glacier, also while descending. Those little pocket glaciers can really throw you a curve ball just when you think things are all over. I'm glad you made it out to post this great TR, I find the reports on attempts as interesting as the succesful ones.

Oysters are better the second time around. To get the most mileage out of the experience, be sure to chew before you swallow.

knead your dick! CAUTION: it may not be a totally work safe link, though it's nothing more than ASCII animation.

It is perhaps the greatest achievement of the Pandora thread, this business of teasing a lurker who registered in '02 out into the harsh light of the roiling monkey pit.

come back when you have something worth posting.

I was thinking Ilsa she-wolf of the SS. Pfft, Charlotte Rampling in The Night Porter. Hot, hot I tell you.

Damn, I'd been hoping this was a fashion thread.

that was a great read.

I thought as much, that kind of relentless burning orb action really grinds me down too.

It's cute how Vegas is turning you into a bitter bitch.

I prefer the term "capricious"

sorry, the Linkster scooped you.

Excuse me sir, may I see your drm certificate for online use of that copyrighted word? May I point out that we have former eastern bloc prisons full of people like you, but we can always squeeze another in.

I was contemplating obsessing about that one last summer, and instead I wound up buying a bunch of short lengths of various colored 1" tube and just knotted them up with a siz/color coordination. Simple, cheap, and fast.

The inevitable humor compendium makes it's rounds, so I post it here for your entertainment... "The Late Show With David Letterman" (CBS) "Good news ladies and gentleman, we have finally located weapons of mass destruction … It's Dick Cheney." * * * "We can't get Bin Laden, but we nailed a 78-year-old attorney." * * * "Honestly, I don't know what all of the fuss is about. What's more American than shooting your hunting buddy in the ass?" * * * "The guy who got gunned down is a Republican lawyer and a big Republican donor and fortunately the buck shot was deflected by wads of laundered cash. So he's fine. He took a little in the wallet." * * * From "Cheney's Excuses," Monday night's Top 10 list: "I thought the guy was trying to go gay cowboy on me." "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" (Comedy Central) A partial transcript: Jon Stewart: "Yes, as you've just heard, a near-tragedy over the weekend in south Texas. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a man during a quail hunt at a political supporter's ranch. Making 78-year-old Harry Whittington the first person shot by a sitting VP since Alexander Hamilton. "Hamilton, of course, shot in a duel with Aaron Burr over issues of honor, integrity and political maneuvering. Whittington? Mistaken for a bird. * * * The other player in the drama? Ranch owner and eyewitness Katharine Armstrong. Katharine Armstrong: "We were shooting a covey of quail. The vice president and two others got out of the car to walk up the covey." Jon Stewart: "What kind of hunting story begins with getting out of your car? As I sighted the great beast before us, my shaking hands could barely engage the parking brake. Slowly, I turned off the A/C and silenced my sub-woofers…" * * * Katharine Armstrong: "A bird flushed. The vice president took aim at the bird and shot and unfortunately, Mr. Whittington was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty well." Jon Stewart: "Peppered. There you have it. Harry Whittington, seasoned to within an inch of his life. * * * Jon Stewart: "I'm joined now by our own vice-presidential firearms mishap analyst, Rob Corddry. Rob, obviously a very unfortunate situation. How is the vice president handling it? Rob Corddry: "Jon, tonight the vice president is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Wittington. According to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time there were quail in the brush. "And while the quail turned out to be a 78-year-old man, even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face. He believes the world is a better place for his spreading buckshot throughout the entire region of Mr. Whittington's face." Jon Stewart: "But why, Rob? If he had known Mr. Whittington was not a bird, why would he still have shot him?" Rob Corddry: "Jon, in a post-9-11 world, the American people expect their leaders to be decisive. To not have shot his friend in the face would have sent a message to the quail that America is weak." Jon Stewart: "That's horrible." Rob Corddry: "Look, the mere fact that we're even talking about how the vice president drives up with his rich friends in cars to shoot farm-raised wingless quail-tards is letting the quail know 'how' we're hunting them. I'm sure right now those birds are laughing at us in that little 'covey' of theirs. Jon Stewart: "I'm not sure birds can laugh, Rob." Rob Corddry: "Well, whatever it is they do … coo .. they're cooing at us right now, Jon, because here we are talking openly about our plans to hunt them. Jig is up. Quails one, America zero. Jon Stewart: "Okay, well, on a purely human level, is the vice president at least sorry?" Rob Corddry: "Jon, what difference does it make? The bullets are already in this man's face. Let's move forward across party lines as a people … to get him some sort of mask." "Jimmy Kimmel Live" (ABC) Among the jokes in consideration for Monday's telecast: "It's part of the president's new Social Security plan. Once you hit 78, kablamo." * * * "Luckily, the guy he shot was wearing the body armor that never got shipped to the troops." * * * "You know what they say, if Dick Cheney comes out of his hole and shoots an old man in the face, 6 more weeks of winter." "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (NBC) "Although it is beautiful here in California, the weather back East has been atrocious. There was so much snow in Washington, D.C. Dick Cheney accidentally shot a fat guy thinking it was a polar bear." * * * "When people found out he shot a lawyer his popularity is now at 92%" * * * "After he shot the guy, he screamed, 'Anyone else want to call domestic wire tapping illegal?' " * * * "Something I just found out today about the incident. Do you know that Dick Cheney tortured the guy for a half hour before he shot him?" * * * "Cheney's defense is that he was aiming at a quail when he shot the guy. Which means that Cheney now has the worst aim of anyone in the White House since Bill Clinton."

I'm very sorry sir, but if you're going to insist on mixing alcohol with your muscle relaxants, I'm going to have to cut you off. Woohoo indeed.

That's cool, looks like she's going on another multi-month climbing road trip, she deserves to have her thread hijacked.

Nisqually-Gibraltar chute

I kicked this thread to Spray. You've gotta develop a more deft touch if you want to troll effectively. C-

Jay_B and Dave Schuldt on the same page. Now that's bi-partisan opposition.