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Seriously though, I'm all for poles on the steeps, but when I saw that many people flicking them into flat, damp terrain, it made me wonder if they have become more of an accessory or habit than a truely useful aid to be used as necessary. Honestly, it made me want to be more mindful regarding my own use of poles; and challenged me to put them away when I really don't need them.
i am hoping that using poles on the flats will help distribute my weight so i can hike. we shall see if it works.
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you can have my poles when you pry them from my cold, sweaty hands!
poles add miles to my endurance and infinitely expand my enjoyment of stupid slogging sessions
really? maybe this would help my feet ankles knees and hips and make it so i can kinda hike again.
YES!
I didn't even consider it, but i am willing to try almost anything so long as it helps me keep playing outside with out breaking anything.
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you can have my poles when you pry them from my cold, sweaty hands!
poles add miles to my endurance and infinitely expand my enjoyment of stupid slogging sessions
really? maybe this would help my feet ankles knees and hips and make it so i can kinda hike again.
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ya know i just don't think that is that weird. if they want to fight beat hell out of eachother or whatever... they are all grown ups, it's their business.
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I'm fucked
in Spray
So when is cascadewatersports big freakin' dot com going to be launched? I am planning on taking my daughter kayaking on lake washington this summer. There's a place right where the cedar river dumps into the lake that rents them. Renton also has a sailing club where you can check out a boat for little or no cost. I grew up sailing and vowed to take it up again by the time I hit the big 5 - 0.we don't need a new web site we just need a watersport forum.... we have Fresshies already.
man i wish there was someone around willing to teach me. I don't know anyone who is doing water sports right now.
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I'm fucked
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okay that is just AWSOME
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Muff, thanks for describing the rural PNW experience as well. I think the articles posted were more about the urban and suburban experience, so it's a good reminder that there is more to the PNW than Seattle and Portland. I think the neighborhoods that I've lived in around Seattle, Seattle burbs, and Olympia burbs, very much had that genuine desire to help each other out when needed, whether it was jumping someone's car, moving a couch, or building a fence. But as far as the kind of closeness, such as knowing when your neighbor's aunt has cancer, I think that's kind of rare. Maybe that's what people find so wierd about us: that the desire to avoid conflict or negativity is stronger than the desire to connect.
you have a good point there. just because the neighbors were friendly didn't mean they were friends. perhpas we in the PNW do avoid conflict more than east coasters do?? i tend to think it's not that we aren't saying what is on our mind.... it's that we just don't care that much. I think what many people see as politeness is just indiference. perhpas they find us wierd becasue we still have that fiercly independent nature that brought people over the rockies and here in the first place.
It is good to remember that even the PNW is made up of many differnt reigons. if you head out to eastern Oregon it is horse country and a whole differnt flavor of PNW (except Bend)
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I'm fucked
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Oh, I'm learning how to sail this summer too. I have to keep myself busy or I get into trouble.I am so right there with you
:fahq:<-------bad bad bad MuffinI am not quite ready to commit to the sailing lessons yet but it is on my list of things to do. Kaiaking in the lake i bet i can just get something cheep and goof around with the kiddos and learn to paddle around.
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Doesn't shit like that just make you love men? Everyone should have a couple of them
Yep 
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I'm fucked
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arguably less strenuous than climbing too, because you dont have to carry all your overnight gear in your pack. Woohoo!shit ya... let alone jam your hand in a crack make a fist and then fall on it...
i might have to try this here new drug sickie
I'll let you float my boat.
Soon as I get one.
:moondance: :moondance:I have been thinking i want to take up boating of some kind but i have been torn between taking sailing lessons and getting a speed boat so i can water ski.... I bet i kan practive kiaking in Fern Ditch 
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I'm fucked
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arguably less strenuous than climbing too, because you dont have to carry all your overnight gear in your pack. Woohoo!shit ya... let alone jam your hand in a crack make a fist and then fall on it...
i might have to try this here new drug sickie
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yes m'am the very same place.Thats Funny!!! thats here in Eugene at the Collums. seriously I see that kind of shit EVERYTIME i climb there.That's really where you took me climbing???!!! I still remember the idiots scrambling to the top and the call to the police! Not to mention the cute jail bait flirting with you;)
I would never have called the police if the kids were not climbing on the fencing that keeps the crumbling collums form falling on peoples heads. I totaly forgot all about that. and how i went stomping up over there to get in someones face and thought i was all tough and shit until i turned around and realized Badvoodoo was RIGHT behind me with that "go ahead and lay one hand on her" look on his face
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I'm fucked
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I discovered kayaking last weekend.now that sounds like some serious fun....
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here's another combination Muffy...
A) that is so AWSOME I want to do that!!!!!!! it's like hang gliding with out a hangglider.
B) they started out way up high
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Thats Funny!!! thats here in Eugene at the Collums. seriously I see that kind of shit EVERYTIME i climb there.
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I agree. that's why I hesitated and asked. someone else made the move though. Best of luck for finding the right balance for your life shel.
That was me that shunted it down here, seemed like the direction it was headed, and likely the spirit in which it was started. My apologies if I acted precipitously. A serious eating disorder thread in the fitness forum is not a bad idea, I've known several climbers with real issues around food.
i am decidedly one of them.
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maybe the question we need to ask is what part of the PNW are you talking about. The rural areas are vastly different than the city period. I now live 30 miles east from the rural logging community i was raised in and it is a different world. you cross the river even more to the east and you are back in a rural community. along with those rural communities you also have a lack of education, bigotry, overt racism (rather than the polite behind the back kind) and sexism. I lived in a neighborhood in a small rural town where the whole neighbor hood came out to build a fence when one needed building. where when i forgot my key and was locked out the neighbor lady would haul me into her house and feed me a snack and give me some kitchen table to do my home work at. I lived in a neighbor hood where the kids had WARS and climbed trees, we played in the woods, road horses, were scared of the guy up the road who lived in the haunted old house and we caught polly wogs and salamanders, we road cows (DID TOO) and played in the orchard up the road and the acres of gardens on the farms that surrounded the neighborhood. We made jam, picked berries canned fruit made cider chopped our own Christmas tree. sobbed when they put the cow down that we road becuase that was dinner for the next year. We plucked chickens and ate them, we went to the woods not to hike when i was a kid, we hiked to find and chop fire wood, to hunt and to work. I am second generation rural PNW. City folks are a whole different breed. i am a bit sad that i am raising my kids the city way and not the country way. they are getting a way better education though.
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EEEEEKKKKKKKi think my next sport will be hang gliding not base jumping
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This show was fantastic. Coin was a pleasure to be around, humble and funny as always. If i wasn't old enough to be his momma I would have been hunting Colin. He is a total Cutie Pie for any one who cares. The pictures were beyond amazing and his story was real and true, riveting. all in all a well spent evening surround by a topic and people i really adore.
thanks to Mike S. Jen and Nick form BCG (some day you all are going to have to come up for a job for me at these things). The food was great and the beer and wine were AWSOME!!! Cody and Jenifer and Chris F. It was good to see you all. And a special thanks to Colin. One of these days it will be my pleasure to buy you a beer!
xooxoxox
muffin
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Should I move this to spray??
thats too bad. Eating disorders are a real concern for some of us who struggle. i am still working on it.
I agree. that's why I hesitated and asked. someone else made the move though. Best of luck for finding the right balance for your life shel.
Thanks Fern :kisss:
every day is a surprising journey. i am learning the trick is to not be surprised by that
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My only beef with PNW is that people feel the need to hold hands and talk about their feelings and sing Kumbaya before making a decision. If you do go and make a decision without taking those steps you risk being labeled "autocratic", which is like getting branded with the scarlet letter.
thats the hippies and kalifornicaters who moved here in the 60's and 70's. Ya'll don't know what you are talking aobut.
p.s. I was just watching the Alaska Adventure on Disc with my son. We decided that my God Father who is from Alaska would be the person to take on a trip like that. he can hunt and kill any thing, build anything and fix anything. Plus he is a fun drunk
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ballsy - how much time/space do they need for the chutes to work?
Was wondering the same thing. I used to skydive decades ago (with a T10 modified), right about the time the original round ParaCommanders were going rectangular. With my old chute off Monkey Face, I would've face-planted in the tuft long before it fully deployed.
my first thought "NO WAY it's not high enough"
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SMITH - Taco stand in the gas station at the north end of Redmond(gas station is right where Hwy 97 splits into one-ways through Redmond). Get the Super Burrito, its da bomb!
Sun Spot in Terribone. the food is great and really cheep and the service is down home. the sausage gravy is the worlds best hang over cure. Thanks to the tutilidge of Alpine K, i always stop at the Sun Spot when i am in the area. when Mikey Layton lived in Oregon i ran into him there more than once and shared a table. oh ya, you always share a table. the last time Badvoodoo and i were there we sat with this really nice old guy who had great stories to tell. he wasn't a climber but he was great breakfast company!
Open-Source Boob Project
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ya thats more like a breast exam looking for lumps that the doc does....