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you lucky dog

white satin goes at m-easy

I could just see GWB in his flight suit again. "Punch it Chewie!"

I think you'd die of unnatural causes long before that. bush is out of his skull proposing that right now. we could get so much more info out of mars for the same buck w/o wasting money trying to keep a sack of salt water alive out there.

Wonder who's going to step up as the person to go to Mars? Basically asking someone to commit suicide. Even with the robots the odds of surviving the landing are quite poor. Not to mention the enormous amount of time the individual would have to spend by themselves in space.

I breathed a sigh of relief as I stumbled into basecamp, a staggering 1000ft above msl. I almost retched at the condition of the area after years of expeditions, cow crap everywhere and chickens on the loose. I crawled into my 8000m bag inside the primitive barn-like shelter, praying I would not fall victim to mighty Klickitat's fury.

you can see the LA smog in the background, and I think that's MJ's nose in the rubble in the lower left.

It also reminds me why I have not climbed those slogfests since I was 12 bwahha

Yeah it sounds a little sad but lay off guys. He's out there doing stuff, and AMS can kick in on anyone, at any time above 9k or so, no matter how fit or experienced you are. I have never had issues myself, but that's not to say I won't in the future. Even though he's not climbing hard stuff and his reports are pretty damn melodramatic at times it inspires me to get out there more often reading his stuff sometimes.

only problem is in this area is you have to dig deep to find snow cycles because the events here are so epic!

I believe it syncs up nicely with the disassembly of Michael Jackson's face. The 1998 photo clearly emulates the hideous nature of the post "Bad" era.

I seem to remember a bathroom like this in college, resulting in the same waving of hands/jumping in the dark. I ended up throwing a toilet paper roll out the stall to trigger the lights and beat a hasty retreat.

I predict mad cow foam will become a beauty product in the future. I am already collecting my stash to sell

It probably would be bad but you only live once. If it was true frostbite I think your decision would already be made for you. If it starts to discolor in the future I would not risk it myself. Think how lame it would be to lose parts of your fingers. I was pretty scared when this happened to me since the numbness lasted for weeks.

'cause the guy can't get laid once, never mind engage in polygamy

the owner of the skeleton in Kennewick is higher on my list...

If I have a phone jack I can do my job from Verbier. However, I wanted to come in today because I knew all these people at work would be away.

Often it seems the umbrella of "environmentalism" covers other motivations. Putting warm fuzzy bears aside, perhaps I don't want bridges put in because it makes the area that much more wild and exclusive to get into, making it a special place that is perhaps visited rarely. Sort of along the lines of Edward Abbey's proposal to move the Grand Canyon Vistor Center way back from the canyon's edge. The animals and habitat are often used as symbols around which people can rally to protect areas from development.

looks affordable. only 4 grand a run!

"Here's Bob, he lived in Portland for 5 years before moving out here to Florida for retirement, and man is his RV taking a pounding right now" (ducking roofing shingles as he speaks) "Bob, Joe from KGW...do you miss Portland?"

I'm sure he's the guy sent to the chain-up areas to report on road conditions too. Then it's off to Florida for hurricane season to get the pacific n.w. angle. Poor guy.

I have NEVER understood that. "Joe here reporting live from the Timberline parking lot that the DAYCARE is closed today so come pick up your kids."

that sucks. The Wells Fargo tower could collapse today and it would still not make the news, relegated to later in the newscast so they can show some dumbass reporter slipping around out on burnside bitching about how cold it is, maybe throw in some more footage of a expedition peeling out in a parking lot.

I'm not making fun, I'm gonna be right there with you (or are you using T1's?) anyway whatever gets you down the hill