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Again, that's a choice to be made, but once it's made, no bitching about traffic problems! I would personally find it difficult to live my life where my work and home are separated by a mandatory car ride, though 120 miles of hills in the rain a week wears on the mind

If you can ski Hoodoo you can ski anywhere, or so the saying goes...

probably the best skill you can have for backcountry is a good hop turn that gets your skis out of the crud or breakable crust. I still need to work on this. Being able to get down breakable crust with some grace is the mark of a trully good skier, esp. when the consequences of a wipeout are bad.

I would think you could pick back up and be right back where you were within days, even hours. I think skiing has a lot to do with engrams and muscle memory, and you just have to jog that memory.

I feel sorry for people with bad traffic commutes but if you don't want to put up with it, move, or get on the bike. I'm sick of pdx commuters bitching about how narrow the bridge is over the Columbia. Don't want traffic issues? Don't commute to Beaverton from Vancouver!!!

OMFG

and is the guy behind her just adjusting something or is he strapped to the pack too? maybe the alpine boot-pack setting device?

You didn't take those yourself?

tho this was a close second...

that site is f'ing terrible but I have found it.

the bunny with the pancake head link?

so what would you like cracked's image avatar to be? He foolishly linked to an image on a web server I have access to...lessee here...

hmm those promote bad technique. I mean, if the coffee cup starts falling, it might get in the habit of pushing out and perhaps spilling residual drops

I have seen a few maniacs hanging it out there on plastic wiregates over by the dining hall

I KNOW

Are you living in this guy's crawlspace yet?

do you realize the size of the stereo system I have hooked up to my mac asshole? scared the shit out of me

Beacon Rock is the place to go for biners. Cashed in on 1 route with 3!

there's something about scot'ty

indeed