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Has anyone here used Atomic Sugar Daddies? Obviously good for the pow but how about on the icier days? Bearable? What length do you have? Thanks.

I predict flurries of GMC Yukons in the Mt. Hood Meadows area. Intermittent sprinkles of Escalades in the median and ditches. Outback advisory in effect.

Dirty Dancing - "I've had the time of my life"

perhaps I'm exaggerating a bit

I take it you survived the 3 interviews, FBI background check, fitness test, and wallet-emptying required to be allowed to touch a belay device at that joint?

you might be on belay 10 ft up the wall when your belayer makes it to the actual kern of the kernmantle rope. (they seem to have become better about this)

check out the ropes at the PRG sometime.

Aahhh the bustling metropolis of Corvallis. I can feel the pulse of the city from here.

Okay, a poorly conceived lie then. It's unfortunate that he has not learned to avoid speaking in absolutes when answering the media. He also bristles and immediately takes a defensive posture whenever anyone questions what he has said. This makes him look like a liar (which is perhaps accurate more often than not).

It would seem this mis-worded blunder was more a byproduct of his inadequacy to control a press conference. I think few would disagree that press conferences, where GWB must actually piece together a series of thoughts in a row and articulate them on the fly, are almost universally a political negative for this president. Even his own administration seems to agree, only scheduling the bare minimum. Without queuing or teleprompter, this president does not carry himself well when he is challenged with tough questions.

If you take the "other" road to Cooper Spur, you turn off before the closure at Baseline Rd. coming up from Hood River. With the fall colors it's a beautiful drive this time of year too!

heisman trophy winner

Cloud Cap (and the Eliot) got dumped on pretty good. Waded through some thigh-deep drifts up there and it was still coming down solid by Sunday evening. Rockin!

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I'm in that picture! looks like you are a Klein owner

Snow level down to 5000' in N. Oregon Cascades on Monday

I found Blownout to be more technical and sustained than something like Windsurfer. The finish is not obvious. It's hard to call that 10a when something like Tooth Fairie/Decay is 10a, or Sufficiently Breathless is 10a. The last move off of Jill's is 10 terrain in my opinion. Free for Some/Pipeline may be soft in your books, but I found them freak'n hard. That said the grades seem good, and it seems the difference in difficulties is more the nature of the climb highlighting the weaknesses of the climber. For instance if you are not used to a lot of stemming, Blownout will seem relatively hard.

But you gotta clip them just to feel the energy of those who came before...