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is this thing on?

clandestine chemical lab snowglobe?

Rumsfeld Pez dispensers perhaps?

I just watched a very entertaining popcorn popping session!

gripping

the best move is when you are passing someone, said tailgater comes up on your bumper, gets impatient and immediately swerves to try to get around on the far right lane, only to be stymied by some geo metro or something, slams on brakes, swerves back over to far left hoping to squeeze by on the right asap. no turn signals used in entire event. even better when you wind up right next to them at a red light after all the work.

people need to chill out and feel lucky to be driving so fast for so cheap at all. seattle has the worst drivers, rivals california traffic.

truer words have never been spoken.

the r:ex is heavy and expensive. not a good touring choice. the mira is supposed to be phenomenal. if you want some solid and light boards, check out atomic tourguide superlights. super cheap too. There should be some of last year's tuas floating around out there for cheap. All are excellent and pretty light but seems like the top sheet gets beat up in a hurry.

okayokay try some white cheddar, maybe some garlic too.

sweet jeezus. this is a cry for help.

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Yo C.B.S. the EDK is now in Freedom of the Hills (was just browsing a bookstore), looks like you need to download again! Also there is a diagram of shorts over polypro. I'm dead serious.

Did you read the article linked right below your story?

better than a kilt of quickdraws

I think there's a usenet veteran in our midst

think Galapagos and the Voyage of the Beagle AlpineK

so why use anything else

enough of this shorts over polypro thing. yeah it looks bad but I could see it being functional. also, who cares what you look like out there. Not wearing shorts over poly to be fashionable is like arranging the deck chairs on the Titantic for a lot of you.

Oh, and not trusting a water knot for a sling? wtf.

I make sure to never give out my real name to anybody when climbing.

Looks like there will be some new glade skiing on the PCT into Three Fingered Jack this year.

I'd do the release thing solely for the treewells. Anyone who's been in that situ knows how scary it is.

looking into the heart of the range...

and then the view in the other direction... check out the little needle just sticking out low on the right, called The Minaret