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I made a vinegar volcano once. it rocked!

the more bandwidth you have for your data connection, the more data/unit time you can transfer over that connection

ridin' switch

'course this one's more appropriate for around here

ah that's the lawgoddess I know and love, sick custom emoticons

but those guys were sportfishing, not doing that crazy irresponsible shit those jokers up in the mountains do. charge those climbers to protect themselves from themselves!

rails terrify me. anytime my skis are perpendicular to the way I'm moving terrifies me. a friend and I dropped into a terrain park at T-Line and got yelled at for loitering in the "snowboard park" when my friend tried a rail slide with his tele gear that killed me.

follow the above info and you'll be buying a new cpu. There is the larger fan in your power supply, and often a smaller one on the cpu itself (on a heat sink) on the logic board. They are there for a reason. the cooler the cpu, the more efficiently it operates. get it too hot and it will literally melt, particularly with the high clock speeds these days. the fan on your cpu should stay put. as for the other larger fan, it also helps cool your expansion cards and the logic board in general by creating airflow. most cases (if you have a generic PC case) are designed to produce front-to-back airflow like a windtunnel. removing the case or the main fan prevents this from happening. It also prevents the case from doing its job as ESD protection, as it is usually lined with metal to provide a kind of faraday shield from static and grape juice and stuff. that said, plenty of people run systems w/o cases (I know one guy who found his cat sleeping on his logic board while running and it still works). the main fan does have a purpose though. if it is removable, there's a good chance you could replace it with a cheap new one from an electronics store.

so's hello kitty™ you freak

ah yes, the real mountains. thank you heir moderator.

erik change my title back I'm sick of explaining the "mt hood gives me wood" thing to people

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cool now the question is will the skipper still be playing on the wing.

trouble in mountie paradise?

the geode is the state "rock" of oregon. a.k.a. the "thunderegg"

I was considering going to the man. united game coming to town but I would doubt the real man united team would be on the field...

sat: alpine antics in stuart range sun: cragging at tieton mon: laps and laps of perfect corn on hood not bad, not bad at all I agree.

depends if we are going up or down in that picture. either way, thanks for the picture nice work on prusik. amazing how many people know about cascadeclimbers in that area. basically everybody we met.

the one w/o skis. nice to put a face to a name.

my goodness that route gets crowded. much fewer people climbing today, good icy conditions though. good corn snow down below as well.

That was us on Triple C's. It sucked.

In case it was not obvious w/ the weather we have been having, this route is decidedly out of shape now. A friend and I got a ways up the runnels out of hidden couloir and encountered slush snow on granite and thin ice. The runnels were periodically being bombarded w/ rock and ice as well. We should have known better when we were postholing up the first section but we had to check it out firsthand. We did not enter the runnels directly at the bottom for fear of being nailed, but we had great difficulty getting back in there after we skirted on the right. There wasn't much in the way of rock climbing possibilities since it was all wet and snowy still, but worthless for ice tools. We rapped out of there and went up asgaard pass instead. It probably could be forced, but this route is obviously nice enough that it deserves good conditions. Damn I don't get my cc.com 3couloirs merit badge. Spent the following day at Tieton, chill as always.

nothing can compare to the epic ed viesturs' favorite pre-climb pizza thread I started on summitpost.com. 'bout time for another visit.

hmmm....that LOL smells of avatar

25 would be okay at 5am but 25.5 at 5:05am is totally unacceptable. Maybe asking for a tad too much beta, eh?