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I plan on buying a bradley fighting vehicle next. It'll be priceless at the McD's drive-thru when I pop the turret to order up some shakes.

Funny, I was the complete opposite. General mountaineering to alpine climbing to cragging to sport climbing, and now I have a gym membership. Looks like natural selection has my number. Man I still am so suck though. I just can't overcome the ability to pitch off hard (for me) sport climbs where before I would have died. Choss puts you in a particular mindset I'm afraid. I learned from some very gracious experienced climbers who took me under their wing and put up with my slowness and fear on routes at the edge of my ability at the time. I can never thank them enough for this and feel very lucky. I think the mountaineers and mazamas, as much as I throw out the jokes, are good for those who want to ease into a game that from an outsider's perspective, is very scary and intimidating. Not everyone wants to make climbing their #1 activity. Not everyone wants to climb the tough routes. There are also some damn good climbers involved with those organizations. Unfortunately, many of them get buried in the the inane technicalities of climbing (which direction should tandem prussiks be oriented, etc) and not the pure spirit of the activity. Unfortunately, many of these same individuals feel it is their mission in life to let you know how things should be done too. I have been chewed out by a number of them myself. I just bite my tongue. Lashing out at them will not change their minds.

well I'll try that out in the future. I've put black webbing up there before but it still disappears. I guess I'll look for "basalt w/ lichen accents" next time I buy a spool.

I knew what the topic would be about the second I read that subject line

First, he ends many sentences with prepositions like "with", and those sentences are quite long and roundabout. This makes the post as a whole quite tiring to read. Second, once you decipher the sentence, you realize it's total garbage anyways! Cheerio!

where'd you see that? Maybe that's why so many people see webbing disappear up there. Still doesn't explain the disappearance of the quicklinks though!

REALLY?!

maybe 3 sports, since you could get some caving in when you blast into the side of the wall on the rebound

while I don't condone the insults, I can certainly understand them.

is that his new suv? just kidding, relax

with duct tape on helmet

this type of thread has not surfaced for awhile! BTW I had a good experience with the WAC at Tieton last year. There were a bunch of them there, but were quite willing to stand aside for us to do a few routes in the area they were teaching (I think it was a trad leading class I guess).

that cat looks awfully big. is that for real

because they suck to clean and they look funky

now that's some serious spray right there

dude ran into a natural foods coop with a #5 camalot in tow...do the math. bottom line is he's in the pen and can't spray from there.

but what about catturdpee long lost cousin of catbirdseat

i thought those were tracking troublesome bears

Albina fuels in Portland is one of the big biodiesel distributors for you folks with diesels. For you yahoos who don't want to have anything to do with liberal greenies, just think that it is fighting terrorism by avoiding mideast oil

here's a link to some info on straight vegetable oil. This is actually off of the grease works website based out of Corvallis.

I'm not too clear on it, but I thought the latest jettas needed a kit to burn mcdonald's waste, but could run biodiesel straight off the lot. Maybe I am misunderstanding the difference between the two.

it's pretty sweet! super cheap and plentiful fuel, and for a damn good cause I might add. There are other kits out there for Dodge Rams and stuff, and then there are home-brew setups as well. I would buy a diesel just for this reason.

there's biodiesel and then there's straight-up vegetable oil. if you have a jetta tdi there is a fairly cheap and very well-made german kit that will have your jetta running off the throwout grease from mcdonalds and stuff

this is why mass transit will never succeed in the Seattle metro also I think anyone who commutes by mass transit or bikes to work or doing errands or whatever can drive whatever the hell they want when they need transportation