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the Princess is f'ing hot. almost as much as that girl in smurfs.

Yeah, you probably use about 2000 kCal/day just staying alive sitting here typing. You can expend about 1300 kCal doing an hour of hard running. You can approximate (very roughly) how much energy you are expending with a HRM (try strapping one on when you bike to work). I think bike commuting is a great way to lose weight as you have to do it every day, it happens in the morning when your body is probably at a bit of caloric deficit to begin with, and then you polish off the day by elevating the HR again on the way home. Nothing beats consistent, hard running though (from my experience). It is hard on your body. IF you can stand a treadmill and have access to a good one, it will be a lot easier on your knees and you can put in the hours. This takes some mental endurance and focus. Try doing a workout before going to bed, then another one in the morning when your body is depleted. This can be a sufferfest, but it will help drive your body to burn whatever it has (muscle, fat, anything it can grab). The key is to do something you can repeat over and over. If it is too much of a draw on your body, you can't recover, and you are wasting your time. A heart rate monitor will allow you to pace yourself over the week, though at some point you can outgrow it and know when you will be in pain the next day. As a physicist, you can appeciate how it is very much a thermodynamics equation. The question is, what can you consume that will satisfy you enough to not consume too much, and survive your active lifestyle, yet still maintain a deficit? I've concluded that it is not fun to maintain a caloric deficit all the time. You become edgy, though pretty energetic at times, sortof how one would expect one to be when having to survive in the wild. Hope that helps. I'm certainly no expert, but I have had a lot of coffee today.

You need to start counting how many calories that is. It doesn't matter what you eat, how "healthy" it is, etc. If you want to drop mass, what matters is the caloric content, and you know it. IF you were strictly interested in weight loss, health be damned, you could eat donuts in "reasonable" amounts exclusively and still lose weight. Baked potatoes, white semolina pasta, orange juice, etc are all very healthy items, but they pack a ton of calories. You have to cut portion size. The best way to do this is by counting calories and evaluating how many you burn from basal metabolism + activity. Get a heart rate monitor. A pain in the ass, but it will work. Decide if the weight loss is really an advantage in the mountains. It probably is, but you might lose some strength and endurance too. Then again there are not a lot of beefcakes breaking new alpine ground.

It's Smith Rock, you idiot.

If you burn more than you consume, you HAVE to lose weight. If you have a problem doing this, blow your life savings in Vegas and move to the Indian subcontinent.

Hot days are weather-related, aren't they? The 1042 medivac out of Salem has been around. Perhaps they were in Afghanistan or Kosovo when these incidents happened. Or an issue with the mast or nat'l park regs they can't take over a commercial contract. Or maybe they just were unavailable or unknown as an asset in WA? Unfortunate. The crash on Hood was the upgraded but heavier pavehawk. There is a certain feeling of sketchiness asking for even the lighter blackhawks (at least down here on Hood) though perhaps it is unfounded. People are a bit on-edge after that crash. It has to be pretty bad (or at least it should be) before they enter the equation. Obviously the pilots have the best knowledge of what is possible. That last crash was only at 10.5k. The 1042 seem to be doing really well on Rainier though. It just shows how little it takes for something to go wrong! If the 1042 gets sent back to Iraq you'd better start hiking (or crawling). Best not get in an accident to begin with eh?

There are not many mountain rescues "around here", but there are ones where only a helicopter will do. You are more likely to not get your helicopter ride due to bad weather than due to a shortage of helicopters.

you guys are disgusting, I'm outta here.

ah HAH! trolling successful. Now there is ammunition when the next thread gets chopped up by the mods. Jury, I present exhibit A, a moderator not only tolerating, but actually encouraging revolting discourse.

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Is that better or worse than what you make your money for? he just needs money for jugs.

I thought this would be about some gridbolting epidemic in hospitals.

f-off strickland, everyone knows cows go to bovine university when they done graduated.

slothrop don't you realize that the power of prayer is what keeps Schiavo alive? I do wonder what comes out of a "feeding tube" at a hospital. Is there just some IV bag hanging above the bed that says "food" on it?

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I don't see any igloos. All canadians live in igloos except in BC where it is not cold enough. In BC they live in log cabins.

yeah I bet there's a room in the basement over at the FDA full of chained-up fat dudes grubbing on pot pies and new ice cream flavors. the resulting indigestion and stool size/consistency leads to an accurate number on the box.

Volkl Gotamas are the mythical ski that no one can seem to afford but everyone wants. Beautiful and expensive (at least the older pure black ones). I have seen them mounted with freerides (this is the setup of one of the pro patrollers at Meadows). I could not imagine touring in those beasts, though "touring" means different things to different people. They are not quite as Gucci as DB skis, but they are getting there.

How are caloric values of food determined? For instance, a serving of shredded wheat might have 200 kcal in it, but I would think your body doesn't see alot of that energy as a lot of it is undigestable fiber. Just wondering. How do they determine how many calories are in milk? It's not like they can use a bomb calorimeter. Or can they?

Those would be some relaxed fish, though they might get the shakes occasionally. Welcome back to cc.com btw.

Are there chains up there yet or do I still need to bring gear? Hopefully the ASCA will take care of this (along with those spinners in the yellow band). Lawson, are you listening?

I bet it is "better" to drop your lithium battery over the side in the open ocean if you are over a trench or something. Pollution Dilution Solution.

I'd rather not as it is pure speculation, but it was a fatality on Mt. Hood's west side. I'm sure plenty has been climbed in aluminums. It just seems like if you know you are going to be on 50° or more snow/ice for extended distances you would not be reaching for the aluminum. Obviously a lot has to do with the boots worn with aluminums. The garmont towers aren't exactly performers on the ice.