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just get a flat-panel display and get a mac while you're at it

set of those spike strips you saw on world's wildest police chases 8?

and -and this other time-hehe-- we had a small alcohol fire goin' in the lab, and some jock tries to put it out by blowing real hard and liquid fire spilled over the counter and flowed down the floor towards the drain. stupid jocks get'n burned and stuff. high school chem teachers are brave souls.

we also took a chunk of pure sodium out to a rock quarry and used a bike tube to launch it into the middle of the lake. We could see our shadows on the trees as we ran away.

I remember a jar of lithium in the organic chem stockroom with some grey waxy-looking sticks in it with some tape on the top that read "whatever you do, do not open this container - will explode on contact with air"

don't knock the meth lab! It's a great source of hydrogen for bush's little forays into alternative transportation

I like a good lithium sandwich now and then, washed down with some drain cleaner and lye. Breakfast - most important meal of the day

thinker how's the new pad coming? cardboard boxes and plywood make great siding don't they

that's some funny stuff right there. I'm sure you kill everything you eat. I bet that McRib put up a good struggle before you broke its neck and skinned it on site.

once bitten twice shy or as bush would say...bite me once....shame on....shame on me.....bite me twice......youdon'tgetboldagain.

well that's good to see, as I said above. your approach to this incident was much better than the previous avalanche fatalities. I suppose as someone who has been rescued before and having been through the process of being misquoted and edited down to say something I didn't say, I am cautious towards those who represent the media.

e. face of Alberta (I think dru used it to make a point here somewhere before too, he'll probably beat me to this post )

haha! I was hoping that prophet wouldn't be noticed but nevertheless I think you'd agree that snow is classic pick territory too. not saying an ice tool isn't nice to have at all, but I've enjoyed a 55cm ushba axe at 335g for some climbs like the reid and sandy hw's, both quite moderate but I've seen ice tools used on there before. And it self-arrests well too, which I have used before. Prob with the general picks are the release, which can waste a lot energy prying out.

This can be done w/a mountaineering axe...

it's like the Scott expedition to the south pole

ice tools are damn heavy. I say get a short light classic axe around 55cm.

nice post dfa! good info

mattp I was simply basing the above statement on what I have seen here, not the media as a whole. I did not attack them when they posted, but I can understand the skepticism that several have expressed here about their motives. duchess, do you show up here specifically for details on climbing accidents and nothing else?

I thought one of the biggest problems with fuel cell technology was the lack of a cheap way to produce and distribute hydrogen

Bringing a second tool when not needed. Using a second tool when not needed. chalking up too often. letting a grade convince me I can't do the moves letting a grade convince me it should be a cakewalk not keeping my heel pressured on steep skinning

what up caveman

I remember Gary Payton back in the day at Oregon State and when he came to my junior high school for lunch and stuff. The Sonics were always a deadend for Payton, this will be good for him maybe

Not focusing on keeping my hands warm. Not drinking enough. Face-out french downclimbing steep ice w/crampons w/ speed. Overswinging on steep ice when scared.

if it was by the road you might get DFA to show. skiing in would develop (and hence ruin) his sporto thighs