iain

I say get someone who is PSIA trained if you take classes. There are plenty of dynamite skiers out there. Few can put into words what your body should be doing in the turn like a professional teacher. The best can watch your form and tell you exactly what you are doing wrong or right. Worth the money in my book, and you take one one hour session then work a few weeks on it, come back for more when you have digested the MANY little nuances. Or just go skiing a lot. If you get some bad habits in the muscle memory though, they can be virtually impossible to remove. Ask any tennis instructor.

winds have been absolutely smoking up the charts on the mile recently (in mph):

oh how the parents pressure their kids in athletics at such an early age! Figure skating, tennis, skiing, and those poor children suffering the wrath from the overbearing snowmobiling mom. All in the quest for glory:

ah the ambassador of Oregon. We grow 'em well down here folks

ah yes a valuable safety feature. now I know!

eggselent so meny of us cann spel any witch way wee chucse.

why because they are postholing when they should have some boards strapped to their feet like those with common sense bwahaha (I like how the green laugh gives a different impression than ol' yeller )

or Why Yeast? my favorite slog route. but perhaps the hardboiled hardman wants to tackle a difficult scramble...kastle superstore crags is a tough egg to crack go for it

If you ever feel out of shape take a tour of the mongolian grill and you will feel like superman when compared to the average patron up at the buffet. they need a waiting ambulance out front at those places

I don't really have a strong opinion about it, it's just a strange thing to do (taking the chains and steel wires away). Perhaps he/she wants to keep Beacon from becoming too popular by somehow making life a little more challenging?? I've got plenty of junk webbing to spare though.

do you mean Sunshine....?

I removed the above, I apologize if you _truly_ found it offensive. I was being too aggressive towards you in those later posts for a friday afternoon. -Iain

ah yes the usual mother rurp comes along to set the children straight. As someone who has seen the devastation of severe burns and who has been trained to deal with burn victims, I can say that the lucky individuals in that disaster are dead and that it is truly an apocolyptic scene in R.I. I would not want to live through that. I'm not making light of the situation with the coping mechanism of humor. Nevertheless, I don't think I was demonstrating a lack of respect and find it far too easy for people to simply post the moral high ground stance each time on this board. I will apologize to freeclimb and your etheral and awfully ivory-tower self if the phrase offended you and remove it, but there have been far worse ones here in relation to our impending war and hate and glass parking lots and cartoons about dead muslims, and you have been silent about it.

who are you? fairweather? I'm fresh out of material here. "throw me a bone" as the ladies say in amsterdam

will you be laughing your ass off when I invade your complex for a mere $1.99 mofo?

look at all the webbing you get

hmm, I didn't realize metolius was making blue spandex slips dfa, lookin good

so what's that in 3.2 beers?

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sounds like the monkeywrench gang

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frontline's depressing. don't those guys have anything positive to document?

cough syrup's not available in eugene it's all being used to farm ephedrine for meth.

I'm pretty convinced Bush has little to do with any decisions being made at this point. I think that was some good objective analysis of the situation Trask, even though we are pathetically uninformed about what is really going on over there.