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I've slept in that bathroom a few times

looks like cc.com could do with a Crawl-delay entry in its robots.txt file for User-agent: Slurp.

stfu noob, the term is playahata

To quote Led Zeppelin I: How many more times....

would you shut up? as usual the forecast promises upcoming sickness and some jackass gets on here getting all w00tw00t about it and we end up with dust on crust.

Je fais un test avec ma tikka et mon baryvox et je vous dits ca. funny that Tikka is feminine and Barryvox is masculine

I think he is saying he will test his tikka with a barryvox and let people know the results. ...or he could be claiming his friend needs to drink more milk to get his daily dose of Calcium

I just don't see this conflict. I have not seen many "wool-knickered pinheads" either. In fact, telemarkers are the gear sluts of the industry these days.

I like skiing the trees off NW chair at Bachelor, and the runs when they are filled in early in the day. I think you can get your day's worth of good powder there. I don't see the need to compare it to other places. No the terrain is not super xtremo but the runs are long and continuous, and there are few lines. It's fun. And It's All Yours™

Ah yes, plastic brought so many improvements to skiing, didn't it?

Wow nice pontification. I didn't know there was hatred of park skiers. Now I know. Sidenote: There is jibbing, and then there is the outtake footage from Hot Dog. I hope the difference is clear.

Some of them waste too much time reading this site rather than climbing, but when they are climbing, they are very good at it.

The 2 mile range deal is just a marketing number. They can work over 85 miles in the right conditions. Other times you won't be able to hear your partner 100 yards away. They are line of sight UHF radios, and that's what really matters. FRS is going to be just fine. No, black helicopters will not descend on you if you don't pay your GMRS license. If you broadcast enough on there some crackpot hams can triangulate your location, but otherwise it is next to impossible to enforce. You are still breaking the law. I wouldn't bother using the GMRS freqs unless you are finding FRS to be inadequate. All GMRS allows is a bump up in wattage. All the wattage in the world is not going to help you if you have a cliff in between you and your partner though. Just for comparision, many satellite transmissions use similar wattages to send back signals to the planet. That's a long ways away.

you are effectively fighting a 2:1 pulley system if you pull up the rope on a quickdraw like that.

yes it is winter and now no matter how tropical the weather one is apparently considered a tough guy if one climbs a peak now, way tougher than the guys who climbed the same peak yesterday, or 3 weeks ago when it was snowing.

salomon sux. so does watching dog shows on tv.

Do they have wifi at grassy ledges yet? Does he and his roommate share that cave at the base?

I hope everyone up there the last few days got a chance to see St. Helens smoking away too! That was incredible in the calm air. Surreal, almost.

I was lying down in a t-shirt on the summit on Saturday, and casually hopped into the skis w/o gloves on for some great corn skiing. Spring corn on HOoD in late Dec! Gaston I probably walked by you up there.

I assume you will be posting a 30 digital photo sequence of you opening the cover.

There were flurries at Government Camp last night, but it didn't seem like enough to make a difference over time. This high pressure b.s. is supposed to push off around Christmas with a _chance_ for the nice combo of arctic air from the jetstream and moisture from the pacific. Or it could just go into the Utah/Colorado area.

Some guy free-soloed it while we were there a month or so ago (onsight except for some general info from us). He said he did get off route and almost killed himself. He drove in on a motorcycle. I'm sure some here know him. Nice guy.

that's when the digital camera comes out and starts taking pictures.

I did a little research and it looks like the lithium batteries produce inert compounds once the reaction is completed, so they are fairly safe to chuck if the battery is totally spent. The amount of mercury in alkaline cells has dropped dramatically and many landfills that previously banned alkalines now accept them. Batteries made after 1992 (the ban on added mercury) can be disposed of in the regular trash. Mercury barred any chance of economic recycling, but now that mercury levels are required to be so low, if not zero, new recycling programs may begin to appear to take alkalines.