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time for a big rock, eh?

It pays to practice skiing AT w/ heels released, otherwise this gets old real fast for both you and your tele partners.

AT boots hike much better than alpine ski boots, w/o question. Even the beefiest AT boot does not compare to the stiffness and support of an alpine boot. AT boots have a rockered, Vibram-style sole for hiking.

I have rock climbed in Scarpa Denalis when doing some ski traversing in Canada and it was bloody awful. They just don't have the feel and your lower leg is essentially locked down, even w/all buckles released. Downclimbing steep ice is a real pain because french technique is almost totally out. I use them for easy climbs like Leutholds and South side on hood but not much else. I have put in some practice with mountaineering boots in skis, so I prefer to sacrifice skiing speed for good climbing. The plastics in AT boots tends to be much stiffer than that of plastic mountaineering boots. Maybe there are better AT climbing boots out there. Denalis are definitely geared for the skier. The Scarpa F1 intrigues me, but I wonder if it is any better than my Invernos. I have climbed with many people who climb w/ tele boots successfully, but I've also heard a lot of bitching about them too. Both AT and tele boots take crampons, but obviously model compat. should be confirmed.

Do you have a problem with algae? perhaps it's time for a bath dude.

the bible is my favorite kind of text: soft, strong, and thoroughly absorbent

Perl is the ductape of the internet.

that's rich!

what would Jacko do?? hold saddam out over the hotel balcony for all to see, then return to the "playpen".

yeah worth calling the ranger station, but I think it's January-July that it is off limits. could be wrong though.

Thesis-worthy evidence, to be sure.

Actually it's these guys who said it, in the latest issue of Science: Estimates of Globular Clusters in the Milky Way: Contraints on Cosmology Lawrence M. Krauss and Brian Chaboyer

the grand canyon had nothing to do with noah's ark.

It's closed.

the universe is between 11.2 billion and 20 billion years old, and likely to be 13-14 billion years old.

I've noticed that too. I literally have come back the next day and webbing I placed was gone. Strange.

It's strange that Hussein has NOT been assasinated by now. I'm sure the CIA has been actively tracking him ever since the gulf war and we have who knows how many operatives in Baghdad at any point in time. Why have we not heard that he "tripped" on the stairs last night or had a heart attack? Surely he's not that good at evading us, and that we could fabricate a plausible story and most countries would look the other way....it's certainly not beneath the US to carry out such a plan is it? And would it solve a big chunk of the perceived problem there?

not enough typos and this stuff for your liking?

Perhaps if you could avoid the pointless personal attacks in virtually every post I would pay more attention to your bluster. Since you are not in the military community, I really don't care either way.

anything is possible if you cite Fox News as your primary source.

I would think you would just stand for whatever the administration who activates you stands for.