iain

quote: Originally posted by Dru: i bet i beat iain again even with all that warning victory! and a quoted Druism before he can edit. wasting far too much time with extra hunds

5.11d C (cougars on route, stiffens the grade a bit)

hund!

hund?

quote: Originally posted by Ropegun2002: quote:Originally posted by Dru: do eat salt off roads? eine oktoberfesthund

Argh even with flood control I couldn't get a snaffle in edgewise! Studs are irresponsible. I only drive with chains on when I'm in Portland.

the big deal about ophiolites is that it is a rare occurance indeed when a chunk of the sea floor survives subduction and winds up where we can see it. Leads to some very cool rox to look at. There is a good one down in Oregon, Rogue River area.

ophiolites, ultramafics, Mohs hardness....is today Lyell's birthday or something? next we'll have a diagram showing the eutectic of horsecock

Grivel Alpenstock

I won't speak for him but since I waste far more time on this site than he does he said it rocked.

no it's like training for thumb screw torture. snowshoeing rots!

why don't they just heat all the roads like they do with Safeco Field?

I think it's an associate's degree. Prerequisites: 2 credits of watching things 101 2 social science credits (waving 21) 2 P.E. credits (wrist turning 11, some gymnastics needed for the jackasses who don't slow down).

you're just going there to check out the ruffwear doggie booties and $4,000 water dish. you're not fooling anybody.

quote: Originally posted by Muffy The Wanker Sprayer: I have not, however, been able to figure out a way to get paid to slack

quote: Originally posted by Rainier Wolfscastle: I think you can just buy the whippet shaft and a seperate lower section from BD. No need to buy another set of poles. If that's true it makes much more sense. I've only seen the conversion kit available. I've had some BD poles for a long time already, so I'll just use the lower sections from those.

Oregonians are way too smart for that. ODOT does a good job in my book. They are even working on lowering the amount of cinder they run on roads in the winter (you often see cinder laid down, only to be followed up by a plow coming through pushing all the cinder off again). It has been contaminating drainages around highways, so they are working on other options, and only laying cinder every other plow or so.

Again, the biner is totally legit in that case because it should not be under tension anyway. It just sits there as a backup in case the bark on the tree shears off under rotational stress or whatever else might happen. The whole concept is that there is no knot in the system weighted, so you maintain the maximum strength in your line. This is also why prusiks are used to anchor lines under heavy load, as they act as a load-limiting clutch to protect the line from failure.

whoops Loren got in there but I unwittingly stumbled on the this time

quote: Originally posted by Muffy The Wanker Sprayer: okay call me silly, but as I was a salad bar queen for a cupple of years at a restraunt this is what I know... when we set up the salad bar, we put in ICE, and then salted it to keep it frozen harder for longer... Don't ask me why this works, I just know it does, having forgotten to salt the ice on one occasion... so how is that salt can de-ice and keep ice icey??? A good question. Here's the deal: Ice forms when water reaches 0°C. Salt lowers this temperature. So when you put salt on ice, it is more likely to melt, since the salt dissolves into any remnant liquid H20 in the ice and lowers the freezing point. At a certain point, around -9°C or so, salt does not have much effect as it becomes difficult for it to penetrate the lattice of ice to find residual liquid to begin the dissolving rxn. To keep your salad bar cold, you add salt to ice because you want the temp around the salad items to be as cold as possible for as long as possible, so you lower the freezing point below 0°C. It doesn't keep the ice frozen longer, but it drops the temperature of the briny salt water that forms. How's that?