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where was that again?

Grocery Outlet at 132nd and Aurora N has Cliff bars @ 2/$1 (that's 50 cents each for those of you who didn't finish grade school). 2 flavors: spiced punkin and caramel apple cobbler. "sell by" date June 2004.

There is anecdotal evidence that Native Americans may have done FAs of Mt Rainier and The Grand Teton. I'd venture that MANY FAs were done by natives for various reasons.

Idaho's City of Rocks South Dakota Needles (Black Hills)

why not spray while you spray?

Rock On! I finally got a copy and recommend it, too.

An area of irregular limestone in which erosion has produced fissures, sinkholes, underground streams, and caverns.

I just had dinner at some little Chinese restaurant at 90th and Roosevelt. The photos there by King Wu are amazing. I found em' on line, here are a couple of my favs.

I'd call that a bowline on a coil.

Hell, I've hauled overnight gear to the summit twice and spent 1 or 2 nights ON the summit each time. In my opinion, spending one night around 8k, and another around 10k or 11k is plenty of time to acclimate for most people. If you want to hedge your bets a little, spend an extra night at one of those camps and enjoy the scenery....14,000 is just not that high unless you hustle right up from sea level. It's really nice, too, not to have to hoof it all the way out on summit day. Consider spending another night at your high camp and starting down fresh in the morning.

Alasdair said: I have a whole pile of those nice yellow write in the rain notebooks, that I managed to get for free from this place I used to work. I think you know the ones I mean. They work pretty well. Indeed I do. The 'write in the rain' notebooks are relatively cheap. it's the frickin' pens that are expensive.

Insomnia struck this morning and I found myself pondering life's big questions... What do you use for a mountaineering/climbing journal? some type of bound book? any old scrap of paper? just your digital camera and TRs on cc.com? And....do you tend to write in your journal while you're ON a climb, or do you wait until it's over?

Insomnia struck this morning and I found myself pondering life's big questions... What IS the best way to mark climbing gear? How do you mark yours? I've seen someone go as far as laying all their metal gear out in the parking lot and spraying one side of it with purple spray paint....that was a little gaudy for my personal taste.

Dylan, I'm not so sure I agree with you....yet. What's your basis for making that statement? CO is the result of incomplete combustion (of either fuel type). It seems to me that complete combustion would be much easier to approach with the butane/propane mixture in the canisters than it would with the petroleum based fuel. Where's CBS when we need him.....

T & P...nuff said.

from the cc.com archives.... DUDE, you're the HAND!

I'm not so sure your fantasies that include 16-year olds are appropriate here.....

sorry, I used my French phrase book to wipe my ass in the Paris airport. What did you say?

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The P'tit Loup...named after a French magazine for children. I wonder how THAT will affect sales...

Take avy transcievers, poles, and shovels for the approach. Whether you go in high or low you're in avalanche terrain....already one fatality there this year....no need for more.

I wandered into a few LITTLE bars around Modesto CA awhile back (think newly enacted CA smoking ban). Though smoke hung heavy in the air, nary a person was seen smoking. Soon after I ordered a brew and started chatting with the folks about where I was from and what I was doing, the ashtrays and cigs started coming out from behind the bar again and life returned to normal. Seems they had a lookout watching for unfamiliar faces, and when one showed up they hid everything illegal. I prefer not to be around smoke, but know willingly submit myelf to it on occasion. I think that if it were really MORE profitable run non-smoking restaurants and bars more would have sprung up around the country by now.

West With the Night, by Beryl Markham a good short read about growing up, flying, elephant hunting, and horse training in British East Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. One gets the impression that Beryl was a remarkable woman who lived a life free of regrets.

assuming vertical rock, gel might work allright for an outward pull, but it would reduce the effectiveness for a downward force.

Muffster sez: your dogging of my spelling is tireless and anoying... at least I am not a DICK you'd better watch out, CBS, or your name will be dirt on the new super secret Wimmins forum.....oops, forget that....it's too late already!