JoshK

I've been out plenty, thanks. Quoting yourself and replying is a new strategy tho...fascinating!

How did you have a problem with it stretching? The silnylon gear I have doesn't really seem to stretch much at all.

Dude, shutup. Get out of the 80s and learn some english then come back.

The first time I read that sentance I inferred you were running 25 miles in two hours - shesh ;-) I was gonna call bullshit on running 12.5mph on trails for 2 hours straight too, until I re-read it

Greg, I've actually tried to keep my dislike for guns out of this thread. My only beef was with some dude blowing a way a dog owner cause his dogs got off leash and got mean to him. Gun or not, you don't go killing people for that. I think the self defense argument is bullshit. He could have just as easily shot the dogs without shooting the man. My opinion is the "self-defense" finding is easy and lazy for the cops as it doesn't require much more work. The fact that the guy was licensed to carry or not is irrelevant. You just dont go blowing people away when you feel the least bit threatened.

Seriously fucking paranoid. I even cook sometimes in the outdoors without having my desert eagle handy...I must be insane.

Yeah, I was commenting on his name "theodore", not the wonderous ted kennedy. Our football team sucked, but our basketball team was awesome. Not that my 5' 10" ass had much to do with that.

Conventional wisdom says that the mini cooper is a deathtrap. Yet... Crash Testing: MINI Cooper vs Ford F150 (http://www.bridger.us/2002/12/16/CrashTestingMINICooperVsFordF150) Both of these vehicles hit the exact same off-set barrier at 40mph. The ability of the american auto manufactuers to replace actual safety with percieved safety is amazing. The idiots that buy it are even more amazing.

Scott Harpell --You carry a gun when you go trout fishing in the backcountry because you think a cougar is going to attack you if you carry fish on the trail? I'm sorry pal, but you are truly a moron. How many times do you think you can do this your lifetime and not let luck catch up to you? I hvae done this near 15 times this month. I also do it for a living... I think my exposure level is a little bit more involved than some climber at smith rocks toting luna bars. Ask Fred Beckey or any long time cascade climber how often they carry guns into the wilderness. And I beg to differ. While I might get pretty hurt in the process I think an ice tool would kill anything off but a bear, and the chance of a black bear attacking you are pretty slim. Do you honestly worry about some animal attacking you in the woods? That's pretty sad if so.

LOL...no, I'm just dumb, I swear. I was actually fucking stunned with what I got on English. I always thought I was better at Math. Dad has a masters in mathmatics and momma's got an english degree. Guess I got her genes or something.

Motherass...I keep forgetting that the SATs are out of 800 each not 700 each (so, yes, I failed the math ). Actually they used to be out of 1400 and I was reading something about this in a time magazine from a few months back and got that number stuck in my head. So, I meant 770. So you suck it crack! Oh good god, this is getting truly nerdy. In my defense I dated two cheerleaders and the prom princess. and DAMN...8 hundo on the math is fucking impressive. From all those practice SATs it seems there is always some damn trick one that fucked me.

I took that definition out of the dictionary. Go look it up yourself if you are so inclined. I'm out of HS, and I scored 670 (99 percentile) on the verbal SATs when I took them, so I hardly put any stock in your critique of my command of the English language. Thanks, I was pleasently surprised with the results as well.

I am NOT Canadian... nor do I attend a junior college... nor have I ever. Sorry, "sharpest marble" is not the expression...you could try: brightest bulb in the bunch sharpest tack in the box etc. etc. you still have to match the adjective with the noun dipshit. So, in other words, NOLse is right, "sharpest marble in the bag" is pretty dumb. those are called cliches... mine was a modified coloquialism. Do you mean colloquialism? Like I said, at least match the adjuctive and the noun correctly. It would make a little more sense.

I took that definition out of the dictionary. Go look it up yourself if you are so inclined. I'm out of HS, and I scored 670 (99 percentile) on the verbal SATs when I took them, so I hardly put any stock in your critique of my command of the English language.

His foreign policy address the other day was quite intersting. He basically said that we need to stop worrying so much about spreading democracy everywhere we can and doing what we can within reason and looking out for number one first. He made some statement (paraphrasing here) to the effect of "we would like to do all these great things, but we have to realize the reality which is we can only do so much at one time" Sounds about 100x better than bush's plan already. I'm certainly willing to give him a shot. I'm 100% he can't do any worse, and frankly, I think he has the possiblity of doing quite well.

namesake \Name"sake`\, n. [For name's sake; i. e., one named for the sake of another's name.] One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after , or named out of regard to, another. It's a correct use of namesake. It's just more convienent than saying "the guy with the same name as you"

I would argue the plan for executing this war was flawed from the beginning. I guess you are right, we shouldn't blame Bush because it's pretty obvious he doesn't actually develop his own strategy. So I guess whoever fed this to him (rumsfled+cheney+rice, etc.) is to blame. Maybe if this shit gets even worse we'll see bush stand up to admit "don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger!" Oh, and Teddy, I think you'd know I was referring to Theodore Roosevelt, creator of modern american foreign policy groundwork and a steadfast progressive.

That people on this board actually know me to exist. God knows if you are "theodore" or not. You should read a little about your namesake; one of our better presidents. He'd probably tell you that you are an idiot too.

It takes a big man to post insults behind an avatar. Says the child posting behind an avatar.... HUH? My name is Josh, it seems little like an avatar. You can ask any number of the people on this board that I've climbed with.

Generally there are some raised nice slabes on the far side of the lake that melt out, but I would be guessing to say I knew what time of the year they generally melt. You might get lucky in this low snow year...

It takes a big man to post insults behind an avatar.

What completely bilwilders me is how you war supporters can support how the execution of this war has gone. Fine, let's say both of these wars are totally nescessary. Are you really going to argue that this clusterfuck of a situation our completely inept president and his chronies have gotten into couldn't have been executed just a little bit better??

I am NOT Canadian... nor do I attend a junior college... nor have I ever. Sorry, "sharpest marble" is not the expression...you could try: brightest bulb in the bunch sharpest tack in the box etc. etc. you still have to match the adjective with the noun dipshit. So, in other words, NOLse is right, "sharpest marble in the bag" is pretty dumb.

That's actually a little trick I've used a few times lately...when it's so slushy that you know it'll slide easily, go ski cut a side swath...wide enough that it gives you a nice enough piece of slope to make turns. Wait and watch the slush slowly plow to the bottom and voila...not so heavy snow!

Where you been hikin' boy?? I think a nicely planted ice tool would do a real number on somebody.