JoshK

You said exactly what you needed to say. That is a good bit more road slogging than I feel like doing just to have the newbie crap out somehwere on the road.

Damn, I just went back and read that TR and it seems with the road blocked, it's a pretty long haul in there, huh?

Thornton creek road -> thornton lakes. For those of you that have gone up this way in the winter (Klenke, you used this to access Damnnation, right?) how does the road and trail compare between skis and snowshoes. I'm taking a newbie up this weekend and wondering if she'll be ok on skis. Yes, she alpine skis well, it's just a matter if the trail will be very difficult to skin up or not. thanks! -josh

The biggest difference between Clinton and Bush? The majority of the country actually voted for Clinton. And then re-elected him. The jury is still out on the latter of those accomplishments for Shrub, and we all know how he did on the former.

Different players for different uses. The creative was the only one that offered a removable li-ion, which was my selling point, I needed more than what the internal offered between charges. That and the sound quality is better when amplified. If I could have gotten these features + the iPod's UI I would definitely take it, it's my hands down favorite in that department.

I paid $269 for my 40gb creative player. Not exactly priced too good, either.

I did...one of my primary uses for my HD player was as an in-car player. This is why I chose the Creative. My roomie has an iPod (used for the same thing) and when amplified the iPod is inferior, plain and simple. Most people on online review sites tend to agree.

Freshies be dropping every which where, it's great!

The iPods really do have the best interface. I wish another manufactuer would copy it and give us a reasonbly priced alternative. For sound quality tho, the Creative HD based players are still superior.

GPS is still awfully nice, tho. I wouldn't haul a PDA with it up in the mountains tho. For quick and fast navigation through zero visibily GPS rules tho. I think the windows based PDAs definitely have the "cool" factor over Palm, if you care at all.

Cool! I, for one, will be happy to mtn bike an extra 4 miles to rid myself of the throngs of tourons!

Scott, you're an idiot. Go look up your facts on the former Yugoslavia republic war crimes. 100,000 is a fraction of the number of people killed in that conflict. The right has the hardest time admitting that despite not sending in ground troops, Clinton prevented a good deal of further bloodshed and we've ended up with Milosivec (sp?) in The Hauge. The area is now returning to relative stability and the breakup has gone about as well as possible. We won't be saying that about Iraq in 4 years I'm pretty sure, but who knows. Get your fucking head out of the ass. This administration sucks, even worse than the worst I thought the right could put forward.

omfg ! i knew they were lying day one, sorry if you were duped and are just now realizing it! i agree tho that the real pity is that they are all still trying to assert their rightousness and that "WMD will be found!" blah blah. Yes, I clearly realize they were lying, but it's the American voting public, in particular the middle ground that needs this hammered into their thick skulls. My disagreement was that you thought this was a low-blow tactic. This isn't tryinig to trap somebody into a corner about how a blowjob in the oval office went down, this is shit that gets people killed and effects all of us.

You're fucking kidding, right? As Jim said this wasn't a trip up intended to make him look like he was lying over some technicality. If you don't get it, they LIED on why they took us to war. they claimed, over and over, they were an IMMEDIATE THREAT, when in fact, the evidence was faked and they were little threat all. Not only was that a fair move on their journalist's part, but we should see more of this.

Clearly...this is why they can get away with crap like this, nobody seems to pay much attention. I was at least expecting an excuse from one of our right-wing members explaining why this is a good thing.

Screw Saturday, Sunday is going to be the day I think.

To think there are people out there dumb enough to believe that BushCo didn't intentionally decieve the American public. http://www.moveon.org/censure/caughtonvideo/

oh yeah, and its lots of fun to get to that road too. i like to trailrun that descent sometimes, maybe a MTN bike afterwards.

Well, I think the issue is if he will be guiding himself or not. If so, I could quickly see that turning into hurting somebody.

Heh. Vancouver rocks, but I'd call bullshit on this. Fram what I've seen of both, Vancouver doesn't touch NYC when it comes to distinct and diverse. Who knows what they are actually comparing tho.

Hahaha...this is one of the best things I've read on this board!

Bingo, which brings up the important question of why a guy who got altitude sickness and struggled to climb adams' south side should be guiding anybody up anything.

I pity the "experienced climber" who can't find his own partner but rather has to hire the experience of a decididely unexperienced climber (pot'teryx) to partner with him. This seems like such a bad plan it's not even funny.

Jesus tits...you are expecting people to pay you to go hike up pilchuck, or get an intro to showshoeing? Honestly, the fact that scot'cloudveil can call himself a guide demonstrates the problem with the lack of guiding regulation in the states.

Hahahah...I remember that exact section of that climb (Lee? Tom? Look familiar?). We had no rope and were stuck monkey hanging through those brances. Beyond that there was some more nasty wet crap, that we luckily bypassed on the way down by sliding down a snowy slab to a 10 or 15 foot drop into a bunch of powder below. No, I'm not kidding.