JoshK

Apple has a reeeally sweet wide-screen 23" LCD. See if they'll get ya that one!!

Make sure you get yourself in the right coulior on the way down. Cascadian is by far the easiest in my book. It has something faintly resembling a trail which you can follow and doesn't have any brush at the bottom. It still sucks, but it's easy and quick. I've stumbled into ulrichs or something other crap in the twilight before and got to contend with a few easy cliffouts, some forest and brush. It was definitely more suck than cascadian.

Fuggin' awesome. Makes my palms sweat looking at it. Very cool. The pics are great!

Aspen is a world class ski resort, and Alpental is a whole in the wall. I can find you a large group of skiers from Alpental that will ski the hell out of any poser rich bitch you can find from Aspen. "World class" don't mean shit...

I can't believe you guys let him get you worked up. Dru, how many times have you actually *climbed* in the past 6 months? 2? 3? I swear, for a guy who spends 6 1/2 out of every 7 days spraying about climbing, but not actually walking the walk, you sure talk a lotta shit.

I'm glad somebody said it first. Damnit...beat to it...

pu...err..nevermind...

FWIW, I'd consider paying a bit more to get a truck with less mileage. That's a lot of mileage for the year, and generally anybody using a *truck* that much in a short period of the time is gonna use it hard. I learned this lesson a few years back buying a used suburu. I had it checked out and everybody (including my mechanic friend) thought it looked very clean mechanically. As luck with have it, I had to replace a burned valve a few months later. Stuff like that adds up and before you know it, you've paid more than you would have paid for a lower mileage vehicle. On the other hand, if you can get him to do what JayB recommends, it may allow you to replace enough stuff to feel comfortable with the vehicle and still arrive at a nice, low overall price.

"all the good climbers are mountaineers, and mountaineers don't usually climb 5.13 cracks" We're all mountaineers.... Frankly, I'd rather people just stay away. Would you rather have crowds on your home turf? It's no so bad to deal with on vacation, but would you want to deal with the hoards of CO, CA, and UT all the time? no thanks...

united did the same bullshit to me a few years ago, or maybe it was the travel agent, but it still sucked. only 9 hours, but fuck I hate that.

Sweet! Nice job, glad to hear things worked out. How did you enjoy the nice granite up there?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

mine just comes up with an X, how do I get this to work? Java is so very suck.

Or more simply stated...the mormons suck and are a cult. Next subject...

Ugh, he got me too. For a minute there I thought it was a legit thread.

Yah, I think this is a requirement in general. If I could remember what I've done to myself some of those times I would surely not do it again.

Is the criteria including approach, difficult of climbing, etc. as a whole? Is nooksack tower getting votes because of objective dangers as well? In reality, the approach to nooksack tower is pretty easy in my book. The bushwhack is minimal, in fact it's not really a bushwhack, and the glacier is straight-forward. it's not all that long. it's true the approach is gully is pretty steep, but I'd have to imagine the in terms of overall difficulty something deep in the pickets would be higher on the pain in the ass factor simply due to longer distances, more 'whacking, etc. BTW, where is swiss peak? It's in the pickets near challanger right? I dont have a becky guide near by and I can't find it on a USGS map.

Nice job. That's a beautiful area fer sure.

Krakauer aside, the mormon religion is seriously fucked up, and I mean more fucked up than most religions.

Agreed! this is a bonus. Anybody doing what they can to fight that b**ch Gale Norton will get my support.

That's pretty sweet. I'm not sure why people give BD shit, because they seem to be the class of the companies in this industry. Sometimes their gear isn't the best for a specific purpose, but when all things are equal, I'd rather deal with a company like BD.

what type of sleeping meds? standard over the counter such as diphenhydramine HCl (I think it's what is in bendryl too?) work by slowing you heart-rate and breathing. I've heard from some that it can be dangerous to take them at higher elevations. anybody know about this?

For this price of this meTOOOLius thing: http://www.rei.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?storeId=8000&catalogId=40000008000&productId=4190&parent_category_rn=11549378 you could buy a whole bunch of those costco ones and glue them together.

I've seen them lying around and shit, but wihtout inspecting them at all I failed to grasp what they offered over some foam padding. and besides... 1.) I like staring at the salesgirl's tits. tits are nice to look at, and feel for that matter. a bouldering mat is niether nice to look at or feel. 2.) a bouldering mat is NOT climbing gear. It's a futon.