JoshK

have you actually ever compared a powerbook to a PC equiv or do you just assume they are the best? Yes, their style is nice but they are seriously fucking overpriced. It isn't even like the iPod where their design is nice and the wheel thing is cool. You just get to pay more for the little apple logo. They also use suck ass HDs, which is the limiting factor in notebooks these days. Lots of the PC manufactures are now offering 5400 and 7200 rpm drives in notebooks now as options, thank god. BTW, for what it's worth, if you are intersted in style, check out the new Sony S series. Widescreen 13" WXGA super-brite screens and great components. From your requirements it looks like you are looking for something cheaper and more utilitarian tho... Nols posted a pic of the centrino stuff.that is the key. well, centrino is basically just marketing for built in wireless + pentium M, but the Pentium M is far and away the best mobile processor on the market today. Their battery life can't be beat. On a random note...the super-brite screens (like in the sony I mention above) are fucking amazing. They are nite and day better than the standard laptop screens.

Fuck I hate getting gas in oregon. "Yes, please, fill it up, and make sure to drip gas all over the side of my car and on the ground while you are at it."

This is indeed true. I should have singled out the admninistration from repubs in general. I bow my head and admit that there are some respectable and decent repubs. It's too bad they can't stand up for what is right and admit this administration is bad for the country *and* their party! Ok...enuf partisan stuff. I can see why the repubs would be questioning this too. Maybe their reasons are different, but the FS policy is something that most repubs and dems can agree SUCKS in it's current form.

This time of year it's not much of an epic. The snow lake trail can be done basically as a trail run. DOn't take too heavy of a rack and rope (pack efficiently, in other words) and you can make it a long, but reasonably day. Otherwise pack small and bivy on the otherside of prusik, I doubt anybody will go looking back there...

Ahhh...ok, now I understand better. As stupid as this sounds I thought this "slush cup" thing was somehow going to involve bringing up those snowcone flavorings and adding them to the snow to eat or something. So is that snowpatch pictured the "pinnacle glacier"? That is where I got beginning of season turns year before this. I figured with it being a glacier underneath the new snow I would be protected from rocks, etc. From what I could determine from all my rock damage, the glacier seemd to be about 1000 sq ft. Looks like I was right!

The red ledge was definiltey much easier than it looked from afar. I figured it was going to be serious scrambling from a distance but wasn't hard at all. If one person in the group is uncomfortable you could always belay them across, assuming you already have a rope for the glacier crossings.

Are trails allowed on those trails (trust me, I dont give a shit one way or another...just curious) I've done my share of ranger-avoidance-biking but it would be neat to know some interesting places where you can pedal through the broad daylight

If I plan on going out for a few hard days I'll try to overeat a bit before hand. It seems I start burning into muscle after the first day anyway When I lifted my ass off and ate like a linebacker I still could only gain a few pounds and it was hard at that. I'll notice after coming back from a very hard climb I am much colder cause I'm a skinny lil' bitch.

My dad said this in response to the post-9/11 speechs given by Bush (stuttering) and Blair(eliquent) "They have their Churchill, unfortunately we don't have our roosevelt"

I steal chalk from the local elementary schools and grind it up in my mom's pasta maker.

teddy roosevelt would be ashamed with what the republican party has become...at least in regard to the environment.

nols, how are da cracks when the glacier is dry? From a distance with a big ass zoom lens (yes, not good beta at all) the thing looks rather tame. I take it that other glacier, whateva it's called isn't as casual? thanks man.

You got it man. In fact, the E ridge is a great solo, until I put my foot through a crack on the eldorado glacier. Now I am too pussy to cross that thing w/o a rope, thus relegating me to bring a long a "partner"

does this mean that when I am pulling the 5.6 crux with all the fine ass prahna hunnies looking on, I can dust my armpits and ballz with super chalk to maintain a stink free body for hitting on said chicks after rapping off? If this is the case I would like to see super chalk with added old spice and right guard scents. "Metolious Super Chalk: If you ain't gettin' pussy, than there's no point in climbin'"

PP, that is the lot we saw when we checked out the climb. Definiltey makes the approach fast. I wonder if the avy-control over there? Seems like that slope is prime house-wiping-out territory.

recycled pop bottles. yes, I know where the pop bottles come from, but it is still a re-use of something we already have in bulk.

Any story on that mudslide? It looks like it covers part of a glacier? Maybe major ice collapse or something? looks pretty wild in any event...

I wonder when synthetic building materials will be cost effectie enough to make an inroads? Apparently they are better now, but just cost a lot. the place we are in has composite siding or something like with a 100 year guarantee. obviously much better than wood. If the government's arguement for timber subsidies (as it has been before) is to keep people employed our money would be better spent retraining these folks. It would cost a hellavu lot less. Next step...getting oil subsidies cut.

OK, I read somewhere that it takes 6000 calories to build a pound of tissue. Anybody know if this is true? I find if I take in about 3000 calories a day I still lose weight over a few days. The other thing I have noticed is I start to eat less as they days pass on a climb...

I would argue that there is absolutely ZERO excuse for cutting any sort of old-growth, or even well established second growth. If timber companies cannot make a profit from renewable logging on their land then...well, I dont really give a fuck. If they have to charge more, than that is what is nescessary. If end consumers end up paying more for housing, than so be it, that is how the market works. There is no excuse for us to be paying to line the pockets of timber companies, esp. when they are cutting trees that have value in their present state.

God I hate fucking snaffles. One of them ate up the headphones for my MP3 player a few weeks ago.

Maybe I should split this into a seperate thread, but I am curious on exactly what should be done about trail access funding. I know we all bitch about it, but what should we do? Would we all complain if the parking passes went entirely towards maintaining roads, trailheads and trails? After all, somebody needs to pay to keep the roads and parking lots at a useable standard. FW, I think my real beef with loggon on federally land is that you and I own that land and I don't care to give my land to the timber companies so they can make money of it. Yes, the argument would be taxes from the sales benifit us all, but the reality is we benifit 1% and the timber companies benifit 99%

It is indeed a great combo! He has always been a hiker, but not much for backpacking or climbing. I took him climbing on Ingalls once. We were talking about doing a 3 day trip in the olympics, which would definiltey be fun.

Yeah, seamgrip is a good diea for lots of things. The sad fact is talus and scree rip up stiching on boots, no matter what the boot is. Protect the stitching and they'll last a lot longer.

I think in this case Klenke is right. While I think it's a first ascent of a route, I dont think "getting with a hundred feet" counts as an ascent in the case of a first ascent of a whole mountain. It just isn't the same as stopping a few feet from the summit of a peak in the cascades and then considering it a summit. The fact remains that nobody has stepped foot on the highest point on that mountain.