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Hey Iain. Let the powder skiers know when it actually does something besides rain at Mt. Hood, mmmmkay?

Wait till you get into grad school, cracked. You get paid to teach the 20's hotties. You don't have to take classes every quarter (instead you schedule "thesis hours" ). You can take 4 day weekends and noone wonders where you are. The downsides. For every four day-weekend you take. There's another one where you're stuck at your computer all weekend. The stress of teaching is worse than the stress of taking classes. You are expected to produce original, creative research, as though it's the end all of existence, but if you actually publish it, nobody gives a shit anyway. Your work is meaningless.

There is no correlation between magnetic pole reversals and mass-extinctions (the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction is only one of many). If you have a geologic hypothesis you can rest assured that someone else already came up with it before you, tested it, and found out that it was wrong. That goes for all of you.

I talked to a patroller at Baker today. He told me that the group that was hit at Artist's Point was following the summer road and was traversing the last switch-back, traveling below a short, steep slope. This slope is regularly affected by wind-loading and often releases spontaneous wind-slab avalanches that travel maybe 200 vertical feet. Most people who tour regularly in the area have seen this small ridgeline avalanche. If the person I spoke to had the correct information (and after last year's incidents around North America that seems to be a bit IF) then it seems that the decision-making error was a route-finding error. The error was NOT a failure to use beacons, or a failure to avoid going into the mountains during high hazard conditions. The slope that avalanched can be easily avoided by walking along the top of the ridge on the way to Artist's point. The ridge can be gained without exposing yourself to avalanche slopes. The fact that the group was buried all night without rescue kind of rules out the potential effectiveness of trancievers. They were below a slope that that should have and could have easily avoided. Period.

Sunday at Baker was beautiful. 13 new inches overnight, but very crowded. Today, went for a tour up near Artist's point. I was alone and just went to dig a pit and poke around. Wound up skiing low-angle trees. The snow today was as good as it ever gets. It was extremely light and fast. The kind of snow that goes sssssss while you turn. About a foot of that was sitting on top or 2-3 feet of heavier stuff that fell since friday. I wish we had two more days for things to stabilize so we could fully enjoy it. I was afraid to get into anything big or steep with all the new snow we've had. Now with rising freezing levels forcast for the next few days, today's beautiful cold smoke will be buried. It was indeed as good as it ever gets today.

Almost like "glacial rebound" on a grand scale? Yeah, it's exactly the same thing. This is a hot field of research in geology right now, how climate controls tectonics. The idea is not that erosion rates are making the Cascades "uplift" (there are actually two types of uplift: surface uplift and bedrock uplift) but that the high erosion rates are helping maintain the rugged topography. As material is removed from the valleys, isostatic rebound elevates the ridges and peaks, allowing the process to continue. This is why the North Cascades are much more rugged than the southern cascades.

Fuck you, you fucking fuck

If Shelob looks like some big tarantula, I'm gonna be pissed.

Tsk, tsk, spraying at 7:17. I bet you didn't make first chair, MisterE.

I think about his dick!

Ann Coulter has piano legs.

fuck you, if you try claiming a stash somewhere and you're no where close to it, it's fair game, you'd better not toss a hissy fit when i rip the shit out of it and you fall the whole way down because I will cut your throat you powder hoarding bitch! P.s. you'd better be kidding I think he was pretty serious. You know red tape and stuff...

It's interesting that the guys in this thread who are most likely to get first tracks (Dave Parker, Figger Eight, Cletus, Dberdinka) are the ones promoting backcountry ettiquette.

Sweeeet.

Where's the pic? When I clicked the link I couldn't find your quote.

I've been snaked by some well-known crusties in the Wasatch. Live and learn! However, if someone broke trail and you were the johnny-come-lately backcountry barnacle who happens to arrive while the trail-breakers are still making their snow stability assessment and you drop in. Well, that just makes you a stupid dick. There is such a thing as back-country etiquette and it's been around for a LONG time.

I doubt these guys converted their cliff-drop estimates before spraying. 10 footer in TR = about a 4 or 5 footer in reality 30 footer in TR = about a 12-15 footer in reality A 30 foot cliff is HUGE, not by movie standards (it's average) but by mortals out skiing without the influence of kodachrome courage, a 30 footer is big air.

And the punchline: "You want to be careful not to become just a blowhard."---Washington Post 10/16/98

What the hell are you talking about? Academia vs 'real life'? WTF does that mean? Define 'real life'. Props to Gary for putting the show together, even though I wasn't able to attend. See, the thing is, Gary isn't a professional planner in 'the real world'. He's just another grad student who is nice enough to devote quite some time to giving us nice slide shows. The UWCC doesn't have the funds to hire smart people who know how to plan events in 'the real world'. I still don't get your argument. And last time I check, Marylou, it's Gary's choice where he wants to do with his time, not yours. Quit being such a judgemental asshole, let people do what they want with their free time, and the world would be a better place. Word up, Cracked!

Well then why are the dumb fucks viewing the attachments? Can you tell me that, smart guy???!!!!!

see!? SEEE!!!????? Gawd!!!!!

When somebody posts an attachement and you see a photo in the same post with a "post edited" announcement at the bottom, it means you DON'T HAVE TO DOWNLOAD THE IMAGE THE ORIGINAL POSTER ALREADY DID IT FOR YOU.

Everyone missed the sarcasm. And, yes, there was some condescension in my post because I'm a little bit annoyed that you took such issue with this thread (I saw your post referencing it in an unrelated thread). Everyone's humor was pretty harmless, from my perspective. When I first saw the responses I actually thought people (Caveman, Klenke, Marylou) were having a little love-in here, and I was willing to sacrifice some politically-correct vitriol for the sake of online harmony. But if you want to make this thread into a political statement, I will take issue.