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""And Fox doesn't boot people for expressing their view point."" bull ffing sh*t No, they just never hire anyone to the left of Attila the Hun in the first place, or they cut their mic if they get past the screeners. and what happened to Colmes? He was a pretend liberal and they couldn't even handle that, and where's his replacement?

Probably bear just looking at the volume, the last time I was up there (on Johanesburg) saw 4 bears in 2 days, could have sworn one of them was a Griz but I was headed the other way too quick to be sure or take a pic. amazing weather for the 3rd week in October

""does anyone have an idea of what the actual elevation gain is?"" Most of the digital altimeters have a cumulative total gain function. ""yesterday I made my way over to the true summit"" you can't climb to the true summit, it was blown into the atmosphere in the early 80's. ""Dude, asthmatic...chill the freak out man."" Yeah, take a deep breath. (sorry, couldn't resist)

Sort of sounds like a freak accident, like it struck an artery or something.

Whut? Doesn't make sense. Can't imagine being killed by a goat, you just grab them by the horns and they can't do anything.

I was thinking like a nuclear cruise missile or one of those MOAB's

6 star TR, you go girl, or as the kids would say 100 internets to you Nice open terrain too reminds me of Shasta, none of the ugly NW bushwack

I said it from the start the scumbags will skate just like Exxon did in alaska. Obama's $20B is just a fake, his 'justice' dept will do nothing. The corporatists in the senate wont even allow subpoena power.

Always, except at the gym. I've been saved too many times on the motorcycle and bicycle. I've watched rocks go winging by too many times at the crags and alpine.

""easily cured with a new drug just coming on the market called Votemout."" what? then vote in the greater of the two evils that we just got rid of? That caused all this damage in the first place? what kind of drugs are you on?

The days are getting shorter, you need to be fast to climb it this time of year. Lots of simul, and simul raps to get off. It's about a mile of road from the gate, then 1,000' uphill to the start, it helps to know the approach, otherwise you eat up daylight just getting to the base. It's a wet high rain area too and it doesn't dry out very quickly. You're not going to climb it with this forecast, you need a dry day the day before. Unless you can handle some wet slab, it gets dryer the higher you go. http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=north%20bend,%20wa&wuSelect=WEATHER the lower section gets wet just from the dew point, check this page for rain history the day before, and the dew point. http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KWANORTH4

On the anchors of "Glob Job", the route under the bridge going up the crack formed between the rock and the concrete bridge base. Found Sunday Oct 3. Describe them and I'll give them back.

and John Arum also, on Storm King in Sept.

Whoa!!! A lead fall on an 8mm with rockfall, and the rope didn't cut. You used up one of your cat lives on that one. Was it a half or a twin? I soloed N face Vesper a couple times, went way right at the start (easier) but the rock was choss for the first couple pitches. You will really be more aware of loose rock from now on. I broke my thumb on West Garfield back in July pulling a loose rock down. Now when I climb every rock is suspect. You should go back and finish Vesper, it's a really pretty climb and peak. I have to go back and finish W Garfield, the hazardous enigma is attractive. GET WELL SOON

I met Dallas one time, about 1993. It was at Washington pass. I was at the start of the Becky route on Liberty and this guy came hauling ass up the approach, he was a couple hundred yards ahead of his 3 partners who were all younger. We all summited Liberty and car camped that night at the rest area in the rain, having a party under a tarp. The next day we all hiked in to Kangaroo temple and climbed that and Shark Fin. He was a really strong climber and a really nice guy. I was a total stranger but he let me climb with his group anyway, it was like I didn't even have to ask. RIP fellow climber

It's always the lesser of two evils. It's fairly evident that McCain was worse. Especially considering he would be dead right now from the stress and we would be run by a person dumber than the bush boy, if that's even possible.

"Tom Heartman." Thom Hartman

Don't really have an opinion but there is "the Bugaboos" by Atkinson and Piche, published in 2003

Chances are you won't need them but you want to have them just in case there's a little cold front comes through and drops the freezing level. It's almost worse in the warmer months because the snow melts and then freezes with the cold front causing a layer of ice.

Base Jumping is so hazardous and the final outcome so predictable there is a fatality list. Essentially if you base jump you are going to die. RIP, have fun cuz life is short anyway, hope you have some kids before you go on. http://www.splatula.com/bfl/

Yeah, it could have been a lot worse, could have been knocked off by the rock, would have been dead, it was some big exposure up on the ridge. Held on with my left hand and pushed the rock off to the side with my right. Only problem was couldn't let go with my left and that's where the rock hit. FFing scary looking at the injury and then there was no cell reception, like it tried but wouldn't connect.

They are bad when you are stopped on the trail but if you keep moving or there's some wind it's okay. Def want a screen on your bivy if your camping. Or drive down past the hairpin to the next campground, there's none there because there's no water nearby. But it might be different this year because of all the snow.

Was on W Ridge of West Garfield Sat and a loose rock dropped on my left thumb, crushed it pretty good, compound fracture, got 4 or 5 pins in it now. I'm down for about 5 weeks. Was lucky to get back to the car, was 3,000 ft above the road, did 3 raps and 4 hours of downclimbing to get back. Will do a TR but slow typing with a big cast.