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Under 5 days, GoLite Breeze 11oz. rated at 20 lbs but will do 40 with a little shoulder conditioning. on sale $40. (added a waist strap) over 5 days, GoLite Gust 1 lbs 6 oz. $80 Yes these will tear if abused but generally hold up and get repaired with the sewing machine if there's tears. Never any catastrophic tears, just little holes now and then. Sportiva Trango S, lightest of it's grade, the 1st gen did abrade easily but as already stated in the thread, shoe-goo or seam sealer repaired. will climb 5.10 edging. don't know about falling on skinny ropes other than some top roping action. Don't climb to fall in the alpine. Do go for the edge protection ropes regardless of size, but especially with the skinnies, you need edge rating for them. the only compromise of the new lite gear I see is more frequent repairs, but for an easier approach/climb and potentially more days food weight it's a good trade off. Have done a couple big climbs alpine style carrying everything up and over that wouldn't have been possible or as fun with older heavier gear. some exceptions are alum cramps and toy axes, don't like these on big mountains if you think there's possible ice.

Full NE Buttress of Slesse w/Crossover Descent, Liberty Crack, Outer Space, Drury Falls, Dreamer w/5.10 Slab Variation.

Middle Fork Road Closure, mile 1.4 http://www.wta.org/trail-news/news/middle-fork-snoqualmie-road-closure http://www.wta.org/trail-news/news/middle-fork-road-closed-through-summer-2009 went up to try and recon a walk-off for Mt Garfield Infinite Bliss. The road is closed with numerous washouts including the Taylor River Bridge

awesome photo

Looked at all my photos of this climb, have 2 of them where the right side is mostly touching down and 2 of them with it looking similar to your first pick, but none with the free hanging stuff looking quite as heavy. Also recall seeing chunks at the bottom.

I thought that had been done already? They put another one somewhere in another location on the rock, but they didn't take off the old defaced one. Or has someone damaged the new one already? I remember me and Yoder one time water/sand blasted all the graffiti. It was back on there within a couple of weeks. the 7 continents AKA 7 big rocks problem goes from the large rock on the left bottom of the main chimney then across the chimney up and right diagonally following the obvious largest rocks to finish near the top of the big easy ramp all the kids climb. You can't touch anything else but the 7 rocks hands or feet.

Damn, someone should have taken up Fairweather on that bet.

Ashley Todd, the poster girl for the 2008 repugs dishonest deceitful incompetent racist

the primary source of the Salon article is the Army Times, what's the matter, don't trust them either?

Actually when they took away guns in Australia, crime went up because criminals knew their victims were undefended.

Agree, if the repugs didn't do anything about abortion when they held all 3 branches for 6+ years, they are never going to do anything about it. Why? Because it gets votes.

You are making too many assumptions. First of all a fact is a fact regardless of where you get it. Don't trust Salon, try one of THESE. Secondly, I strongly support gun rights. I've owned numerous guns over the years and enjoy shooting. Like others on here I don't think you are going to hold off the swat teams if they really want you but guns may serve as somewhat of a deterrent to a fascist takeover. My main point is you guys blame Gore and Obama and whoever comes along from the dems for wanting to grab guns by legislation, which, even though they may want some sort of controls, is highly problematic given the NRA and blue-dog dems. In other words it's not going to happen. And at the same time you're blaming the dems the repugs under bush are in fact physically taking away guns on a trial balloon basis, preparatory to being able to do it on a larger scale. "So what is the difference between garrison soldiers and NorthCom deployed soldiers?" THEIR MISSION, why don't you read the article, afraid it might turn your faux news thinking on it's head? "If the posse comitatus act has been breached, then why oh why would you give up the only thing that stopped the british 225+ years ago? " EXACTLY. (Where did I say give up guns, I didn't) So quit worrying about just the guys with the D and start looking at the corporate R's too, where the real threat is coming from.

Where do you get your news? You should try to expand those sources. Bush has been working to dismantle Comitatus since he got into office. It's effectively already gone. In fact the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division is deployed in NA as we speak. Guess they don't report this stuff on Faux News ehh? Salon Article Wednesday Sept. 24, 2008 12:26 EDT Why is a U.S. Army brigade being assigned to the "Homeland"? (updated below - Update II) Several bloggers today have pointed to this obviously disturbing article from Army Times, which announces that "beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the [1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division] will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North" -- "the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities." The article details: ..... For more than 100 years -- since the end of the Civil War -- deployment of the U.S. military inside the U.S. has been prohibited under The Posse Comitatus Act (the only exceptions being that the National Guard and Coast Guard are exempted, and use of the military on an emergency ad hoc basis is permitted, such as what happened after Hurricane Katrina). Though there have been some erosions of this prohibition over the last several decades (most perniciously to allow the use of the military to work with law enforcement agencies in the "War on Drugs"), the bright line ban on using the U.S. military as a standing law enforcement force inside the U.S. has been more or less honored -- until now. And as the Army Times notes, once this particular brigade completes its one-year assignment, "expectations are that another, as yet unnamed, active-duty brigade will take over and that the mission will be a permanent one." After Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration began openly agitating for what would be, in essence, a complete elimination of the key prohibitions of the Posse Comitatus Act in order to allow the President to deploy U.S. military forces inside the U.S. basically at will -- and, as usual, they were successful as a result of rapid bipartisan compliance with the Leader's demand (the same kind of compliance that is about to foist a bailout package on the nation). This April, 2007 article by James Bovard in The American Conservative detailed the now-familiar mechanics that led to the destruction of this particular long-standing democratic safeguard: The Defense Authorization Act of 2006, passed on Sept. 30, empowers President George W. Bush to impose martial law in the event of a terrorist "incident," if he or other federal officials perceive a shortfall of "public order," or even in response to antiwar protests that get unruly as a result of government provocations. . . . It only took a few paragraphs in a $500 billion, 591-page bill to raze one of the most important limits on federal power. Congress passed the Insurrection Act in 1807 to severely restrict the president's ability to deploy the military within the United States. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 tightened these restrictions, imposing a two-year prison sentence on anyone who used the military within the U.S. without the express permission of Congress. But there is a loophole: Posse Comitatus is waived if the president invokes the Insurrection Act. ....... The decision this month to permanently deploy a U.S. Army brigade inside the U.S. for purely domestic law enforcement purposes is the fruit of the Congressional elimination of the long-standing prohibitions in Posse Comitatus (although there are credible signs that even before Congress acted, the Bush administration secretly decided it possessed the inherent power to violate the Act). It shouldn't take any efforts to explain why the permanent deployment of the U.S. military inside American cities, acting as the President's police force, is so disturbing. Bovard: "Martial law" is a euphemism for military dictatorship. When foreign democracies are overthrown and a junta establishes martial law, Americans usually recognize that a fundamental change has occurred. . . . Section 1076 is Enabling Act-type legislation—something that purports to preserve law-and-order while formally empowering the president to rule by decree. The historic importance of the Posse Comitatus prohibition was also well-analyzed here. As the recent militarization of St. Paul during the GOP Convention made abundantly clear, our actual police forces are already quite militarized. Still, what possible rationale is there for permanently deploying the U.S. Army inside the United States -- under the command of the President -- for any purpose, let alone things such as "crowd control," other traditional law enforcement functions, and a seemingly unlimited array of other uses at the President's sole discretion? And where are all of the stalwart right-wing "small government conservatives" who spent the 1990s so vocally opposing every aspect of the growing federal police force? And would it be possible to get some explanation from the Government about what the rationale is for this unprecedented domestic military deployment (at least unprecedented since the Civil War), and why it is being undertaken now? UPDATE: As this commenter notes, the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act somewhat limited the scope of the powers granted by the 2007 Act detailed above (mostly to address constitutional concerns by limiting the President's powers to deploy the military to suppress disorder that threatens constitutional rights), but President Bush, when signing that 2008 Act into law, issued a signing statement which, though vague, seems to declare that he does not recognize those new limitations. UPDATE II: There's no need to start manufacturing all sorts of scare scenarios about Bush canceling elections or the imminent declaration of martial law or anything of that sort. None of that is going to happen with a single brigade and it's unlikely in the extreme that they'd be announcing these deployments if they had activated any such plans. The point is that the deployment is a very dangerous precedent, quite possibly illegal, and a radical abandonment of an important democratic safeguard. As always with first steps of this sort, the danger lies in how the power can be abused in the future. -- Glenn Greenwald

Civil rights and liberties taken away under Bush posse comitatus Habeas Corpus warrant-less wiretapping (right to privacy) right to keep and bear arms New Orleans Katrina gun grab [video:youtube]

For the first time in my life I'm seriously considering moving to Canada. I'm between jobs and paying $400 mo health ins. Plus there's way more openings in Vancouver for my profession. Of course Canada is not too far behind the US, and if they implement the NAU like they want it will all be one country anyway.

The AP poll is a scam, their trying to deflect for when they try to steal it. the best poll is real clear politics, it takes all the major polls and keeps a running average, currently Obama by 7 LINK the only thing that matters though is the electoral college currently Obama 286, McCain 160 (270 to win) LINK

Civil rights and liberties taken away under Bush posse comitatus Habeas Corpus warrant-less wiretapping (right to privacy) right to keep and bear arms you repugs on here need to WAKE THE FUCK UP the corporate repugs don't give a damn about you, they'll take your guns anytime they want New Orleans Katrina gun grab [video:youtube]

"different ways to look at things." How do you "look at" bush's statements that I posted? Remember these are mostly off the cuff, unscripted and no tele-prompter. If you had no idea who said these things, how would you rate that persons intelligence?

"I was merely pointing out that grad status has little to do with success." And I'm saying it can go either way. Poor performance in school generally indicates below average and excellent perf above. Of course there are exceptions. "Look at Lee as you pointed out. Where did he finish again? #2. And how did his position end up?" That doesn't mean he wasn't fully competent and didn't do his job very well. He was fighting a loosing war for a variety of reasons. Einstein couldn't have won it. Sheesh blame it all on one person. ""You cant really think that everyone that disagrees with you is void of intellect/ education."" not intellect but clearly education if you think bush is above average. bush is a product of Madison avenue, AND YOU BOUGHT IT.

Nope. That's not even close to what he said. Dumbass. Actually, that was precisely what he said you loud mouthed fuck. Entirely out of context ""Also, I am pretty sure you wouldn't talk like you do in real life, so why don't you tone it down? Anything I say on here, I will say to your face. Please do me the same courtesy."" ROTFLMAO!!!!! IN THE VERY NEXT POST!!!!! HYPOCRIT!!!!!!!! I never made any kind of personal attack on you so I don't know what you're talking about. My points are valid, you have ZERO counter to the majority of them, so then you try to insinuate I'm attacking you personally. McCain and Palin are outclassed, you could just tell by the way McCain was acting in the last debate, he knows he's beat.

Ummm... John was forced to take public funds because there was no way he was going to get more than the cutoff amount of donations. Obama is so popular that he easily made more than the cutoff. Obama is turning down tax money, which you deceivingly call "public funds", and going on individual donations. You guys want government out of things until it runs against your candidate then the whining begins. And the majority of Obama's donations are individuals under $100, not pacs or corps like McCain. And Obama never specifically said he would definitely take the public tax funds. Obama is kicking McCain ASS and getting more donations because he's more popular. SUCK ON IT REPUGS.

why pick stupid one corp rupug owners know stupid makes best puppet

Oh really? A ninety-one page book of bushboy gaffes?

I knew you really didn't want to know, it's not pretty after all I'm more or less just an observer on usenet, it's gotten quite ugly lately. "Why do the repugs always go with the stupid ones? Because their corporate owners know they make better puppets." now if we can get one of the talented individuals on here to haiku this LOL!

Yes she is above average for a Caribou Barbi!!! Actually on an intellectual standpoint, bush with a skirt and lipstick. She's had so much less time than bush to accumulate ignorant statements but in spite of that she's doing pretty well. 1. "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" --Sarah Palin, interview with CNBC's "Kudlow & Co", July 2008 (Watch video clip) 2. "As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, interview with CBS's Katie Couric, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip) 3. "Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip) 4. "All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008 (Watch video clip) 5. "They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008 6. "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending soldiers out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." –Sarah Pailn, on the Iraq war, speaking to students at the Wasilla Assembly of God, June 2008 (Watch video clip) 7. "I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you." --Sarah Palin, asked by Katie Couric to cite specific examples of how John McCain has pushed for more regulation in his 26 years in the Senate, CBS interview, Sept. 24, 2008 (Watch video clip) 8. "That's exactly what we're going to do in a Palin and McCain administration." --Sarah Palin, elevating herself to the top of the ticket, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Sept. 18, 2008 (Watch video clip) 9. "I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere." –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it 10. "I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council