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So the US (oops I mean Spain) stopped a ship full of bombs, and then they had to let it go. And then they said, " Under the U.S. sanctions, Changgwang Sinyong Corp. will be barred for two years from obtaining new individual export licenses through the Commerce or State departments for any controlled missile technology items. The sanctions have little practical effect, one official said, because there is so little commerce between the United States and North Korea. But the official said they reinforce President Bush’s message that North Korea spreads dangerous technology." Way to go, it sounds like they are really effective.

PS I think Red Bull is legal these days.

I bet he's talking about the length of the grip, not the circumfrence, might be a little harder to build that up.

And y'all wonder why the rest of the world doesn't like you...

Top of my list is *FRESHIEZ* Mark Twight's _Kiss or Kill_ Digi cam

LMAO Wow! But Hmmm... Someone must have been ice "farming". I bet the ethix and moralz committee are gonna be on their asses pretty quick!

or does look like he's laughing at us??

Well they are the modern refinement of the "canadian" system that you (and I) love so much. In fact they are both Canadian too, as G3 is from BC, and the Skye guy is one of their old engineers... Here is a good pic of the G3 System: The Skye/BD system is very similar. I used the "canadian" system for years (being Canadian and all eh?), and have few complaints. I think the G3 is slightly better though. It has no need of a screw in the top of the ski, so works on any ski, and seems to keep better tension on the tail when your glue is shot. Wild Snow has a good homebrew for the canadian system, with a few nice refinements.

my $0.03: Get fatties. Especially if you hope to ski in dry snow, I find that when I am inland my skins have even more trouble sticking to the snow. Get BD Ascension. I have never had problems with mine, unlike some others I have tried. (I missed the bad glue year mind you.) Get the G3 or BD/Skye Tip-tail kits. They work the best that tried. Clip fix is supposed to be good, but fussy to set up. Check the BD website they had some cosmetic 2nds I think...

You know what they say, "Huge hands = huge...." Actually I have a problem with that too. While feet aren't too much trouble, hands are. I can only find a few gloves that I can actually get on. And I actually like the size of my shafts on my BD Prophets. Maybe some one will come up with a modular system with different size grips and stuff?? "...huge gloves"

There's good rock if you look for it, kinda like Squamish has bad rock if you look for it. I did the NE (?) ridge of Ha Ling (Chinaman's) peak and was told that it was one of the most solid routes in the Rockies. I was never more scared of killing my belayer than on that route! Still in all it was fun.

What muffy and dru doin talkin bout freshiez... Must have meant some good canadian

So what she is saying is that one day she will be the world's best spelling teacher.

Oh, yeah.. I was thinking Squamish. But I would have to agree, France sounds good too, then I could climb ice, rock, and ski all in the same season, as well as eat good food and wine. Ha! back to the original subject.

Probably not since the effects of farming aren't permanent. :timmy I need rolleyes back!:

Me. No real snow, chossy rock, and you can't even camp for free without getting chased off by the rangers... I'd rather fly out there a couple times a winter to climb real ice, and live in a place where I can ski and climb real rock all in one week if I want to.

Check the time of the post, that's even sadder...

Absolutely! At least for the bottom, "filler" pillow. Then a jacket or something. If they are real ripe you get to sleep sooner too LOL.

INTP Seems there's a few of us around here... Must be why MTWS likes it here so much...

On sale for $CND 0.49 at my local grocer. LMAO, I guess it didn't sell too well.

Now I am the very confused one Please explain how my post even approaches sexist? Re-reading it I can see how it might be confusing though... forrest has it right though, except the part where I use the B-vox when I am alone!!! I justt get to use it when she isn't along for the day.

Here is some more good reading for you all. DTS Tech reports page I was out in the soccer fields today playing with the new Barryvox. I like it. Mostly in default mode today, I will report more when I have a chance to do some multiple "burials" and such. So for this winter I will have an Orto F1 Focus, and a Barryvox on the go. F1 will be my beacon when I'm out with my girlfriend, and the B-vox, when she's not skiing.

I think a lot of this has been covered recently at: recent beacon thread I knew I was going to draw some heat with that comment. I always liked the Ortovox, and I still use an F1. However I have read, and of course it is the one article I can't find right now, that the Ortovox is often testing outside the range of frequencies for the beacon standard, and that they have been informed of this and not responded. That gives me serious reservations about there products in genenral, even though they obviously work in the field. As to the M2: All beacons are good in the hands of an experienced user. I bet there are people out there who could find me as fast with an old SKADI (if it was 457), as with any new fangled beeping digital unit. I have also heard from pros (ie patrol) that in multiple beacon scenarios you really hope there aren't too many M2's down there, because the high pulse rate just make things even more confusing. I don't believe that any beacon, including the Tracker, is good for use without training. Sure I can find one beacon easy with it, but throw in two or more, and it's just as complex a search as anything else. The X1, well check out the telemarktips.com forum for a real blast against it. For that matter check out where I quoted it in the recent beacon thread: One thing to add to the fire is this poorly translated test report summary forwarded to me by the Barryvox rep. Betcha can't guess which beacon it favours... [edit] Tried to attach it in PDF, not sure how to do that apparently. PM me if you want it.[/edit]

Have you had a look at Mark Twight's _Extreme Alpinism_?

IMO - DTS Tracker or Barryvox or SOS F1-ND, everything else seems to have issues Stay away from Ortovox. Read telemark tips for long winded discussions of which beacon is best, see also the recent avvy beacon thread. PM me if you want me to justify the choices here. I've been doing lots of research lately, and have lots of good links. I ended up with the Barryvox BTW.