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Bill Gates is controlling my destiny as my Windowz 2000 machine won't let me watch it.

I just got buzzed on this. Condolences to all the folks who knew him. http://www.pmru.org/pressroom/headlines/20100609-MontySmith.html

Best thread revival of the week right here.

Dave, wish I could have hooked my kid up with you guys. He's running the outdoor program equipment at EOSC. He went to hell recently and felt the extreme stokeage! Now he's coming back here for the summer. Maybe next year?

"Fare thee well" Huh, did the fucker up and die already? WTF? Look at the face of that Ute. Been some good times for sure. On the FA of Bewitched: 2nd ascent of The Salathe Highway: 2nd or 3rd ascent of Jimmies favorite, LCK belaying/sleeping. Rapping after we did the FA of the Lone Wolf route at Beacon. Phil belaying the First ascent and First Naked Ascent of the Right Cheek at The Far Side. And Penelope too out at Jimmies. In addition to his "go for it" upbeat attitude, what I greatly appreciate, and I'm really saying this for the benefit of all my future partners:-) is the massive amount of shit he will carry into the backcountry so that my lazy ass can get a relatively free ride. Vios con dios amigo! Adam Winslow Larry Jennings Jim Opdycke Bill Coe Kyle Silverman and Phil Guidotte

Please, can't we just cut right to the name calling, I don't want to buy the book till it's less money and all this conversation about ideas is making me curious now.

Yup, and Royal Robbins says he's still sending up to 5.7 in the climbing gym these days.....he says anyway, could be grade inflation. Followed Adam up a new route that seemed pretty good recently. We named it Excalibur. I was on deck to lead it but he stepped up and grabbed it. Nicely done on the lads part.

When my kids were growing up, I'd go watch them swim in the public pool with @ 300 other kids. I was always shocked that there would be 2 maybe 3 parents max, involved enough to be watching their kids. These parents were involved with their children. Regarding this wording of yours Peter: "If she's dead, she died for nothing.......", then if you died tomorrow, you who have lived a much longer life, would you say that you had also died for nothing? It strikes me as an incorrect and inaccurate thing to say about anyone passing if pass she did. It appears to me that it was about the process for these folks. I noticed that my kids were radically different from each other in temperament and aptitudes: and for myself, not knowing anyone involved in this story, I don't know enough to make a judgment here. ps, funny stuff there G-spotter!

Those old dudes f*ing rock. So do some of you young dudes, and BTW, you're welcome:-)

"some rough weather... with winds steady at 50-45 knots with higher gusts." Wow, rough. IMO it's not fucked up to let a 16 year old go for it. We all of us die, and this will certainly be sad as hell for the parents if she doesn't make it, but it ain't over till it's over, and they'll find that boat sooner or later.

I haven't seen it yet but heard it was spectacular. Red Cliff.

Nice of you to report them, I figured they were Chads Acopas and had found their home so I posted to the other thread, good luck!

Red/white Acopa Spectors. I think it was Chad that forgot them and left his shoes there cause it was raining.

ROTFLMAO! Hitchhikers guide, A+ . That part has stayed with me as well and still gets a laugh. There are even recent occasions where I'll grab a towel for a trip and bust up thinking of it.... I will take you up on the generous full value offer Jayb, however, I have 27 books stacked in front of that one. It's Ivan's fault of course. I bought the complete Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin series, and once I finished reading them all, wanted to re-read them. Just starting in with Master and commander again. Hey jb, admit it, you never read Jayb recommended work and are merely looking at the cliff note/internet summation...LOL! Besides that, it says this about the author: F. A. Hayek (1899-1992), recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and co-winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, was a pioneer in monetary theory and a leading proponent of classical liberalism in the twentieth century. He taught at the University of London, the University of Chicago, and the University of Freiburg." ...and of course, as you are always regaling us with your wit and your wisdom, you, at least, know you are much smarter than this guy. Jayb, went to buy it and wanted a hardcover for $3. Didn't get it. Hardcovers are $26! I might wait.

Hold on...black stripe? Can you edumacate me? I loves me the yellow TCU's, but this is new info. $20 is a great price, which is why used TCUS rule! PS, Ivan has done things to a TCU which should not be discussed publicly...dark, crazy, debilitating things.......I saw his yellow one once and I was so saddened. Wish I'd taken a picture, people who weight 250 +lbs shouldn't be aid climbing long routes, but especially on hot days. It's not natural I think. I looked at that and thought, what has he done to my poor yellow. Then I learned that my beauty which I had gladly volunteered had been clipped to his left side to be carried only for emergency, and that the yellow in my hand as I followed that pitch was .....(wait for it)....gratefully....his. Big props to the man for that too, as next to the yellow was some offset aliens being treated equally well. Whats the story with the sling?

what follows is opinion, and you know what they say about that. IF THE NEXT DAYS PREDICTED RAIN IS ACTUALLY SNOW AND IT DUMPS FOR 3-4 DAYS AT ELEVATION, WHEN IT WARMS UP IN THE HOT DRY SUNNY DAYS PREDICTED FOR SAT AND SUN, BE ELSEWHERE. the end Elsewhere might still be on a knife ridge in an alpine setting, steep granite probably with south facing exposure where stuff has sluffed off and has dryed out, and anything under the weeks snow level should be fantastic. 'Squitos will still be sleeping in most likely. A lot of that is dependent on Fridays weather. I was in a cirque of a Mt range once where EVERY North facing slope chose to avy within min of each other. The sun and already warmed up the south facing slopes and they had consolidated. They're calling out this: "An increasingly dangerous snowpack is expected at higher elevations in the Cascades and Olympics late this week, especially on the volcanoes above 7 to 8000 ft". Which is most of the bigger volcano slogs around (and they'll be crowded too cause its nice up there when it's hot here:-) . Even then, if you get out and camp high, run up (is slogging through knee deep-thigh deep + snow running?) anything steep and be down before it warms......and that also leaves a lot still available to do safety. Or just go rock climbing. I figure that anything below 7M feet but certainly below the 3000-4000 foot level will be perfect, no 'squitos till you get to lower elevations (as of yesterday I played hooky on work so I'm attesting too it, although they may be there in a couple of days) and just the right temp for a great day if the weathermans 80 degree valley call out is accurate. Or hiking in the mid-height valleys too will be awesome. That's my take. In fact, if it don't sluff off sat-sun, then Monday might be a great day to be on a volcano. Be safe, have fun all.

LOL! It's interesting that lacking anything smart or witty to say: people who don't like the ideas presented will attack you. Thanks Jayb but I'll pass as it looks like the kind of book one reads to get put to sleep.

Thank yew for thet contributions

Whoahhhh - I don't think that was my grapefruit you was probing there at 3 am Drew :-) ________________________________________________________________ LOL! Not yet but that's hilarious!

Going to spray in a moment or 2 I'm sure. BTW, I was out Memorial Day climbing with a guy young enough to be my son. Great guy. He hauled his pistol out to shoot (I didn't bring mine as I don't want to leave a bunch of lead around the woods in the watershed for folks to drink, the gun club I belong to mines the berms and recycles the spent rounds). Somewhere in there as we are walking back to the car, having had just an awesome day and done a great new route and shot as well, I mention something about all the rounds I'd fired off when I was in the army (who'd claim it was their idea to give all these teenagers machineguns and lots and lots of bullets). He says "Thank you for your service". I'm like WTF? No one had ever said it to me, and I didn't ever really think it was really a thankable thing. I said " why are you thanking me, I didn't get shot"...... Anyway, there are some kick assed dudes out there in the service, and some of us whom were or are slackers. Us slackers know who we are....but to you kick assed guys and you guys who didn't make it back to hear the words too: a late thanks.

You start getting up to pee at 3am cause you woke up all sore from climbing the day before.

At least that spew didn't need to be capped.

Well I guess JB told YOU off! Hey, Nitrox, whats is the pig there on you sig line for? Does that represent anything or is that just you in lighter moments? Here's mine, it represents our lives and inevitable demise.

The head guy is currently interviewing locals so he can determine who's ass to kick. What's it been, a month and a half? Wonder who the fishermen fingered? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100608/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama_oil_spill " By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer Tom Raum, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 33 mins ago WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says his talks with Gulf fishermen and oil spill experts are not an academic exercise. They're "so I know whose ass to kick." One target for the presidential foot: Tony Hayward, the embattled chief executive of BP. Obama was asked by Matt Lauer of NBC's "Today" about Hayward's past comments that "I want my life back," that the Gulf was "a big ocean" and that "the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest." "He wouldn't be working for me after any of those statements," Obama said. The interview, which was aired Tuesday on the "Today" show, was part of a stepped-up White House effort to show Obama is actively engaged in dealing with the worst oil spill in the nation's history, and to distance itself from the London-based oil giant, formerly known as British Petroleum. Polls have shown a majority of Americans believe Obama has handled the crisis poorly. The administration isn't even using the same figures as BP any more for how much oil is flowing from the blown-out well and how much is being captured. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told a White House briefing Monday that a cap on the damaged oil well is now keeping up to 462,000 gallons of oil a day from leaking into the Gulf, up sharply from previous amounts. But his figures conflicted slightly with BP's numbers. In a statement, BP put the amount being captured at 466,200 gallons. Allen said the government was using its own flow-rate calculations and no longer wanted to rely on those from BP. Obama met Monday with his Cabinet and Allen for a briefing on the oil spill, which began April 20 with an explosion and fire that killed 11 workers on a BP-leased rig. In remarks after that meeting, Obama sought to reassure the nation that the Gulf Coast would "bounce back" from the spill — but not without time, effort and reimbursement from BP. BP is the majority owner of the oil well that blew, but other energy companies are also partners and will bear proportionate financial responsibility. Obama stepped up his rhetoric with NBC's Lauer while on a trip to Kalamazoo, Mich., to deliver a high-school commencement address. He strongly defended his role in dealing with the crisis, including his three visits to the region since the spill began. "I was down there a month ago before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf," Obama said. The president said he has talked to a variety of "experts" on the oil spill in addition to the fishermen. "I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers — so I know whose ass to kick," the president said. Asked about the damage the crisis was doing to his presidency, Obama said, "... I'm not concerned about my politics right now. I'm concerned about what's happening down in the Gulf. ... This is the largest federal response to an environmental emergency in history. From Day 1, we understood that it was going to be a major disaster." He said he understood people's frustration over the problem, but said the pressure the administration is feeling can be explained in part by unrelenting television images of spewing oil, sullied beaches and soaked pelicans. "I have to tell you, some of this is just the nature of the 24-hour news cycle," Obama said."

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