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That's interesting....my little bother is heading down there right now as I type this to run the Antarctica marathon with 95 other crazies.

It would have been nice if he'd run out of pictures of lowlifes who happen to represent us a long time ago....soon he'll have to start posting pics of Republicans..... won't he? ..ok, here we are...Zimzam steps up.

..or bitches and hoes.... jb, thanks for the heads up and "THE REST OF THE STORY". I hate being manipulated, that kind of shit really pisses me off, despite how common it is. With any luck, the slander litigation will rebound hard, although isn't the smarmy pimp actor still in jail for wiretapping a Congresswoman?

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Never swim with your gear son unless there is no other alternative, the stuff is too heavy and cumbersome and you will most likely immediately sink like a rock and drown. Don't clip it off to your harness if you chose to ignore this advice, put it on a gear sling with a long runner attached. Anytime you are climbing over rivers, you can rig a long sling to your gear sling so if you have to drop it off due to a fall into the river, as long as the cord is longer than the river is deep, you won't sink and you can pull your gear out. Keep a knife handy in case you misjudge the distances and get pulled under and have to cut it anyway. Wish I had a picture of Wiss falling into the muddy banks of the river when his pitons zippered. Rock on!

I want to see pics of Republicans....Larry craig?

Is this the much vaunted Mexican illegal health insurance fund thinggy? Cause if you start tossin' around billions, pretty soon it might add up to real money! Well, anyway, there's no crisis, we all know that the taxpayers have unlimited money, just tell them YOU WILL PAY OR ELSE and that will be that. They can model the NEW "Improved" Washington tax form on the old Irish model which was finally discontinued only after their economy sunk deep into the toilet. Here's a sample: "Party on"....with no idea.

Yes, we need gun control like Mexico. That way, at least the cops, who of course remain armed, can pick up extra cash by kidnapping the citizens subjects. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/28/1088392599561.html Then at the end of the day (like the million some odd folks gathered in the picture above claiming that the police are behind all these thousands of kidnappings and continually victimizing them in other ways) you can protest and squeal like a pig all you'd like since your constitution guarantees the right to protest: the politicians and their armed cronies still have you by the short hairs since they retain the real power. Of course, you'd still have a "free" press right? Frankly, speaking for myself, I much rather trust all of you to be carrying firearms than just allowing the government to control that, see, I feel that many of them are untrustworthy and it only takes one power hungry dude like Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin etc to ruin your day life, while most of you are honest folks. Bottom line: I trust YOU more than I trust THEM. At the end of the day, freedom isn't free. You don't get something for nothing.

Ohhh Yes yes YES! (SQUINTING TO SEE BETTER) is that Geoff up on the Granite there?

ROTFLMAO!! uhhh, introducing our newest star....Tillicum...uhhhh...Shamu... uhhh "Earl the Killer Whale"

It's total bullshit that we as a country are still operating with the energy policy Jimmy Carter laid down, with some tweaks to tear it apart by Reagen. "Conservation" seems to be a dirty word. In fact, during Bush 2, da gobment was giving tax write offs for small business owners to buy the huge Expeditions, Durangos and Suburbans. The least we could do is categorize those things that would cost little to zero to implement and do those NOW while the debate continues. Somehow, it often seems that in the US, they manage by crisis... and if it ain't a crisis, and it ain't money going home to the district, then it's just ignored. Until it becomes a crisis.

That's a hell of an idea, hopefully it helps the family and friends with some closure as well. Good luck to those doing the project!

I think that their work should be looked at. There is no question that in the last 10,000 years, when there was 50-100' of ice in Yosemite valley and Woolly Mammoths ranged the plains - things have been warming up, the question is "Is human activity contributing to speeding things up?" and if so, what should we do about it.

LOL, check out the first comment below the artical: February 26th, 2010 9:50 am ET The 44% that does not think the government is a threat to citizens rights, must be employed by the government or receiving entitlements from the government.

Outside of Alaska, don't know what wild animal people are so afraid of that they need to carry anything. Of course, we could just let the gov't be armed instead of regular folks like all of you. Our gov't is much more trustworthy than most others, like China, where they censor the internet and would have hauled many of you off a long time ago for re-education based on the yowling ya do on this site. Today's surprising poll: "CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens' rights Posted: February 26th, 2010 09:00 AM ET From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser Fifty-six percent of Americans say the government poses an immediate threat to individual rights and freedoms. Fifty-six percent of Americans say the government poses an immediate threat to individual rights and freedoms. Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll. Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree. The survey indicates a partisan divide on the question: only 37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 7 in 10 Republicans say the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans. According to CNN poll numbers released Sunday, Americans overwhelmingly think that the U.S. government is broken - though the public overwhelmingly holds out hope that what's broken can be fixed. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted February 12-15, with 1,023 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the overall survey."

If anyone is bothered by folks having guns in this country, they have only to move here, where the populace is unarmed. Paradise? Beautiful mountains.

Otherwise we have total shite to crawl on.

You're missing out! your precious beacon pales in comparison. We miss out on a lot I'm sure Jeff. However, I am betting that when we most suffer (Feb- April or so) Slick Rock or Slick Sock as you say, is pretty much snowed in. We yokels need something long, close and sweet from Feb- July, for close in multi-pitch. Beacon is it ...or perhaps Smith, where we all make annual pilgrimages too of course:-) ps, nothing quite perks us up this time of year better than warm looking Granite pics, got any?

I was a few miles away right when that happened: in the next valley over, and didn't hear a damn thing about it until I got home. What do you do? The Nepalese who live in the upper Khumbu near the Tibetian border have told me that any Tibetian who comes across illegally and are returned to "China" (Tibet) are routinely executed as soon as they cross the border back into Tibet. So Nepal, one of the poorest countries on the planet, do not force them back and are now faced with dealing with an increase of poor folks who flee into their already poor country. What do you do?

I've done some monitoring. As far as it being a positive thing for climbers, probably not. Josephs been doing this pretty heavily and consistently for 6 years and it hasn't really made a difference. For myself, I just like to get out there and be outside, it's a very enjoyable thing to sit and relax, looking at one of the more spectacular spots in the Gorge (sometimes in total shit weather-ask Ivan) and watching the wildlife show. You have seals coming up the river, Eagles, Osprey and other interesting birds flying around and interacting: it's great. That is not to say that the monitoring might not be helpful at some future point, for if the birds ever relocate, like the pair that was on El Cap for many years that chose to move across the valley for no apparent reason, then it would be nice to have the credibility with WDFW. However, the WDFW would still want to confirm their absence anyway before they would open the rock, so perhaps it makes no difference at all.

Who the hell votes for a guy like that? Maybe Rockefeller...there, that's one vote....

Please attribute my words to me (except for the Regan Regressive thinggy there) via the quote feature. Thanks jb

of course, i have both Fires and hair...could have been a while since I was there:-) Seriously fun splitter cracks, great pro. Not Beacon. opps, wrong thread......Sorry, back to the argueing....nevermind:

Still open: In fact, folks are complaining that the cracks don't get enuf traffic and need more to stay clean.