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How about a tramp stamp which says "Wipe here" followed by an arrow? By then you'll be dependent on government healthcare that involves a fat, old, stupid and slothful non-caring matron. The children will have learned to plot a course on a map which will have them living quite some distance away from where ever you are. They have this well figured out when they hit about 13, however, plans cannot be actualized until they are 18 and like a whiff of smoke...poof: gone! This is the way of the world as you know. And as you many not be aware, long distance wiping never works.

Life fades soon. Sadly, skin ages as well. For to soon all of us, no matter how great or small, will be but distant memories not of this earth anymore. Yet before the end of the road hits, I will remember that the colorful swallow I put on my chest while traveling Europe at age 21 when I had gotten out of the service, and the startlingly pretty Norwegian girl who helped remove the bloody bandage before teaching me many things, including what scabies are...well, colors fade and skin ages and soon enough my swallow all too soon started looking like a sparrow which had been run over by a truck. So what? Soon there will be no skin and no life. I shudder to think of what the beautiful blond Norwegian girl looks like now, but she lies naked and amazing still as yet unchanged in my minds eye. Revel in it while we have it my brothers. Revel! Soloing on Couchmaster Shuffle last summer. John R, how long till you shuffle off to Asscrackistan? Hopefully you get some summer here and not just cold and wet.

ps, nice tat. Little large for my tastes, but as I have a nuclear missile going up my leg that dwarfs that thing, who am I to comment. Tastes change.

Hey I must have met you there John. (you came hiking up and the only dudes there: old, looked like they needed walkers - that was us!) Good meeting you and seeing others get out in the wet. In fact, we were laughing about it on the road home, by the time you guys got there at 2pm, we were wet cold and bagging it, but your arrival gave us renued energy to hang till the end of the day. God what a great day. Thanks! I got gobies on both hands from jamming and poison oak in 5 spots! BTW, I gave Rick a ride home cause he lives fairly close to me, and that dude is seriously funny! I mean pro quality, we laughed and joked all the way home.

I suppose that it is entirely area specific. They are probably talking "ON AVERAGE" in the Columbia River basin no doubt. I actually saw a map recently where there was a spot near Seattle, probably the Olympics which was more than average. About everything else in the Pac NW looked to be much lower with an exception here or there. The area I finally was able to get into in July 4th last year had well over 20 feet of snow at this time and right now the road is almost bare. This week last year the governor had called out the national guard to undig Idana, which right now is snowless. This road was closed with the camera, 20' up a pole, buried in snow at this time last year. Here's a monitored snowpack link for Oregon if anyone is interested in such things. http://www.wunderground.com/StateSnowDepth.asp?state=OR

NPR is a government mouthpiece spouting propaganda. It always has been. They say that the government owns GM now. Thus.....ta da!!!! This is what you get. Regardless of your feelings, given the huge number of affected vehicles, this is headline news.

Well, that's still a secret spot, and to get invited you can't be an asshole, so ......well, trying to say that none of us have been there yet...so....uhhh wait...WTF?! ? Not yet but we still think it could occur given the right circumstances with some moon and star realignment tossed in as well. Since Beacon IS the center of the known universe, it all starts and ends there though.

Bingo, barn swallows as well.

The link more than makes up for it:-)

Why don't you all use your real names? Occasionally someone steps up and does, like this example, but lots of ornery folks just want to anonymously spit on folks. Hey Matt, Since you are so good at outing people, how about you post Hugh Conway's real name and city just incase he threatens to "cape" me again. Or does this sort of behavior only get people banned when they do it to moderators? I like a lot of what you say and do here Matt but outing someone that way is really lame. Clearly the most questionable thing I have seen you do on this site. How about posting a listing of everyone's real name so we can all be on equal footing? How about at least posting a listing of moderators and their names and cities? Watch 80% of em scurry into the shadows like cockroaches.

Yours must fit better than mine:-)

Gear whore!

My last hooky day...I'm sitting at work and get the phone call from Jeff. "Have you looked outside". Me (having been doing little else but look out the window at the unusually warm sunny day with no rain at the very tail end of January about 3 days before Beacon Closes Feb 1. "Yeah". "Lets go climb" "Now? What, it's still cold out and kind of late, lap the corner, now?". "Yes, right now". I spoke into the phone "Let me ask if it's OK to leave"...before I'd even put my head up I hear "LEAVE!...Have fun" Whooppp booob boob! Ran home, grabbed stuff. We were at Beacon and climbing by 3pm and at the car by 5pm, quitting time. Heading home as the sun dropped, feeling alive! So much fun! THANKS JEFF!

If this is happening Saturday I'm out climbing. If it's Sunday I'm busy.... I'm sure that the NFL is interested though.

Those old "Borrow and Spend Republicans" again.

everyone knows this Pika thing it's all Bushes fault. Obama inherited it. Obama will save them via US military intervention if needed.

I posted to this thread but it was erased?! I said that we have California King Snakes as well, living under the same talus as the Pikas and lots of Scorpions. You hardly ever see any of them, very very rare, until you start turning rocks over and it's a whole nother ecosystem under there. I bet they don't play well together. Hank the Dog goes uber crazy when he gets near these places as he can smell all this activity and knows that they all need to be kilt. I know that there are lots of mice, snakes and scorpions and God knows what else right under Hank in this pic. In fact, nearby here he ducked under those blocks and probably worked his way underground 10-15' and didn't come up for 20 min looking for prey. I never take these dogs climbing, but I'd left my full rack up to a #6 Wild Country cam up there just laying on the trail and had to go back the next day. Needed a retriever and not a Terrier I suppose.

If anyone reading this has the 8-1/2-9's for sale, let me know. Good luck Punk Rocker.

... thus my questioning its effectiveness. if it would require maintenance because the wind blew it around then if would seem to cause more problems than it would solve. It's possible that it could be an expensive waste of money. I notice that the building cameras are often down and inoperable, in fact, I was going to link the Penn state one and it's down now. Like, LOTS. I wonder what happens to them or if folks just don't monitor them. And this, despite the fact that they are really easy to access to fix and generally out of the weather, and do not have the challenges this would have.

There's falcon cams all over the place typically on man made structures. They don't move and so are non-threatening to the birds. I would think that the difficult part would be the various technical aspects and mounting difficulties of an outside installation. Typically (always?) these things are mounted in and on structures so that they can be weather proofed by putting it under a roof or building something to protect the cam, plus they have full time power to the cam. The weather in the gorge, with near world class wind speeds, can be something none of these building cams ever see.

It's interesting to hear your various takes on Ill. politics as they come up here or there. I guess most of us would be suspicious of anyone named Richard Daley, but give everyone else for Il a chance. I think if we could always chose the smartest candidate who has the most integrity we would be doing well. Sometimes it's not apparent at all what we are getting. Bill Clinton was smart as hell, but there were plenty of instances where his integrity was down the ladder. People voted for him anyway. I think in many folks own minds they questioned Hillarys integrity and that may have cost her the election. Barak came off as her intellectual equal (or more) yet much better in the integrity category in many folks eyes. Maybe not eh?

I really thought that this was one thing Hillary had close to figured out. It seems to me, that the only way to pitch it is to have a large group of experts and people who have studied this issue extensively and thoroughly, put together a package which congress would vote on like the base closures: all or nothing. Yes or no. Otherwise, every special interest get a piece of this or that as it gradually gets torn to bits or have little riders added to satiate this group or that, and at the end of the day it's not even recognizable. Sadly, for this issue, health care: the process seems flawed. At the end of the day, like Bob says, the likelihood is that the taxpayer gets to pay to enrich the insurance companies and a select few joe averages still gets the shaft when he gets sick.

Ur Peeps say Who dat?

This baby epidemic thing is getting out of hand! LOL Nice pics of ice, thanks for sharing it.

Cluck had a nice TR, on it here. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/325135/site_id/1#import Gonna be pretty wet. I think the Tappet Brothers (Geoff and Kyle Silverman), FGW and Dan Forester have reported ascents as well. Whats Lyle like Steve? I've never climbed there. Toproping but dry? I need to do something this weekend as I think my man boobs are getting larger already.