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The AP is reporting that the UN has added their voice. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9954GDO0&show_article=1 "UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. General Assembly is condemning the military coup in Honduras and demanding President Manuel Zelaya's immediate return to power. The world body adopted a resolution by acclamation Tuesday calling on all 192 U.N. member states not to recognize any government in Honduras other than Zelaya's. Zelaya was forced into exile in Costa Rica after soldiers stormed his palace early Sunday morning. He was in the assembly chamber for the vote, which was greeted by sustained applause from diplomats in the hall. Zelaya thanked the assembly for the "historic" resolution that expresses "the indignation" of people worldwide at the coup. "

Holy thread revisited Batman! Hope this finally gets you back there! I think I've cycled through 2 knee screw ups in this time frame and am almost finally closer to back to normal. Get well!

Thanks Aric, this is a better solution than a fatality followed by a legal team getting all the stock and inventory after a lengthy trial.

I think folks can figure that out easy enough, but in this case, wasn't it just the fear that in the future Honduran dude might become a "tyrannical dictator" elected second term President that caused this reaction by the Honduran Military??!

So you'd salute it? Cause I think it's right on the money too. Sure, I don't know all the details, but we pay the state dept a lot of money to figure this stuff out for us. Urging any country, in this case Honduras, to "respect the rule of law" seems so right on the mark.

Why not just pick up the phone and call Metolius!!!!

Who told you that?!! Bring it, did you get a prenup or does she own 1/2 of your company as of right now? I'll offer my most sincere congrats if you prenuptial'ed it, otherwise......

Yup....unbelievable, shakes head in wonderment..... OMG!!!! LOOK WHAT I JUST FOUND ON THE METOLIUS WEB SITE!!!!! THEIR CONTACT INFO OMG!!!! info@metoliusclimbing.com Tel: (541) 382-7585 Mon-Fri 8am - 5pm (Pacific Standard Time) Fax: (541) 382-8531 Metolius Climbing 63189 Nels Anderson Road Bend, Oregon 97701 Web Site Contact Please feel free to send me your input. jason@metoliusclimbing.com

I'll sidestep the akmenisnutjob thing for now to say that it looks to me that our President made a good call. "President Barack Obama urged Honduras to "respect the rule of law"". How can one disagree with it?

LOL! I tried to beat the shit out of it this weekend but was not successful. Graham is going to make it with a burlier material, this was the heavy Cordura and pretty darn strong itself. I needed to haul 4 ropes and all the drilling crap into the wilderness. I've been having knee issues so I ferried it in 2 hauls of about 40+ lb range. The Bil Wally did great.

Wrong theater of war and a bit late to be my fathers picture. Looks like one of his but he was in Germany then back home by '46.

Good luck bump. Just an aside, Costco has a $50 coupon out now for this camera. (10MP, 12X zoom) $279 is the regular price, so $50 off of that. Coupon expires July 5th and you should have recieved it in the mail @ 2 weeks ago.

Whoa, I didn't see this back in May. I think if you wanted to do it in 2 days from Timberline - carrying all your stuff up Sandy Glacier Headwall and over would not be as good as just sleeping at Illumination saddle, get up early and leave you crap at the Saddle and going light. Then simply picking it all up on the way down the S. Side to Timberline and Bobs your uncle. If you bivied further along, like on the Reid or the Sandy Glacier, you'd have to double trip it on the descent when you are tired. Anyone else have an opinion on this? In either case, this sounds like a different fella. News link "A 27-year-old Seattle man was airlifted off Mount Hood Sunday afternoon after falling and breaking his leg near the Sandy Glacier area. Clackamas County sheriff’s search and rescue members said Kristopher R. Haskins was taken off the mountain before 2 p.m. by an Oregon National Guard helicopter to Legacy Emanuel Hospital. Haskins is an employee of the University of Washington in Seattle. The sheriff’s office was called at about 6:44 a.m. with a report that a man had fallen near the glacier and was injured. Sheriff’s deputies learned that the climber had fallen at about 5 a.m. There was no information about how far the climber fell or how the accident happened. The sheriff’s office activated a search and rescue operation with help from American Medical Response’s Reach and Treat specialists, Mountain Wave Communications and Portland Mountain Rescue mountaineers. At about 12:45 p.m. a National Guard helicopter airlifted several rescue crew to the glacier on the southwest face of Mount Hood. The climber was airlifted from the mountain a short time later. " The UPI reports: "MOUNT HOOD, Ore., June 28 (UPI) -- A 27-year-old hiker survived a fall Sunday from the slope of Oregon's Mount Hood, authorities said. Clackamas County officials said Kristopher Haskins of the Seattle area suffered a broken leg when he fell a "significant distance" while climbing near Sandy Glacier on the mountain's western slope, KGW-TV, Portland, reported. County spokesman Jim Strovinck said Haskins, a University of Washington-Seattle employee, was able to get a call through to 9-1-1 emergency dispatchers about two hours after he fell. Several more hours passed before rescuers were able to get him off the mountain with a helicopter, the TV station said. More than 130 people have died in climbing-related accidents on Mount Hood since records have been kept, dating back to 1896." Bet folks on this board know him.

The first time I heard this from him, he was saying as soon as he was elected. The next time I heard it, he had added some conditions and was talking about a couple months after the election. Gradually the date of withdrawl have been getting longer. ..and longer... I still remember Bush saying that we may have to be in there until 2006 before we could withdraw and thinking, BS, but accepting the tone to mean that we would be leaving when the job is done. I guess Barak is learning that the job isn't done yet? Shit JB, we spend over 1/2 a Billion $ on the embassy there. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7811088.stm What do you think the US did that for? I have an idea, but think it over.

Best 4 pitch TR this month! Thanks for sharing, hope everyone recovered from the Swine Flu.

There was only one Hitler. ....Praise Allah. .....And there is only but 1 lil Dawg, seen here hanging in full relaxation mode 160' above the deck with his ever humble companion, the new Cilogear Big Wally after just drilling 10 big-assed holes for 1/2" x 6-1/4 stainless wedge anchors (not pictured) For you Don: That lower picture needs more bolts in it.

It's definitely a user specific choice. At that time, I'd been climbing a hell of a lot and had done the South Side over 30 times as a guide. Frankly, I was just dead on sick of it and couldn't stomach another slog up that low-angle hill even if they were going to pay me again. As this one was a freebee for an old family friend who had asked nicely - I had to do something steeper to keep my interest. (I'm not saying I'm not a selfish bastard) I had taken Jimmy out previously and worked his ass on some steeper stuff down low with non-committing good runouts and he did well. (this is also how I earlier learned that my mutt Tasha could get up 80 degree snow slopes) Doing the Spur as a 2 day climb in addition to enriching the experience for Jimmy, gave me the ability to assess the slope and snow, and contrast it with what I knew of my skill and Jimmies the day before. The Spur was one of my favorite routes to take beginners for that reason. By beginner, don't misunderstand as I don't mean some yoink who just learned to put on some rental crampons and has not yet learned how to self-arrest and boot axe belay. If you choose to do this yourself, make sure that you can belay people down the hill safely regardless of conditions and keep your groups small, because they can freak looking down the steepness and length of the hill when they start to come down. In this case, Jimmy was fine and once we crested the top and were below the point where if you screw the pooch and trip you'd tumble off the North Face, we glissaded all the way to Tie-in. If they have learned to trust a belay at some earlier point, they will be fine with your belaying them, even if they start out experiencing severe shrinkage at first sight coming off the top. Sh*t, that must have been 25 years some odd years ago, I'd totally forgotten all about it until a while ago I bumped into Jimmy at a old friend barbeque Pig roast and he reminded me by replaying every detail of the whole thing: and after hugging me, gratefully thanked me again in front of my family. .......sometimes I feel older than Old Larry looks....

opps, unable to post the video, you have to follow Johns link Jennifer. DOHH!

He was only giving folks a heads up FW, good on him for caring. Sometimes, even just mentioning something like this will have folks preconditioning their minds....it's a good thing. ______________________________________________________________ Sometimes your options are limited, sometimes not.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

I do not believe others know of these routes you speak of. There must be but a single route up the mountain, as indicated by the posts (other than yours) and the pictures here. One time, I took a buddy of mine up Cooper Spur as his first Mt climb. We had done the usual prep of practicing self-arrest and boot-axe belays off those gullies previously over by Timberline and hadn't seen a soul over there. Anyway, we had the route totally and completely to ourselves and it was perfect weather. To help him capture the wilderness flavor, we took 2 days and camped at tie-in rock that evening....alone. The next day we topped out and that entire South Side group you show in the picture was on top. We had not seen a single person in the 2 days until that point of the climb. Pretty shocking and surprising actually to go from pure wilderness feeling to being in the mall at rush hour feeling, but that's just the way it is I guess. Glad no one got hurt.

I'm suspicious Ivan wrote that as it is correctly "speelled and puntuated". cough* Walt Whitman * cough

http://www.summitpost.org/ Click here, the link works for me. Blackballs???? Ouch!

very nice!!!!!!! Hey, I though you should have been getting on it by now BTW...sleeping in again?