billcoe

I'm heading back in the Car now from red rocks. Utah They have the fr rendeview ramping up right. Now. The campsite pretty much is totally full. But the weather and the. Companionship is still world class! Lol Have fun!

Sobo, it sounds like an awesome opportunity and big time challenge which I'm sure you will handle with aplump and elan. (if those words don't work just make up a couple, you know what I mean) Congrats all the way around.

Whats a slider aider? Like a Metolius Easy Aider ?

Wow Toast! Sorry to see what should have been a healthy guy check out so soon. I'd never heard of that before, a bit of research showed that 1.3 million folks suffer from it. http://www.lbda.org/content/learn-about-lbd From the obit Doug sounds like the kind of guy I'd love to meet and hang out with, he sure lived what sounded like a full life with extra gusto though.

Wow....total suckage. If anyone sees any of their buddies with new gear and you are wondering how they could afford it: turn them in/report it. I'm not in your area but will keep a look out. Hope you catch and convict them and get all your stuff back.

Well done video Bob....like +++professional. Love your narration overlay. Suggest entering it into some film festivals. The climbing gyms are certainly bringing some serious changes to the world. Some of these lil kids .....wow. Not just one or 2, there's a lot of them outclimbing the old guys x 10. Sweet that Rudy has a rope gun. Thanks for sharing it too!

Wow...that must be nothing short of amazing to fly over everything....to make such speed and distance so effortlessly....wow. When he was around, Mike Jackson use to do that too. Thanks for sharing that.

Oh joy:-) Hey, it's only money, right:-) Some of these guys must be able to somehow conjure it out of thin air it seems as they don't seem worried at all. Drew, I made a mistake and denominated into Yuan a large hunk of my cash in a Federally insured bank account. Sure, it's gone up, but I've sat and watch some other currencies roar even further ahead. I would have been wiser to grab a misc market basket of currencies. The Yuan looked like a sure thing at the time. You joke,but I'm sure that they have looked at devaluing the dollar to pay off the debt. But the time to do that is only AFTER you have stopped borrowing:-) Warm regards to all, remember that capitol preservation is the game that's afoot!

Nassim? Greek AND Lebanese ancestory? Clearly a nutjob who spent too much time working on his PhD worrying over minor matters that don't involve critical things like spending trillions on crap we don't need. LOL (for the obtuse, I joke make) Thanks for that link Jayb. Check out what this former USA cheerleader says. And remember, despite the fact that he's the former budget director under Reagan, it's not about repub-dem. Not at all. No LOL. Too serious. This is the former Budget Director of the United States talking. http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/story/2012-03-03/david-stockman-says-economic-disaster-lurks/53339644/1 Wow! Whope-de do, right Rob? Just keep spending, no one will ever need to pay it back? We need to actually hear the money flushing to nothingness or it doesn't really matter? We neeed th egovernment to spend a few trillion more here or there on stupid ased shit to get us out of this hole? Stockman is just another nutjob on the full retard train? Gary Johnson is another candidate who also doesn't stand a chance in hell who is looking at the major structural issues we as a country MUST address. Now or later. He also rates very high on personal liberties by the ACLU. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/01/MNND1MJ7UO.DTL

No one is even talking about tapering off. It's speeding up. OK, it doesn't matter: lets just keep noshing away then - heading the wrong direction....can stay heading in this direction forever! NOT Bring on some more debt and a side of fried chicken! Woot!

......15 min rates and mirrored ceilings?

http://news.yahoo.com/why-ron-paul-may-cut-deal-mitt-romney-092118733.html What the dangerous nutcase wants now that he's out of the running for sure - from link above, negotiating with Romney, the current leader for the nomination. He hasn't even gotten people discussing those ideas and when he brings them up he's called a nutcase. God help us all. hmmmm Homie the Clown says that we should check in with the debt clock lil childrens! Hmm,says that it's $136,980, up $2000 from quote below, which means your share, assuming you are a taxpayer, is only ... wait, nevermind - that is exactly what YOU owe. $136,980 IS YOUR SHARE. We'll, it's even higher now by the time you are reading this, with no end in sight. Does any rational thinking citizen (of course you are excluded here Rob) really believe that they will not have to pay that money or incure any pain to turn that around? BTW, Looks like it's shaping up to be the classic borrow and spend Repub (Romeny -crazy tax ideas including no estate tax and even more tax cuts) vs a Borrow and spend run us into hell just as fast Dem(Obama). Either way,we're still heading towards hell faster and faster. Enjoy the ride brobhams! From 12-12-11

In case anyone heads to the corner of 12th and Broadway to get BillAs custom beauties - they moved - the Mountain Shop's new address is: 1510 NE 37th Avenue : Portland, OR 97232 : 503.288.6768 In fact they are having an in store inventory reduction right now with some stuff 25-50% off. Bill, please tell us when they get your stuff in. Thanks

I suspect you'll come back with a whole new appreciation of the lush verdant country we call Texas. I was going to go through there once (not Texas,Asscrackistan) to Nepal @40 years or so back but was dissuaded by a stern lecture from a couple of your overpaid goverment CID types who claimed that I'd be in trouble if I did. (Land masses on the way were controlled by the USSR and I was prohibited from any travel to a Soviet Block country) That trip turned into an amazing European vacation so I can't complain. ...stay away from any camels that have unusual drips or sores back there and remember, HAVE FUN!

Sobo, is this a suburb of Kandahar, Asscrackistan?

Curious how you see them comparing to NW Alpines pants. The REI stuff on sale at $117.93 is still costlier than these made in America pants at $110: http://nwalpine.com/fastlight-pant

Hi Bill, can you advise Jeff on this, I'm curious as well. Thanks

The perfect Alpine bag has been done and folks on this board already buy them and regularly use them. Save yourself the trouble and just buy one of these. http://www.cilogear.com/ You did say "all comments are welcome". You're welcome.

Found it. Chinese actress Pan Shuangshuang. Looks like she Ice climbs too and the axe isn't held backwards.:-) More to be had here: http://www.redflava.com/2011/gossip/hong-kong-gossip/mavis-pan-bed-photos/

I want to see the other side...to...er...confirm that the front is back there. Yeah, that's it. Strange that it got put on backasswards. I wonder if it was because it looked better that way. Where did you fish this pic out of Rocky Joe? An ad most likely.

Ditto! I'd like to say that my post upthread is incorrect. All 3 of the lads were present and it was Dave who did the solid job on the narration. Bravo Good times!

For over 25 years, until my kids were in school and finances looked stable I went with wool from the Goodwill or homemade GoreTex. Worked fine. I don't know who is state of the art, but I just grabbed a Patagonia Nano Puff, and I'm just shocked at how awesome it is. (F%%$K the kids, they're on they're own these days:-) Buy the best you can afford, you only spin around once and then it's into the dirt with ya. That's all I have. I was hoping that guys like Frieh, Sol, Dane, Mikey et cetc would chirp in here...even if they might be getting the free stuff.....

Is that tomorrow?

Where do you live and how far do you want to drive? Your location tag line says you live in Salt Lake city...think Moab, Zion, etc etc will be awesome. Is it sunny rock or something else you want? For sunny rock Smith will certainly be fantastic, so will Hell's canyon and some other spots. Don't ya think that Index and Squamish will be wet. Maybe Leavenworth will be a worthwhile drive.....

I'm heading to City of Rocks. Thought I sent you an email seeing if you wanted to join in. Cars full now, but we can still tie in if you get there. Might be too cold anyway. My alternative is to keep heading down to Moab, Castleton south side etc etc (stuff in sun) if the city is cold and windy. Like pete suggests