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Thanks for the link Slab master, good read. Meantime, the US has become the worlds largest consumer of wine. http://www.plushasia.com/article/15646 ...although if you take out Ivans personal contribution we're only #3.

Pink already led that Ivan and he named "bloody hemorrhoid"...but he didn't' tell anyone. So go ahead and climb it and then he'll speak up afterwards and tell you had he did it 20 years back and he doesn't like yer new name.

Ditto, thanks for posting them Alan. It's one of the side benefits of climbing with Jeff, he's got amazing and interesting stories like this all day long. All day! As the Mazama historian he keeps getting new material too. Jeff and I last Oct or so, Jeff doing the work on the FA of "It's all Good": photo Lostcam kenny.

Your post didn't say a single word about death threads. Re-read it yourself. You put the story into your post so I didn't click the link, just read the part of the story you put in your post. Not a word Drew, so stop being such a douche. You only put the "dozens of insulting e-mails every morning." and "I’ve gotten so many hate mail". Big fucking deal. Did someone even threaten to cap her ass on the Interglacier? No. I'd imagine we see worse insults, and more personal ones, here on spray on a daily basis. I know you are barely above a moron in reading comprehension and thought process so I will pitch this to you slowly. The original post is about a scientist who is getting hundreds of death threats a day for having the temerity to call herself a Christian while producing science that indicates that climate change is occurring. You post a link claiming that Ben Stein had a contract terminated for being a climate denier. Hence my question. Are these two things really equal to you? Are you really that dumb?

Interesting picture, thought you all would appreciate it.

No. The supreme court has already indicated that even yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater is not protected speech under the 1st amendment. If this is a reference to my panties being twisted because the President ordered the death, with no judicial review wanted, needed or allowed, of an American citizen in Yemen. If the politicians in office can start whacking us cause we are yelling douchebag things about our politicians, then I'd expect spray to start thinning out as they reach their tentacles down to us low life's. As far as what is salacious political talk that should get you executed immediately with no judicial recourse, I don't believe they have ruled on that ...yet. I don't know what your question is in direct reference to Drew, but perhaps that question is related to something else like the Ben Stein story I linked above? Or...hmmm, hey - must have been drinkin' again? Is this you?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/12/idUS265209529320120112 Probably should have just closed his eyes, nodded his head, gone along, and kept cashing those oversized paychecks.

They wiped off some of the gold too, good on ya for reposting. http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/1052505/gonew/1/TR_You_can_t_keep_a_good_woman#UNREAD

Mods must have deleted it Pat's Smith trip report. Had some interesting stuff on it. Amongst other stuff like some pretty schweet pictures (Collen jugging in space with the bags was rad!) it had one of the best free climbers in this state show up and was posting pics and explanations on a couple ways on how to make a stick clip. Too damned bad it's gone. I was looking for it to say to Pat that Timetravelr is a great guy to hang with, and you'd be fortunate to tie in with him. So I'll say it here. Said. Auferdersehin bitches.

LOL! Damn that's a hell of a lot funnier than when I ran into a Cuban Expat who wanted to discuss me wearing my "Fidel for President" shirt....:-)

Dave, you're a good person and all, but take the high road here. Trash has stopped drinking and is trying mostly trying to not be a nasty mean spirited assed prick to about everyone all the time. I don't think he's a bad person underneath that exterior and we should help him if we can. High road sir, high road. Regards to all Put me on that list too if you don't mind John.

FALSIFY THE DATA? WHAT? DAMMIT!

I'm with Matt on this. Probably neither of us really wants Paul yet we both might vote for him. Ivan just brought up Chinese emperors on another thread (the republican thread), and it reminded me that the absolute power of life and death over their subjects was and hall mark of Chinese emperors power. This is the mantle we have seen the President pick up with the recent US military strike on Al-Awawaki, a US citizen, who's crime was supposedly to have spoken ill of our country. Thought crime, speaking his mind. Saying it out loud. That is what was "claimed" by the President in the news media. So he needed to be killed for publicly speaking his mind, no court case needed. That they also killed another American in the car, the innocent 16 year old son of the man, surprisingly seems not to trouble or bother but a few of my countrymen. I'd suppose I'd be more fine with the outright murder of the man-which is just what happened, murder by the state in violation of all our laws and traditions, had he been indicted by a court before hand. Yet even the court case that his father brought to try and save his son, the same son who had earlier claimed via the media that the Presidents media reports were overblown and not true, was thrown out. I think there are few issues anywhere near to being as large as this addressed by any candidate other than Paul. The right of our leader to kill any of us based on evidence given in a backroom and published in the media as being irrevocably true. Rob wants the EPA. Me too. But big fucking deal if they can deprive you of your very fucking life with out a trial. Paul is the only person discussing this. I hope that the Paul campaign, with all it's baggage, can shape and frame the real debate we should be having right now with some bedrock serious and important core issues.

Meh, having an overlord with the power of life and death over you is overrated. It is making a comeback under the Obama administration however. A vote for Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi is a vote for for victory over democracy. Yippy yai-kioh Partner.

Or twittered the rock if he was drunk enough....

Nothing to fire away at. Self improvement is a good thing. Some of the rest of us should be eyeballing the same.

Well lately this board is great for one thing at least: racking up posts. I'm up over 820! Going skiing now, later all! Well, you can forget all about skiing if you are serious about racking up posts. No way you'll ever catch up with Trash, Sobo or me with that kind of a "go get me some freshies" attitude....

Troll? Who's a troll? At least he climbs and posts climbing things.......?

Clearly, more hope and change is needed...

Enough rope leftover for tieing up the boyfriend?

Thanks for that heads up John. I didn't know some of that. More info here along that line: http://www.uhs.uga.edu/aod/athletic-performance.html The other side of the coin for middle age women: http://www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/1681-grow-old-gracefully-tips.html Which may be tied to an earlier tip in the article on maintaining an optimistic outlook...

Just read Genespires stuff, that's what I was gonna say. Go to your local store and hang in it. They're all safe. Comfort is what you want. Do some stretching and make sure it doesn't impede your movement too. Generally lighter harnesses are better for long easy backcountry routes or for hard asses trying to shave a gram for a hard send, while heavy wide harnesses are better for hanging aid routes. That said, I think the best all around harness I've encountered for what I do, if I had to just pick ONE, is the Misty Mountain Cadillac. Yet I have 3 Metolius harness's as well, 2 of the bigassed Waldos, for hanging in. The Waldos are more comfortable for hanging in while doing new routes. No use for Black Diamond harnesses for me either. I learned that at my local climbing store by hanging in the BD harness's. Last week I just gave my son a Yates Shield I picked up online without hanging in it first. Bad idea. Yates has a great rep an make top notch stuff, but I think my package must be much larger than than the kids, as he found it comfortable and I hated on it. Go thee to your local store, not one named REI. As far as the price thing goes, if you are going to be in the game any amount of time, get the one that's the best for you. WORST damn thing you can do is get some uncomfortable POS BUT ya save a few bucks. Every time you are in pain waiting for a slow assed partner to come up and you are hanging in space on a cliff, you will remember these words. LOL. Welcome !

As you don't seem to be the "frigid" type (heh heh), and there is some good advice upthread but I'd make doubly sure that you have something to withstand a cold, cold rain. (It would be great if you only face cold fluffy snow) That means you'd have either (or both) a Eddie Bauer/First Ascent Rainjacket or a kick assed PrimaLoft® One coat. Gear doesn't mean shit when you're hypothermic, and if you are solo, a sudden wet cold squall can do you in and put you down quick. As you've done 12 summits, and have the basics, you may already have this stuff.....if so, just hire Sobo there to be your dirtbag hauling bitch:-) Hint, pay him in cheap wine, you can pick up a bottle of Mouton Rothschild, (an empty one) and fill it full of Gallo - he doesn't know the diff anyway, and put the extra $ in the bank. Once he gets good and slobbering drunk, play mountain jeopardy with him and film it, put the film on the internet and make all your money back and even retire from the millions of hits and thousands of dollars google will pay for stupid shit. (Pat posted one of a monkey firing an AK47, I can see this easily surpassing that) Have fun and be safe. Uhhh, that kind too.

Guilty here as well. Even after seeing a guy flip and break his ankle. Heal up Colin, good advice upthread: the mountains aren't going anywhere and will still be there when you are ready:-)

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