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GHB, I presume?

I'll be damned! That's amazing Oly! Let's do the Time Warp!

Next thing you know there will be a website for cats that look like Truman Capote. Maybe there are even cats that sound like Truman Capote?

Sounds like the criminal element is at work planting flowers again. Those sneaky bastards! Rare flower 'found' on land slated for development

Benzodiazepines are a class of drugs, not a specific drug. Sounds like they may have used a cheapo test for a class of drugs. It obviously was a false positive.

It is possible to overplan a trip. If it were me, I'd just walk up the route and follow the bootpath. Of course I'd bring a map, compass and altimeter, just in case.

Bullshit. You most certainly can. Not with the rope running through your gear, but if you clean your gear on the way down, a 60m rope reaches just fine. But why would you do it that way? Just belay up the second from the top and then rap off. You are correct. You'd have to clean on the way down, which my partner did not do. Yes, I would have preferred he belay from the top, but he wanted to get out of the sun.

You can't lower off Godzilla using a 60 meter rope.

We were at Exit 32 WWI Thursday and everything was dry there thanks to the overhang. We had a blast.

Exit 38 can be as many as two letter grades off or more. Worse than that, it's not consistent from one area to another. Some routes happen to be rated close to the correct rating.

You left out the part about poaching the guy's fixed draws, didn't ya? Devil's in the details.

Boot your machine from a floppy or try booting in Safe Mode. Then try deleting the file.

By "equivalents" you mean Metolius TCU's and BD C3? Not exactly equivalent, but close enough. Bear in mind that Aliens are the only cam that I know of that has no stops at all. As a result, they can get stuck in certain situations. On climbs, I tend to save them for applications where they work better than other cams, that is shallow, narrow or bottoming pockets and horizontal cracks.

One wonders whether one should fear the gun that is openly displayed or the gun that is concealed.

That's good, since the state of South Dakota needs those millions of dollars more than we do.

CBS, that's about the dumbest thing I've ever seen you post. What's dumb about it? It's a slight exaggeration. There were 25 murders last year. That's every other week. The majority of them were in the big city. The majority of assaults occur when the bars let out at 2 am. If you head home before 2 am you chances of becoming a victim of random violence are much less.

Think about how often someone get's murdered downtown, like Pioneer Square at 2 am. Just about every week. Now when was the last time someone was murdered in the Washington back country, not just dumped there. I can't recall one incident. It's a safe place and one incident doesn't suddenly make the wilderness a dangerous place. Let's see where the investigation leads and decide then.

Matt, fix your post. It needs some carriage returns. Geez.

You should have started by clearing your throat quite loudly. That usually does the trick. If that doesn't do it, hock a loogie on the floor. That'll get their attention.

Wow, it's been over a year since we've seen a post by j_b. I wonder what happened to the guy.

I bought a set of well used Aliens off a guy through this site for $20 each. That's 40%. I thought I was getting a good deal. I'd say 50% is about right.

Scary

Once you put in a power point and fix the lengths between each piece and the power point, then they're all the same. Equalized in only one direction but with no extension should a piece pull. As long as you understand that the pieces don't really SHARE the load. It's serial redundancy with no extension. If every piece is bomber, than no worries. The reason that the webolette does an even worse job of distributing or equalizing load (than a cordellette) is that two legs are always single strand and one or more are double strand. Those transmit more force to the pieces to which they are attached than the single ones.

Sounds like animals got to them, but it was post-mortem, not the cause of death.