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It has come to my attention that Boealps Club will be out there at the same time with their Intermediate Course of 13 students. They'll be doing their rescue module near Bridge Creek on Saturday on crags no one uses normally, but Sunday they'll be cragging somewhere.

Had he been a little more discrete, he might have "examined" the entire block.

You mean a Canadian Nut?

Are you a clothes horse, Dru?

Like my new tag line?

[Edit: this is soooo Cafe Sensitivioso] YUM AND YANG: MATCH FOOD WITH PERSONALITY Want to know whether you and the person you just met are compatible? Pick your faves and then check the key for your perfect match. You and your date are at the ice-cream parlor. Which of these flavors would you pick? Vanilla Double chocolate chunk Strawberries and cream Banana cream pie Chocolate chip Butter pecan Strawberry Coffee Mint chocolate chip Rocky road Here's what your ice-cream flavor preferences mean and whom you're most likely to hit it off with: Vanilla: You're colorful, dependent and needy, an idealist and a risk-taker. You're a private person who enjoys close relationships with others. Best match: rocky road or another vanilla Double chocolate chunk: You're self-absorbed, enjoy being the center of attention and tend to be somewhat dramatic. You're also lively, charming and flirtatious. You like novelty and are bored by routine. You're a clotheshorse and into looking good. Best match: butter pecan or chocolate chip Strawberries and cream: You're an introvert who handles stress poorly and can become overwhelmed, irritable and cranky. Best match: chocolate chip Banana cream pie: You're well-adjusted, easygoing and empathetic. You make the perfect spouse and parent. Best match: vanilla, double chocolate chunk, strawberries and cream, chocolate chip, butter pecan or another banana cream pie Chocolate chip: You're ambitious, competitive, a go-getter and a visionary. You're charming and enjoy being catered to. Best match: butter pecan or double chocolate chunk Butter pecan: You're principled, a rule-follower, intelligent, conscientious, moral and a perfectionist. You can be competitive but also quick to criticize yourself. Best match: mint chocolate chip Strawberry: You're content to be a follower working behind the scenes. You like being part of a team. Best match: rocky road, vanilla, mint chocolate chip or other strawberries Coffee: You're lively, dramatic, seductive and flirtatious and live life with gusto. You throw yourself headfirst into everything and prefer to live in the moment rather than think about the future. Best match: strawberry Mint chocolate chip: You're a cynic -- ambitious, argumentative and contrary. You're frugal and cautious about planning the future. Best match: other mint chocolate chips Rocky road: You're charming and engaging in social situations, but driven at work. You can lose your temper over life's inconveniences, particularly waiting in line. Best match: other rocky roads. SOURCE: "What's Your Food Sign?" by Alan Hirsch -- Rocky Mountain News

Yes, Toast, but we are talking "entry level" here. They wouldn't be the first cams you would buy starting out.

Not illegal, but politically damaging. So I wonder how they figured they'd get away with it? Was it a rash and impulsive decision? I mean, if you spit into the wind, you gotta figure its eventually going to come back in your face.

TCU's Blue, Yellow, Orange. Friends 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5 and 3.

Sounds like they just might get Rove in the end for perjury, but they'll never get him on the original charge. Bush will pardon him in the end.

So if no crime was committed it was because the source had "declassified" the information. Can Bush legally declassify the identity of a CIA agent?

Climb: Exit 38-Far Side, Off-Ramp (4 routes) Date of Climb: 4/19/2006 Trip Report: Alex, Rad, KJK, Weekend_Climberz, Jimbabwe, Roboboy, AMS, Toast and Scott all carpooled up to the Exit 38 from the Issaquah Park and Ride. Some of us climbed at Interstate Park and some checked out a new subsection below the route Ellie's Sweet Kiss called Off-Ramp. Off-Ramp is reached using a faint trail that starts below Space Face. There are four routes on steep, rock with excellent texture. From left to right they go 5.9, 5.10-, 5.9 and 5.8. The best one in my opinion was the third one, but they were all remarkably good. We had just arrived at the base of the routes and because there is a trail just above the wall, we decided it was prudent to put on helmets immediately. No sooner had I put my helmet on when I heard, "ROCK!", yelled from above. It sounded like Alex's voice. I turned to my right to see a rock the size of a football tumbling down the slope near the trail. Right behind it is what looks like a pack. The rock stopped, but the pack continued down slope a ways until if finally fetched up against some bushes. I walked over to see if anyone had fallen and I see Alex heading down the trail. He says, "are you guy's okay?" I replied yes, but he disappears. I can't figure out where he's gone. Finally he approaches from the opposite direction and we get the story of how they set a rope bag on a slope. It started rolling and they thought it would stop. It almost did, but kept on going and it dislodged the rock. Gear Notes: Set of draws. KJK Has a go at Off-Ramp Route #2, 5.10-

Actually I play in three groups: a concert band, a symphony orchestra and a 17-piece jazz ensemble or "Big Band". The jazz group will be playing on June 18 at the Edmonds Arts Festival.

Funny you should mention it, but tonight I wanted to stop for a beer on the way home from Exit 38, but my three climbing partners in the car all wanted to go home and go to bed. I got out-voted three to one.

Bravo, Don. That was exactly the sort of post I was hoping you'd make.

At least how the modern French do it. And descent by parapente.

You guys are cracking me up.

Then you probably know that I am completely devastated by this.

That time of the month, eh?

French Technique presupposes a single ice axe. Once you have two tools in your hands it actually become harder to do.

You ain't kidding! That's exactly what I did. It's good advice.

My group will carpool from Issaquah Park and Ride NW Corner at 4:30 pm. We plan to visit the Far Side. Probably will hit Interstate Park area. I want to check out four new routes in an area known as Off Ramp.

I hope you feel better now.

In the news conference, Shrub sounded angrier than I have ever heard him.

The classic definition of insanity is when you keep doing the same thing and expect to get a different result than what you are getting.