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Yes, you need to get the State Wildlife Access permit that costs $12. It expires in March.

Do Seven Virgins and a Mule, Crossing the Threshold, and Party in Your Pants at Sunshine Wall. Do you have Climbing Washington, by Smoot? That'll get you there.

The parrot could have been retrained. Just fill up it's little pea brain with lots of new phrases. What do you think, MisterE?

This is one thing we did right with our kids. We put them in swimming at an early age and they swam competitively through their teens. Neither of them swim anymore, but the discipline and goal setting they learned in swimming they now apply to other activities with which they are involved.

Most kids don't want to do what Mommy and Daddy like to do. Ask him what he'd like to do and then send him off by himself to let him do it.

Sailing is spendy if you are the boat owner. Ownership entitles you to pick the crew and give the orders and put the trophy on the mantle. The crew gets to have fun and not pay for it.

I wonder where Weekend_Climberz is on this topic?

Melges 30, complete with the nautical equivalent of a snafflehound!

Thanks for the nice TR.

You guys sure make a lot of noise.

Try the Petzl Aztar. They do have smaller grips and are lighter too. Aztar Doh, sorry I didn't reread your original post. More curve than Aztars? How about Vipers? Vipers

Are you allowed, for example, to use the carpool onramps even though you don't have a passenger? What other forms of entitlement does your exalted status merit?

Dextromethorphan is a cough remedy. The Dex he was referring to was Dexamethasone. Anyone sick enough to need Dexamethasone should be going down and not up. The guy is a fool.

In the old days, it was common to have a leash on a metal ring that slid up and down the shaft of the axe. This allowed one to grab the head of the axe to arrest using the hand opposite of the one with the strap on it.

I saw this come up in RC.com today. How not to belay on Toe Jam. We watched at least two parties make this same mistake. A picture is worth a thousand words.

This topic came up at Pub Club. It's amazing the kind of information you can get at Pub Club.

Maybe the guy who sold them to the store "never fell on them"... Doubtless, that was the case. Caveat Emptor.

MisterE is a great story teller. Never climbed with the guy but he's fun to drink beers with.

One can tell just by looking at the snow above the break that there was a lot of wind deposition prior to the avalanche. It appears the slope was on the lee side of a ridge.

What could be worse than having only one eye? Answer: The eye is blind.

If you really wanted to you could replace the elastic in your tent poles with Kevlar cord. You'd have to figure out a way to tension the cord after you've put the poles together so they stay tightly together. Some sort of clamp would be required. Simpler to just buy one ready made, IMHO.

No load bearing equipment? I bought some used ice screws there two years ago. It must be new policy.

The woman I spoke to in the Seattle store said they had a lot of inventory because everyone was buying them, but apparently the market was quickly saturated and sales slowed. Anyway, at present there is a good selection of sizes, if you are interested.