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If you are indeed a black, woman climber, you are in a serious minority. You'd be a rare one.

I will vouch for sobo, having shared a beer or two at the Nickerson once. He holds his liquor. He tells a good story. He definitely doesn't drool, and I didn't see him pick his nose. Not even once. Quite obviously he's generous and motivated. And if you believe him, he climbs too. How can you pass up an offer like that?

I can sum it up in a short phrase: all news is local.

This sort of thing happens all the time. Dozens of people have gone over vernal falls. They don't always find the bodies. They can get lodged underwater and stay there for a long time. Why it happens is rather hard to fathom. I think that it is mostly all the improvements like railings and paths make it seem "civilized" and safe. I don't think it ever goes through their minds that they can actually die, that is until they are falling or being swept away by the current.

Don't knock 'em. They are clever little bastards.

Some of those "complaints" were meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but I bet some of them were sincere.

This has been sprayed about before, to be sure. Gecko hairs are aid.

The question must be asked how to deal with the issue of contamination. Surely anything that adheres to surfaces would also attract particles and quicky lose its sticky qualities. One should ask how does the gecko manage this? Are the hairs shed regularly so as to renew the surface?

Think about all those rich people with the 8,000 sq ft homes build on sand spits up and down the East Coast who keep rebuilding with cheap Federal loan guarantees. Your tax dollars at work.

We have a group working on a new antibiotic. I can't talk much about it or I'd get fired, but the idea is to exploit a kill mechanism that is different from all medicines on the market and thereby avoid bacterial resistence for as long as possible.

It's just that it looks like Darrington in miniature, and Darrington is 90 minutes away.

All you 5.12 climbers, don't all chime in at once!

Actually it's what galvanized hardware is coated in. That too corrodes very quickly. The zinc coating is there to protect the steel it coats. It has a higher oxidation potential than iron and therefore acts as a sort of sacrificial anode. They used to coat cans with tin. The tin provided a non-corroding barrier. The only problem is if the slightest nick penetrated the layer, the steel would corrode at the expense of the tin, because unlike zinc, tin is more "noble" than iron, that is iron has the higher oxidation potential. So today "tin cans" are coated with epoxy not tin.

That's news to me that cannabis causes schitzophrenia.

My analyst told me That I was right out of my head The way he described it He said I'd be better dead than live I didn't listen to his jive I knew all along That he was all wrong And I knew that he thought I was crazy but I'm not Oh no

I would like to check out Ride the Lightning on Goose Egg Mountain.

Idaho is a rather long drive for me. How about Tieton?

you know, experimentally, that's bullshit. my car gets way better mileage at 120 kmh than at 90. I have no idea what you drive. Boxy cars like SUVs definitely get poorer mileage at higher speeds because of aerodynamics. A sleek car like a Lotus probably get's its best mileage at 85 mph. What are you driving Dru? A Ferrari?

This sort of struggle has been going on throughout the history of the Park system. For example, the Park Service logged a large area in Olympic National Park in the 1950's. It was never announced. Few knew it was happening. The Mountaineers called them on it and threatened a lawsuit. They stopped the logging. Our parks rely on constant monitoring and input from the public, or they will not be there as they are now for future generations to enjoy.

I wouldn't advocate a mandatory SUV speed limit, but I would support public announcements reminding people that their cars get better mileage at lower speeds. I think most people forget that it costs them significantly more to run at 75 mph than it does at 60 mph. The worst speeders are usually the SUV drivers.

That's how it goes with volunteers that are there to work for just a day. The time it takes to reach the work area ends up using all the work time, so they have the paid workers do the work distant from the trailhead. If more volunteers were willing to camp out more needed work could be done. Another way to look at it is that the first two or three miles get most of the use as well. The old folks and the little kids benefit from an "over improved" trail that you or I wouldn't appreciate. I've had disagreements with the "experts" on trail specs. The notion that organic matter always has to be stripped down to mineral soil is one of them. If the section is well-drained, why bother? Pine duff is so nice to walk on!

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Sounds like a no-brainer to me.

Did you get the guy's name?