catbirdseat

Did you hear hear the "Enumclaw Style" take out on Tom Lykis today? I almost crashed the truck, I was laughing so hard. OMFG.

In the prototypes when they folded back the wings the wings would start to melt from the heat of the engines. The original SST was just a big waste of money. What killed the project is congress denied Boeing money to build it. Super sonic planes are for the military. Just look at the concord; they only built a handfull of the planes, and they could hardly turn a profit without government funding. You're getting in the deep end of the pool there Catturd. I've known one of the engineers on the project for over 40 years. Where did I claim an opinion that an economic supersonic transport could be built? Certainly, jet engine technology has advanced a great deal in 40 years, but supersonic flight remains very expensive. And the environmental issues are still there with NOx pollution of the stratosphere.

I'd have to say that some of the seeds of this thread were sown on a two foot wide ledge about five pitches up Total Soul.

What is the most resoles you've ever had on a single pair of rock shoes? Seems like most shoes hold up to about two or three.

I suppose that's a good deal if you like TCU's.

If you folks really cared about the poor high school students of Ohio, you'd all chip in and send them a few dozen cases of Trojans. That would be cool. We could send them to the school principal addressed from cc.com, "for free distribution- instructions for use included".

That event was just the coffin nail. The Concorde was too expensive to operate and too noisy. Boeing was working on an SST in the 1970s. It was going to have a swing wing, like the F-111 and the B-1b Lancer, to make it more efficient at subsonic speeds. As it was told to me, they couldn't figure out how to keep the weight down. That may be more feasible with today's composite technology.

You are fortunate to be one so easily amused.

Montrail light hikers for $14 at REI Garage Sale three years ago that fit perfectly and which I still use. New B/D Camalot 4.5 for $29 at the REI half-price sale. On the other hand, I've only placed it once so that can't be such a deal. Set of used Aliens at $20 each from a cc.com member.

It must be really boring in the Super Secret Moderators Forum these days.

Dru, they use the English language in strange and wondrous ways where he comes from.

Was the hottie with you, Dave?

Tacoma's course is in the Spring. However, it just so happens that Everett's course starts on September 15th.

It's pretty cool that they are working on this, but it would be more cool if we were working on it. Yes, we supposedly have a military version called Aurora, but I doubt it solves any of the problems that led to the demise of the Concord. Story I'm curious as to the reasons why they would use a rocket to test the aerodynamics of the air frame rather than use the jet engines they've already developed. Is it because they don't want to risk losing the air frame and the engines in the same crash?

No there was no FF 2 fall. I misread what he said. It still was a huge fall.

Indeed, that's what he did.

California had a town named Zyzyx or something close to that. I can't seem to find it by googling. Must be misspelled.

Damn good thing you were wearing a helmet! Looks like blue from the helmet transferred to your head. So, was it the lower edge of the helmet that gouged the wound in your neck? Basically, you took a FF 2 fall onto the belay, which is the worst sort of fall you can take. The other day I was ridiculed for putting a nut in 6 ft above the belay when there was a bolt only 12 away and easy moves. It's stories like yours that explains why I do that.

One of them looks like Richard Ramirez and another one looks like AlpinFox.

The best age to climb Rainier is whatever age you happen to be at when you decide to climb it. Go do it.

True, true.

The event was sparsely attended, but four showed up. Mattp, knotzen, duroxmanie, and catbirdseat between us managed to climb Cornucopia, Big Tree 1, and Total Soul. I saw the new kiosk for the first time. It looks pretty sharp. I noticed there were quite a few names in the trail register. This is a good thing. If you go, by all means sign in. It tells the Forest Service that we are there and that we use the resource.

It's amazing how well people handle a few words of advice if you just use some simple words like please and thank you. People want to do the right thing. It's hard to believe, but they just don't know they are doing something wrong.

You might send a PM to ncacademtns. He lives in Mill Creek and might have a room to let and he just got his EMS cert, so he at least might be able to clue you in on that and jobs.

Dru, that's an interesting one. Where did you find it? Okay, who is Ian Tyson? Sounds like a Canadian. Any good?