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You can park there with a TrailPark Permit, but don't try to bivy there. You might get away with it, but then Larry The Tool might just bust you.

Chaps you done gone and blown your cover. Now what?

James Chaney sure can write.

Pulling out of Iraq is one option. No one has seemed interested in speculating what might be the consequence of that. It is supposed that Civil War would result, but it is hard to argue that there isn't already one, now. I can't see the majority Shiites giving up what they have gained, especially with Iran next door ready to give aid to them. What would the foreign fighters do if we pulled out? Would they stay and fight the Shiites or would they move on to Afghanistan or someo other place. My guess is that they would stay because they are mostly Sunnis.

If you have a BFT anchor, and a 10 inch tree seems to qualify, you are set. You'd like either two independent single slings or else a wrap-three-pull- two if you happen to have a triple sling. A locking biner and you are good to go. Some folks will add a second, non-locking biner, but it isn't necessary.

You are a wicked woman.

I believe that Dave Page Cobbler is the the go to guy for mountain boots in this State. You might be able to apply welt sealer yourself to make your boots waterproof again. If the leather is cracking after only 4 years it may be because you having been drying your boot properly. I always put my boots in front of a small fan and dry them at room temperature. The fan ensures that they dry in a few hours versus days it would take without the fan.

I've got news for you. There isn't anyone we can drop bombs on. There is no convenient "Hanoi". More news for you. The insurgency is most definitely NOT afraid of annhilation. That's why they keep sending suicide bombers!

The wonderful thing about Tiggers, Is Tiggers are wonderful things...

What struck me about the speech is that it was aimed soley at the American people as though no one in the rest of the world were listening to it. It was as though the Iraqis were not listening to it. If the war is ever going end we are going to have to get over this Us Versus the Terrorists mindset. Peace is only going to come through negotiation. The Iraqi Government is going to have to persuade the Sunnis that they have a place in society and the government and that joining will be more productive than fighting.

Nice work, Barry.

Dru that one doesn't count and you know it. The biner was broken because the figure eight device caught on the gate and broke it by its leverage action.

Do you think that if you handed the cops a couple guys and a bag full of credit cards, they would see fit to make an arrest? Probably not.

I thought her post was funny as hell. She was right in a way.

Dru, no need to obfuscate the issue. Biners can and do break, but it is far more likely the one on your last piece of pro.

This fellow lives in Oregon, so it would be Mazamas for him, if he wanted to go that route.

9/16 is fine with or without rap rings. Some of my runners are sewn spectra but I always carry some tied 9/16 climb spec nylon runners for rappels, when necessary.

It's a case of what came first, the chicken or the egg.

The freakish, snarling beast in the photograph doesn't have anything to do with the story.

Why is it that when I go to the park to run, I see people sitting in their cars with the engine idling? "I can see lazy, fat people. They are everywhere."

Just some dumb law.

Who, Brian Dennehy?

It was beautiful over in Leavenworth on Saturday. I climbed a whole bunch and worked on my sun tan. It was hot even. We were up at Pearly Gates and saw only two other parties.

You never did find that can of whoopass that you had misplaced a couple years back. I figured it out only after I posted. In court you'd have a laptop. Problem solved.

He broke his leg for godsakes! This guy had better get himself a copy of FOTH and apprentice himself to a competent climber before he gets himself killed.