catbirdseat

There's got to be good ones for Vedauwoo.

Seattle Post Intelligencer

It's pretty much impossible to get enough shifts if you work, so yeah, it's a good deal for students and the unemployed.

Accomplished Alpinist Bags Another 'Peak'

I'll be down there with a buddy. Come join us if you feel like it.

Just coming back from Annapurna alive is good style.

The tag line should have been "Only in Italy".

Is singing or whistling allowed?

No, but that doesn't stop him from posting disparaging messages about Chad Kellogg on various climbing message boards.

My guess is that perhap you started out on the West Buttress and then ended up straying onto Dark Rhythm on the third pitch. The West Buttress is all trad except for two bolts. Dark Rhythm has bolts that start at the very beginning.

DFA, sticky rubber is aid and so is lycra.

A post right out of RC.com.

Not only is it a new species of rodent, but perhaps a new family as well. New Species of Snaffle Discovered in Laos

As The Professor said to Gilligan, "the smell is nothing compared to the taste".

KING TUT Steve Martin Now when he was a young man he never thought he'd see (King Tut) People stand in line to see the boy king (King Tut) How'd you get so funky (funky Tut) Then you'd do the monkey (Born in Arizona moved to Babylonia King Tut) Now if I'd known the line would form to see him (King Tut) I'd take up all my money and buy me a museum (King Tut) Buried with a donkey (funky Tut) He's my favorite honky (Born in Arizona moved to Babylonia King Tut) Dancing by the Nile Ladies loved the style (waltzing Tut) Rocking for a mile (walking Tut) He ate a crockodile He gave his life for tourism Golden idol He's an Egyptian! They're selling you Now when I die now don't think I'm a nut Don't want no fancy funeral just one like old King Tut (King Tut) He coulda won a grammy, King Tut Buried in his jammies (Born in Arizona moved to Babylonia Born in Arizona, got a condo made of stone-a, King Tut

The Inuit (or was it Athabascans) used to wash their hair in urine. I imagine some still do. They say it works great.

Will that scenario sounds quite plausible. We used to use polysulfide sealants on our boat because it remains pliable for long periods of time. Hopefully, they had removed the PCBs by that time (the 1980's).

What in tarnation is a VSC? I use that acronym for Volatile Sulfur Compound. So you don't want a partner who farts excessively? http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?p=dict&String=exact&Acronym=VSC

I heard a brief story on the radio. I believe the station was KPLU. It said that PCBs were found in the paint used at the Icicle Creek Hatchery. There is concern about leaching of the PCBs into the water and possible uptake by the fish. I have no idea how PCBs would get into the paint. Can anyone find more on this story?

My former boss was one such person. For some reason, I couldn't bring myself to call him a loser to his face.

About half the people tie their shoes using a "Granny" bow knot. If you use a true "Square" bow knot, your laces won't come untied as easily, even if they are round.

Will and Joseph, are we both talking about the new Wallnuts? Forget the old as they are not available. What is it about them that makes them complimentary to the BD (=Smiley)?

and how often do you even use the sideways position? in 12 yrs it has never been an issue In flared and incipient cracks, such as water runnells, BD's and Smileys, in fact all nuts except WC can work in this mode where nothing else will (except for perhaps small tricams). I'd never buy the WC for this reason.

It's "Pay the Piper", but "Pauper" is a great substitution, I'll have to grant you that.

You can't forget mattp's post about how the slow party has every bit as much right to be on the climb, etc., etc. Dru, were they really on their first ever multipitch climb? Jeeze, what a choice!