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Aid climbing on ice?

I didn't finish building my backyard fence.

My partner was rescued by a Blackhawk last June. It came all the way from Oregon. Ft. Lewis had none to send.

It is so much easier on your conscience to "know" that there is nothing that could be done to reverse global warming.

Okay, I mispelled "zealotry".

Moderatism doesn't usually lend it self to jealotry.

All we are saying is that although we will grant you that there are individual scientist that are biased, the entire field is not, and in fact other scientists love nothing better than to root out and refute bad or biased science if it is in their field of interest.

The following was sent to me from my friend, Mark Glidden, President of Everett Mountain Rescue: "We were informed that this was going to occur about a 8 months to a year ago. We were not happy about it. We sent letters to our senators and congress people. The redeployment of military recourses is necessary for that war Mr. Bush got us into in Iraq. I support sending good supplies and resources to keep our young people over there alive. Those aircraft and crews have a great mission over there and I wish them the best in supplying medical attention to the people over there on both sides. We are now going to have to rely on the Navy for our support in situations like you had with your son (1999 MAST rescue on Dickerman). I have been involved in a couple of operations with the Navy. They did a great job in those cases. They fly aircraft that do not have all of the abilities of the Black Hawks the MAST was using but they do a great job. I have heard rumors that they may be getting Black Hawks soon. That would add to their altitude ceiling and give us something we could use on Glacier Peak if needed. I think we still have some Chinooks we can still call on for high altitude (edit-Chinooks are not still available). Yes, it is concerning but we still have our SAR aircraft and are doing some things to increase our abilities there as well. Our helo team is better trained than ever. Our aircraft are in good repair, our air crew is really great and dedicated to the SAR effort, and our SAR deputies are committed to our air SAR mission. If you wanted to do something you could get your friends to voice their concerns. One direction might be toward the Snohomish County Executive, Aaron Reardon to advocate for support and resources for our SAR aircraft. Those aircraft are now owned by the Sheriffs department, and we continually struggle for support of our air program. It wouldn't hurt them to know that voting citizens are concerned."

Okay, I can think of some "science" that is biased. Clinical trials that are paid for by drug companies for example. But clinicians aren't really scientist anyway. They are doctors, and doctors make terrible scientists, no offense to Norman_Clyde.

Rescue Helicopters Being Returned to Combat

I suggest the Oasis. It has a half a dozen or so easier sport climbs in the 5.7 to 5.9 range.

So that's how they end up wounding themselves and collecting Purple Hearts. Admittedly, kind of shitty to besmerch any veteran's wounds, but, ...it was just sitting there waiting to get knocked. The way he put it was that the US/S. Viet forces didn't move at night at all. If it moved it was VC- blast it.

We had a great time. We were even treated to a serenade by hundreds of dairy cows. Mooooo!!!

Just about, give or take a million years. We are actually past due for another extinction event. It will be interesting to see whether we exterminate ourselves before the next asterioid hits.

No one knows for sure, but it appears the earth gets bombarded by asteroids or comets about ever 62-65 million years. It could be that our sun has an unseen and distant companion (brown dwarf) star that periodically dislodges massive comets from the Oort Cloud. There is no agreement among scientists that I know of. Others think it is volcanic activity on a huge scale, but why should volcanic activity be so regular?

Every 62 million years we have a mass extinction. So is it any wonder that biodiversity drops at the same time?

What a coincidence! I am donating blood to the Red Cross this afternoon. O-positive makes me in demand.

Mumia seems to have been in a pensive mood when he died. He reminds me of this Thinker:

Dryad used a solar charger for her Nepal trip and had good luck with it. She relied exclusively on the solar charger for several months.

Actually it was very hard to get this guy to talk about it. All he would say was that typically they would anchor on some canal or river with lights out and stay up all night waiting to shoot at anything that moved. Being to scared to sleep when your body tells you you should be sleeping- that's got to mess with your head.

So Snugtop, do you have chronic insomnia or just occasional? I used to know a guy who was a former Viet Nam patrol boat crew member. The stuff he saw gave him insomnia for the rest of his life.

Cold fusion was bunk in 1989, and you know what? It's still bunk today.

Wrong thread, Jon. Move to the Misconceptions thread.

The ratings are stiff compared to Vantage, but not compared to Index, or so they say. If you go to Royal Columns, be sure to get your Wildlife Access parking sticker. The way I go is I-90, I-82 to Yakima and then take 410 to Naches then 12 to the Tieton. Weather is usually better than Leavenworth but worse than Vantage, but not always. Windy Corner Campground is a place to car camp, but there is a free place I can tell you about if you want.

So a flying windmill is tethered to the ground. It is essentially a kite (hey check it out Marie). So can you always count on there being wind at 15,000 ft to keep the thing aloft without power? You'd have to feed it power whenever the wind dies, or it would fall out of the sky.