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When he was only 18 months old he picked up his first stick and started waving it around. The rest is history.

I don't oppose genetically modified foods categorically as long as they are labeled as such so that the consumer can make an informed choice.

It's like asking a goat for a restaurant recommendation... You can leave me out of this discussion. I wasn't even going to post until you dragged me into it. I don't use a stick clip. Since you asked, though, I decided to make proposed algorithm: Loserdom = B-A+2, if the result is positive and you are using a stick clip where A= Your top rope limit and B =Route Difficulty Example: top rope limit 5.10. Route difficulty 5.8. 8-10+2=0 If you stick clipped you are borderline suck. If you top rope at 5.11 and stick clipped this route, you would rate -1, well into the suck range.

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that's liberal faggotspeak How so? Those words were written by a conservative supporter of George Bush.

...and Michael Layton still wouldn't be able to get a date.

I was just being honest. An 8 year old can have an opinion, but it probably wouldn't carry much weight as somone who was eligible for the draft at the time. So I am asking the older climbers here what they think. My opinion ran contrary to that of my parents. Greg you probably just parroted whatever pap your parents fed you.

There were a large number of editorials published in Today's Seattle Times in response to the Time's endorsement of John Kerry for president on August 27. The following was one of them: My question to you all is, if you were around in the 1960's and opposed the war, was it a fashion statement for you? I was too young to know what was really going on, but I thought the war was stupid.

Darrington was our original plan, but we bailed in favor of Leavenworth when we saw the weather report. We thought, "hmmm, 54% chance of precip in Darrington versus, 5% chance in Leavenworth; which should we choose?"

Who gives a shit, anyway? Just climb.

Gritscone DOES have an 11a and an 11d.

Your question is not inane, but rather insane. Do you think we will all enjoy weightless gear? Maybe we'll have antigravity belts like on Star Trek? The more significant change will come in the climbers themselves through biotechnology.

My favorite paragraph. Reminds me of Monte Python and the Holy Grail. "It's only a flesh wound".

What she didn't say was that I and my own group of newbies jumped on the route Snowbyrd and company was going to do- R and D Route. We had said we would do Givler's. I just pulled off for a second to point out R and D to my friends and they all called out, "We want to do that one". As we started up the route we saw Bird, Nymph, Selkirk and the Weasle cruise by look up and continue down the road. Glad they had a good time on Givler's. I teamed up with my friend Scott's daughter Linnea while Scott teamed with the daughter's boyfriend Chris. Neither of the two young people had ever done any multipitch trad climbing. In fact, the young lady had never cleaned gear before. It was all new to her, but Linnea did fantastic. Since we had so much fun on R and D, we decided to go to Castle Rock since none of my friends had ever been there. We jumped right on Saber. There was a shiny new B/D #10 stopper fixed in a crack, so I clipped it and moved on to the belay. There, I met a woman belaying her partner. I noticed she was tied in only with a nylon daisy chain and not the rope. She said she and her partner, Justin had just moved out from North Carolina and mentioned that she hadn't been able to clean a nut on the last pitch. I told her if my partner could clean it, I'd give it back to her. Sure enough, Linnea came up with the stuck piece! No one told her it was "stuck" so she worked it out. Good girl! I met up with the other woman at the next belay and gave the stopper back to her. Someone left a helmet near our packs and we think it was Justin.

There were a fair number of ladies last year. The the ones that were there were most fair.

I second, Jason's suggestion of using V-threads instead of ice screws. The latter can melt out surprisingly fast, especially when they are loaded. In your case, you might be soloing and won't be monitoring your anchor, so you want something that is totally bomber. When I am top roping glacier ice, I usually use two equalized v-threads. Call me anal, but I don't want to have to worry about my anchor.

All I can say is wow! Glad you made it out okay, and thanks for sharing your experience.

My bad.

Oh, okay, then that makes a lot more sense. CT is like an X-Ray. The photo shows his bones.

Is that an actual picture of the man's face? It's hard to believe.

See this thread. Even trask weighed in. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/threadz/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB11&Number=125244&Forum=f11&Words=%2Bknee%20%2Bpain%20%2Bdown&Searchpage=0&Limit=25&Main=124780&Search=true&where=bodysub&Name=&daterange=0&newerval=&newertype=&olderval=&oldertype=&bodyprev=#Post125244

You're shitting us!?! Right?

Used to be people just died when they were allegic to food. Now they are accumulating. All sorts of genetic flaws are surviving into adulthood so they can be passed on to another generation. Hopefully genetic engineering will catch up and we will be able to correct all these flaws.

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