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That's quite a precocious lad.

I would have built myself one of those time machine, except that I can't find a second singularity. They are so damn rare. Also, if you aren't quick on the draw with the magnetic field, they just fall to the center of the earth where you can't get at them.

Who took the pictures and where is her picture?

If you've ever had one of these close calls where you are sliding toward doom and manage to arrest a fall, it's amazing how much goes through your mind in the one or two seconds you have to think about it. In roped leader falls, it's all over in perhaps a quarter second. A slide is a comparative eternity. You think of such things as: "Why weren't you more carefull, dumbass!". "You know that drop is enough that you are going to break something". "I can't believe this is happening to me!". "This isn't snow, you can't do a self-arrest on ice." "Which tool should I swing with, right or left?" "The LEFT one, Swing!" THWACK! "Goddam, the MF stuck, I don't fucking believe it!" "Fucking get your other tool in, now!" Okay, I admit it. It was me.

Next time call the cops and tell the assholes you called them ten minutes ago, so they better split now.

When I was a kid my parents used to make us go to sunday school. One time we were coming back from church and entering the driveway and my mom said to my dad, "look out, don't run over the cat!", and I said, "my cat runneth over". They thought I was so clever.

I think what Harry means is that there are few HIDDEN crevasses on the DC. You can still slide into one if you fall, hence the pickets for running protection and the prusiks.

Someone I know well had a close call right out of Vertical Limit today. He was on the lower Coleman icefall practicing ice climbing. He had just climbed a near vertical step about 15 ft high and was going to walk off, but he wasn't careful and caught a crampon. In an instant he was sliding on his side towards the drop off. Just has his feet reached the edge, he swung one of his tools and, to his utter astonishment it stuck. He walked away with only a strained tendon in is left forearm. It would have been a survivable fall, but it would almost certainly have resulted in injury. This individual says he vows to be more careful in the future.

That's overkill, DPS. It doesn't need to be super strong.

Yeah, baby! Hit me again. It hurts so good.

I can't answer that, Iain, since I was too busy watching the ladies (helping to ensure their safety of course .

We were ticking off the skills needed to take these gals up Da Toof: 1) Learn to clean gear- check 2) Practice holding a leader fall - take lead class in gym (I ain't gonna be the guinea pig) 3) Learn to rappel - Dryad's job(?)

While it is true that the Boulder Route is sometimes lead by the Mountaineers as a Basic Glacier Climb, it is one of the more challenging routes and is probably only done by about one party a year on average. I climbed the route in 1998 and it was really fun with only one other party of three on the route, which followed us all the way. The neat thing about the Boulder is that you have to do your own route finding, as there may not even be tracks to follow. Parts of it can be steeper than either of the other two more popular routes. The original trail was built by the Mountaineers many years ago. It wanders about in wet areas and is really unpleasant. The Forest Service plans to reroute or rebuild the trail in the near future so that it is out of the low areas. They considered running it on the ridge, but rejected that because the meadows up there are supposed to be frequented by elk or goats and they didn't want them disturbed. I remember that third class section on the approach quite well. There was a manky old rope tied to a tree to use as a hand line. On the way down, most of the people in my party decided to rappel the section. I down climbed while they spent a long time setting up. Combined with some fast hiking, I ended up with an hour long nap at the cars before the rest showed up.

Sounds like the boy may have had some sort of undiagnosed cardiac abnormality, perhaps an arrhythmia. Unfortunately, death is a common way these things are discovered.

The reason for the difference in side effects between Cialis and Viagra was explained to me as follows. Both drugs work by virtue of being PDE5 inhibitors (PDE stands for phosphodiesterase). Cialis is a pure PDE5 inhibitor, whereas, Viagra also inhibits PDE6 to a certain extent. PDE6 is found in the Yellow/Blue cones in the retina of your eyes. PDE6 inhibition interferes with perception of yellow colors and leads to the "blue haze" effect that some people report when taking Viagra.

Cialis would make establishing basecamp a snap. You'd pitch a tent on arrival.

The therapeutic window for Viagra is only four hours, whereas it is 36 hours for Cialis. Obviously, Cialis would be the preferred drug for climbers.

Most people don't have a clue what "blow me down" means, or what it means to be a "bucko mate".

So how many of you agree with Joe's assertion that women are dressing more provocatively in the workplace? In my experience, they are dressing more provocatively in public places, but not in the workplace.

I've got one of me that will win this contest, if I can only find it. It was a self portrait taken at arms length at the summit of Bald Mountain. Looks like a spent a Night on Bald Mountain. I was even wearing a (GASP) Seattle Sombrero. The flash reflected off my tongue for a weird effect.

Klenke, where did you get that drawing? It's pretty good.

You guys are all awful. Don't you know sincerity when you see it? 007 is the most upbeat, positive guy on this board. If anyone can do it, he can. Attitude counts for a lot.

No way sublimation would do that. In order for the vapor to redeposit there would need to be a colder surface present. The ice horns formed on nothing.

So your company must use the Enie-Meanie-Miney-Moe method of workforce reduction?