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PM me before 2 pm if you are interested in a fitness hike of ca. 3000-4000 ft elevation gain close to Seattle.

It was stefan and no one will ever know exactly what happened because the sling was never recovered. Agreed. If it concerns you, use a rap ring, a biner or quicklink.

Right, you want the fat rope through the sling so the knot will lodge against the sling and prevent further movement.

She did summit and she was hot.

Amy Ridenour was so proud of her lawn she used it as an example of how private ownership is good for the environment. She wrote how she obsessively runs her gas guzzling smoke belching mower twice a day. She decribed how she hires a professional service to come out and apply "fertilizer", no doubt weed and feed, full of 2,4-D. Yep, a real environmental steward, she is.

Martlet was in Chat last night. Martlet left after every single person put him on Ignore.

AlpineK, wouldn't you call that "tree pollution" or "tree littering"?

I've seen bail biners with tape wrapped around the gate to prevent them from opening. Not a bad idea.

You should be more open minded. You might have had a lot of fun.

I just saw the footage of the chinook rescue on King 5 TV. The litter dangled from one end rather than being hung from a bridle. Is that normal procedure?

Go buy a copy of the Exit 38 Guide by Garth Bruce. They sell it in REI and the Mountaineers bookstore. You'll be able to figure it all out for yourself by reading the book. I would recommend you try a place called the Gritscone on the Far Side. Everything there is top-ropeable and there are routes that start at 5.6. To get there drive the Exit 38 frontage road until it passes beneath the freeway. Park on the gravel shoulder under some power lines, before you come to a gate. Hike the road until you come to a bridge, which you cross and pick up a trail immediately on your right. The trail meets an old road for a buried telephone cable. Follow this until you come to a fork. Take the right fork at a small stream crossing and it is only a hundred yards or so to the Gritscone, which is a lumpy rock outcropping in heavy forest. As the name suggests it is gritty with good traction for your feet. Enjoy. Bring some quick draws with which to set up your top rope, that is, don't pass the rope through the chains. If you want to be ultrasafe, you can replace the biners to which you clip the rope with locking biners, but it is not necessary.

I want to clarify something about cutting out old rap slings before replacing with your own new one. Cut out all of the worst old ones save the one best and then add your own. That way, it only costs you one sling and you still have one decent backup sling. Don't go on one sling unless there is no other choice (I've done this on more than one occasion). If all the old slings are tattered, I might leave two in addition to my own. Obviously, if there are two slings that look new, I'm going to use them. Why should I waste one of my own? One time there were 16 slings on a horn at East Wilman's Spire. I cut out 8 and decided enough is enough, I didn't want to carry any more junk, and went on the remaining eight(!) Rap rings are an issue of convenience, not of safety. I'm far more likely to use one on a double rope rappel, especially if it is over lower angle terrain. I know this guy named klenke who saves old slings he finds on rap stations to use in the future as backup slings. Of course, when you don't have a job, you learn to economize, as I am beginning to learn.

Where's Norman_Clyde?

But, hopefully, only after the beer runs out.

Martlet is not worth getting your panties in a bunch.

Anything is possible, though you should try faking paralysis for three years, crapping and pissing in your drawers and see how you like it.

Okay it had some historical inaccuracies, see how many you can find yourself. But it was a well done movie with great fight scenes. Ignore what the critics say and form your own opinion. Go see it. I think you'll like it.

AND it's an overnight trip with a bad weather forecast and you've got one of those little single wall two man tents.

The other possibility is that the man had some sore of vitamin or mineral deficiency, such as copper. I tried a Yahoo! seach and couldn't come up with anything that matched Lewis' description.

My son suffered just such an injury and he not only survived, but he is prospering today. With improving weather, I'm guessing they'll get a helicopter in there at first light in the morning.

When I was a toddler, I got it into my head to scribble in crayon all over the walls in the hallway. My Dad made me take a rag and Comet cleanser and try to cleaning it off. My efforts were prettty ineffectual. I cried because I couldn't get it all off. Eventually my Dad relented and let me go to my room to think about it. I never wrote on the walls again.

Hey look, it's ChucK and he is wearing his shit-eating grin.

I was reading The Essential Lewis and Clark, edited by Landon Y. Jones and came to a description by Captain Lewis of an indian chief who had been paralyzed in all his limbs for a period of three years. He was well cared for by his fellows and ate well, was lucid and could speak. The indians having observed the medical skill of Captain Clark asked whether anything could be done for the chief. Lewis recommended that the chief's diet be changed from one of mainly roots to that of meat. They also admisistered a sweat treatment which had recently helped one of their party, Bratton, who had been ill for a long time. In the space of about a week, the chief recovered almost full use of his limbs. I'd have to say that the man must have been suffering from some sort of poisoning. Since he was no doubt eating much the same diet as his fellows, this would seem to be rather puzzling. The only thing I can think of is that there were poisonous alkaloids in some of the roots and that the man may have lacked some liver enzyme that in normal people detoxified the alkaloids. The change in diet to meat was no doubt responsible for the man's recovery. Do any of you medical types know anything about this?

Yep, you got it. You are a shameless wretch, Layton.

If they were getting unfair subsidies, I should think solution should have been to end those subsities, rather than forbiding the use of prison labor.