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It means, roughly, "let's go!" or "Send, Dude!"

Why do you want to test falls on pro? If your placements are bad you might deck. Get a more experienced partner to critique your placements. If you climb hard, eventually you are going to fall off anyway. I'd prefer not to fall deliberately.

No one is surprised in the least, Greg.

"It's the greatest thing since sliced bread." "We went the whole nine yards."

I don't think Sno Parks are included. It would be great if they were.

It's a PROJECT for chrissakes! Who cares how it's classified. The guy placed all that gear on lead. He probably fell off at least once for every placement. The guy has probably been working that pitch forever. For him it is a huge puzzle, working out the moves one by one. It shows a shitload of dedication and patience. Few have that kind of skill and even fewer have the patience.

ENTP

“Soon they'll be breeding us like cattle! You've got to warn EVERYone and tell them! Soylent PICKTON is MADE of people! PEEE-O-PLE! You've got to tell them! Soylent Pickton is PEOPLE!”

He reads the site every day and he is almost always on chat. Why do you say it's sad?

The rock was constructed to teach beginners. Most of the problems are pretty easy. However there is at least one hard problem on the west face of the tower that is pretty hard, like 5.11 or so. But no, it doesn't compare to UW Rock. It would be cool if they would add a modern rock at Camp Long.

I don't mind chatting with Dwayner, but it gets old every time trying to figure out who is who. Its the same old game and it is boring. You use up about 30 min every time figuring out who's who. I want to just know who's there and be able to chat accordingly.

I drive that stretch every weekday and I'm constantly scanning for cops. I see, on average, 1 cop every 2 weeks or so. I wouldn't say that is too heavily patrolled. How about Saturday morning? I give you 1:1 odds you'll find the State Patrol on the median at that time, waiting for the weekenders heading for BC.

You get credit for having the word segue in your vocabulary. The only reason I know it is I'm a musician.

I got them from a fellow lab rat.

I knew all along that Boulder Boy would prevail!

The $85 pass is not required. It's an option available to those who don't want to hassle with the pay as you go routine. One pass for everything. If you are a heavy user of National Parks like Olympic or Rainier, AND FS, BLM and State lands, you might use this pass and come out ahead, but I'd doubt it. It's more a matter of convenience. You could also buy a pass specific to the National Parks for $50 if I am not mistaken.

And good counsel is even better! You got me.

I guess mother in law jokes aren't funny until you have a mother in law.

You soon won't need it for FS land, hopefully. You could still use it for BLM, National Park and Wildlife areas. It's a bit over priced for that, I'd say.

Hi sisu!

Straight shaft tools work fine for alpine ice and cost less too. I don't think there is a tool that is ideal for both steep water ice and alpine use, though I am sure some would disagree. If you bought one straight shaft tool you could use that with a good technical axe on steep alpine ice up to 50 degrees. If you added one bent shaft tool, you could get started on water ice. As you graduate to harder WI, you'll want two bent shaft tools. Long term you may end up with four or more tools. Short term, try to put off buying and borrow or rent as long as you can until you determine what you like in a tool and what you like to do- alpine or water ice.

Here's another one. What with the Passion out and Easter coming up, it seems appropriate. A guy goes on vacation in the Holy Land with his wife and mother-in-law. The mother-in-law dies. So the couple go to an undertaker who explains that they can ship the body home, but it will cost over $5,000, whereas burying her in the Holy Land would cost only $150. "We'll ship her home," says the guy. The undertaker asks, "Are you sure? That's an awfully big expense and we can do a very nice burial here." The guy says, "Look, 2000 years ago they buried a guy here and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can't take that chance."

Northbound I-5 from Lynnwood to South Everett is the most heavily patrolled stretch of highway anywhere. Another baddie is southbound I-405 from I-5 to Swamp Creek.

The church gossip and self-appointed arbiter of the church's morals kept sticking her nose into other people's business. Several church members were unappreciative of her activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence. She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new member, of being drunk after she saw his pickup truck parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She commented to George and others that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing. George, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just walked away. He didn't explain, defend, or deny; he said nothing. Later that evening, George quietly parked his pickup in front of her house... and left it there all night.

Why would you want to eat white rice when brown tastes so much better?