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Thanks, klenke, I did not know that.

I accidentally swallowed a quarter when I was a kid. The doctor said, "This too will pass".

Lovely to look at, delightful to hold, but if you can't clean it, baby, it's sold.

Maybe I'm short on the java today, but I don't get the connection.

This is going to be a presidential race in which none of the candidates can take anything for granted. I sense a lot of people are willing to be swayed one way or the other.

What do you say to (yell at) your second when he/she says your brand new cam is stuck?

I never got an explanation about why the anthrax scientist would be disgruntled. The FBI's whole case was based on his access to the material. They had absolutely nothing else on him.

Thanks. I tend to believe you because that is exactly the same answer I got by guessing. Did you use PV = nRT, or what? Yes, since P, V, and R are constant, the change in n (number of moles of gas in the room) is proportional to the change in temperature in Kelvin units.

What makes you think they are new? Same old people, just new avatars.

The world's great civilizations have come to their ends by a variety of mechanisms. Only in some cases was this because they failed to project military power abroad. In some cases, it was a case of rot from within where the society became corrupt and complacent. In others, it was a matter of having squandered natural resources, or as a result of changes in climate. For the US at present, I feel our greatest threat is loss of the moral imperative. Our might must be backed up by right or surely we will fail.

So where can one go to actually look at said cams? Stuff is getting so expense that people will start making their followers post bond.

How does he keep his hair so neatly in place with all the black helicopters hovering overhead?

I can't believe that Brawley, CA or San Bernardino, CA aren't on that list. Washinton State doesn't have any on the list. What about Kent or Yelm?

A party of Cascadians- Dave Maher, Marcel Schuster and Mike McGuire of Yakima- and Gene Prater of Ellensburg climbed Liberty Ridge on the north face of Mount Rainier on August 21, 1955 (second ascent). According to Gene Prater, the party "followed Liberty Ridge, but stayed on the ice to the west of the rock until about 12,000-12,500 feet, where we cut back across the rock just below the last rock. So we climbed on no rock, except for what stuck through the ice. We were on verglas nearly up to where we left the rock behind us. We picked the ice route on the shady side of the ridge to avoid rockfall...Up to where we got above the last rocks we were exposed to rockfall. The worst was from where we first got on the ice above the Carbon Glacier up to the 'thumb' on the ridge about 11,000 feet. A chimney (that) the first ascent party used above the thumb coughed out a generous load of rocks as we were getting up to that elevation, so we stayed on the ice. "We used 12-point crampons with the hinge welded and our technique was to use 'all four's': ice axe pick for one hand, ice piton (which didn't work very well) for the other hand, and front four prongs of each crampon, which works well. Two teams of two made it much easier to dodge rocks. We 'climbed over' ourselves, one man going up to his belayer and a rope-length beyond to set the next belay, which, after two or three thousand feet is real work. Near the last rock we left the verglas behind, too, and had hard-crusted snow where we could get the axe shaft in for the belay, although it took a good solid blow with the foot to kick a step. "We camped near 7,500 feet, close to the last place to get on the Carbon Glacier, which was pretty broken up this year, but we should have camped on the glacier. We started at 1:30 a.m. and crosssed the schrund about 4:30 a.m., so the sun had a chance to shine through a notch in the ridge below the thumb and let loose the rocks that were the worst hazard. A three-hour head start would have been much wiser, I feel, and would have lessened the risk proportionately." These climbers had a support party, as required by the Mount Rainier park rangers. Reported by Victor Josendal Climbing Notes, pp 56-57 The Mountaineer: Volume 48, Number 13, December 28, 1955

Air density will be about 20% less at 100C than at 20 C or equivalent to an elevation of 3000 ft.

Frenchman Coulee Cookies 1 cup chopped walnuts 1 cup dried currants 2 tsp. ground cinnamon 1 tsp. ground cloves 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp. baking soda 3 eggs 1 -1/2 cup packed brown sugar 1/2 cup shortening 1/2 cup margarine Beat the sugar, grease and eggs together and then add the rest of the stuff. Drop 1 tsp on ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 for about 10 minutes.

They are cinnamon current walnut drops with cloves. They are really tasty and would be good for bringing on climbs, because they aren't all crumbly. About half an hour after you eat one, you smell cloves. I guess the oil circulates in your blood or something weird like that.

When you think about it, that's a pretty damn good photo as tent shots go.

Ever taste aluminum? It doesn't taste too good.

I don't know this guy. I just stumbled on his web site and thought he had some really nice mountain pictures. Portfolio

Have you stopped to consider that since most of the ladies like kids you might be closing avenues by voicing such an opinion? The problem is there isn't really any up side to it. Hey, screaming babies on airplanes bother me every bit as much as the next guy, but cute baby pictures are nice- no noise and no smell.

Don't inhale that stuff. You might get pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Greg, come on and admit it. That mobile is cute and you are just jealous.