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Where you are the sphincter A sphincter is supposed to determine when excrement will pass. I have no control over that, whereas the mods do.

Trask was the embodiment of CC.com.

Ah, yes, alternative fuels, like ethanol, which consume more foreign oil to produce that if we just turned it into gasoline.

MtnHigh reported that while there was good ice in the couloirs, the rime on the ridges was very poor for climbing.

No shame in turning around. It's all about living to climb another day.

I would agree that in June the route would be in better shape, but that if you are flying in from out of town, the weather could crap out on you. If you choose June, make it early June, not late June. You can count on the weather being bad from mid June through the first week of July. From the second week of July, you can count on the weather being good, or if it is not, its only a matter of waiting a day or two before it is.

A great tune!

There is truth in it.

Moi? with msbehavin, HRoark or Harry Potter?

And you probably are right.

no it would have been geeky if i had computed the fall factor for 207/107 as well as 207/100 and determined which of these was appropriate measure based on definition of "length of fall/length of rope" if stretched length should count I think that fall factor is calculated before stretch, so it makes it simple enough for the average joe to figure out.

So which part has the pickups? Maybe we can lop off the eastern part.

Climbers do leave crap behind, especially smokers. They leave their butts all over the place. When they are done with a fag they think it is "gone" and toss it. Well it's not gone.

Yes, msbehavin was banned for who he WAS, not for what he did.

You take the Sloan Peak trail to Cougar Creek and head up the right side of the creek, avoiding the falls. Hit the ridge at about 3800 ft where it trends due east-west. Follow it up to about 5500 ft where there is a drop off. Leave the ridge and do a rising traverse just off the ridge on the North face. At about 6,000 ft get back on the ridge and follow it to the summit. The summit register is a pill bottle.

Dru, you have succumbed to .

Now that I have a cold, the answer is at hand. Phlegm is so that you can sing Old Man River in the shower like Paul Robeson. Ol' Man River, That Ol' Man River He mus' know sumpin' But don't say nuthin', He jes' keeps rollin', He keeps on rollin' along.

Jopa, you are right. Mexico did nothing to deserve Texas. Maybe would could cede them to Cuba.

Americans who love liberty should be ashamed of Texas. We ought to cede that state to Mexico and good riddance to it.

We had this discussion before. The only way to exceed a Fall Factor of 2 is for the belayer to "Reel in the Leader" as he is falling.

Please move this to Lost and Found.

In my book, only climbing outdoors counts as "climbing". Indoor climbing is just a "workout".

"celibation" is apparently a conjoining of the words celibate and libation. I think it means getting drunk without having sex.

I have this horrible habit of making exclamations like "oh shit" and "oops" and "oh oh", even in response to fairly innocuous foibles. It really bothers people when I do it in the lab. Fortunately I don't have butter fingers, or I'd be dropping 4L bottles of acetonitrile and get the building evacuated. You don't want your brain surgeon using exclamations like "oops".