catbirdseat

What did you just do? Sick a pack of weasle relatives on msbehavin?

For me the following was the most interesting result- that almost half of climbers don't know the significance of impact force. Since I must assume some of those who chose lower is better, did so at random, it may well be that the percentage who are clueless is actually greater than 50%.

This was posted before. The links didn't work then and they don't work now.

Vantage

Hmmm, I was absolutely certain that E-rock's post would kill this thread, but I was wrong.

The best I can do is a run in the park on my lunch break and watching the fat people and the smokers out enjoying the sunshine.

Sounds like a technical problem with your computer. I don't think you have been banned.

I would say Gib Ledges is safest provided you are careful on the Cowlitz. Stay left or even follow the cleaver. If you follow the cleaver there is one short rappel near the Beehive. Plan to enter the ledges at first light. It takes about 2 hours to get there depending on condition. It took us 2-1/2 in bad conditions. Move quickly on the ledges and wear your helmets. On our trip Tomcat got beaned on the helmet by a large pebble.

I got to believe that since he is from Tennessee almost certainly he means summer. So if so, I recommend coming out here in the second week of July and do the Emmons or DC route. Hang out in camp and you'll find a party that is short because someone got sick. Tie in and off you go.

Someone explain something to me. The insurgents who are fighting us are said to be a combination of Saddam loyalists and Al Queda terrorists. I can see why Al Queda is fighting us. They don't really care why we are there or what we are doing, they will attack the US whereever they can. Now consider the Saddam loyalists. They are Sunni's primarily. If they succeed in driving the US out, they must figure that they can regain control of the entire country and again dominate the Shiites. This seems like a very unlikely event now that the country has been disarmed. What if the US gave in to Sistani's demand for direct elections before we pulled out? The Sunnis would lose out big time. Would the Sunnis rebel en mass? It seems as though the most logical thing for the Sunnis to do is to help the US create an orderly transition. The sunnis involved in the insurgency are fighting in effect to be dominated by the Shiites. They are fighting their protector. It's not logical.

The only problem with that method would be if somehow the knot managed to get on the wrong side of the sling. Then you'd have a devil of a time retrieving the rope by pulling on the dinky little retrieval line. Granted it would be very unlikely if you were careful AND you could always jug back up and fix it. If you had a rap ring that couldn't happen. For that matter, it would be unnecessary to use the biner in the first place.

Sounds like fun. It could be tough getting back once the snowmobiles have tracked up the snow.

It they did have 1912 and 1914 coins it would be stupid indeed to melt them down. They'll probably just hold them and sell the rest, or else trickle a few onto the market each year over many years.

Yeah and you're the one starting it. I for all his faults, the Republicans would be nuts to abandon Dubya. Ya hafta go to the dance with the one what brung ya.

Dubyas base of conservative commentators are getting anxious. They appear to be getting ready to desert him, even Bill O'Reilly. Bush's Political Base Seems Restive, Anxious

I've used this NikWax stuff. I can't claim it works all that great.

How was the plodding on the Cowlitz? You know you can follow the rocks of the cleaver to avoid postholing and/or avy danger on the Cowlitz. It takes a bit longer, though.

"He" being Garth Bruce?

Sorry, Niger.

No, do you think they would hire me? I think this "letter" is a safe one for the administration because they figure it will be much more difficult for anyone to uncover the truth than it was with the yellow cake hoax. In that case all that was necessary was to go to Nigeria and check it out. It isn't so easy to go to Al Queda to check out this story. And in any case, there is no momentous decision that hinges on this discovery, such as whether to go to war.

You left out the part about "cold dead fingers".

What it comes down to is The Administration places greater value in the Space Station than Hubbell. The safety issue is a red herring. The space station is legacy of Dubya's pappy, and a part of the new Mars initiative, so it comes first.

Oh, you mean the judge Silberman who overturned Oliver North's conviction for illegally sending weapons to Iran, one of the nations belonging to the "Axis of Evil"?

What do YOU know?

HRoark is trying to be funny like trask, but only the offensive part is coming through.