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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".

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.