catbirdseat

Finally decided that you guys were trolling me.

The way they spell there is even more interesting than Dave Schuldt's. What does "supposivly" mean? No fewer than two posters used this new word. Supposivly

Trask's Cardinal Rule, "Never allow yourself to be dragged into fact based conversations. If you do, you will lose automatically."

Favorite Crags had a decent start, but morphed in typical cc.com fashion.

If Icicle Ridge had coal under it, the Bush Administration would advocate dumping the tailings in Icicle Creek. But we're talking about Appalachia where no one gives a shit.

Think about it, dude. Mars is the fourth planet, while the earth is the third. Longer orbit, longer year.

you way wrong. people who ask noobie questions and chestbeaters who pretend to know the answers use rockclimbing.com. like lamb-one. A case in point.

Ever seen this website? http://www.johnkaminski.com/ He's got a bunch of essays like, They got the Wrong Guy.

A sack of salt water... tell me about it. They could eventually come up with a nuclear powered robot that could crawl all over that planet for a tenth of what it would cost to put a man there.

I should think you'd die at a younger age, since a Martian year is longer than an earth year. A man of 25 Martian years would be ancient.

Poor Ed. He'll never live down VL as long as he lives.

Free association.

Are you kidding? Astronauts would fight each other to the death to go on that mission, even if you told them there was a 90% chance they'd die. First man on Mars? Immortality.

This just in: PCBs and Dioxins Higher in Farmed Salmon than in Wild Salmon.

So I read in the newspaper today that Bush wants to send people to Mars. It is expected to cost $1 trillion. Considering our ANNUAL deficit will be that big in a few years, how are we going to afford it?

Kurt, do you know how many degrees are spanned by that panorama shot? Looks like it might be as much as 180.

Well, Mr. E, trask told me that when he works on his truck he doesn't even need a floor jack. He just slides under the truck with a couple of jack stands and a copy of Playboy magazine.

Was it good?

Otto was my neighbor. He told me a couple of stories. One was about a rescue he was involved with on Mt. Stuart when a climber named Dave Grant and his partner were struck by lightning. Dave survived, but the partner was killed. Dave had a burn where the lightnight bolt travelled down the wet rope and struck him. Otto also had a story about climbing with a young inexperienced fellow as his partner on a ridge in near Innsbruck, Austria in 1939. He was already an accomplished veteran at that time. They encountered a lightning storm and were forced to rappel down an unknown rock face through clouds and murk to safety. How when he joined his young partner on the ground, the guy pointed his finger to the sky and yelled something like, "ah ha! You didn't get us this time, you storm gods!" He used to love to tell how he showed The Mountaineers how to use German front pointing technique. Prior to his arrival in 1939, they were all still using 10-point crampons and French technique, exclusively.

I'd bet they would have a costume or two you could squeeze into after they let out the seams.

You two guys remind me of Mutt and Jeff

Being a native born Californian, I've always known the Banning is a place you don't want to be. They call it Stagecoach Town USA. I almost ended up there once when I took a wrong turn at 2 am on the way to Bishop.

I've got the 2004 Stihl callendar...if you only knew what I was talking about you wouldn't be so smug about stone nudes. Kurt, I have an inkling of what you are talking about.

I've seen lots of people puking their gut out on Adams, although I've never had problems with the altitude myself. They are the ones who leave Seattle on Friday night, camp at Cold Springs that evening and head for the summit the next day.