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No it is spelled Baba Ganouche. Store bought stuff is gross, but freshly made stuff is good.

Remember we're climbing on Saturday? You don't want to be hung over do you? Wait, you climb better with a hangover. Go ahead then.

Found at depths of up to 5652 feet. They die at depths of 5653 ft.

I thought you were a teacher. Are you on strike or what? I'd love to be you right now.

Oh erik, The Appaloosa which is native to Idaho, Washington, and Oregon; it came across the the ice bridge many many years ago along with camels and such... camels have long been extinct do to the killing nature of the Clovis people. but horses did survive the epidemic known as man, but mammoths, camels, along with many other mammals native to the eastern contenates didn't.... so really it depends on what type of breed your talking about that determines weather or not horses are native or not... they definitely are to our part of the country... Uh, Fejas, you better check your facts. I'm pretty sure that horses are not native to North America. All the horses that run wild are descendants of those lost by early Spanish and subsequent explorers and settlers. There were horses here many thousands of years ago, but not when Europeans first "discovered" the continent.

I didn't have any trouble at all reading that at normal speed because I have cc.com training. Thanks, Muffy, babnik and the rest!

What's in a name? A lot. Ever read The Fatal Shore? In the old days they called them buggers. The Aussies are very sensitive about it to this day.

I had heard that the dam was part of mining operations. They used hydropower then. Probably channelled the flow to a pelton wheel which turned a dynamo for electricity and possibly an air compressor for the rock drills. I have no idea where the prospects were. I've never seen any mine shafts.

Dwayner told me at PC he was going away on business for awhile and wouldn't be making PC for several weeks. I think perhaps that includes cc.com threads. Anyway don't panic. Just as soon as you start to forget him, he'll be back to rattle your cage.

If my body never wore out, I am certain I'd never get tired of life. I might get tired of climbing, but I'd move on to the next thing that captured my interest. People don't get tired of living. They get tired of their old worn out bodies.

Jim Yoder truncates the lewd names of Vantage climbs, but you can almost always figure out was the full name is. It makes it kind of fun. But I totally agree with Bob on the media. It's so screwed up. What's immoral: showing someone getting shot full of lead or a pair of breasts?

Dru, just go to a rodeo and call a cowboy a "poser", and he'll say, "I don't know what the hell, you is talkin' 'bout boy, but if that means "fag", I'm a gonna whip yo' ass."

Might as well go whole hog and get the bandolier, cowboy boots, the spurs and the Stetson.

My name is Strawman. Please knock me down.

Some people would have you believe that Costalots are the only cam that can be trusted absolutely. That's a lot of baloney.

I spent two or three years of my life working in the lab with these chemicals. It must have had an effect on my brain.

For some reason licorice candy has always been flavored with Anise extract. The sweetness comes from the glycyrrizhin in Licorice Root extract, but the flavor or rather smell comes from Anise. The black color is customary too. Without the added color, the candy would be a yucky brown. FYI, the active in anise extract is estragole or 4-allyl anisole and is in the process of being registered as a natural insect repellant or biopesticide for pine beetle. They going to shoot it out in paint balls.

Harry, I thought it made more sense to add to an existing thread than to start a new one. The original had some good information. Call it chest beating if you will. The real hardmen would consider this climb a walk in the park, but there are others with interest considering Nelson wrote it up. Sergio told me that the guy who got hurt was the inexperienced one. That's unfortunate. A horrible introduction to alpine climbing.

Basically what they are saying is they want to determine how sensitive the model is to initial conditions. There are uncertainties in the parameters they input. If a small change has a large effect on the prediction, then the "error bars" will be very large. It's like the alalogy that has a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan can cause a hurricane ten years later in the Atlantic.

One of the three had never been on a rock climb before and was going to stay at the notch while the others did the Spire. I wouldn't pick this climb to take a totally inexperienced climber. Especially at this time of year. If you rap that gully it is really hard to get out of the way of rocks when you get off. I just hugged the side as tightly as I could and yelled to the others to be very careful not to kick rocks.

That's an interesting anchor too.

Maybe this is a dumb question, but what is the situation where you'd use ice screws to bail rather than vee thread? Like when you are in a super hurry to get down as in a thunderstorm or something?

Those 7 long years of prosperity, economic expansion and low unemployment with no war really sucked. You are right.

Orchids are my favorite flower, but contrary to what was in the movie Adaptation they are not hallucinogenic. There is one species in Europe (Orchis?) that is eaten as a starchy meal, however.

There was one party of three that was at least two or three hours behind us on Saturday. If they got in trouble on the way down, it would have been dark before word got out and the rescue would have been Sunday.