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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.

Excerpts from "A Night of Serious Drinking". ...and then he poouuured a glass of bourrrbon. He tossssed it d-down. Then it was my tur turn...hick...

Indeed, what was I thinking?

I've done the route before. We plan to carry over in two days, instead of decending the NE Ridge. I was just afraid of the "3rd Class mud" potential.

Already have done NR of Baker in one day. I thought Shuksan was a winter ice climb.

Tough enough getting Olympus alone in a day, let alone Rainier. I'll bet Dan - could do it.

Many of the usual easy alpine ice climbs are out of condition this year. Observation rock is a bowling alley I am told. Access to Maude is cut off. Buckner is usually done in three days by average parties. Any suggestions?

Anyone do the Upper Pride Ice route this year? Anyone do the scramble route and get a good look down the north side?

Bill, what would you have done had they worked?

The fellow dropped by my house and I gave him is Alien back.

Indeed He is.