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I may actually get to go to this one, so minimize the smoke, is all I ask.

Are the curved hexes so much better that it would be worth replacing Hexcentrics if you already have a set?

Duh! They're hillbillys. Does a bear shit in the woods?

no. only 8. but i gotta lotta try if you wanna ride. I have known 8 year olds with more maturity than lummox. He's an adult who's off his meds, I'll wager.

It's discusting.

It's only a "trick" question if you don't know the right answer!

I saw an article in a magazine once in which two guys did the trip in 10 hours. That was with no snow.

I'm tired of it too. Jon and Timmy ought to fix it so nobody can change the title of the thread. Maybe they could have a variable subtitle with a constant main title- the one supplied by the original poster?

You're full of shit.

Just when it seemed that DFA was losing his touch, he comes out with a gem to reaffirm his place in the firmament of spraymasters.

TimL, if you don't fucking get it now, you're never going to get it. You are so thick headed.

Cars are built with a lot of plastic and plastic burns. If a hydrogen powered car were to catch fire, I wouldn't want to stand around to see what happens.

Jake Breitenbach

Scumbag tree chopper. Had you pushed him off the cliff no one would have been the wiser.

Indeed, hydrogen is many more times more dangerous than gasoline.

I do. It proves that the war was not about WMD, but rather about a grudge match between Saddam and the son of the humiliated George H. Bush.

The whole point of that question is that this country bumbled along for quite a few years before our mode of government was decided upon. Most people make the mistake of assuming that the constitution followed immediately after the Declaration of Independence.

I am ashamed. I missed one. I didn't know there were that many amendments. Jason, I would expect you foreigners to do better than we natives.

I think someone got a hold of trask's password.

Methanthiol is the same thing as methyl mercaptan. It is a highly toxic compound and has an odor threshold of about 3 times lower than hydrogen sulfide, or "rotten egg smell". Methyl mercaptan is a major culprit in gum disease and a component in cigarette smoke. Incidently, if you eat asparagus, urine isn't the only bodily fluid in which the odor turns up.

Prophet, I once downclimbed almost the entire upper Lyman Glacier on Chiwawa. I got to be the last guy down, leading from behind, so to speak and lugging all the pickets, screws, etc. they put in. I felt like the "junk guy". Matt, by "crux" on Rainier, I don't think we mean technical crux, but danger crux. The higher you go, the greater the danger, from weather and altitude. I strongly disagree with DPS's assessment.

Alms for the poor, alms for the poor. Give ChrisT your unwanted biners (in serviceable condition of course).

My friend Mike likes to tell the story of a time he was backpacking. He was walking along a trail and looked across a creek to a parallel trail when he saw a completly naked woman running a full gait. She was followed by a goat with a bell. He never got to speak to the young woman to find out why she was running. The story brings to mind ancient Greek mythology (Pan and a wood nymph?).

wow! an improvised thing or an actual rescue litter and backboard? I believe this group was from the Intermediate Climbing Course. They were teaching leading on alpine ice. The guy fell and all his screws pulled out. This was the Brunson SAR from 1997. The Mountaineers usually have an evacuation litter on hand at field trips for self evacuation of climbers with (usually) sprained ankles and knees, etc.

For those of you who don't already know, hydrogen is produced by electrolysis of water. The electricity needed for this can be generated by any number of means, from fossil fuels such as natural gas or coal to solar wind farms, etc. It would be great if fuel cells could use natural gas directly because it is more readily available. At one time the focus was on onboard reformer system to convert natural gas or methanol into hydrogen and CO2, but it now appears that the plan is to store compressed hydrogen produced in large stationary plants. As the lightest gas, it is one of the hardest to store because of the pratical impossibility of liquifying it as they do on the Space Shuttle. Instead it will be stored as a compressed gas at high pressures. There is potential danger in that.