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We don't hang ropes were are not actively using. I'm sorry if you have encountered people who do that. If you see a route with a rope hanging and no climbers, you have a right to ask that that rope be pulled so you can climb the route.

I don't think i was blaming the victim. Having worked closely with abused women, nothing breaks my heart so much as when a women who has been beaten near to death, has escaped started to put her life together, and then goes back to the monster who is trying to kill her. how do we teach our daughters better than that? how do we give them the self confidence and self preservation necessary to keep them out of harms way. what i read that disturbed me, was that the woman didn't want to press charges. to me, that is devastating. he should go to jail for a long time. but thats just my opinion. In this case the imam probably got to the woman and told her that she would burn in hell if she pressed charges against her husband. So she decided not to cooperate. This thread is related to the one that JayB posted about Bill Moyer, actually.

A gold star to whoever can come up with the photo that goes with Eastwood's quote from Pale Rider, "Nothing like a nice piece of hickory!"

There's a statistic that Dru is unlikely to refute!

"After climb, go home, take shower, drink beer." -Mizuki Takahashi

Short People - Randy Newman Short people got no reason Short people got no reason Short people got no reason To live They got little hands And little eyes And they walk around Tellin' great big lies They got little noses And tiny little teeth They wear platform shoes On their nasty little feet Well, I don't want no short people Don't want no short people Don't want no short people Round here Short people are just the same As you and I (A fool such as I) All men are brothers Until the day they die (It's a wonderful world) Short people got nobody Short people got nobody Short people got nobody To love They got little baby legs And they stand so low You got to pick 'em up Just to say hello They got little cars That got beep, beep, beep They got little voices Goin' peep, peep, peep They got grubby little fingers And dirty little minds They're gonna get you every time Well, I don't want no short people Don't want no short people Don't want no short people 'Round here

I'd heard that Lamar's Trust was a good one that almost never gets climbed. Somebody (Mattp?) said it had a tree lodged in it last time he looked at it.

Dru, that is fucked up and you are too for showing it. I am sure the snake is defanged, but I don't care.

There are always Yak Tracks.

We are in a more difficult situation now than we were when the war started. Wouldn't you agree?

Someone told me that the reason that the Makahs have not gone out to harvest another whale was that too many people were grossed out over the carcass. They found out that whale carcasses are bloody, stinky and that whale blubber tastes awful.

Would you like to cast the first harpoon?

No, not at all. Everything will have a sign saying something like, "200 foot cliff with jagged rocks at bottom, Alpental not reponsible if you jump off".

So often in life what seems like a great idea doesn't turn out to be so great in practice.

Nope, I can't.

That's why you went up there. I suppose someone might have beat you to it.

Exactly. Each and every sect thinks it knows better than the other sect, and knows better than anyone else. It doesn't matter if the ideas conflict with science. Faith means not listening to anyone else's argument with an open ear. Quite the contrary. Men and women of faith are praised and held in the highest esteem for being steadfast in closing their minds to ideas that might contaminate the dogma.

All I can say is there is no way I can go about in bare feet. Period. You and Dru are blessed if you have feet that tolerate that.

Dru, you sure love an argument.

Our feet evolved for walking over surfaces that yield, like, dirt, turf and sand. Hard surfaces are the bane of bare feet.

I thought we were talking about plantar fasciitis. I guess Muffy has a couple of issues going on, right? the PF plus the broken bone? Speaking for myself, if I walk around on hard surfaces in bare feet, my heel pain will be horrible the next morning. I put insoles in my slippers.

I saw an article in today's PI that the Mountain Loop Hwy probably won't open for yet another year (it's been closed for 3 years), because of additional damage from the storm in November. They can only work on it in the month of August because of Salmon spawning.

Don't go barefoot, ever, if you want to get better! The reason climbing is bad for your feet is that rock shoes are essentially the same thing as standing around in bare feet. I've found that if I climb at Stone Gardens where the ground is covered with pea gravel, it doesn't bother my feet nearly as bad as standing on a hard surface. Muffy, is there a gym you can go to that has gravel?

My time of day is the dark time A couple of deals before dawn When the street belongs to the cop And the janitor with the mop And the grocery clerks are all gone. When the smell of the rainwashed pavement Comes up clean, and fresh, and cold And the streetlamp light Fills the gutter with gold That's my time of day My time of day And you're the only doll I've ever wanted to share it with me.

With persistence you will some day steal the prize.