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We weren't barbecuing steaks.

She's hardcore. I recently did my part by using recycled toilet paper to start a cooking fire.

Rockclimbing.com has ad nauseum threads on the topic. Check it out and return if you still have questions.

Again as Twight might say, "it doesn't have to be fun to be fun".

It started to feel like "failing upwards" at one point, but recovery brought new hope.

I thought that it is impossible to give consent to someone over 21 years old if one is under the age of 18.

See!? Did I tell you? Knots are SOOOOO important.

I already have the guidebook, so I definitely will go check it out soon.

Tvash forgot to add that at 2:30 am on Thursday morning I heard the voices of two persons walking past our camp. We never spotted their foot prints on the way to the couloirs, so we assumed they must have been headed for Colchuck. The most direct route to Colchuck doesn't go all that near our camp site, but either they were following our footprints on the lake, or else the sound just carried a long ways over the flat surface. Since it snowed that night, we never did see their footprints on our way out. About the road, we noted that it had been cleared and bladed as far as the big mud slide. One must assume that workers will tackle that this week. Once that is clear the few shallow patches of snow will have melted or been bladed off and road should open.

I don't think so. The only other time it has happened were in windy, cold conditions with high level of exertion.

Oly those are possibly the lamest jokes I have ever seen.

Damned if that hasn't been said before.

I crashed all right, but it wasn't high altitude sickness. I know what that feels like. AS feels like your head is trying to cave in. This feels like electricity is been jolting through your arms. Again, putting on the balaclava really helped a lot.

I am surprised to hear people make such statements. So there is a bit of third class downclimbing. That's why we call it CLIMBING. It's all part of the challenge.

A friend of mine spoke to two climbers today near Bridge Creek Campground. They had made an attempt on Triple Couloirs today but retreated from the first couloir after they heard "whumping" sounds in the snow and feared avalanche. We heard no such sounds only two days earlier. Temperatures have warmed slightly but who would have thought? Could the two inches of snow Thursday night have affected the route that much?

When you are sinking screws into old wood you need to drill a full-depth pilot hole that is just smaller than the threads. You'll find the screw goes in much more easily and it will hold just fine.

The dive reflex theory is interesting, but I thought that was a response to sudden cold on the head and neck? I ate as soon as I felt symptoms and put the jacket on one pitch or about 45 min later. The balaclava was added at the belay after that. That was where I really started to feel a lot better.

You say that like they can rationalize. They go where the food is. "Oops I strayed too far up the river, that gives the humans the right to gun me down" Yeah okay. True not there fault but when there numbers are great and they are destroying the salmon at certian places, action is needed. Said insist becuase they have tried explosives, nets, trucking them to California, buggers are not leaving. They practically destroyed the few Stealhead left on the Cedar river becuase of the Ballard locks. One wonders why they don't redesign the locks in such a way that only fish and not sealions can enter the fish ladder. Is it that the fish congregate below the ladder where the sealions can get them? Can't keep out sealions and not also keep out boats.

From the perspective of the public it was a blunder. For Detroit it was a sound business decision, at least in the short term.

Call the Building Department. I think the builder screwed up and if you don't say anything, you'll be screwed.

Yesterday, I suffered from what I believe to be hypothermia. Symptoms: Cold extremities and loss of sensation Extremely high rate of respiration, even after resting Sensation of "vibration" in both arms Weakness, malais, nausea At first I thought it was low blood sugar, aka bonking, but I hadn't been going for all that long. I downed some food but it didn't help. I started the climb with Mistral pants and tights under, with tee shirt, light long sleeve and heavy long sleeve shirts under a midweight Shoeller jacket and light hat. I started to recover only after I added a down jacket and balaclava. I climbed in a puffy coat for the rest of the day. I'd never climbed in such cold environs before. below are the classic symptoms. I did not have low breathing rate, but the opposite. I wasn't shivering either. What's going on?

There are two ways to tie a Mule Knot. The following one is the one I prefer and the one that is generally the easiest to learn. http://www.planetmountain.com/english/Lab/techniques/mole/index.html The following method is somewhat harder to learn: http://www.spadout.com/wiki/index.php/Mule_Knot But it is more similar to the Munter Mule, so if you can tie one you can tie the other.

That was great. I saw Jack Black in School of Rock and loved it.

California

We have Peter to thank for the handicap privy at Camp Muir.