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I take it you are referring to the huge doug firs and hemlocks some people have in their yards? I had a neighbor who bought a house on our street. The property had a gigantic poplar right next to the house. It was dropping "bombs" (branches) on his roof. When he had it removed, the inside was rotten and it stunk to high heaven.

I've made three winter trips and it can be anything from tee shirts to down jackets and too cold to climb. There are lots of fun hikes to do during those times.

This trip is coming together as planned. Thus far, I've got willstrickland, and Fenderfour (plus his partner) lined up. I've got a couple more friends for the 26-27th only. Roboboy is thinking about it. JHamaker's whereabouts are unknown.

OMFG! thread drift happened I don't normally try to be the drift cop, but in this case, we had a very similar thread on municipal trees in the recent past. I think that a lot of the problems with trees stem from poor choices in the selection of variety. If you are going to plant extremely fast growing forest type trees, you should be prepared to cut them down in a few years and plant new ones. The atlas and deodar cedars are great looking trees, but are also pretty fast growing. They take to pruning quite a bit better than other conifers, however, so they can be managed to a point.

An unvented heater would make condensate much worse, not better.

Brilliant, simply brillant.

This story is about fraud. About someone doing a very poor job of pruning trees and leaving people with ugly sticks. It's not about whether trees are good or not. It takes quite a bit of know-how and experience to do a good job of pruning a tree. The victims in this story wanted to save their trees. They wanted them thinned or trimmed back so they could keep them.

Are you going to have a heater other than the one that comes with the van? Best way to dry things out is to provide a heat source.

Something about hockey I think.

My memories of Hidden Valley Campground at Joshua Tree go way back to when I was six years old in the 1960's. My dad used to take us there with our Y-Indian Guides tribe (we were the Aztecs). I don't ever remember having seen a climber in those days. We used to scramble all over those rocks in our Vans tennis shoes. We'd get pretty high up, or so it seemed to me. The dad's never seemed to worry about us though, and fortunately no one ever had worse than a skinned knee. We had this giant teepee tent made of canvas that the kids slept in. It was huge and supported by a metal telescoping truss that was cranked upwards. Good thing we never had a lightning storm. It would get really cold out there in the winter and all I had was a crappy cotton sleeping bag. That was the coldest I've ever been- worse than any bivy since. Add to that misery the sand fight that some of the other monsters started in the middle of the night...great memories. I'm not sure where this was, but we found some really cool caves under a big jumble of rocks.

Dude, why do you want to go broadcasting your phone number for? You could have just as easily PM'd him.

I think that your environmental argument is a red herring. I think that if bolts could be made invisible, you would still object to them as much as you do now. It's all right to object to bolts using a poor style argument. Everyone is entitled to his opinion.

The must have you pegged for a Dead Head. The bright side is that almost any state you go to will be better than New Jersey.

He's going to Arizona. It's dry there.

Watch out for Cedar's Tree Service. There was a story on King5 TV about a guy who's taking money up front and leaving people with a huge mess. They have to call another tree service to clean it all up. He butchers the trees, lopping off main limbs, without any concern for basic pruning practices. For God's sake, AlpineK, get well, so you can get back to work. Your unscrupulous competitors are taking advantage of your absence.

Make new trad routes with the stuff. Make a saw cut and fill with the expando stuff. Add water. Crack widens. Repeat.

The sofa would have been on the east side, would it not? Best for watching the sunrise, unless it was coming through the eye.

Not everyone has a 1" rock drill that can go completely through 10 ton boulder.

They done went and destroyed a perfectly good boulder. Chemicals used to destroy 8 x 12 boulder in Seattle.

I've heard that with the loss of a hold, the Waterchute goes at 5.10b.

Lately, I am more likely to be there in the late afternoon. Today, Jeff and I crushed the purple V3. Then Jeff unlocked the secret of the black V3.

That's a lot of nonsense. Have you ever had any trouble turning a screw to remove it? I have not. Most of the friction comes from the teeth.

I love this quote, "I think Paris Hilton was the first person to supposedly do it accidentally, but when you're a celebrity well-known just for being famous and you have no other discernible talent, then you're going to use whatever you have to stay famous. There is no such thing as bad publicity."

You should put a call into JGowans

Indeed, the Future is Now.