Dustin_B

You are saying seattle sucks because it was nice for ~10 days and then rained for a couple days which happened to be the two days you had off?? Sounds like the problem is your job/schedule and not Seattle...

yeah, definitely skip on the insulated pants for summer in the cascades. just pack a pair of long underwear for the rainier trip.

last night we saw a couple of cop cars sitting just across from the stop sign (where you turn right) at the end of the exit. couldn't figure out what the hell they were doing though. thought maybe they were eating donuts and acting as a detterent?

Further discussion point for those who don’t want to listen to the audio clips: “Do you believe that this culture is going to undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living?”

overview of Crohn's disease

How much time do you spend on spraying here? I bet you have a couple of hours to spare if you dig deep. And, no, you don’t understand his vision of an “ideal future” as he realizes there is none. He has no ‘fantasies’, only realities. Derrick is not a misanthrope and loves all races. He loves all the planet’s creatures. Even JayBs. By the way, the clips are split up into two 1-hour long sessions. He doesn’t even mention bringing down civilization in the first clip. So even if you can only spare 30 minutes, its still worth while (although the first ~10 min of the first clip starts out a little slow). PS – the disease Derrick has (and openly discusses) is Crohn's disease, for which there is no known cure.

Dru, JayB, and others, you are so far off here you might as well be talking about bolting cracks. Bringing down civilization isn’t about “people”, its about the planet and all the life we share the planet with. How many of you (JayB, Dru) listened to audio clips? My guess? None. Further more, how many listened with an open mind? My guess? Again, none. And certainly no one who responded within a couple hours of the original post. Go listen to it. JayB, you are way, way off on this one. Its not a prophecy, and he doesn’t want to be “spared”. Derrick is only thinking about the planet, not himself. I know its hard for you to imagine someone so unselfish. But just try. Derrick is willing to give his life for the life of a fish, can you say the same? Derrick has a non-curable disease (I forget what it is right now). But since you didn’t listen to the clips, and simply rambled off your opinions, you wouldn’t know that. If Derrick has a disease caused by civilization, I don’t see why he can’t use civilization to cure it. (not sure what ‘cures’ he is using though). He’s not a scientologist. “If civilization collapsed today it would not be a good thing for the rest of the planet. It would be a bad thing.” That is absolutely the biggest load of crap I have ever heard come out of Dru’s computer, and there has been a lot of it. In the short term it would be bad, in the long term it would be good. The problem is people are only concerned “about the short-term habitat lose” and not the “long-term habitat gain”. I can’t see how we could do any more damage to the ocean’s large fish population than has already been done if civilization ended. Would you please go listen to the clips so we can have a meaningful discussion, otherwise we might as well be debating bouldering vs. alpine climbing. Remember when the earth was flat and no one wanted to believe it was round? The people who thought the earth was round were “whacko-nut-jobs”. Unfortunately its not as easy as sailing around the earth to prove the point here.

'Mountie' is slacking on the job this year.....

Skied Yodelin on Sunday. 8" of light(ish) untracked fresh on top of a soft base. Cold temps in the morning kept the snow good until we descended around 2 pm. mix of light snow showers and blue skies was awesome. best part? not another soul around. that is a yodelin first for a sunday! guess everyone was in church? it was a stellar mid-april day. this winter just keeps on giving!

I’d venture to guess that probably a majority of the people protesting were illegals and that has nothing to do with skin color (and I have no idea why race was even brought up). Do you think this is a stretch? Most people who protest against Bush are liberals right? Same reasoning. If you are protesting something its because you support the cause of the protest right? Why would someone protest against this law? Hmmmm, maybe because they themselves are illegals or their friends and families are. I see what underworld is saying and it does seem ironic to me. And I don’t buy this argument that our society would crumble without them. We have plenty of legitimate aliens to do those jobs.

My fritschis accept my Lasers and my Scarpa Alphas (same shell size) with out any adjustment at all. So I tried skiing the Alphas inbounds for a morning once and had no edging power at all. It was really weird and difficult. I vowed never to ski bc in the alphas unless it was a completely flat approach.

Cold cold world packs

find the cheapest possible flight to any city in Europe through orbitz, travelocity, etc or though a consolidator (STA travel also has cheap flights). Cheapest cities to fly into will probably be London, Paris, Amsterdam, etc. Then book a budget airline flight to Geneva on a carrier like Ryanair, easyjet, jetblue, etc. check www.whichbuget.com for those cheap flights

Sibley creek is like mp 9 or 10 I think. Mineral Park is mp 16 (I believe). Eldorado is mp 20. don’t know about Gilbert’s cabin.

As of Saturday, March 18th, Cascade River road is not driveable in normal 4x4 (jeep) after mile post 16. (you might get a 1/4 mile more if you wanted to really be greedy and work for it). Patchy deep snow spots / bare road from mp 16 to 17, then solid deep snow on road from mile post 17 on.

A few weeks ago a bunch of us were going to a private cabin near White Pass. Highway was bare and dry. Private driveway was an ice rink. One car (subie, all wheel drive) cruised right up the driveway. The car I was in (front wheel drive Ford Contour) couldn't even get there with chains on the front tires. We had to get 8+ people to push the car over into the snow to get traction. Pain in the ass.

Are they handing out cups of beer instead of water as you run by? If not, then no. PS - its abbreviated: St. Paddy's day. (Patty = girl, Paddy = boy) (no, I'm not Irish)

My buddy has the MYO XP and we've compared them side by side and the spot is brighter (unless you plan to hike around holding down the boost?? even then the MYO XP was only very slightly brighter with the boost) I'm not so sure I trust this focus group's findings. I sense that those that have already made the purchase are seeking to justify their choice instead of making an unbaised, objective report of field data. Would you like me to get my buddy to post to confirm this? If you don't believe me then go try it out for yourself. Buy both headlamps from REI then return which ever one you are not 100% completely satisfied with.... I don't work for BD, I don't care if you like their stuff of not. Or does your lack of trust stem from my avatar pic?

They do have climbing gear. I was in the Seattle REI last week and counted 7 different models of leashless tools. I bullshit you not. They only had one leashed tool (with picky fuck thing), but no body uses leashes anymore now days right? They also had a couple pairs of boots with built in crampons. You see, REI isn't for your standard alpine climber wanks. They are only catering to the hard core climbing elite. I hear they are the official and only sponsor of Gym Jones.

I cut a particular junk food out of my diet right after New Years. I went from having it twice a day to not at all (maybe 1 every other weekend now). Quit cold-turkey. I didn't replace it with anything. The craving is all in you mind. It was a real difficult for a few weeks and I was feeling hungry more often, but I fought through the urges. Now I don't miss it. Its like mental training for climbing or some shit. It was really difficult but I just keep reminding myself that it is all in your mind. A powerful mind leads to a powerful body right? (I'm still waiting for the poweful body by the way..)

The Spot is the headlamp Dubya would own if he was a climber.

My buddy has the MYO XP and we've compared them side by side and the spot is brighter (unless you plan to hike around holding down the boost?? even then the MYO XP was only very slightly brighter with the boost)

Yep, the Spot is the best headlamp ever. All my friends are jealous.

yikes, did he get it sewn back on?

what? you think Dru knows everything he talks about? Who's this 'Dru' character?