mtn_mouse

Currently in Victoria, had to stop and check important spray. So,,, where is the photo of MRS. ALDEN???

Interesting ideas, oh well, like kevbone said, I'm outta here. ROAD TRIP!

Like they say, Ski hard, or go bowling.

pinky, you must have the proper male equipment before viagra will work. Sorry, you lose.

Last I checked, rodents do not require passports, nor are they inspected for hantavirus. I leave tomorrow, have a conference to attend for a couple days, then have as much as a week off. Was planning a bike tour with a friend on V. Island, but with teh weather, it will probably turn into a ski trip at Whistler, or Garibaldi. I was just wondering if there were any indoor activities in the city that I just shouldn't miss. I will try not to get too drunk and embarrassing.

The mouse is going to be in vancouver. Any must sees? I plan on hitting Whistler for a littl spring TELEMARK skiing, mayby check out teh crags at squish. Etc. Is the vancouver mtn festival still going on? LOok out canada. (don't worry, I'm half canadian)

Whatever looser dude. Everyone knows AT stands for "Ain't able to Tele".

Let me preface this by saying I have skied on telemark gear for years, and I once felt an overdeveloped sense of superiority because of it. These arguments are made so often now it's a wonder that telemark still retains any "coolness" at all, and that's the problem with the whole deal. Just take a stroll on over to telemarktwits dot calm, and see how many PC sensitive 90's men have fooled themselves into believing they do something "counter culture" and hip. The fact of the matter is, that the average backcountry skier isn't even a GOOD skier. Furthermore, the average SKIER isn't good. The better skiers that you see in the backcountry spent a lot of miles on alpine gear at a ski resort when they were kids in an effort to become technicians of the turn. Lately, a lot of new converts to backcountry skiing have entered the sport drawn by the allure of untracked powder turns and the ability to travel easily through the mountains in winter, their most beautiful season. I think it's great, and the better these people get at skiing over the years, the more they'll enjoy it. However, many new backcountry converts are not very good at the actual TURN, which is fine, skiing in the end, and even more so than climbing, is all about FUN. But it doesn't matter so much, performance-wise, what gear you're on, when you don't have enough miles under your feet to even know how to center your balance on skis as though it were second nature. Arguing that one mode of downhill sliding vs. another is better for the average backcountry skier (safety issues aside) is like arguing that you always use a particular rock shoe (the mythos for instance) because you love the feel, when you're not even comfortable leading 5.6. Skiing is about fun, so let's not fool ourselves, telmark is NOT cool, and AT's performance advantages are most felt by a minority of skiers. BS Retro can be cool.

barbequed mammal all tastes the same.

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Right on. They taste much better than snafflehound.

You're a clueless twit seahawk.

Recent posts indicate speculation as to mtnmouse. While I know a few here personnaly, I am a bit of an enigma.

Stop it!

Dru, this sexy sexy pic of a naked snaffle should be labeled NSFS (Not safe for snaffles)

As Trashtalkeetna once said "An imperfect criminal justice system is infinitely better than an imperfect anarchy" or so I thought I heard while shitting in his butter dish.

This place is WERD without Olyclimber.

I'm getting a hankering to shit in your butter dish.

And don't you forget that!

You know, as a rodent, I find that somewhat disturbing.

The point is all cops in WA are taught to shoot multiple times, and do not have to stop at one. However it helps to look reasonable in the courts, and this guy definatly did not.

Just because the victim was still standing when shot does not mean he was physically attacking the shooter. Could have just been verbally abusing him. Another note, in Washington, LE officers are taught to fire 2-3 shots into the chest of an aggressor. They are not allowed to fire warning shots, and not allowed to shoot to wound, only shoot to kill if shooting is necessary. So the number of shots this guy shot, 3, shouldn't matter, nor should the caliber.

While it is good to discuss these things here, the above quote says it all. Remember, background checks on law enforcement officers try to weed out the above type of person. If you carry a gun, you must follow the rules, and go out of your way to avoid a shooting. You must have a concealed weapon permit, and in arizona, it is harder to obtain one, and a course is required. Simply put, you can use lethal force only to protect yourself or others from death or serious injury. The shooter could have shot a dog or two, or just fired a warning shot. Legal in most cases. If the totality of the situation indicated he was still in imminent threat of death or serious injury, he could have shot the dog owner. But we will never know what happened. But... it is unlikely that the dog owner would have actually attacked and assaulted an armed person. So the shooter should have redeployed and made an attempt to avoid contact. If the dog owner had actually made a physical assault on the shooter, then he could have been shot because it would be assumed that he would have tried to take the gun away from the shooter and use it on him. You don'g have to take that chance. The comment about 1 or 3 shots doesnt matter. If you must shoot in defense of your life, it does not matter how many shots you use within reason. My experience with NRA members is that they do not want to avoid a confrontation, and often escalate it. My opinion remains, the shooter did not shoot in self defense to neutralize a threat, but acted as aggressor.

Sounds kind of kinky, seeing that Pink is your private lap-dog.

The shooter was a psyco. Gun defense is only valid to neutralise the threat. Shoot a dog if necessary. The odds were that only one or two dogs were aggressive. Certainly yellow labs do not have a very aggressive history. Shooting the dog owner? The shooter belongs in jail. Fuck him.