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Moderators. Please remove this from spray. I just read through the whole thread looking for the punch line, and there is none.

At least he wasn't spraying on CC.com when it happened!

What about this guy????

Not to worry. Trasks pills are given by his probation officer!

Pack ice:

NEITHER! That is ice that calved off of an ice shelf or from a glacier that reaches the sea. Pack ice is flat. You can land a plane on it.

I took a Giant pink pill today

Sorry I missed the Spray fest today. Sometimes it is hard to find much interesting here. However, last week, when I had the flu and a temperature of 102, everything on Spray seemed much more interesting. Hmmm...........

Yah, I know the difference. There is no difference. There. Sea ice and pack ice are the same thing. The salt water around Antarctica almost doubles in size in the winter, forming pack ice. Pack ice is basically solid, but there are leads (cracks) everywhere, and so the ice shifts. Pack ice, and shelf ice are different, take for example the Ross Ice shelf. It never thaws, and the bottom can rest on the rock bottom. Good question Rich. Anything else I can help you with?

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CC.comers rule! lurkers drool!

The north ridge you show in the picture has been climbed in winter before. In fact there is a book where they discribe the climb, written by a college student from walla walla. Its called Wallowas: coming of age in the wilderness, by Ashworth. The avalanche problem is a real problem in hurricane creek. The "hurricane" damage the early settlers saw is all actually avalanche damage. So that north ridge would be the best way to go, and a really easy approach from the trailhead.

I can see them from my house. Snow all over, but from the Oregon sno-tel sites on the internet, they list Mt. Howard with 18" and Aneroid Lake at 22". As dry as it has been, I have not been too eager to try skiing there yet. Wing ridge has good runs, but there are so many stumps from the old fire, that it will take some more snow I would think. Great shot of Sacajawea, Wazzu. There is a nice climb up the left ridge area, if you go up Thorp creek.

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Those Germans!!! They sure love that weinerschnietchal

Climatic changes, or global warming is happening. The cause still seems to be debatable to many though. On the east side of the cascades, the weather is warmer and drier, and small climatic changes have impact. Trees do not grow as fast as they did 100 years ago. Simple increment cores taken from trees here show larger periodic growth rates years ago compared to PGRs measured in younger trees today. Decreasing PGRs indicate a stressed tree. Stressed trees have a higher flammability due to decreased fuel moisture. As you know, fire danger is related to low RH, high temps, low fuel moistures. Most of these trees, other than the true firs, produce large quantities of pitch. This pitch is necessary to defeat the attack of bark beetles. There are of course other reasons why beetle populations are high, but with these stressed trees, the beetles can easily overcome the trees defenses. Some species of dendroctonus can manage a mass attack, and infest so many diseased trees, that they also can take down healthy trees in their path. Some tree species are not well suited for the dry hot east side, like the grand fir. This tree has been increasing throughout the years for several reasons. There was an increase of logging of the ponderosa pine and doug-fir, and lots of fire suppression. This created an enlarging understory. Grand fir germinate and grow well in shade, pine don't. So the grand fir have been taking over out here. With this global warming, or climatic change happening, these trees are now the most stressed of all. They are very suseptible to root diseases, rots, heart rots, etc, and then it takes very little for a bark beetle to succeed. The fir engraver, scolytus ventralis is in outbreak status in the blue mountains. So what does this mean?? THe HFRA may have a place in restoring health forests, if it is done by the resource professionals, and politics left out of it.

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I love this fiona gal. She is just like ONE OF THE GUYS.

I spent a half hour the other day just trying to get a question emailed off to microsoft. No way. They have so many walls between them and us, it just did not happen

Soon we will not need debate whether colorado snow or PNW snow is best. TURIN, Italy (AP) -- Global warming is threatening the world's ski resorts, with melting at lower altitudes forcing the sport to move higher and higher up mountains, according to a United Nations study released Tuesday. Downhill skiing could disappear altogether at some resorts, while at others, a retreating snow line will cut off base villages from their ski runs as soon as 2030, warned the report by the U.N. Environment Programme. "Climate change is happening now. We can measure it," said Klaus Toepfer, executive director of the U.N. program. "This study shows that it is not just the developing world that will suffer."

Is that you timmy?