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Gonna fire up the oven and do a little baking.

Yeah, I gotta second this. My buddy gave me some for free and they were excellent. I went to buy my own after that, coughed at the $1/packet price and instead went for the nescafe instant packs. That was a mistake - the nescafe packets are terrible. As pricey as the 'bucks via packets are, it tastes damn good and it's ground in to a fine powder that mixes perfectly. Now I need to find them at a bulk discount price... It tastes ok, a little "instanty" but is very light and packable. Even as an employee of the green giant with unlimited access to it I still will haul my Ti coffee press and a bag of grounds into the wilderness for the pure flavor and ritual the press provides. Ti press

Delish!

Knob Job

Well put.

Looks great! Gotta find me a copy!

Grats man, savor the new freedom and have fun!

LOL.

I love that man! And a big YES to the passage!

If you want a pair of wheels that really hold up, forget all the trick/bs wheelsets. Go to a competant local wheelbuilder and have them build you a 36 spoke wheelset. My reccomendation would be to do Phil Wood hubs, and Velocity Dyad rims. they will not be cheap or particularly light, but they will be near bombproof! Jim I would listen to Jim if I were you, he knows his stuff.

Thanks O_W for the tip! My dad had one when I was a kid till he was broadsided in North Tacoma and rolled it. I remember it rolling like a big metal log several times till we ended up upside down. Only person wearing a seat belt was my father who sustained the only injuries, the rest of us just flopped around in it like rocks in a tumbler.

I found a 1974 VW bus advertisement pamphlet, 6 pages of glossy pics and specs like the one below. Anyone got a clue on the colletability of such an item? I tried looking online but found little relevant info.

Did not see any claws, but the prints are wider than long so in comparison to the dogs, these seem really cat like.

A friend sent me a link, looks like you are correct. http://www.bear-tracker.com/caninevsfeline.html

Great day of some nice vertical gain. Found hand sized tracks on top of Ellinor, looks like Cougar (corrected by JBo6).

(quote=desnivel.com) Implementing a project requires clean climbing film whose big media and the route is altered, explains Roland Garibotti Argentina, a serious ethical dilemma. This is your rating: The big news in Patagonia this past season was not related to an ascent, but with the announcement of a project. Little is materialized as much publicity and that little was negative. While David Lama failed to release even a Metro New Compressor road on the spur southeast of Cerro Torre, his film crew composed of several chambers and mountain guides hired by Red Bull Austrians placed about 700 meters of fixed ropes to along the route and about 60 parabolts. The ropes were removed several months later by Argentine guides, who could not with all and had to drop a backpack full of them in the bergschrund. A minor detail compared to parabolts. The parabolts were placed in the first half of the track - between the bergschrund and cruise-where even Cesare Maestri in 1970 had drilled the rock despite its heavy load compressor. This section of the road there are many insurance options to place mobile or nails, and cracks abound everywhere. In the hundreds of repetitions that has been the way no one has had to add anything in that section. It is certainly curious that there parabolts need to add a route that already has more than 450 nails pressure. In relation to the actions of the Red Bull team presents an ethical dilemma on the retrofitting of classic and historic routes. I wonder what would happen if I visit Austria this summer and add dozens of parabolts in "Locker vom Hocker" of Gullich and Albert or in some way the famous Mathias Rebisch or Albert Precht, etcetera. And since Reinhold Messner himself helped promote this attempt to David Lama (see here ) may be appropriate which added dozens of parabolts the Middle Mall (Mittelpfeiler) in the Sasso della Croce (Heiligkreuzkopfel), in its historic path. It is curious that is it, in the 70 author of the famous article "The Murder of the Impossible" against the indiscriminate use of pressure spikes, who help promote the abuse of Red Bull and Lama. Add parabolts an existing road not only contrary to the well-known unwritten ethics of mountaineering and climbing, but is also written in the famous Tyrol Declaration on Best Practice in Mountain Sports outcome of a meeting of mountaineers, climbers , clubs and federations in Innsbruck in 2002. In Article 8, paragraph 1, reads: "This means that climbers should not increase the number of fixed insurance on a pre-existing road." This statement has recently been updated with the so-called Declaration on Ethics in the Mountain to the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) issued on Dec. 11 to mark the International Mountain Day. In Article 1 (individual responsibility) stated: "... Place anchors fixed on new and old ways can not be automatically assumed to be acceptable. " In Article 4 (foreign countries): "... We must respect the local style and ethics of climbing and fixed anchors drilled or put in places where traditional ethics against them, or where there is no established ethics. " In Article 8 (style): "... We should always try to leave no trace on the wall and in the mountains. " In relation to the fixed lines worth reflecting on what the reaction would be if we neglected fixed lines for an entire summer in the "Pesce" of the Marmolada, or the "Philipp Flamm" of the Civetta, or the "American Direct" of the west of the Dru, or any other popular classical pathway of the Alps. Nobody likes climbing on fixed ropes, let alone in a way that from the eighties is done in alpine style. In 1985 the Swiss Fulvio Mariani Cerro Torre filmed in one of the best mountain films ever made, "Summit," a documentary of the rise solitary Marco Pedrini. On that occasion not only did not put any bolt, but used only three fixed ropes. Years later, in 1990, the German Werner Herzog film "Schrei aus Stein" [Cry of Stone] also on Cerro Torre, and this time there was no need to add the path parabolts Maestri. Since then, as evidenced by the behavior of Lama and the people of Red Bull, seems to have been a significant regression. Lama and Red Bull would have to explain how much impact justifies an attempt to document Ascent Lama himself saying he would be promoted in alpine style, clean, lightweight, with "fair play" and so on. By Rolando Garibotti Argentine climber, mountain guide in the U.S., is a regular and a great student of the history of climbing in Patagonia and a recognized analyst with numerous publications, for example, "Cerro Torre, its history and its ways" in No Difference 210. Among other activities, in 2005, together with Ermanno Salvaterra and Alessandro Beltrami drew "The ark of the winds" in the Cerro Torre, while in 2008 made the first crossing of the Tower along with Colin Haley. In Difference 287 (May 2010) published a chronicle of the most important event in Patagonia last season. (/quote)

Thats the late Scott Croll moving a small doll we found on the trail, and named Annie ( after the CPR mantra "annie! annie!...are you alright?") up the route. Annie was later stolen from us in Safeway parking lot. We had her mounted in the bike rack and apparently someone took offense.

A classic with a bigger classic on the other face.