Ursa_Eagle

It's a CPR discussion, as per the initial subject!

<singing> There's a brown girl in the ring, tra la la la la! </singing> Has anyone else sought out that song since seeing the movie?

It was nice to run into you up there too! the aforementioned pic:

Yeah, I dragged those things all the way up to the Hogsback, and no, I hadn't skied tele before. (The slog up made me really wish I had skins, but I'm too cheap to buy them right now.) Hell, I haven't been on alpine skis since 2000. But damn if I didn't make it from the Hogsback to the parking lot, and the skis were on my feet the whole time. As my partner said, it was probably some of the best "survival skiing" he's ever seen. Please don't ask if I actually did any tele turns, but some of my alpine turns actually resulted in me going the opposite direction, much to my amazement. I had some spectacular face plants, the first of which is captured on digital (I'll post as soon as I get the file.) One thing is for certain, I need professional help!

compared to the US behemoths, a yugo has both acceleration and quality...

Cinema 21 is at 616 NW 21st. You can find the website at: http://www.cinema21.com/ The Blue Moon (a McMenamins) is about two blocks away or so, corner of NW Everett and NW 21st.

well, the triple kicked my ass, too thanx to Pete and Steve for hosting and supplying the keg!

I'm in on this. Finally, a drinking event I can walk to!

I'm very interested. Can we meet up sometime this week so I can try them on?

Climb Max for $130, but it was the only one (of the Khan Tengri VIP) they had. I saw some lighter Bask down jackets there, and they had some Bask mittens too. My biggest gripe is that the zipper slider is on the wrong side. I'm not sure if I got a women's model or if it's a russian thing, but it fits so I don't care. I may just have the zipper replaced.

Any chance of getting some Portland shops to put deals up?

if he's not selling them, what's the problem?

Don't listen to the person who says "don't get digital". The advantage of digital is that it doesn't cost $.25 or $.50 every time you click the shutter. The quality really isn't that bad; I had 24 of my 2 MP images blown up to 6x8, and they look spectacular. It's a little frustrating that some of those pictures are only 2.0 MP, but it's a lot easier to get out the digital while climbing than deal with the SLR. My friend has an S400, and that is a *sweet* camera. If I didn't already have a digital, that's definately the one I'd get.

Hell, I just got the Kahn Tangri VIP for Denali. I found a deal I couldn't pass up on it. I'll post a report on it in June.

Now there's a good suggestion! If you (or anyone else) want to go during the week, drop me a line.

ahhh, the infallible "property of one"

go NASA! I should have gone to the launch party my friend invited me to back in June (he works on the rovers)

"barley pop"... I like that term

These are some good links. Any way to get a sticky on this thread? Photography seems to be a recurring topic.

Probably. I've been out west for over two years now, so I've forgotten the local weather patterns 'round these parts.

It sounds to me like Colden Dike = Trap Dike. Ahhh, the memories. It's been like 50 degrees here recently, would there still be ice there? (I'm visiting the 'rents in MA, and I don't have my climbing stuff with me, so I haven't been paying attention.)

are you sure that's snow you're talking about?

trask, you've been a carrier since you started posting on this board. you have nothing to worry about.

I just burned all my digital photos from this past year onto CD's, and I'm leaving them at my parents house in MA. It's not bombproof, but it's redundency. I figure that I'll replace them in about 5-10 years once a new storage medium is available.