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I haven't been watching it that long and I've been mostly buying mountaineering stuff lately and not Nixon watches or sunglasses or day packs. :-P I also don't snowboard, and I don't think I haven't made any kind of move towards needing AT stuff. I'm not that good a skier yet. My main goal now is to get back into mountaineering. Most of what I need I don't think I'll ever see there. It's kind of like waiting for them to put C4 Camalots on sale for 25% off.......

TGR? The Grim Reaper? Just notice how much SAC stuff ends up on eBay. Yea, it gets resold. They just haven't had anything I want to buy yet. :-P

on Altrec. These are the ones with Schoeller, not Goretex , uppers.

They have some DAS jackets. Mostly S and XS in reasonable colors (blue, black), more sizes in hideous orange. Lots o' capilene (don't need). Had some primo pants but only in 30, 32. Didn't need anything they had so I left empty handed. Lot's o' moms shopping with their Bratleighs and Snotleighs in tow. One growled at me when I came in, trying to scare me. So I growled back.

What? No DAS parkas? Discontinued? Guess a ride up the street is in order.

This reminds me of two almost direct quotes from professors that I heard in college, within the same week: 1) Physics prof: This is the chemists do it, but it's just not right. 2) Math prof: This is the way the physicists do it, but it's just not right. Talk about hubris. You only need to know her age if you are worried about Cf, the coefficient of skin friction.

Need to know her mass.

I had this for far too long. First off: absolutely do NOT 'run through it'. Not unless you want to be one of those cases that medical types shake their heads about and talk about to their other patients. Second, as Mike said, check your shoes etc esp plantar fascitis. For myself, I had a pretty good case of it which lingered for years because I didn't know what to do about it. Finally, last year, I started seeing a massage therapist about it. He put me through a lot of pain but I'm back to running 6 miles again. If you work down near Pioneer Sq, I can recommend this guy highly.

Sorry, he's not going to turn 30,000 for a few more thousand posts. He's going to remain 29,000+ for awhile. It's harder to get dates with the hotties when you cross that 30,000 mark.

Ack. You're causing me to have grad school flashbacks....

mattp, that's my plan. now i just have to find someone who likes the idea. ;-)

Ade, thanks. I have the "Alaska: A Climbing Guide", I assume you mean that. I've read that but was just looking to find anyone's experience on the actual route. Best as I can reckon, along with the opinions of some others, NZ3 is probably the European AD grade, thus 3+ is AD+. Obviously (I hope) I'm not thinking of hopping onto this route without a bit more experience, but it's a goal to work towards.

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Yeah, aren't you special. Give him a hand folks. If you people like you and Griz hadn't chimed in, it'd have been a page or so of people who know Hannah personally just giving her a high five. But, no, you had to make it sound like we'd annointed her the Living Goddess of Alpinism. Apparently, you don't undertand the concept of 'camaraderie' and 'esprit de corps'. You do seem to understand the concept of simply trying to 'get in a girls pants' though. This might be the root of your anger issues.

Well dip me in shit and roll me in peanuts! That changes everything doesn't it? I'm out of peanuts but are you saying that a comment from the Newbie at the climbing gymn should hold as much weight as someone like Barry Blanchard when referring to an Alpine climbing route? Joe knows his shit and doesn't roll in it. He's probably just a little baffled as to what all the hype is about, as am I. Good to see that Pandora her self is surprised at this thread and doing these climbs because she loves it, not to brag on cc.com otherwise I'd probably join Griz in the mud slinging. On that note congratulations Hannah, whoever you are. No one's hyping her as if she deserved a medal or the front cover or Alpinist magazine here, Einstein. The fact that you and Barry Whoever seem to think that we are says volumes about you and your ilk's reading comprehension skills, as well as your overly-sensitive, testosterone-poisoned egos. Maybe you and Barry ought to do a little soul searching and ask yourselves why you got so bent about it?

Is that some kind of cancer you get from lying face down? This is why I'm not a spelling nazi.

dood.

i think i've gone blind

Well dip me in shit and roll me in peanuts! That changes everything doesn't it?

funny how they look like snowboarders.....

Crap, now I have to go dig out my policy.

That's the best idea I've heard all day. Can they have the little spiky side cutters like in the old movies?

Did you ever consider that Osama is 'on the loose' because that's where Shrub wants him?

So: 1) Continue to respond militarily to terrorist threats. Continue the Lone Cowboy policy (anyone see NATO in the Middle East right now?) thereby over extending our military and destroying us financially. 2) Share intelligence with other countries, even though we can't seem to get our own government to share within itself and act on it in a timely manner. Expect them to return the favor, even though we've given them no reason to. Ensure that all intelligence data is 'clean' and hasn't been 'invented' by the politicians. Don't fuck over foreign intelligence agencies of our so-called 'allies' (oh, like we did to Britain). 3) Disdain diplomatic engagement. Sit back and wait and let millions live in poverty and oppression while their leaders fill their brains with tripe about how we're "The Great Satan" and responsible for all their woes. Hope that free democratic elections somehow spring out of the ground or that popular revolution occurs (except in countries where we get out oil from) in the face of a modern state-controlled military. In the event of the previous, hope that new state does not destroy itself in civil war or create a new oppressive regime while we sit back and watch and wait for new arms contracts and sources of cheap labor. In the event of spreading violence, see (1)

I can see it now: "Aw c'mon honey. I know you're tired but do you want me to get prostrate cancer?"