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  1. ...Shouting out driving violations at automobile operators from my bike (inside my head, not aloud, although once I yelled "hey!" in kind of an angry voice)

     

    don't internalize it man. funny clip from portlandia.

     

    [video:youtube]V3nMnr8ZirI

     

     

  2. In terms of hobbies, what competes with climbing for your attention?

     

    Driving. :tup: passing up gems along I-15 such as Kolob/Zion, Red Rocks, J-Tree, Idyllwild, in order to sesh trestles, swami's, O-side. shit's been good this winter.

  3. wow. nothing short of spectacular right there. I know your busy smash-n-grabbin' n all, but you gotta take a few more pics next time.

     

    ~51 hours... pffft. next time how about sportin' a windshirt, shorts over polypro, sandals over socks... that way you wont leave your kid hangin' on the Monday morn walk to school. making him wait 'til Tuesday morn is straight up neglect. come on now...

  4. songs that benefited me in the past for hitting new PR's

     

    red fang - "prehistoric dog"

    melvins - "night goat"

    cephalic carnage - "repangaea"

     

    songs that strangely compelled me to wanna toss the oly plates, kick-over the airdyne, and cleave shit with a battle axe.

     

    electric wizard - "barbarian"

    [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cKkdwAaljM

     

    electric wizard - "funeralopolis"

    [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO7VP34n2Ps&oq=electric%20wizard%20funeralop&gs_l=youtube..0.5j0l6.127175.133164.0.135640.19.14.5.0.0.0.284.1999.0j11j3.14.0.eytns%2Cpt%3D-30%2Cn%3D2%2Cui%3Dt.1.0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.h0730CZMX7o

     

    electric wizard - "dopethrone"

    [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWHplp10kQM

     

     

     

     

  5. That's good to hear. Even Kowboy doesn't snowboard anymore. I've been far away in a land where it snows and melts just to torture me.

    nat sez hi.

    yeah even Kowboy cant deny the stoke found while strapped to a pair of the 21st century skis. so unlike the skinny ski days up on snoqualmie pass in flannel and levis.

    how can we help you. for gods sakes man, we cant have you being tortured. shot or jailed is not an option. plenty of pow to go around here in the sheeps pen. buy the ticket, take the ride. i got a extra room... in the basement. :grin:

     

  6. They won't survive 20 years in prison. Or at

    least his name will get changed to "Ben Dover"

    thats what i like and want to believe, but...

    the reality is is that they will become a protected class within the prison system by means of isolation from the general population, those that would deliver the ass rapin.

    having watched a couple of episodes of Locked Up Abroad, my opinion about the uselessness of the US incarceration system only builds.

     

    altruistic approach to their punishments, err rehabilitation, FAILS. its best to just spend the 38-cents.

     

     

  7. goddamit... just when i recovered from watching this movie, An American Crime a coupla weeks ago, i gotta go and click the OP's link and open an old mental wound... :mad:

     

    hopefully skiing the wasatch pow this weekend will purify my mind.

     

     

     

    Who do you think you're kidding, T-man? I know you're a knuckle-dragger, and snowboarding will never wash away the filth.

     

    jezuz its been a long time E. ive been forgiven of that filthy sin many years ago. been rockin' the gospel of rando for a while now. the field is white and ready for harvest. where you been?

     

  8. goddamit... just when i recovered from watching this movie, An American Crime a coupla weeks ago, i gotta go and click the OP's link and open an old mental wound... :mad:

     

    hopefully skiing the wasatch pow this weekend will purify my mind.

     

     

  9. I appreciate the feedback everyone. By "sweet" hookup, I meant to say that i have a friend who can get me a room for my entire stay for FREE. :)

     

    If it's likely a 2 hour drive each way, I don't think I'm down for that... unless of course the climbing in the BS area is worth staying in that area.

     

    I've got the appropriate climbing guidebooks, but haven't done my homework yet. Since this is my first ice climbing trip to MT, I figured I would be happy exploring Hyalite alone.

     

    Thanks again for the travel beta!

     

    Dustin

     

    why not take advantage of both venues. sesh some big sky pow and tool top notch ice in hyalite.

     

    dont let a 2-hour commute detour you man. get your shit up early enough to where you pull into the parking lot a half hour before daylight.

     

    FWIW, my sis's cabin is ~130mi from the hyalite parking lot, we consistently knocked out daytrips in approx 2-hours plus change one-way, a handful of times. hell, we've even made a 3.5-hour drive plus 2-hour approach, oneway, to tag a rowdy piece of ice in the southeast corner of Glacier NP, all in a days work (not sprayin' just lettin' you know whats possible). start early, get juiced and stay juiced, finish late.

     

    if your not willing to smash-n-grab shit during your hard earned vacation, well, i dont know what to say... enjoy the free amenities?.

  10. Compared to all the other speed records/runs/whatevers on Rainier, the Dorais brothers were not solo, brought avy gear, brought crevasse rescue gear, roped up, did not stash gear for the ascent, and did not cache gear on the descent. Even if such speed attempts inevitably provide incentives to cut corners, compared to other similar attempts on Rainier in recent years, this one sets a new standard for safety and fair play.

     

    +1

     

    yep. with new standards, styles, and methods creeping into "american [pnw] mountaineering", the haters will haveto yet add another ueseless peice of equipment to their rack: cognitive dissonance.

  11. ... i read gymnastics moves are classified from A to E, A being easiest, and an iron cross is only a B.

     

    the young guns have pushed the envelope into F class these days...

     

    [video:youtube]

     

    "A still rings routine with a 7.7 d-score.

     

    Rodriguez F

    Azarian Maltese F

    Van Gelder E

    Balandin II E

    Layed out Yamawaki E

    Back uprise Maltese E

    Maltese press to inverted cross E

    Layed out Honma to Handstand D

    O'neill E

    Layed out double double F

     

    Difficulty: 5.2

    Connection: N/A

    Element groups: 2.5

     

    Start Value: 17.7"

     

    Note: the Uprise fwd. to inv. swallow with. supp. phase (2s) = Rodriguez = holy shit balls!

     

    Ring Training Beta

     

  12. damn dude i thought you would've gotten the memo...

     

    Superbowl tail-gate party on the Great White Icicle balcony ledge went down in classic style... alpine debauchery at its finest...

     

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    flipping the meat with Kyle Dempsters 2010 Piolets d'Or award...

     

     

     

     

  13. nice STH stoke...

     

    btw, you dont need tat... you just gotta know where to look for the hardware... some of it is kind of trivial... hit me up on your next go around on that thing, ive got an extra bike. :grin:

     

    and on a side note, the farmed ice of pitches 6-10 has seen its glory days back in Feb/Mar 06... since then nobody's been willing thrash-up the hate-filled bridalveil gulch and mountainside to asses the carnage done to the hoses during a massive bridevail bowl avi during the 07/08 season...

  14. yet another option...

     

    had great experiences holing up at the David Thompson Resort. although unofficially closed in the winter, they will accomodate the ice climber. they put you up in the the employee lodge, which is not a bad gig at all. you get your own room equipped with clean sheets and baseboard heating, showers, iron chef stadium size kitchen, huge lounge loaded with all the amenities to sastify you enterainment needs, washer/dryer... you get the idea. And while your out hacking away, the resort host is willing to drive into Nordegg to fetch supplies, groceries and your beverage(s) of choice at no charge. At the time (’99,’02,’04), the costs were amazingly low, 15-20 us dollars per person per group of 4.

     

    Across the road you have the Cline River Gallery... a day’s worth of ice cragging.

    A minute or two up the road you have the classics like Elliot's Left Hand, Nothing But the Breast, Kitty Hawk, Five Seven Zero...

    30 miles up the road you have(Saskatchewan River Crossing) Oh Le Tabernac and enivorns.

    A couple of miles north of Oh Le you have the Lady Wilson – Polar Circus – Weeping Wall corridor.

    A couple of miles south of Oh Le you have Murchison – Bow Falls corridor.

     

    so, driving-wise from the resort, its not a bad gig for a week's worth of ice.

     

  15. recently read a couple accounts from through-hikers observing climbing anchors on a couple of formations in the Point of Arches area. i'm looking to spend some family time on shi shi beach in the near future and am needing to know if its worthwhile to hump in a rack along with my shoes. i plan on doing a little exploratory bouldering, but am wondering if these purported observations noted above are indeed established routes. climbing beta for the area would be greatly appreciated.

     

    ...unless the rock is complete choss i dont see how this stack does not contain a route or two:

     

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    courtesy: mchl_hannam (flickr)

     

    thanks

  16.  

    Through the years from 1913 to 1971 the System of capitalism was changed to the present socialist-type economy when America was taken off the Gold Standard and Richard Milhous Nixon proclaimed by Decree (not Amendment)

     

    "We are all Keynesian".

     

    Since then we have become a complete socialist-type government in regards to economics.

     

    This is the real truth and the bottom line of why we have this present situation.

     

    and j_b makes a valid statement:

    statistics show that purchasing power has decreased over the last 30 years for the overwhelming majority of Americans, which means that deregulation has not lead to an increase in purchasing power for anyone relying on wages to earn a living. On the contrary deregulation has enabled the casino economy of today where all economic growth, most of it virtual, debt-ridden or financed by taxpayers, is sucked by the upper 0.1% of the income brackets. In how many countries has deregulation and laissez-faire led to complete ruin in the last 30 years?

    Under the Keynesian Economics, wealth gets transferred to those who control it and everyone else is placed under its debt, just as it is today.

     

    Eventually the debt becomes too great to keep propped up by artificial economics.

     

    It builds debt, not wealth.

    Except for the people who sit at the top of this system.

     

    And is so cunning in its deceit, that only one in a million understand it, just like Keynes himself said.

     

    "By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some....The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose." - John Maynard Keynes Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920

     

    Thomas Jefferson got it right!

     

    I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

     

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