marylou

Some skins on sale for cheap over at Sierra Trading Post.

There are samples of next spring's tents floating around...

There are a few things you can do to get the laptop to push the best possible image to the LCD, but beyond that, there is not a lot to be said for the quality of the home LCDs. I wouldn't expect that to change anytime soon. If next time there is a high quality LCD on hand, I'll try to make it, there are a few settings adjustments to make the image look the best it can. It's not rocket science, but there are a few things to make it look purty.

Yes, I miss it too. Any chance we can get it back?

Yes, Greg is obviously kidding.

Dave, Most of their world domination stuff occurred during the previous administration. Ratboy, No comment.

Clear Channel has been sytematically taking over the live entertainment industry (both rock and roll and theatre) and media outlets for years. It is an absolute wonder to me that there have been no legal/anti-trust constraints on their activities. Their attempt at world domination are somewhat in line with that of a certain large local software comapny, IMO.

The Bark Beetle infestation is being blamed on global warming. Anyone know where the text of the bill can be read? I want to see if it looks likely that they will be able to use the bill to thin in Wilderness areas.

No broadband, no time to watch the pictures load...but: Young Marble Giants "Colossal Youth" (just got it burned onto a CD from vynil) Go4-MP already got me on that one Some live P-Furs record Everything by the Clash still sounds good as new

I sure notice a lot of late night spray from the usual suspects now that the chatroom's been down for a week plus!

WAIT UNTIL SPRING. I'm afraid you have to take my word for that.

I've noticed that too. Only on occasion though.

I slept only slightly warm in a zero at about 20 degrees a couple of weekends ago. Never thought I'd have a need for anything below a 20, but I do sleep on the cold side, and think the 30 degree bag is out the window, and that I will just go with a zero and a fifteen. I do have a silk bag liner on the way, which theoretically adds 9 degrees of warmth, will be interested to see if it is enough to keep me just a scosh warmer for very little weight.

You might be surprised at what you can find to ski that is not "packed powder" at a ski hill.

Um. I wasn't really interested in getting lessons, I was just surprised to hear someone suggest them. Despite warnings to the contrary, I'm just going to get out there and tough it out this winter. If it means learning to ski all over again, so be it.

I think Cavey has it right in reference to common usage. Usually a tarn is in a cirque, but there are a lot of small bodies of water that are up high, but not ensconced in stone, that are known as tarns. They are a result of runoff, no doubt, but may have a veggie shoreline and/or a bottom comprised of dirt. They are usually not the best tarns, but they are too small to be lakes, and too clean to be ponds.

If you are talking to me, I'm working concurrently on the snow safety stuff, but Tejada-Flores is not really useful to me anymore. I got pretty good french fries already. They give lessons on AT skiing? Where? Really?

That's hilarious. I just had someone tell me that thirty seasons of lift-serviced skiing was not going to put me ahead of the curve for AT skiing. I got the distinct impression that the brutal finesse that is the hop turn, and defying the evil breakable crust was going to be meaningless.

I do on the rare occasion that I have a good head for leading. This week I was sort of, er, roped into it.

I would like to state for the record that my all-boy crew rocked today. Once they got over the fact that their fearless leader, was, well, a girl. But that didn't take very long.

Lame. No, you are lame. Aren't you Beck in drag? "I had the pleasure of seeing such-and-such-famous-guy in person". Do us all a favor and apply a liberal layer of duck tape to your pie hole so we can all spray in peace. Making an insult about how so-and-so is like a woman is lame, lame, lame. As far as the famous person thing goes, well, you are confusing me with a lot of other people.

Lame.

I think the MSR IsoPro fuel is better than the stuff in the grey cans, but I don't know why. I seem to get a faster boil with the IsoPro though.

Yeah, thanks, I'm trying to get all of my ducks in a row for this. I'm doing a Pro Deal, but I do it through their publicist because my PD is Media, and I don't want to take up a ton of this guy's time with all of my dumb questions. He does ski, though, and I figured I'd just give hime the dimensions of the skis I already bought and he can get the brake width and skin size right from that. The reason I was asking about the brakes has to do with the cost of the Freerides vs. the Diamir 3s. The 3s don't come with brakes, so the cost is basically the same if you add in the brakes.

No, I was so embarassed about what was being said about me.