Superman

Why does everyone get so defensive when someone says they pack a weapon? What difference does it make to you if someone carries a gun? So some folks want to protect themselves from threats by packing a weapon, it's completely within our rights as Americans to do so according to the Second Amendment, so get over it.

Yeast infection?

Maybe you should have backed up to the tent and run the exhaust in there for an hour or so. That would quiet them down a bit. You could always seam grip their tent zipper shut.

I think we all know who won that battle, Lex.

Kryptonite powder! You're a riot. I'm just pushing buttons. Clearly it's working.

Please take the boner out of your butt and re-read the topic.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Shut up you symp. Aren't you late for your NAMBLA meeting? You should be apologizing for your first post on this thread which was completely irrelevant. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Now shoo.

The... the comment you made on the internet? So true.. maybe I should have just grabbed some perlon and strangled the little fucker. Hey LDB, here's another board to check out while you're at it...ldb , oh, got any tight little red underpants to go with that fabulous cape? Nice edit, it obviously wasn't funny enough the first time around. Oh hey, I found just the site for you, too!! Pucker up! Mountainhesh This is fun. Or how about this one!!! And my personal favorite... Pay close attention here to def. #2!!!!

And ironically, just as feasible.

The... the comment you made on the internet? So true.. maybe I should have just grabbed some perlon and strangled the little fucker.

And my climbing partners wonder why I pack a 10mm in the woods.

I'll admit my gay comments obviously pushed some buttons with a few people there at the REI. I should know enough by now to exercise passionate conservatism if I want to co-exist with the Naderite residents that have infested Seattle. I don't know what got into me. But seriously, hooked on phonics obviously didn't work for you, Mountainhesh, since you reiterated EXACTLY what I stated in my initial post. Say it with confidence, "I'm proud of the fact that I wear rainbow panties under my leather chaps." On second thought, perhaps my "shove this basket up your ass" comment wasn't assertive enough. I should have done what others have suggested and got downright Zindane with the little turd.

I see that all of the resident REI employees are now coming out of the woodwork. It's OK guys, I can understand your defensive stance on the subject. After all, you're family. Chaps & ashw_j, my sincerest apologies for actually going to REI and expecting customer service. I am not a tough guy like yourselves nor did I mean to offend your butt buddy at the GPS counter.

Just out of curiousity, Cobra, are you tall, wiry, and challenged looking? Looks like I need to spell it out... life is full of queues, CC. We'd all like to just cut right in front of the next person in line, but that wouldn't be very civilized - would it? In order to avoid problems, waiting 15 minutes in line is sometimes necessary to get the service we desire. What exactly is it that I am supposed to say, "Hey bud, hurry up selling that GPS, I'm in line"? "Yo B, Wrap it up"? It's like this .. I waste 15 minutes in line, or I waste 30 minutes driving somewhere else to obtain the same service. Lemme guess... you would have picked option B out of principle? The commander is a man of principles. A tall, wiry, challenged man of principles.

I was waiting - patiently - for a little bit of customer service.

Surprise is not a word in Superman's vocabulary, Seagal. I'm sure you're a "hit" with all the "girls".

Seagal, you don't stand a chance. And those "girls" you've been talking to... pay close attention to the Adam's apple.

If I wasn't interested, would you be quick to pull the bigot card?

TREETOAD, do you happen to wear rainbow pants?

It's the only place I know to get freeze-drieds. Fuckknob.

To the tall, wiry, challenged looking fellow at REI working in the watch/GPS department whose pitiful excuse for a brain can't perform two computations at once: I patiently waited for you to take 15 minutes to ring up one GPS unit. I then patiently waited for you to fill out some form, fold it into perfect 90 degree angles, ensuring that no corner was creased improperly, and place it neatly in a pile in a right angle to the register. I then watched you adjust your shirt and wipe the dog hair off your pants. The whole while, you never even acknowledged my presence, you never said, "I'll be with you in a moment", you didn't even look at me, even though my basket full of REI crap was in plain sight on the top of the display counter. Then some lady walks up out of nowhere and asks if you'll ring her up for her portable ice cream maker and you oblige, oblivious to the fact that there's someone else who's been waiting for 15 minutes - patiently - to be served.. When I inform you that I was there, waiting patiently, for 15 minutes, you get snippy and tell me to walk over to the register if I want to be helped. Listen fucktard, how about I shove this basket up your ass? Part of your simpleton job is to recognize who is standing in line. If a customer wants to ask you a question about something you sell, you can do your job and walk over to me where I've been patiently waiting (for 15 minutes - in the exact place where the customer you just served was standing). I didn't see you ask the guy buying the GPS to walk over to the register to ask his silly questions about why the contour lines are gray, and will it work for his annual weeklong trip up Mt. Si. Furthermore, your job is not rocket science. You have a handful of functions you perform in your daily routine, none of them requiring more than two brain cells to execute. I'd like to think that I can at least expect you to perform two of those functions at once. You screw up a simple part of your job, then you want to get loud and make me look like a jerk for calling you on it? And to the guy with the rainbow pants and ugly mutt of a girlfriend who snickered at me for getting loud ... mind your own business, assclown. Thankyou for allowing superhero to post.

Genesis Peak is hardly ever climbed ... my dad (and climbing party) made the first ascent in the mid-70s. Pioneer Ridge has only seen a handful of ascents. I don't know how often Swiss peak gets climbed, but I'd bet it's not often.

True story.

Yes, I was with other guides. And I agree it wouldn't be smart for one experienced climber to guide an inexperienced climber up anything that requires glacier travel. But your post made it sound like ChrisL was asking for the impossible, and I was just stating that there are options even in this case.