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If someone will finance my trip to the Queen Charlotte Islands I am willing to go look for them.

http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article851637.ece

long and short of it is that one person in this thread had a profound impact on the sport of climbing. his impact was by deed, and not words. our discussion here will probably not impact the future of climbing, because they are out climbing and don't have time read what has-beens and never-weres are bitching about. now if you're out bumping elbows with people who influencing climbing by action, that would be different, but i don't think many of the people in this thread are doing so. Its a pity that Pope and Raindawg can't argue their point of view without being so polemic. Since they do, they come off as detached from reality. I think most of us can agree there should be an ethical standard in our wild places, so in part we agree with them. But by completely rejecting the notion of sport climbing (or at least appearing to do so in their arguments), they have turned the argument into a "Christains vs. Islam" situation where the middle ground might as well be the Gaza Strip. And now I hear of this Valhalla where the world repents on its sport climbing ways. Is this some bizarre new sect?

Davis Holland -Lovin Arms Index Index Index Index First Pitch 5.9 Wet Fun Second Pitch 5.10 Fun Third Pitch 5.10 Super Fun Fourth Pitch hardest for me Fifth Pitch FUN! Sixth Pitch Exposed Scramble

Yeltsin is famous according to the list but Bulgakov, Mikalkov, Nabokov, Soljenitsin, .. are missing. forgive me it was the first link the google gave. plus i'm partially german.

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But then, I'm not sure that is a compliment. The monkey went first.

First man in outerspace was a Slav.

Leo Tolstoy. Brute. http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/List_of_famous_Slavs/

Damn, that is just about racism there, it if isn't outright. I suppose it is ethnism? Anyway, there are some gifted people from that end of the earth, just like any other place.

sobo, why would anyone leave the beautiful PNW for such a place?

Index! Sounds like a good time. Next Friday.

Better act fast on these. They'll be gone soon.

And pirates. Don't forget the pirates.

Actually, market studies have shown that the decline in the use of asbestos correlates with the rise in global temperature. The path to correcting this is clear.

"I assume" lol thats good stuff. The case has been made. We can get rid of the scientific method now, and move onto an invisible-hand-of-the-market based reality.

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lol we get our news from the same source

Happy Birthday John!

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