olyclimber

Crikey Dr. Crash! Olyclimber is glad you and your partner are OK! Where were you climbing at? You may want to make a trip report based on the POV of your helmet for submittal to Alpinist.

Uhhh...this doesn't sound very official to me. Let me see your papers.

Do a search on Seattle, and you'll find a nice college girl who wants you to sleep on her couch....or you could go with the creepy guy with a monocle.

Colossal Squid vs. Sperm Whale

It's a package deal DFA. They can't just cherrypick these gems you keep dropping on us, they've got to sample the full gamut of cc.com. The turd's story is a model of example of what is wrong with the lot of us.

Climbing. Mike, if they take a DFA qoute, then they've got to take your turd's story as well.

"Santorum"....is that some sort of bizarre and disgusting act?

Don't forget the B'Sharkear's powerful flute!

I saw possum roadkill over in West Seattle the other day. Nasty looking creature, a giant rat with hairloss issues.

b'sharkear

You guys need to make the pie lower. I'm operating at 300% efficiency.

I can't get over these damn animals. Why don't they just stay in the woods and mind their own business?

I can't believe this stuff is legal.

Thanks for the ego check pi. It's tough living with this 200 ton elephant.

Get ready for the big walls with this vintage hemp rope. Out of print, hard to find.

Well, I'm all for it, if the hunters are required to eat their kill. Otherwise it is just wasted food.

Ya, but what did Jane say?

So do you think the odds are on this GINA KOLATA being a fatty?

I can't help but think this will result in more guided parties on the mountain per year, even if they're telling us it won't. There will be three companies out there scrouging for clients instead of one. They will be competing against each other, and that will mean more advertising. If they regulate it heavily they'll be able to keep it at todays levels, but my guess is that the market will drive more guided parties if it is allowed to.

Happy B-day.

Here ya go....

It's hard work maintaining a certain level of spray here at cc.com.

Interesting question! 1. I like my knives to be sharp, so get a sharp one. 2. When I'm touching my void, I like something that slices through rope like butter. Go with something serrated. 3. That clip-on business is over rated. You can always get one that ties onto a string. 4. The Buck-Whittaker line of knifes are where its at for climbing knifes if you have a knife fetish. They're designed by Peter Whittaker and an entire staff of moutain guides!

Doesn't take much with this crowd, does it? This sort of reminds me of the response I get when I decide to forgo indulging the polite fictions that surround popular notions about what determines weight loss or weight gain, and assert that the law of conservation of energy applies to humans as well, and that an increase in one's mass is the result of consuming more calories than one expends on a persistent basis. Period. The usual result is flat out anger, denial, a plethora of anecdotes concerning overweight friends that - literally - only ate a carrot and a stick of celery a day while working in a slave labor colony in the middle of the Sahara for 10 years - and still put on hundreds of pounds of weight. Or the conspiracy theories involving the fast food industry, their cohorts in the advertising business, the agribusiness folks and their lobbyists in DC - everything but a willingness to put the responsibility where it lies and a acknowledge disagreeable reality. I don't think it's a coincidence that the same people who believe that fast-food marketing is the ultimate cause of obesity, also tend to be the one's that believe in all manner of conspiracies - such those concerning the reasons why we generate most of our power from fossil fuels - and vice versa. It is interesting that we (we as a in the United States) tend to blame the "other" for our stupid mistakes. This doesn't seem to be a problem with other countries (at least for the "fatty" problem you mention. Why do you think that is? What is fucked up with our culture that results in this problem? It obviously isn't endemic to a political bent (conservative or liberal)....they're all fatties. BTW, you've got my vote for the prize!