olyclimber

I only have 35 years to Fairweather's 42 years...and I have been hestitant to weigh in on this issue because I'm not sure where I stand. On one hand, the washout makes the wilderness area bigger...true there is a road..but I've been up there recently and you can already see nature reclaiming it. On the other hand, there is a 4 mile addition to every thing I want to climb in that neck of the woods. This wasn't a problem for me...but then I'm not handicapped. Other than the handicapped angle, I haven't heard a convincing argument from either side. There is a large amount our country accessible by car. I'd like to hear a real argument from either side...not just that "is was there so it should continue to be" or "what about the little baby salmon".

thank you for allowing shitfartist to post.

i second repo man. that and chitty chitty bang bang. and grease.

Pi, we know who you are.

Tyler is waiting. In the Tour, he is planning to shatter his spine and still finish the race in the top 10. Then he will be known as the Hardman of the Tour.

Just a little sample of type of information that is stored in the great vaults of cc.com.

Thanks for the TR. I would love to see the photos...

"I used to chase hippy girls, and let me tell you, their furry little armpits tend to harbor a powerfully attractive feminine odor that would put this boy in a very vulnerable position. Is what we'd do is, we'd drive up to some hippy neighborhood, like Fairhaven in Bellingham, or down to Fremont, and then we'd sit in my friends bus with a couple of boxes of granola. We'd be wearing lots of beads and shit, pony-tail wigs, whatever. Anyway, as much as anything, the granola seemed to lure them in better than all our "props" and marijuana music. Of course, we lured our share of squirrels."

medication

Nobody is going to stop Petacchi in the sprints. Even if he has a camel toe.

I'm not talking about those who wrote the article...I'm talking about those who choose to publish something that has already been published elsewhere. Not an uncommon practice in the literary world, but maybe I just missed the 'orginally pubished in 'blah'' at the end of the feature.

Thanks for setting me straight. I didn't read it in the other sources. So they just reuse text that has already been published in other publications? At anyrate, when are you climbing it?

When I picked up the first issue I saw of Alpinist, it was some issue that had a picture of a couple of guys, and the caption said something like "and these fell to their death a couple of minutes later". Hardcore. And of course the article about the northface of the Devil's Thumb is a true inspiration. Unclimbed, and a very low survival percentage for those even attempting it. How many people that post on this board would think of attempting something like that?

That question has been asked in this thread already....

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It is expensive. The stories are generally pretty good, and the photography is great. I noticed more adverts in the latest issue (7), but I don't know there are more or I just noticed them more this time.

Ya...you bunch of chatterbox beta-monkeys!

When was this accident? Details?

It is a special bouldering edition. My wife picked it up and started cracking up at me for buying a poser magazine that would print something like " "a dusty canyon spilling over with spring-break burners from Chico, packs of snarling dogs and chatterbox beta-monkeys from Planet Hell" or " Bling-bling, cha-ching: This is a cash-money masterpiece, yo. Start on two arbitrary slopers, and then, depending on which micro-beta you've scammed from the illustrious V-sputtering hordes". I guess that article is supposed to piss you off though.

Radon, I believe the point is that there isn't much else the US government can do to get people (more people) to send over...beside drafting recruits. They are now at the point of calling up people that they can based on their contract. You mention that the clause has never been used before. Is there any other way to get more soldiers (other than having a bunch more people volunteer)?

you read a news article on cnn.com and you immediately start looking for a "Reply" button.

I read in one article that they were doing 'sitting belays'...I can't remember where I read the article. But obviously some of the people in the media haven't been accurate, so don't take my word for it.

That is a bizzare concept...coating forests with chemicals to avoid a possible fire.

Jedi, remember the words of the great master..."do, or do not...there is no try".