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Top Gun and/or Tom Cruise... Oh it brings back the memories and I can hear the Kenny Loggins music right now!!!

I've already said my piece here, MisterpreemiE... eat shit and die,theabirdth!!!!

yeah,yeah ... I'm drowning my sorrows in some Jack Daniels as we speak... My only hope now is that the Bus turns your fucking theabirdth into big red stain on his windsheild as he runs your little gay ass team over in Detroit...

Just a heads up to everyone... climbingboulder.com and it's network of sister sites covering allot of the west (but not the PNW yet) recently combined into one great,big online guidebook/resource. It's new and they are hammering out glitches but if you are traveling to climb areas outside the PNW then give it a look. The depth is staggering now. the guidebooks are under "destinations". http://www.mountainproject.com/ Plus,colorado actually has a forum now! I'm not a homeless spray waif anymore...

climbingboulder.com and all of it's sister sites recently combined into ONE GREAT BIG FUCKING online resource/guidebook...Here is a link to the Tuscon area and rte info... http://www.mountainproject.com/v/arizona/tucson/105738015

I do miss a B&W darkroom and getting lost in there til dawn! CJ have you seen any price lists for the nikon/zeiss lens? Foraker, I used to shoot 4x5 a long time ago. I wish my knees could still carry that kind of load! The prints are almost worth the suffering though. I found this on the zeiss site about film's future... hopeful.. Issue No. 23 January 2006 How about the Future of Film? Since Carl Zeiss introduced the Zeiss Ikon rangefinder camera system - a 35 mm film camera - we keep receiving questions about our belief in the future of film. In an era of digital hype, many people interested in high quality photo equipment question an investment in film-based gear. Even those who very well understand and appreciate the aspects in which film is clearly superior to digital imagery keep asking us: "Will film be available for me to operate my Zeiss Ikon camera in the future?" We know that a variety of documentation applications of extreme importance rely heavily on silver halide film - if not for image origination, then at least for image archiving. Military aerial reconnaissance (often with Carl Zeiss aerial cameras and lenses) today relies on digital technology for immediate availability, but continues to use film for reliable long-term storage. And so does "Hollywood". Carl Zeiss, as a leading supplier of lenses for the motion picture industry, can see day-in day-out, that the vast majority of feature films is still originated on silver halide film. Film is the medium of choice for long-term archiving, and is expected to remain so for the foreseeable future. This is why we are so confident about the future of film And how about Fujifilm and Kodak? During a recent industry association meeting, we had the opportunity to speak about the future of film with Helmut Rupsch, Business General Manager, Fujifilm-Düsseldorf and Rainer Dick, Business General Manager, Kodak Digital & Film Imaging Systems. Though both companies have been experiencing declining film sales over the last two years, as the amateur and professional photography markets transition from analog to digital, both gentlemen report still very healthy business with film. These two industry representatives, who are in a position to know the facts, confirm that neither company is considering stopping film manufacture. Both gentlemen are confident that their companies will continue to supply film – usable in the ZI camera and others – for decades to come. back subscribe Newsletter

yeah, no joke. i recently discovered ebay and slr's. good god, i picked up 3 6006's for $25-45 each. Now with this news I'm gonna really start stockpiling fm2's and f4's too. I love the digital darkroom these days,uploading to a good lab and not soaking in chemicals but I've gotta have an original neg or slide to start with. Life without film would be very depressing indeed. I hope you guys are right and they have to pry that roll of film out of my cold,dead hand.

The future is getting more and more grim for us hold outs... goddammit!!!! I wonder how long it will be til I can't buy Fuji Velvia or Tri-X ,too? Story: Thursday, January 12, 2006 · Last updated 2:57 p.m. PT Nikon to concentrate on digital cameras By PETER SVENSSON AP TECHNOLOGY WRITER NEW YORK -- Nikon Corp., which helped popularize the 35mm camera five decades ago, will stop making most of its film cameras to concentrate on digital models. The Japanese company said it wanted to focus on "business categories that continue to demonstrate the strongest growth" as film cameras sales keep shrinking. Nikon will discontinue seven film-camera models, leaving in production only the current top-line model, the F6, and a low-end manual-focus model, the FM10. It will also stop making most of its manual-focus lenses. Most of the company's autofocus lenses work with manual-focus bodies, however. Also, German optical company Carl Zeiss AG is widely reported to be planning a line of manual-focus lenses for Nikon bodies. Nikon did not give firm dates for the discontinuation of its products, but said Wednesday that sales will cease as supplies are depleted. Major competitor Canon Inc. still makes five models of single-lens reflex film cameras. At the lower end of the market, Eastman Kodak Co. announced in 2004 that it would stop selling film cameras in the United States and Europe. Nikon ranks fifth in digital-camera shipments in the United States, behind Kodak, Canon, Sony Corp. and Fuji Photo Film Co. Nikon was a major force in establishing the dominance of the 35mm single-lens reflex camera, the workhorse of professionals and sophisticated amateurs until the arrival of digital cameras. Its breakthrough model was the F, released in 1959. It set a standard for ruggedness and reliability and became a must-have for photojournalists. Unusually, Nikon has maintained the same lens mount over the years, meaning most lenses from 1959 will fit today's digital models and vice versa, albeit with functional restrictions.

Sweet... we turned last year's superbowl winner into our little bitches twice so I figure we'll floss our asses with your fluffy little theabirdth...

yeah but only cuz those refs need to be bitch slapped. they really fucked that game up.

huh? what was that? did you mean to say "get stomped"? whoo-hooo...mmmm donuts.

Mostly nudie pictures of your mom and girlfriend from back in the day...

Yeah, congrats to the seattle theabirdth...for finally ending 20+ years of embarrassment and humiliation. However don't get too excited. The sad truth is the NFC sucks sweaty balls and whoever wins the AFC championship next week basically won the superbowl too. Basically, the NFC teams = AFC's bitch Go Broncos. And today, go steeler's!!!

Sounds great. Are you biking with all of your climbing gear too? Ouch,if so! If you are not a purist about it then you may want mail the gear to the nearest post office to each mountain. May save you some suffering.

Yo dude, unless you know this guy personally and have experience climbing at altitude with him then STFU. Don't jeopardize someone's safety so you can chestbeat. gobriango, i can't second Mr. Pires about both the bag and going from 14k camp to summit and back strongly enough. The mountain will spank you harder than you may think. Taking a few days at 17k to acclamitize is a pretty good idea. Plus it's probably the most beautiful camp on the rte. Also, you may want to do a search on this site for the same topic. It comes up allot. Too high,too fast was this guy's problem too. They found him face down on the Football Field...Climb safe!

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Look at it this way...probably 90+% of the world's population would love to be in your position... Not trying to give you shit. Life could be better, it could be worse too. You're one of the lucky ones.

you want a gold star or something? or maybe a new box of crayons?

I banged that shit like two months ago. dude, that movie is so old those girls could be your grandmom now... So, did you slide her your little AARP discount when you were all up in that shit?

I'd also add that it shows just how out of touch he is with the real world. All someone needs these days is a name, city and google and you've got someone's address and phone number. It doesn't take allot of imagination to figure out what can be done with that ...robbery, rape,murder, assault, stalking, ect. w=tool

i hope W finds this annoying... i'm sure it will get allot of real world enforcement too...right up there with jaywalking and spitting on the sidewalk. Our law enforcement officers have little better to do than police spray these days for sure. It will look really good for the administration too if we have another terrorist attack and actually had police,fbi,ect diverting resources from tracking terrorist to tracking sprayers online. w = tool sincerely, griz (not my real name )

HUTTENBERG, July 2, Austria--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 2, 1997--In response to inquiries from the media concerning his membership in Nazi organizations during the 1930s, the famous Austrian mountaineer and explorer Heinrich Harrer issued the following statement from his home in Huttenberg: A number of stories have appeared recently in the media reporting on my involvement with Nazi organizations some 60 years ago. Many of the facts cited in these stories are true. It is the implications in many of the reports that are in error. I was a member of the SS for a limited period in 1938 after I had gained national attention in Germany for my feat as one of four climbers of the Eiger North Face (the first to accomplish this famous climbing challenge in the Alps), I was asked to join the SS as an athletic instructor and agreed. I was issued an SS uniform at that time. As it turned out, I did not give a single lesson in my teaching capacity due to my participation in an expedition to India. I wore the uniform only once -- at the time of my wedding in December 1938, which was heavily publicized by the government. Other than this involvement, I had a purely ceremonial group picture taken with Hitler and other officials during a 1938 sports festival in Breslau which was cut to show just the two of us when published recently. I was never a member of the SA. Thus, though the facts concerning these events of 60 years ago are generally accurate, any implications that these facts indicate I was a dedicated Nazi supporter or was involved in any way in the heinous crimes of the Hitler period are totally false. First, the events in question took place in my youth and I was then interested in athletics - mountain climbing and skiing - and not in politics. Second, my association with the SS was very brief. I departed on the expedition to India in early 1939 and did not return to Austria until 1952. My life in that 1939-1952 period is the subject of my book "Seven Years in Tibet" which has been made into a movie scheduled for opening in October of this year. My personal political philosophy grew out of my life in Tibet. It is outlined in my book. It is a belief that reflects many tenets of Buddhism and places great emphasis on human life and human dignity. It is this philosophy that has guided my life during my return visits to Tibet and my explorations in many parts of the world over the past four and a half decades. And it is a philosophy which leads me to condemn as strongly as possible the horrible crimes of the Nazi period. My conscience is clear on my record during the Hitler regime. Nevertheless, I regard the events that involved the SS as one of the aberrations in my life, maybe the biggest, and I regret deeply that these events may give rise to false impressions. I conveyed these facts and sentiments on Monday, June 30, in Vienna to Mr. Simon Weisenthal in a meeting to which he graciously agreed and it is my belief that he has accepted them as a sincere and forthright statement on my part.

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I don't think journalistic ethics allow for paraphrasing... Ah, yes, the Mistress of Talking Out Her Ass returns... You can paraphrase in journalism but you can't put the altered words in quotes. And gary, you're a stud for not whining.