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Sherri, I will be with a tremendous group of about 7 people and you are welcome to join us if you like. After the event we will move to the 13 mile campground, and you are welcome to bag out with us there too (free) if you like. No, this is not a romantic invitation as I think I am going to turn gay cuz guys are easier to get along with. I have put together a group of volunteers for the weekend event. I made a deal with Mgear to bring down some volunteers and they are paying our transportation and fuel for the trip. Many of the people doing registration and directing at the pull-outs will be with my group. I will be the one with shorts over polypro, gators to keep the snakes out of my sandals, and asking all the cute climbing chics if their name is sherri. I would give you my name, but no one knows me by that anyhow, they just call me "old guy." Offer open to you too Blake, but as a guy we may charge you beer.

Obviously it all should depend on whether the guy actually and reasonably felt that his life was being threatened. As the comments here indicate, most are going to hold him to a pretty hard standard based upon facts learned after the fact. In this guys mind, not knowing anything about the "attacker", he has dogs attacking, and a guy running at him screaming. Easy to see the guy was scared and reacted, and a sad thing happened. The question is whether this guy, who merely went for a walk in the woods, should suddenly find himself in prison? Again, do we punish his intent, punish his actions, or punish the result? Here, I think they punished the result.

Sherri, I will be at the RRR; this will be our first date since our broken engagement, or whatever. Staying the rest of the week after to climb with a small group of great people.

They have been making great strides in the past few years in brain reasearch that I think will create some great evidence against our current criminal law system. I think we all pretty much agree that the way we do it now does not "work" well, the new research could help explain why it does not work and possibly provide better options. Let's change the question a little, should we punish the action or punish the result? If I am driving blind drunk, should I be punished the same whether or not fate has me hurting someone else?

actually, I like the fact that the senator spoke his mind without all the politically correct lingo. Agree or disagree with his opinion, I like the straight talk. My guess is that he will not last long in the political realm with that straight talk though.

when my mother started climbing around 35 years ago, it was often spoken that they did not want women on the climbs. She fought and fought to get to be allowed on climbs, and fought the "no women allowed" mentality. I personally don't like the exclusion either way, though I do understand the reasons for it. I just think that any time you exclude, you hurt; whether it was intentional or inadvertent. Inclusion, not exclusion. Peace, brotherhood, and respect.

I support what you are saying cat, and agree with you completely. I also agree that those who do not use the belay loop are either old school or learned the "bad habit" from Old School folks.

Erden Eruc is an extreme traveler, on target for a human powered circumnavigation of the globe. His task includes climbing the highest summits on six different continents along the way as a tribute to a fallen friend. In 2003, he bicycled roundtrip to Denali from Seattle, walked into the base camp with his friends, and reached the first summit in the Six Summits Project. Between Jan 29 and May 5, 2006, Erden rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean. He is now preparing to row solo across the Pacific from San Francisco to reach Kosciuszko in Australia. Erden will be presenting his amazing journey at Gonzaga University in Spokane, in the Globe Room of Cataldo Hall, Tuesday March 20, at 7 p.m. This is a joint event between the Spokane Mountaineers, Gonzaga University, with help from Mt.Gear. The event is free, yet donations are always accepted and appreciated.

buy what you can afford and place it well. I have an assortment of whatever was cheap at the time, and climbed for years on the forged. They work. Climb, think, and have fun.

Sold. I will be over in the morning to try my luck. Thanks cat and dude. Moderators, you can delete this thread now if you like. E

I'm with Layton. I like the photos of the bloody faced climbing babes above more than the empty minded hookers in the victoria secret. Beauty is in the mind and attitude, and being over 40 I keep the lights off anyway.

So virenda7 are you suggesting that I should worry about the way I live and quit hating others for the decisions they make? Are you suggesting that I should merely show love and understanding to those with whom I disagree, rather than hate and insult them? Are you suggesting that if some says something seemingly insulting toward me, I should find a way to forgive them and find the good in them (Sherri21)? I will have to ponder those suggestions.

heck, I guess in my head I was scoring on a 30 point scale; I guess that without stating that, a score of 27 could be interpreted as kind of low. Sorry doll!

Anyone climbing at vantage today, saturday March 3, that can give a weather report? thinking about driving over Saturday night or Sunday morning.

If they don't climb, I ain't got the time.

This will go down in the "why didn't I think of that" line of products.

So, maybe the event that needs to be set up is an “inspection night” where all the single women who post here can line up and be inspected by the male posters. The male posers (oops, typo) can check their climbing resumes, touch their hair, feel their muscles. Then we can score them and just place that number in small font at the end of their log in name, i.e., “Sherri-27” (I will pick on Sherri since we were almost married once.) The girls benefit from this because they could suddenly start using their ratings for positive benefits. If you invite a high rating out climbing, suddenly you are more willing to carry better food or extra alcohol. High ratings would not have to pay their share of gas. Everyone benefits.

Marry me Sherri?

Ah, the quest for the perfect woman. A woman who will allow a man to live the viking adventures. I seek not the delicate flower in Victoria Secret, preferring instead the beauty of a woman in long-johns, greasy hair glistening in the starlight, wearing the smile of a day well spent. About 8 years ago I was staying at Red Rocks in the five-dollar-flats of the old Oak Creek camping area, on the last week it was open. After a long day of climbing and headlamping back to camp, a beautiful lady with an amazing smile came into our area asking to borrow a fork. She looked like she had spent the past week outdoor, had a hard days climbing behind her, and was bumming a fork to feed her boyfriend some slop for dinner. It was valentines day, and I was impressed. This beautiful creature was happy living a completely dirtbag lifestyle on Valentines day. It is she that I seek.

Hook up with me at Vantage some weekend and I can give you the quick and dirty, then you can practice if from there. Might cost you a diet coke. PM me if interested.

I see that you are seeking a climbing partner for the spring break time frame. I made a deal with MtGear to take a group of people down to help them with their red rocks event. The deal is that we will volunteer to help them with the event on Thursday through sunday, then stay and climb the rest of the week. In exchange, they pay all of the transportation and gas. They feed and "house" us for the weekend, then we are on our own. Do you want me to see if I can add one more person?

I would like to see a cut of "Holy Mountain" with all the romantic crap pulled out, leaving just the outdoor scenes. I kept getting bored and distracted onto other things, then I would look back and there was cool climbing footage on. As is, I would never watch it again or recommend it.

I think we should get our asses out of Iraq. “We” screwed up going in, “We” have screwed it up since, and now there is nothing we can do to fix it so let's cut the losses and get our asses out of there. Convene a meeting of all of the Arab nations, lock them in a room and tell them to solve our Iraq mess because we failed and we admit it. Tell them that we are pulling out in one month, so they have one month to create a solution or decide how they are going to divide it up. Sorry Iraq!

This is what a buddy, who is a true geek about these things, tells me: Risk Homeostatis = penchant for risk. Bruce Tremper's "Staying Alive in Avalanche Terrain" has an excellent section on risk. I particular, around pp 256. He talks about the "Stupid Line" in that section - below that line and we're bored, above that line we perceive that we're taking an unacceptable risk. Each of us sets our own stupid line based on our risk homeostasis, knowledge of the hazards, and perception of the hazards. The stupid line is cyclical throughout our lives. Our stupid line tends to slowly mosey up over time. Then something happens to return it to reality. Maybe we have a close call, or our buddy dies because or rock fall. At this point the stupid line takes a step function drop. Then over time, our stupid line creeps back up as we forget about the close call, or we rationalize this or that.

Found him. Joel Shapiro http://www.swedish.org/body.cfm?id=6&action=detail&ref=927&HC1=Orthopedic%20Surgery&HC2=%2D%20blank%20%2D&HC3=%2D%20blank%20%2D He went in, cleaned up the meniscus and discovered that I had about 10% of my ACL left, but did not fix it while in there. I then had to fully recoup my knee before I could have it opened again to fix the ACL. In total, it added about 6-7 months to my down time. The reason? Golf tee time, or an actual appointment that was more important than 6 months of my life. I don't know. I do know that I would never go back to him. I loved the Swede hospital though.