Chad_A

Yellowbeard, Young Frankenstein

Very cool. Do you just keep an eye on Bozeman for the forecast, or is the Hyalite Canyon higher elevation? Never been there. Looks to be generally warm there this week, and then cold again (not enough time to reform for next weekend). Dammit!

I tried the Blacklight- said it's clean. No "rootkits" found. I should add that this machine has never been lightening quick. I noticed rather early that the sound would break up if I asked the machine to do anything substantial when playing music, etc, but chalked it up to the motherboard having to run the sound (it was an option to subtract the expensive sound card and just have the motherboard run the sound). It didn't take me long to get a sound card, and it never did change the issue. I still can't play the avi. files that I take with my dig camera without it playing very roughly. It's painful to watch them. I also understand that 512 mb isn't too much these days, but hell, I don't have that much running. The Dell service guy even changed some of the settings, and made a whole bunch of programs low priority, in attempt to help the thing out. His thought at the time was, "the only thing left to think about replacing is the hard drive." Thanks much for all the input, and I'd consider Linux...if I knew anything about PCs. As it is, I'm going to have to call up a pal to set up the HD transfer so I don't screw anything up

Sounds exactly what's going on with mine. I've tried the Checkdisk and defrag per people's mentions, and neither changed anything a bit. The drive always seems to be running; something's going on in the background, but the task manager says that there really isn't. Specifically, what program did you dump, and what program did you end up with? I have McAfee (the usual) and as double checks, I run Spybot S&D and Adaware. They occasionally find low risk stuff, but nothing really to speak of.

Ok, I'll go check that out...

It's an XP machine; I looked for Scandisk (I know all my older machines had it) but this one didn't seem to, no matter where I looked. I went to the "Help and Support Center" and "Chkdsk" is what came up. It didn't describe it very well, but was vaguely described as something that you run under the C: prompt. So, I did that, and it ran, but didn't mention what it found, or seem to fix anything. Certainly doesn't run any different. Next suggestion?

...while retaining the information stored. Is there a way to transfer all my files over to a new HD? Note: the current hard drive is still functioning, just slowly. The PC is only 1.5 years old; just out of warranty of course. Dell stopped out and replaced both the motherboard and the RAM, and it didn't fix anything. Antispyware didn't seem to find anything, and it's always way too slow for a 512mb/2.8Ghz machine. The HD always seems to be running for no reason, sound gets interuppted very easily when it's taxed with a couple of tasks (even with the addition of a better sound card), and the Task Manager never says that anything really big is going on. Anyway, according to everyone I've asked it's the last thing to replace. If anyone has any other thoughts, I'm all ears. I just want to be able to shift all my files over without losing it all.

Oooh, good posts

Either he was moving fast, and rammed himself into a chunk of wood, or a chunk of wood ran into him. Looks like he's going to lose his left leg, and maybe something else important...

I saw the face on Friday, while seracing. Unless something drastically changed since then, go do something else. There was barely enough snow in the gullies to climb on...probably not even enough for that.

Where's this one from? Might have to check out the Winter Hook this year.

I hate to sink to your level, but you're truly an asshole.

The 'pons are sharp. Wish I had some WI around here to climb without tools on

....the best time of the year for brews. Disappointing this year. Dark and sweet, as usual, but "empty" in taste. Hot and cold per usual. Depends on the year, evidently. I've had good batches before. ------------------------------------------------------- Best of the year I've had, thus far. Good balance between hop and malt. A keeper! ------------------------------------------------------- Smooth n' sweet. Vanilla overtones. Pretty good, but if you like hops, not for you. --------------------------------------------------------- Another keeper! Think Holiday IPA. Not the usual "dark and sweet" holiday selection. Dry-hopped, and potent. Smooth. --------------------------------------------------------- Any others out there? I didn't get a chance to try the Nightowl Pumpkin from Elysian, and I don't know if TG has come out with anything this season.

Maybe they should make a law to make McDonalds, etc, give their leftover oil to the biodiesel manufacturers to repay their debt to the environment.

I saw the post, and thought this would be about angry, white suburban computer nerds with loud guitars, screaming into a mike, and drawing x's on their hands. How disappointing.

That's great; thanks for that. Maybe later on, I'll throw 20 pounds in the pack, and do laps. (You never know, the extra weight may help the feet plant better...doubt it ) What brand of horizontals do you have? Three of my best climbing pals all have Sabretooths (varying degrees of experience) but all swear by them, and I'm beginning to see the light...I just want to get used to them, and the short, but very present, secondary points. Thanks for the post

Thanks very much for the post. Very informative; I was wondering what it was doing up there. Didn't get a chance to look at the webcams at the time, but now I know. Cheers!

Yeah, I thought of that one, but thanks for the thought anyway

Thanks for the response. I'll keep that in mind when I'm up at Haffner this year

Hey, no problem. Maybe I could become "sponsored", eh, hahaha. Here's a pic of me climbing with your product. Now send me free shit

Yeah, sure did. No WI formed up yet (as of last Friday) but great seracing to be had.

Aha! Goddamn. See, I'm confused as usual. A permit is required, but no fee. Man, why do they have to make things so inefficient? Climbing Season - November 01-March 31 A permit is required. A permit fee is not charged. Climbing use is unrestricted. On-line registration is not required. You must register and pick up your permit at Jacks. http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/recreation/mount-st-helens/permit-system.shtml Climbing & Permit Fees Table Mount St. Helens - Climbing Permit Fee System Season Climbing Limits Fees Charged April 01 - May 14 n/a Fee Charged May 15 - October 31 100 permits per day Fee Charged November 01 - March 31 n/a n/a

Dru- forgot about that. Won't work on seracs (unless I find a real gentle one), but will be great on an easy WI climb. Stewart- Should I try that on lead?

Trying to prepare myself for (hopefully) a good upcoming season of ice climbing. People seem to talk about the swing of the ice tool often enough. More or less, I have that sorted. The issue that haunts me in ice climbing is foot trust. I've been told everything from "kick it hard; hammer it out and make your own foothold" to "place your feet on features and use rock climbing-like footwork to increase efficiency. If it's a sheet of ice, you still shouldn't have to kick that hard". I'm still experimenting with horizontal vs. vertical frontpoints; one of the problems, I believe, is that in experimenting, glacial ice/seracing (the closest reliable ice to PDX ) doesn't behave the same as a formed flow of water ice. At any rate, just looking for techniques and/or mind tricks that people do/use to get their foot trust on the upside...and the arm pumpage on the downside. Oh, and yes, I have Gadd's book, Luebben's book, and I do remember as much as I can to keep my damn heels low. -Chad