JAFO
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Yet anouther wise decision by
Pres.Bush.
He was probably to busy allocating resources to our terror alert level sytem
(yelow, orange, green-have we even seen green?) Natural disaster? Na we need to get Oil- I mean terrorist.... -
N-O , It's a good oppertunity to fall on your face.
and look like a homo.
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More graemlins !!!!
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Nice
I think I'll drink one for ya
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Hell yeah! This shit is nothing compared to that other stuff.
Let's see Hiroshima, What like 50,000 dead instantly.
Tsunami, I mean damn like anything even needs to be said about that. But I will, Those people had everything washed away with no way to recover, at least we have our money in electronic banks, have helicopters and first aid close by. Does it suck? Yes, it's horrible and unfortunate but only Americans would shoot each other over ice. (just on the news- someone shot thier sister point blank in the head over ice
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Intersting point. You know what is also intersting. I have lived in Okinawa, Japan where there are several typhoons a year.
Of course not all are this serious but the point is Okinawan's build their houses and buildings out of concrete. My house and street flooded to the point of undrivability but it did not float away. Maybe the people down in the gulf region should take notes from the japanese. Buildings are ugly in okinawa but this kind of tradgedy is well planned out.
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Okay, I was talking about thier families to clairify for you.
Either way if you play with fire and get burned. Well, no one cares because you f'd up.
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This post reminds me of that whole Squamish gondola thing.
Oh, and the NPS trying to put hotels and housing on top of camp 4. Anyone notice all the cement still in the campgrounds now closed in yosemite? Nice conservation NPS!
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I had a friend who was a tour guide in national park and one time he had a park visitor actually stop on the trail where the cement ended and say "I don't walk on dirt trails"
What an ass. I say
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I think you may have something with that analogy.
The real shit is that there was talk about "if the international community will give us aid"
Like the rest of the world is going to help us. If we spent so much money on Iraq that we can't afford to fix this ourselves then our gov. sucks. Why are we the only country that helps others before ourselves.
(assuming you belive helping people consists of taking over a country with oil-iraqand ignoring genocide-rwanda)
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You know some jackass will probably eventually sue the NPS for not having some kind of chainlink fence across the falls to contain people that slip.
To my knowlege of the many people that have gone over vernal I don't recall any of them sueing. Maybe that climbers parents sueing over the Glacier point incident should take note. NATURE DOESN'T GIVE YOU REFUNDS! Take it or leave it.
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Nice site, very well done
any new videos coming soon?
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It's all about fitness. Dump the bivy gear and have the confidence you will make it. You were probably carriying too much gear.
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very nice! Look FWD to the pics.
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you may have started something. I hadn't tought of that record. Maybe I'll have to shoot for it. Do we get bonus points for winter?
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here, you can also view the local topo. VIEW LOCAL TOPO enjoy
may have to enlarge the picture.
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Pointy,
There is already a pretty good TR on this route if you
click HERE. In the future you can find this route in the North Cascades Area of this site.
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"Some mountaineers are proud of having done all their climbs without bivouac. How much they have missed! And the same applies to those who enjoy only rock climbing, or only the ice climbs, only the ridges or the faces. We should refuse none of the thousand and one joys that the mountains offer us at every turn. We should brush nothing aside, set no restrictions. We should experience hunger and thirst, be able to go fast, but also know how to go slowly and to contemplate."
--Gaston Rebuffat
Starlight and Storm
I agree with this completely. Take Big wall climbing. Many people are pushing for one day accents. While I strive for these feets of speed also it is not for the same reason. It is an awsome experiance to sleep on a wall with thousands of feet below you. however it is nice to have the efficiency and skill to control where and how long you choose to bivy. (as opposed to being strung out and taking bivys where you can get them) There is also something to be said for being able to get something climbed in a weekend that would have most people taking 3-5 days. I.E. you have a weekend and you climbed and they didn't.
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patriot act
the whole terrorist alert by colors thing
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I used to live in those tents in employee housing in the back of curry. It was scarry as shit. A week after I moved to a new housing area my tent section was hit with a rockfall and closed off! They should investigate THAT AREA (Glaicer point)
for danger and long term effects. But this should be happening on its own. To sue the park would be a shame. In a similar event when I was working there a person had slipped on the siver apron at the top of vernal falls and died. That area has had this happen several times. If people started sueing then they would probably close that area forever. You take a freaking risk by being in the mountains even just for a picknick a bear could get you. Are we going to sue bears now?
If this hoser wins we could be seriously screwed. Maybe we should write to him to call it off. Either way if he wins and climbing closes he is going to catch shit forever and hate life.
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Nice TR. And great pictures on the website. Appriciate the gear info also.
Here's to ya
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anouther for Kaukulators or 5.10 acents.
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I vote for the mountain goat!
