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wow, i gotta check out this here Climber's Board forum more often... good spray to be found here sometimes. yeah Dru.. are you responsible for that link to the "numanuma" video? if so thanks again... that is the shiznit! i've watched it prolly 50 times since i learned about it.

rode the ol' mountain bike today in Tolt-MacDonald park near Carnation.... chilly and a little rainy, but also some damn good smells in the air. welcome back, dear spring!

i love caribou and ravens and grizzlies just as much as the next lefty enviro guy. at the same time, I think NONE of them things are as important as lessening, however slightly, our dependence on Mideast oil and all the wars and other bullshit that comes along with it.... drill the fuck out of my own backyard for all i care. yeah baby!!! .... this thread was the first place i learned about the fact that much of ANWR oil would probly go to Asia, and that sucks. bigtime. but if even 5% of it goes to domestic supply, thereby lessening our ties to the Saudi Royal family.. i'm happy. and yeah i know, we gotta invest in renewables ... wind, solar, hydro cells, etc etc blah blah blah. its true, it's all true. but we also gotta bump up domestic oil production. both need to happen.

back in high school the jocks used to think that me and my longhaired friends were way cool. they liked us cuz, despite being kinda weird and different and all, we knew where to get the good, uh ... "music", as we sometimes called it back then. yeh... the jocks in my school were all right.

i've flown in Cessnas and other small planes a bunch of times, as a passenger. had one pilot who once allowed me to take the controls for a few moments & do a little steering for the hell of it.... it was one of THE most exhilarating experiences of my life. i would totally get a pilot license if i could scrape together the, what is it.. about 6 or 7 thousand bucks for the lessons? and apparently you can get a used Cessna for like 20K. i would much sooner do all this than, say, buy a swimming pool or a luxury car.

1st bouldering & peak bagging ... 1981, Austrian Alps 1st rope-up ... 1982, Harper's Ferry, WV 1st volcano ... 1994, South Sister 1st lead climb ... 1998, Exit 38 1st glacier rope-up ... 2001, Mt. Olympus

kinda reminds me of this one joke-email I got fairly recently ... i forget most of it but i think it was sort of an "instruction manual" on man ... written for women who might want to live with one. Can't find it right now... badly need to organize my email archives... but anyway, the best part was where it talked about toilet seat positions. it went something like: "Toilet seats. Some people need them up. Some people need them down. So if you don't find it in the position you need it in, change it accordingly. If you're a big girl or boy, you should know how to do so." Hilarious. Not to mention brilliant. Fortunately i haven't had to address this topic in recent history... my current GF doesn't have toilet seat issues... but one of these years this might come in handy.

yeh well,.. for those of us who only surf here (let alone post here) sporadically, these re-posts are a good thing. there's a lot of good threads we'd miss if it weren't for reposts.

awesome covers: Bob Dylan songs done by chick singers... about a week ago on KEXP, heard some like alt-rock-ish (?) white girl singer doing "Buckets of Rain" also, about ten minutes ago on KPLU, heard a young black (?) siren doing "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" wish i'd caught their names. lameass covers: Jane's Addiction doing the Grateful Dead's "Ripple".

hey that's my mom's name, asshole!! and yes, she was indeed pretty hot... 40 years ago.

yep. Ft Lewis actually has a fairly good sized chunk of lands that are open to rec use... biking, hiking, motos, ATV, etc... I think the official policy is that you're not supposed to be there but if they catch you they say like "just be careful & make sure to NOT go in the areas marked as 'restricted'". This was the first time i'd been on the trails there.. pretty cool... only saw a few other people there, all non-motorized. they also let plenty of subversives from Evergreen College and elsewhere come on their property, with like permit/contract, to study forest ecology, salmon habitat, etc.

Saturday: mountain biking at Fort Lewis .... sweet fun trails, some nice stands of tall trees... not too much mud, despite all the rain. then later, party at a good friend's house in Olympia. lotsa bros, keg o' beer, good BBQed grubbins.... and lots of group-comiseration about the lack of snow in the hills... Sunday: football

Shoulder up your gun and whistle up your dog Shoulder up your gun and whistle up your dog Off to the woods for to catch a groundhog Oh groundhog Run here Sally with a 10-foot pole Run here Sally with a 10-foot pole Twist this whistlepicker out of his hole Oh groundhog Here comes Sal with a snicker and a grin Here comes Sal with a snicker and a grin Groundhog gravy all over her chin Oh groundhog You eat up the meat and save the hide Eat up the meat and save the hide Best dern shoestring ever was tied Oh groundhog There's meat in the cupboard and butter in the churn Meat's in the cupboard and butter's in the churn, If that ain't groundhog I'll be durned Oh groundhog Watch them boys they're about to fall, Watch them fellers they're about to fall, They eat 'til their britches won't button at all Oh groundhog --old Appalachian folksong

ok, i guess i didn't exactly achieve robert plant's high falsetto ... but i gave it my best shot!

eat more beef and lamb!!!!!

i think the only bands i've ever done the 'oke with were ac/dc and zeppelin.

holishit. we'll i've never said things like THAT to customer service reps i've talked to throughout the years... but i have found myself being pretty damn rude to phone reps... and later felt lame about it, after coming to my senses and realizing/remembering that it was their COMPANY, and not them, that had created the stoopid problem. (funny,... when i think about it, every anecdote I could drum up would probably be relating to phone company bullshit... MCI, AT&T wireless, etc) anyway, so on lieu of being able to apologize to all them, I hereby do so to you Muffy, for them words i've said to all them nameless, thankless customer service reps.

hahaha. i've never got the "fly off and land in someone else's lap" part down, but yeah, the key technique ain't too bad when ya get the hang of it.

no first-hand info, but i have known a lot of dedicated climbers who were from New England I climbed Glacier Peak with a couple dudes from NH actually. a high school buddy of mine went to college in Maine. he was always talking about all the sweet climbing he was doing up there. plenty of both rock and ice. .... but if you don't like ice climbing, you'd better learn to like it if you're moving there .... from what i hear it's some of the best in the lower 48!! and the skiing sucks, so what else ya gonna do in the winter? (BTW, i've never ice climbed, but would probably take it up if I moved there.)

not that i know of, but i seems like something that would happen in a Bond film.... i guess the first image it conjured in my head was Jaws from Moonraker.

sounds like someone's been watching too many James Bond movies.

for bottles: bic lighter wide, flat-head screwdriver... imitating bic lighter technique handle end of thick butter knife... imitating bic lighter technique mini-mag flashlite... imitating bic lighter technique leatherman (completely closed.... and imitating bic lighter technique) leatherman (open, using bottle-opener tool) edge of kitchen counter

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