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You jackass . . . that comes out of petty cash

So, I'm off to Tahoe with some friends in a couple of weeks. Only three days but no plans other than skiing. Probably one day in resorts and two days backcountry. . . or all three days backcountry. Any suggestions? We're wide open right now where to go. We're probably staying in Tahoe City. Anyone in Portland have a backcountry ski Tahoe book they want to lend me? Thanks in advance.

Climb Max in Portland has theirs for $110 or so. Their website too, Pagangear.com, you pay shipping. It's pretty much the same as the Metolius pad.

It was a perfect weekend at Smith! It was cool meeting everyone there. I only got one picture off, of Mike Layton and Skyclimb. Not captured was Skyclimb's filthy mouth spouting obscenities the whole way up

Anybody need a ride from PDX? I'm leaving at around 8 tonight. PM me, I'll check at 7.

I think Jay is talking about another rescue where the rescued climber did start spouting about what a bad ass he was. Ahhhhh! It took a while, but I found it. 2 percenter

I've got a couple of the Trojan box sets that DFA was talking about on LP I might be able to burn to a CD for you if you want to check it out. And I second the Ethiopians recommendation.

I've got an addition for you Bill: Christians don't support the death penalty. I was raised Catholic and never learned anything about capital punishment being right. As far as the war, people definitely spin it in their own way. Some say it's a just war (even though the Pope didn't) so I think this is point of view issue. As far as calling themselves "pro-life" and supporting the death penalty though, that's pretty much as big a contradiction as I can imagine. edit: And nolanr, billcoe didn't write this, Bill Simpkins did.

Ah, the wonders of google. They say you can use it seated on an airplane.

I wonder if anybody who opposes the fluoridation because it's bad for fish is on the pill.

The ones who are fucked in the head are the twisted fucks that mentally rape children by taking away their innocence, force-feeding homosexuality down their throats with cartoon characters. You might as well just hand everyone's kid over to Michael Jackson for a sleepover! Lame to say all conservatives are screwed up, but KaskadskyjKozak are you just being sarcastic? I might have said this before but I didn't learn what fisting, mud wallowing, and watersports were until I read the Oregon Citizens' Alliance entry in the measure 9 voter's manual in 6th grade. I don't think that was "the Gays" shoving their homosexuality down my throat.

They used to have one in Portland years ago.

I couldn't believe it when I read it. . . I think he admitted some mistakes. Maybe this is a sign of good things to come. story

Nope, but I saw a sweet documentary on this a couple of years ago. I think it's also called "Endurance". Definitely the most amazing survival story I've ever heard.

Hank Snow. Jimmie Rodgers if you're into the yodeling cowboy thing. I think it's cool. Carter Family - folksy old-time country, but I love it.

Crap. My overnighter just turned into a day trip. Anyone have any good day trip suggestions? Anywhere from Seattle, for tomorrow, snowshoeing.

Thanks! I'll look into it.

Great. Thanks for all the info. If there's any visibility to take pictures, I'll post the on Monday.

Thanks for the suggestions. I checked the forecast and: I'm guessing Flapjack lakes also has a lot of avy terrain. Since I've never been to any of these places before, and visibility might not be so good, how safe would it be for me to be to be wandering around out there. Should I go to the beach instead, or is there easy routefinding at any of these two places?

Hi, sorry for the repost from the last camping thread. I'm headed up there this weekend for some camping with a friend. Neither of us are mountaineers so I'm just looking for a cool place to snowshoe in, camp, and snowshoe out. Since it looks like it's going to be snowy this weekend, there probably won't be much for views. The ocean would also be cool. I haven't been up in that area for years, what suggestions do you have for a short 2 day trip? Thanks in advance.

I've heard that it's awful tough to manage a rappel of two different ropes (one dynamic one static) with a high% difference in diameters. A way around needing to manage both of them is what I was getting at. This is right out of my butt, but just a thought: If you're worried about managing two different ropes in your rap device, and want to keep the 6mm line close you you, can't you just run it through a carabiner on your harness out of the way?

It's a chick magnet.

No. I'm a metrosexual. That means I just look gay.

The Onion came up with this one: ABILF - Altar Boy I'd Like to Fondle.

I took an avy class with my shiny new Pieps DSP, and it rocked. The scan function works great, and it was cool when we'd all switch to receive mode and I could see how many people still had theirs on in send. It was great pinpoint searching, it had about 10m more range than the Trackers most people were using, and the scan mode was great. The flag mode wasn't perfect, sometimes requiring a couple of button presses to flag the "found" beacon and continue the search for the next one, but was still quicker and easier than any other multiple beacon search. NOLSe, PM me if you want to check mine out. You can borrow it this week and rent another one for $6 at OMC and hide it around your house or yard.