KaskadskyjKozak

and this plot factors in taxes, transfer payments, and credits?

err, no: "The average two-income family earns far more today than did the single-breadwinner family of a generation ago. And yet, once they have paid the mortgage, the car payments, the taxes, the health insurance, and the day-care bills, today’s dual-income families have less discretionary income — and less money to put away for a rainy day — than the single-income family of a generation ago. And so the Two-Income Trap has been neatly sprung. Mothers now work two jobs, at home and at the office. And yet they have less cash on hand. Mom’s paycheck has been pumped directly into the basic costs of keeping the children in the middle class." Your solution, comrade?

Liar! Your plotted "income" - does not factor other credits and transfer payments, of course.

Here you go j_bot:

We should buy you diapers and a pacifier.

Minimum wage should adjust annually with inflation/cost-of-living (and it doesn't). I'm not sure I'll buy into much beyond that.

"Easy" arguments are often fallacious. Many who make minimum wage are students and other folks entering the labor force or supplementing their income. My first two summer jobs were minimum wage.

not that j_bot would know anything about the latter...

Good fun! Thanks for the route conditions update (what a crazy snowpack)!

Where is inflation factored in?

Weird, 'cos the Dem's ran the whole show for 2 years, and got Jack Shit done.

don't bother the fucktards with facts Jay!

There'll be plenty of time for Backbone, my friend.

If you can lead easy rock, do Shuksan via the Sulphide and climb the arete rather than the gully. Camp high and get an early start and you can beat the masses. Or... consider the Boulder glacier route on Baker - it's a gem!

Nicely done! Molodets'!

Summer sausage, gouda, and tortillas.

I'm gonna stop you from a self-reply trifecta. Let's leave those for j_bot. Self-replying is the new editing. self-replying is aid

I'm gonna stop you from a self-reply trifecta. Let's leave those for j_bot.

perhaps these early, traumatic experiences explains your aversity to climbing?

Service goon!

The route up left is where we ended up going. I climbed the E ridge of the N peak 2 years ago and we definitely started lower and to climber's left. I should have paid more attention and headed that way (it's easy class 3 with a couple of brief class 4 sections)

Nicely done, N!

From Ice Cliff Glacier last weekend the N ridge was looking pretty good... but we only had an oblique view of it rather than head-on.

Any pics?

All 5727 posts of it!