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Trip: South Early Winters Spire - W Face/SW Rib Date: 7/7/2012 Trip Report: I climbed SEWS on Sat with my friends DC, DB, and SG. We followed the fine route topo given in "Weekend Rock". The route was a bit crowded, with us waiting a bit for a party of 2 to start, and another party of 4 coming up as we started. We ended up mixing/merging and chatting with the latter folks, and let them pass us 2 at a time during the course of the day. I got the honors of leading the Bear Hug cracks which was very cool and the highlight of my day. Some pics... In the cool of the morning: SG leads up pitch 1: SG is smiling now... before he heads up the runout friction pitch: View up above the Bear Hug pitch: Not a bad belay spot here for sure: SG seemed to like leading slabs and tried to link pitches until he ran out of rope: Views down from the Rabbit Ears: KK summit stoke: Gear Notes: C4 #5 for the Bear Hug pitch. Walked it once in the right-hand crack. Otherwise, standard alpine rack. Approach Notes: Patchy snow from trailhead and continuous on the open slopes.

More so with some than others.

Fuck off.

He raised taxes and added brackets, no?

They did in the past. "Read my lips...". In fact if that's what you want, I bet you'd have more chance getting it under the Mitt-ster (and he'd probably cave in that way when push comes to shove)

BS and you know it. I'd be much more in favor of adding more brackets for higher income folks with higher rates than raising the current highest rate to match "historic [sic] levels". But, hey, let's just avoid any common ground!

I went quite far up it looking for the ramp to the Boston Glacier last year (for Buckner). It's pretty nasty below the false summit.

guys... the weather is good now. Who gives a flying fuck about SCROTUS? Climb bisches!

there used to be more brackets, so the cartoon is (undoubtedly purposely) misleading How is it misleading? Its not about how many brackets there used to be, its about what the top bracket used to be -- which is accurate. In 1936 the top bracket of 79% applied to a gross income of 80.7 million (2011) dollars. There were 31 brackets. In 2011 the top bracket of 35% applied to a gross income of 379 thousand dollars. There are 6 brackets. The simple-minded little cartoon omits this huge amount of detail and its "point" is rendered null and void.

there used to be more brackets, so the cartoon is (undoubtedly purposely) misleading

Snow coverage is pretty solid until about 5000 feet, so you'd have to carry the skies almost 3K vertical, Gaucho.

It was clear below about 7200 feet or so. Rain came in at dusk and later for the drive home.

Yes, very reasonable.

Trip: Eldorado - East Ridge Date: 7/2/2012 Trip Report: The weekend weather has not be cooperating, so I rounded up some beginners for a run up Eldorado C2C with a narrow weather window on Monday. Morning mists soon yielded blue skies and great slogging up the upper basin slopes and the Eldorado glacier. Judas Priest and Hendrix made the going much more enjoyable. At the rock island at the nose of the ridge, however, we noticed clouds and weather coming in. We tried to beat them to the top in time for summit views, but one party member got bad leg cramps. He had to sit out the final 700 feet while the rest of us postholed up soft snow with a breakable crust 8 inches down. We then enjoyed the current spicy conditions on the arête finish: just below the top, there is a half broken cornice that you must climb below and around to finish. With the soft snow it was a bit tricky to avoid blowing out sideways. Cascade Pass in the morning: J-berg looms above the mists: Eldo: Torment, Boston, Sahale: Our views before the weather closed them: Summit views!!!

Lucky Larry, the new flag-bearer with the slogan "can't we all just get along?"

FASCISM!!

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Ya know I've been paying taxes long enough to have payed off my public school debt twice over. I want, no I demand, a refund. I ain't got no kids. Screw everybody else. and you've incurred other expenses

It takes someone like Boner to make you look smart; you should be more gracious to him.

Au contraire, he's happy as a clam. Now he's got ammunition to raise money and energize his base.

AssholePiss: you are on permanent ignore, you lunatic zasranec'. Pishov ty na khuj!

Conservatives are especially cute when the only math they can do relates to the money in their own pockets. The only math libs do relates to the money in others' pockets.

Yeah, the DIFFERENCE is efficacy. Efficacy in health insurance is not much different than with vaccines - you have to hit the largest percentage of the population possible to really be effective. When large numbers of people opt-out they are just screwing themselves, they're screwing everyone. And that's the reason for the mandate, we need to have every single citizen in the pool; how that's best accomplished can be debated, letting people opt-out without relatively severe penalties can't be allowed under any circumstance. Again, as far as I'm concerned trying to weave this universal fabric over our entirely corrupt, for-profit, million-payers system of insurers / [large] providers is an entirely sub-optimal hack which leaves the system as corrupt as it was beforehand and achieves no benefits of scale. It's the reason why you can opt-out of public education by sending your kid to private schools, but your still going to be paying for public schools. Libs are so cute when they show their authoritarian colors.

You only get to "choose" not to have health care, if the rest of us get to "choose" to let you die in the street like a rat. BS. Who dies in the street like a rat? Hyperbole does not make your argument, it just makes your argument stupid. Do you think that fellow who got his face chewed off was insured? Did he die like a rat? No, he was treated and is being treated and will undergo multiple surgeries. There are many valid arguments about what is wrong with our current health care system; your comment is not one of them.