selkirk

Hoping that the fall season will make up for the totally suck summer. Index tomorrow, Squamish next weekend (with Smith as a back up) Smith the following weekend, PDX for the Ice tool comp the weekend after that, and hopefully keep rolling in the Desert until it's too cold to climb and Ski season kicks off Personally I'm a big fan of the drugs i'm on the moment! They certainly stoke me delusions

What about Archie's guns? Or Sherri's? for that matter

It's kind of like a cross between snipe hunting and calf roping.

Bring em A little debauchery is good for the youngins! After a night spent with drunk climbers they should be good and sober till they're at least 60

Not necessarily. I just don't want to have to wear a helmet around them. Should I make the obvious short bus joke?

I wonder how this relates to the new itty bitty wiregates (30g and less bunch).

Is someone bitter? Anyone losing weight and keeping it off deserves a pat on the back. Besides, you probably just got the skinny gene Linky Linky

No Shit! Your other personalities are seriously slipping!

No, just that your trying to infiltrate the good guys and steel their secrets. As I have black, I just get to sit back and be amused I suppose you could be converted, but the drapes would have to match

maybe, i am not scientist and i don't really care any more. I had my sign carrying banner flying stop the pollution, save the ozone days already. i did my part and stopped using airisal cans and stiraphome. I worked with OSPRIG donated money to the seria club, started recycling when you still had to FIND a center to recycle at, i was a vegetarian. ate local organic and low on the food chain. i did all the right things and you know what, people didn't change, the world was not saved and all the idiots still reign supreme. so i decided there has to be a reason for that. we are part of nature. we are as much an animal as any other animal on the planet. we are more conceited, self centered in the bad way more resource hogging more damaging and certainly more disgusting than any of the other animals. but we evolved and here were are. if we are lucky we will blow ourselves up before we find another planet to populate and destroy. hmmm there's that bitter thing again. i need to keep working on that Why yes you do! Aren't you Gen-X? Then you're not nearly bitter enough! All those freakin happy go-slappy Gen-Y folks get on my nerves And your right, we are part of nature, we're just on a slower cycle. Look at any isolated population with no competition, limited resources and a rapid breading rate... First thing that happens is that they use all the resources and go into starvation , then the numbers shrink rapidly due to shortages/infighting, followed by excess food due to the much decreased numbers which leads to rapid growth. (Think rabbits on an island with no foxes ) The only thing we've added to the equation is the ability to kill ourselves off in 1 go with nuclear weapons So it all depends on damping, we'll either peak, and then settle to a stable population (might be some oscillation). Peak, and then indefinitely oscillate, or go unstable (but I don't think that's very likely barring nuclear war.). The good news is we can't really screw up the planet, just make it uninhabitable for us

Do you live in Seattle's only trailer park? Didn't think so.... So much for steet cred

That's why they don't need to pay attention. When you drive a tank, it's only the little, tax paying people that suffer.

Your willing to go climbing post breakfast burrito You do like to live dangerously don't you

The west ridge is a good route For easy technical climbing it makes for a great alpine kind of day

Mrs. Selkirk went up to the Windy Pass area and came back with oodles In season and plenty ripe. With a little rain should be good through next weekend at least! mmmmmmmm huckleberry pie!!!!!

I've been interested in a full or partial day at Index tomorrow. Anything up to mid 10's and i'm willing to do the leading if need be. PM me and I'll check again in the morning. Cheer Josh

This ain't the IRS. You can carry your children up if you wish, however. If you carry a child, you can count the weight as body fat on the BMI scale. Think long and hard about using this tactic, because if you lose, the child is first on the barbie. Would probably be more tender, but not nearly as well marbled.

We'll need to multiply times BMI or some such thing to level the playing field

i once heard someone say that a woman should be a gardener in the garden, a whore in the bedroom and a lady in the parlor. i take that to most things i do. at the office i am a business woman and when i am being a mother i am a MOM. people spend way too much time not being "present" these days. Including all you wankers reading this

After spending 10 1/2 years in college as a student/grad student/instructor I really miss going back to campus in the fall. I like my job a whole bunch but there's something magic about going back to school as a student or a teacher

That's too bad Have a 93' subie (granted it is 2 wheel drive and gutless) that's chugging on 170k with no more than minimal maintenance. Maybe once a year something goes awry but it's usually reletively small. So whare are you driving now? Oh, and the DMM cam's are great! Especially from about size 1.5 on up. The action on the smaller ones always seems a bit soft to me. However they do have the smallest cam's rated to full strenght (14kn)

Hexes Rock!! Especially the top 3 or 4 Wild Country slung hexes! The yellow one always seems to get placed! oh, and the reason half your rack is bootied DMM's is because they come out. When a WC nut gets stuck, it stay's stuck!

Choose a single favorite beer! can't be done. Red Stripe, Obsidian Stout, Negra Modelo just too many good ones to choose from!

Will second the DMM's Best ones out there IMHO. Go for any two that are roughly finger sized.

Taking elite climbers as universal examples doesn't necessarily transfer. For most of the moderate climbers I know where they have the most room for growth is mental not physical/technical. They lead 2, 3, or more grades below what they can flash on top rope, and it's purely headspace, and in IMHO that can be developed faster leading trad then sport. In fact I only climb with 1 person who can lead at the same level he can top rope, and he scares me some times