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Friday night: Called the climb on saturday for crappy weather (Lib Bell/Concorde) Later found out it rained all morning and feld a little better Sat: Generaly around the house pointless ness Sun: My first trip to the Pearly Gates and boy did my head space suck!!!! Managed to thrutch up the first pitch of Cloud Nine and managed to die on Lost Souls. Though had an interesting moment when I lost my footing and had to lower myself on a hand jam, felt this little pop in my right hand and it suddenly went numb in about a 3 or 4 square inch area for 10 or 15 min. After that followed some nice 5.8ish stuff. Not sure what was up with the headspace, but was just really twitchy all day for some reason. Great area though!

You might also check Mamot Mountain works over in Bellevue. As memory serves they've got a reasonable selection of used boots in varrying condition. (Possibly old rentals? I think the REI Repair shop sells their old rentlas reasonably cheap as well). Side note but was your foot pain a blister or more of an arch issue? Oh, and don't just bring more food, force the food, and get yourself a belt pouch to thrown on your hip belt so it's handy. I don't know about anyone else but I've found that if I don't really force myself to eat I don't get anywhere near enough calories. Hydration bladders are great to. Between the two you can keep moving while eating and drinking a bit.

Yes but dogs may very well be cougar and/or bear snacks.

Close, to keep the proportions right you need to crop it so it's square before you resize it, otherwise it gets squished a bit.

You should be able to take a picture and reduce it's size/crop it in any Paint type program, though something like Photoshop makes life easier.

Or just build a .gif that's the right pixle size and import it.

Speaking of the Mustang Ranch, I was watching a A&E thing last night and was amazed to find out that the IRS ran it for a while!!!!

Not to mention you can pay your employees in hay and oats, and the occasional apple!

Cross posted from the Mounties website and the NPS report So it appears that 2 people were simul-rappelling and assisting the initially injured person who was suspended between them, with a 4th person tied into the rap anchor, and the combined weight was too great for the anchor.

Am I the only one who finds this a bit callous and insulting?

nah, it's just the ADD that goes with being a climber.

I surprised no one mentioned opossums! Wouldn't it be great to have two wieners!

Yes but she wants two! you know, like a possum.

Glad I got a good foundation for becoming an elite climber. Should this be combined with the bad date thread?

yep, that's us.

You do mean flocks, not groups, don't you?

Everyone ok I hope?

Just think, now for societal cost we can always tell people, well, our other option is to be criminals or junkies! They cost the tax payer way more than climbing rescues! As climbers we support the entire outdoor industry instead of stealing peoples mail and commiting identity theft!!

The Cave route isn't bad. Just be prepared for the 5 ft section of flaring, bottoming, slightly horrifying off-width on the first pitch . Where the first set of cracks traversing up and to climbers right ends, you need to go up and slightly left, to access the second hand crack (which is pretty nice), but the transition between the two sets of cracks is a bit interesting. I distinctly remember looking around, thinking there must be an easier way. Then reaching into the offwidth thinking, there must be a handhold in here somewhere. Followed by the realization, as I kept stretching, that my feet were no longer good, and I still didn't have a hand hold . Ye olde, jam yourself into the crack and wiggle technique seemed to work out OK though. And it protects at you feet, so not too sketchy. After that it was very pleasant

Tell that to Idaho.

There are still worthy athletes in every sport. (Cal Ripken, comes to mind, but didn't he retire?) However they're just not newsworthy, it's the a-holes and roid monkey's that get the spotlight. Besides, even if he is juiced (which is seriously debatable, as he may well be the most chemically scrutinized athlete history), the elite field is still level, since

Shaved Somebody's Envious

Somebody's Envious

I can't speak to all of them, as I haven't heard the rest speak publically, or debate besides (excepting Clark). Someone else care to weigh in? Wesley Clark: moderate D and weak R. (I think he would have been a more feasible overall candidate than Kerry, but didn't meet the Dem. requirements as well as others, so wasn't able to get the nomination.)

Nope, I'm an Aero. Engineering student ;-) The only psych I've had was Human Factors stuff, which is all about how to design human/machine interfaces. Just some random ideas I've been mulling over since the election. Took a little philosophy as an undergrad but I haven't done anything but Aero. or Mech. Engr. in 7 or 8 years. At the time of the election it seemed to me that the whole voting on Moral/Religious by the right was an insufficient reason, Bush had done plenty of things that were antithetical to accepted Christian teachings, while Kerry is a devout Catholic. The biggest religous difference was that Kerry attempts to keep his religion out of his politics. Almost every reason I heard that people voted for Bush seemed insufficient in and of itself. As if there were some more fundamental reason that was being overlooked and that the reasons most people cited where manifestations of it.