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Bone Daddies, Jem (surprisingly good!), a little Blues Traveller, Susan Tedeschi (Damn she's good!!) Kenny Wayne Sheppard....

I felt like such a stud after climbing Karate last year (had to take 1 rest, 2/3 of the way up.) Then I got back to Seattle, and was talking to climber friend of mine who did quite a while back on hexes and nuts. There went my buzz!

A nice warm day out at Vantage. Thrashed my way up Tangled up in Blue, boy was I ugly on that! . repeat to self, must never climb strenous route without warming up. Then hit a bunch of plesent routes down on Millenium wall, though I don't know the names. Was just very nice to get out!

At the end someone gets to a make a decision about what is in someone's best interests when that person can't decided for themselves. The courts have always held up that it should be the spouse. Are you saying that with all the dysfunctional screwed up familys in this country parents are necessarily more qualified? As well put by my sister the nearly a dr. "Parents will never stop parenting." They will always want to do what THEY think is best for her, not necessarily what she would want for herself. I think the spouse who you've been living with day in day out for the last however many years has a better idea of your wishes than parents whom you see a few times a year, and will always think of you as their little baby. (Your wife excluded Dr. Crash ) If he had a history of being an a mentally or emotionally abusive asshole, I imagine they would have transfered guardianship a long time ago. Is there anyone present here, who would rather have been kept alive in that state then had the plug pulled? If so speak up cause everyone i've talked to has said pull the damn thing, with the intent that they dont' want to exist like that and wouldn't want to keep their friends and family from grieving and moving on. Now she'll always be remembered and thought of as quasi-vegetable instead of the beautiful person she was before.

Absolutely, no climbing on grid bolts! And if you want to climb a crack at least don't clip the bolts next to it. Well, maybe that obscenity the Caldwell trad led on monkey face last year . I'd clip those bolts instead of placing micronuts. Of course I can't climb 5.obscene so it's a moo point.

Spray? Stay on topic! You must need more coffee Minx! Your clearly delusional That said..... How do I decide what route to climb? as i'm still a relative gumby finding my feet I typically look for route reviews in guides, recommendations from friends, and or sweet lines when they strike me (Karate Crack last year, Zebra-Zion right now we really do need a tongue hanging out drooling gremlin!). Then try and spread it around, hard bolts, less hard trad, thin slabs, steep face, sweet cracks (still my favorite). Alpine/Adventure or crag/tame totally varies from week to week. Much to dependant on other factors. Right now I don't have time to be in great shape so alpine is out and cragging is in. Is there anyone here but Poop who's so obscessed with the no bolt/adventure climb ethic that they only climb and enjoy/appreciate remote sketcy alpine trad? (Within reason of course, grid bolting, and bolting cracks is just wrong! All climbing should be done with minimum impact feasible for that line the FA chooses.)

two points.... first you want to decrease birth rates? Educate the women and give them access to birth control. As memory serves this has been pretty effectively established. Make them literate, give them the tools to thing rationally, and the backbone to stand up and they stop having oodles of midgets. as for "Economism" (the believe that free markets can be truly self regulating.) There's two fundamental flaws in it. It assumes that either the entire population is cognizant enough of the long term effects of purchasing power and current decisions to self regulate, and to regulate problems sufficiently early before they have consequences that are too dire. Or it assumes that companies are ethical and forthinking about something other than their own profit. Maybe Patagonia, kind of, or Whole Foods, kind of. Business are in it to make a profit and to grow, if they can't do that they fail and have no effect at all, and those goals seems to be almost directly opposed to altruistic ends. Some of the businesses moderate their impact a bit but that's about all you can hope for in the way of self regulation. As for the first it's been my experience that very few people have the will, desire, or forthought to do this, and even the ones who do give it thought do it inconsistantly (I know i'm guilty of this). The vast majority of people tend to do what's in their immediate best interests, or act on immediate desires. (what's cheapest, most abudant, most desirable.) and we get the rise of Walmart in small towns, Oil conglomerates, etc etc. Individuals acting independatnly can think and act intelligently, but the larger the group of people, the lower the collective intelligence, until you end up where we are now.

Your'e an admitted Mountie

Then don't climb it silly boy.

OMG! Why didn't we think of this before? It appears California is now offering free vasectomy's to obese men. Please discuss... Free Vasectomy's to large boned people! It would be really interesting to see the results of an overall cost analysis to making vasectomy's free of charge or very highly subsidized. Drop in unwanted pregnancies, fewer deadbeat dads leaving kids in their wake. Why stop with obesity, how about the criminal population, anyone with more than 2 kids, anyone with over 25000 posts to a climbing website... the list goes on!

"Pork Fat Rules" Emeril Lagasse

How many mpg do the Prius or Civic hybrid's actually get? Are they actually better than something like the Jetta TDI's?

Also seems like the pills are just asking to hold water so they don't shed rain as well. I've thought about breaking out a beard trimmer but haven't tried it yet.

Most of the new cams with cam stops can be placed passively as well, but not all (DMM's, Rock Empire, Metolius), though anything lacking beefy cam stops can't be (i.e. Aliens, Trango Max Cams) Though i've never placed on passively so what the hell do I know?

Bump! Any more current news on road/snow conditions?

bump Any new word? Does stuff usually open up by Mid-April?

Do real-hyper-x-tream wear windshirts? Or are they not required if your chest is sufficienty hairy?

What about the millions of women being enriched? No, that would be fulfilled

There's a toothless cat comment in there i'm sure! I just can't find it because i'm a moron today

Minnesota article all you gun nuts sure are right. It's definitely people that kill other people. But guns sure do make it a hell of a lot easier to kill lots of them all at once.

Maybe Geo Metro's and the old VW bugs should be the off road standard. With a big winch welded to the frame it could climb vertical rock Not to mention, 2 people could just carry it over the ditch.

Because we all know climbers are surrounded by lots of hot . How's that been workin out for ya?

Has anyone gotten the new Patagucci catalog? I can't afford their stuff, but.... Had a very interesting article on the residents of Easter Island. I never realized it was a relatively well populated heavily forested island til we showed up, and stripped it bare.... When the English(?) arrived the island was just barely capable of sustaining it's then small population, and there wasn't a tree or shrub over 10ft tall. Any way you cut it our global society is woefully out of balance and there will come a reckoning. I'm not a believer in the end of the world hocus pocus... but unless we make some drastic changes in the next century, to bring ourselves more in balance, things are going to get really ugly for our childrens, childrens, children. Just like the deer populations..... unluckily were a race of addicts, and addicts rarely change until they hit rock bottom.

If we convince more of them that Gym climbing is the only true form of climbing maybe it'll clear out the crags?

Urban legend like.... sasquatch? Dru? The Nodder? Pope being a sport climber/gym rat in secret? ......