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Ok, maybe if I write them down i'm more likely to do finish them! Onsight Zebra-Zion, get the Pioneer Route on Monkeyface, and finish BBQ the Pope without pitching off! Outer Space and Orbit. Stuart West Ridge. Sit on the top of Liberty Bell. Rainer Get a weekend climbing in the Enchantments. Climb something with my Dad. Spend more weekends out in the mountains then I did this year! Not really climbing... but get back on Ski's again! Oh, and again not climbing, but there's a definite misery factor involved, and it's an upleasant journey for a worthwhile goal but.... finis my Dissertation and get my ass out of school!

Used one of the ones that Pro Mountain caries in hard snow this season. They drive real well in consolidated snow so long as you have a hammer on your ice tool, but if it's at all loose i think they would pull out too easily. It's more like a giant snarg (?) that doesn't screw out. Ok to clean though. You ought to take a look at those and model after them. Less of a picket more a snow piton it seemed like.

Depending on the name version Nutty Bignuts General Bushkisser ( I wonder what the wife will say? ) Twitchy Von Bushy

Avalanche poodles?

I think bouldering in a skirt is definite safety risk, think of all the distracted belayers and climbers! There could be some serious problems with people so distracted. I think we can all agree on this, and the most direct solution would be for her to just take it off

Be careful, you'll piss of the then no 5.14 for you!

There are just too many puns in that sentence for words.

Official Time keepers recorded the record ascent....

Good luck with the finding the sweet FA on the 5.13 jug-haul. oops, wrong thread

Lumberjack can also be substituted with canadian

So what would overhang, undercling, crimper, and of course rope management be defined as?

Must claim the belated No, but at the same time if an operation is only successful 50% of the time, then you'd can't guarantee it's going to be effective on everyone. It's not necessarily the doc's fault. If there's gross negligence that's a whole different matter. Unluckily medicine isn't an exact science, the outcomes aren't absolutely predictible. I don't know if Malpractice is the only issue with rising medical costs, but I know for a fact it's driving specialists out of some areas. (ob-gyn's in WV, I have an Aunt who's an Internist just left Cleveland for Hawaii, primarily because of malpractice rate increases.) I'm all for a cap. Complete covereage of medical expenses, lost wages, etc, but there should definitely be a "pain and suffering, and emotional damages" cap, those are the ones hitting OB-Gyn's so hard. After all, how do you place a value on a childs life? Not sure about punitive damages for gross negligence though....

In some area's of the Country OB-Gyn malpractice insurance rates have climbed so high due to how often they're sued that there aren't any OB-Gyn's there anymore (West Virginia I think?) So due to malpractice rates, the women there don't have access to specialists. Bad F-!%**!' en news for everyone.

True, true. I took a class with NCMG; if I remember correctly, the most common person to be killed in an avalanche is a 20-30 year old male, with a basic avalanche course under his belt. Guess that, sometimes, a little information is just enough to make you feel less vulnerable. I've heard that statistic over and over, and always wondered if it actually had little to do with the training, and more to do with the amount of time spent out in the backcountry? Anyone have statistics for number of avalanche victims, vs time spend in the backcountry per year, to compare the level of training statistics to?

figure out what you think is reasonable, spend a little more than that and you should be safe. Also, remeber, if she says now, you may be eating the cost of the ring anyway. Besides, sinces it's about to be "our" money, she's paying for 1/2 of it anyway

Given they're Lynn Hill / RUMR body type, I wonder what Jawa's could climb?

We can't let this die yet!!

Copper bottom, folding handle cooking pot, from a stream at the base of Eagle Cap, was still 1/2 full of rice?

600mg every 12 hours can do wonders! Probably not a good idea for daily use, but that's what i've had prescribed for inflamed rotator cuffs in the past.

Your all just geek wanna-bees They changed the name because the Brontosauras skeleton was actually from 2 different dinosaurs. They had the right body with the wrong head. So it never really existed in the first place

If you can get away with a womens medium Northern Mountain Supply has some dirt cheap deals. Coal's for $29, etc. Worth checking out.

Silly boy, she doesn't tele

Ok, as it's that time of year and as usual i'm desperately searching for christmas present ideas for the little misses... any recomendations? Or what are is everyone hoping to find under the tree? (P.S. She rock climbs, does some alpine, hoping to get a couple of big mountains next year, hoping to do some snowshoeing this winter, and of course is a girl which always complicates things.) All ideas appreciated!

Maybe i'm a sucker for biographies but Ascent : a bio of Willi Unsoeld. That guy was a serious stud, not to mention a humanitarian Feeding the Rat : a bio of Mo Anthoine, nice unpretentious approach to climbing, from another hardman. and of course The Climb up to Hell (Jack Olson?) one hell of a rescue, but what an awful tragedy. and The White Spider (Harrer). I guess i've got an Eiger thing to.