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Pretty positive the laffs from Ms Cariboo Barbie will be FAR funnier. and sadder, too.

Biggest issues are the 900+ inches of snow (even with skis, trying to move uphill in nipple deep drifts? you'll be puking after 10 minutes), serious avalanche dangers, etc etc. And in a serious blizzard whiteout (not just fog) your GPS and wands are not going to help. Snowcave for 4 days? That's your option.

The fact that there are plenty of real hardmen and women in the area, and very very few winter TRs should tell you something! Just getting to Muir in the winter can be nearly impossible. Not to say you shouldn't try, but it is a whole other type of endeavor than a summer stroll.

Yeah, saw those a few weeks ago at the Issy store. Dumb as tits on a boar.

Do they take goyim??

And the rock sucks. Unless, of course, you have a thing for razor sharp dinner plates.

Hi! My name is Sarah! I'm from Alaska and like to kill things like moose, wolves and criminals, but never, ever an immature fetus! I've never actually traveled anywhere, except for a military base where I was surrounded by other people just like me the entire time. Jesus is my lord a personal savior, and I want to make sure he's yours too! My journalism degree is super useful when I need to talk to those reporters and things! You should vote for me, 'cause I am the prettiest girl in the 11th Grade, oops, I mean, toughest woman running for office!

Also good for alpine funk, when you can set 'em real tight in icy cracks with a few good whacks. Bugaboos are even better for that however, and rack much more cleanly....

So, it's just a private family matter, eh? Then why the hell is the front page of the Seattle Times now showing a slick photo-op with McCain meeting the lucky lad? Asshat hypocrites! "well, since it's out there, how can we manipulate it to favor our platform?"

sweet jesus, that is priceless.

The fact that anyone thinks she might be an excellent, viable candidate for the job makes me realizes that our great country, our great democracy, is so royally screwed we might as well just throw it in. End of empire; the idiots have won, let's just shut off the light and devolve back to primordial soup. Sanity, reason, and intellect have lost; it's over.

Agreed- wiki says she got her first passport in 2007, to visit US airbases in Kuwait. Hard to have opinions about "foreignurs" when you've never left the country!!!

wiki says, "Palin obtained her first passport in 2007 and visited members of the Alaska National Guard stationed in Kuwait.[42]" So, she had never left the country until ONE YEAR AGO??? And she wants to be VP? Are they freakin' joking???

pasted from salon.com In an interview with Alaska Business Monthly shortly after she took office in 2007, Palin was asked about the upcoming surge. She said she hadn't thought about it. "I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq," she said. "I heard on the news about the new deployments, and while I support our president, Condoleezza Rice and the administration, I want to know that we have an exit plan in place; I want assurances that we are doing all we can to keep our troops safe." Seven months into the surge, she still either had not formed any opinion on the surge or the war or just wasn't sharing. "I'm not here to judge the idea of withdrawing, or the timeline," she said in a teleconference interview with reporters during a July 2007 visit with Alaska National Guard troops stationed in Kuwait. "I'm not going to judge even the surge. I'm here to find out what Alaskans need of me as their governor."

I can't wait to see tonight's "Daily Show" - this is comedy gold!

Biden will rip her in half. Decades of foreign policy and Beltway experience vs. being on a city council and TWO years as governor of a highly peripheral state ??

Prolife, pro death penalty, pro hunting. Logical consistency might be not a strong point here.

ohohoh! go go Mr Pinky!!

From the climbing link "It may be the first time anyone has set out to free solo a route at the edge of their ability with only a B.A.S.E. parachute." What? This statement idiotic. I'm pretty sure "5.12+" is not at the edge of Potter's ability, and how the hell does it still count as a free solo, if you have a F***ing parachute?

The Vector's compass is pretty worthless, so check out the Altimax. Durable, light, and really bomber. I've beaten the piss out of mine for 3 yrs, and it still look great. The menus, backlight and alarm a little old school relative to the newer Sunnto line (cell phone style menus), but big legible digits are sweet. There are some idiotic prices on ebay, but you can find one for $75 or less pretty easily.

Ridgerest, $18, and holes don't matter. That thing is idiotic, but it bet you could coordinate it really well with some sweet new yoga pants!

I've bivied on serveral Colorado 14'ers, and gotta say, damn fun. Highly recommended if you've got nice weather.

The old timey progression of hiking, to backpacking, to following a strong leader, and then leading, gave people a pool of knowledge and experience to draw on, about weather, vegetation, personal limits, etc etc. Now, you climb in a gym twice, then go to REI and blow a wad of cash, and bingo! Youze a climber!

Last season I finally got sick and tired of cleaning/repairing the damn Whisperlights, and the idiotic *plastic* fuel pump. Bought a Primus Gravity, which is smart enough to have metal parts, and a long connector hose to move the bomb away from the ignition source.

Keep in mind Lowell's response may be slightly biased, as he has more mad skill than all of us combined! A little analogy: I heard some event organizer doing charity rides with Lance Armstrong was telling folks, "Do not even think about trying to race him. He can, and will destroy you, pedaling with just one leg, on a kid's tricycle."