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I took a 20 degree synth bag + a thin overbag to Aconcagua. Wore my DAS parka and a few nites filled my platypus up with hot water and put it under the parka. I was never cold. Used a 5/8 " yellow hardman pad with a thinner inflatable on top. Heat is generated by our body not the sleeping bag so eat and drink correctly and you will have less problems.

A reliable way to check a sleeping bags temp rating is how long it contains the stink from really foul farts. Afterwards it's fun to vent it directly into your partners face as he sleeps.

Sweet!

Climb: Mt. Garabaldi- Date of Climb: 4/22/2006 Trip Report: Ideal conditions, no problems...until. Check out my blog for pix http://hydrogenplusstupidity.blogspot.com/ click on pix to enlarge. Anybody else ever have that happen to them??

What we need is a decider to decide.

Check out my post in the *freshiezone. It has pix of last weekends Garabaldi attempt via Brohm ridge. The road would be a bit tough on with a 2 wheel drive car, ez walking tho.

With GWB finger on the Iran nuke button, all things are possible.

Climb: Garabaldi/Brohm ridge- Date of Climb: 4/16/2006 Trip Report: Jason, NIck and I skiied up Brohm ridge with the North Face of Garabaldi as our objective. The weather was poor and we couldn't see making it with the time and food we had remaining but we had a great time and got some good turns in. check out pix on my blog http://hydrogenplusstupidity.blogspot.com/ click to enlarge the photos Approach Notes: Snow lines starts at about the 5 km mark on the road.

I hope I never have to say genre or evocative.

You guys down there need "a regime change" before the worlds #1 terrorist strikes again. A simultaneous attack on N. Korea sounds like a great idea too, GW. Actually why stop there, just nuke the whole world.

So I've been wearing an Avalung for a while now but lately have heard some disparaging comments about it. I don't start any of these conversations and don't go into the backcountry to argue with these retards, but they don't seem to understand the concept behind the device. Any other Avalung users getting the same treatment?

I used to use Silvrettas and Koflachs and the lack of control I experienced was astounding. There were OK for level ground touring but any degree of incline or deep snow was dangerous. I thought that I'd forgotten how to ski. Since I went the Dynafit/Scarpa F1 route I can ski anywhere and climbing is not to bad either.

Climb: Mt.Matier east ridge recon.- Date of Climb: 3/25/2006 Trip Report: I took a look up at the east ridge of Mt. Matier last weekend, to do a little recon for a future climb. Posted a few nice shots of the ridge and east side of Matier on my blog http://hydrogenplusstupidity.blogspot.com/ click on the pix to enlarge them. Gear Notes: Ear plugs if you've going to sleep in a hut with 30 others snoring, coughing, farting people.

" Turn those machines back on!"

We kicked the shit outta those ruskies back in the day. Gotta love the two goalies wrestling.

It's snowing like crazy here right now

Where's the photo?

This must be that new super secret energy source GW was spouting off about last week...the Debt bomb. WASHINGTON (AP) - Treasury Secretary John Snow notified Congress on Monday that the administration has now taken "all prudent and legal actions," including tapping certain government retirement funds, to keep from hitting the $8.2 trillion US national debt limit. In a letter to Congress, Snow urged legislators to pass a new debt ceiling immediately to avoid the country's first-ever default on its obligations. Treasury officials, briefing congressional aides last week, said that the government will run out of manoeuvring room to keep from exceeding the current limit sometime during the week of March 20. Snow in his letter notified legislators that Treasury would begin tapping the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, which Treasury officials said would provide a "few billion" dollars in extra borrowing ability. Treasury officials also announced that on Friday they had used the $15 billion in the Exchange Stabilization Fund, a reserve that the Treasury secretary has that is normally used to smooth out volatile movements in the value of the dollar in currency markets. Treasury has also been taking investments out of a $65.3 billion government pension fund known as the G-fund. Officials have said that once the debt limit is raised, the investments taken out of the pension funds would be replaced and any lost interest payments would be made up. The formal title for the G-fund is the Government Securities Investment Fund of the Federal Employees Retirement System. An actual default on the debt, a situation when the government misses making payments to current bondholders, is a doomsday scenario considered highly unlikely given what it would do to the government's credit rating. It is expected that after intense debate, Congress will approve an increase in the current $8.18 trillion debt limit by perhaps $781 billion. But Representative Charles Rangel, the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee, said Monday that any further increase in the debt limit should be tied to legislation that would get future deficits under control. "Simply raising the limit on George W. Bush's credit card and crossing our fingers won't solve anything," Rangel (D-N.Y.) said in a statement. "Any long-term debt limit increase must be accompanied by a serious effort to bring our budget back to the balance we achieved under the Clinton administration." Treasury Department spokesman Tony Fratto said it was critical for Congress to act before leaving for a spring recess on March 17. He said Snow planned a number of meetings with legislators this week to discuss the urgency of taking action. The administration has sent Congress a budget that on paper would cut the deficit in half by 2009, the year President George W. Bush leaves office. But Democrats contend the administration met its deficit-reduction goal only by leaving out major spending items such as the full costs of the Iraq war. They say the deficit will not improve unless Bush abandons his effort to make his first-term tax cuts permanent. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said last week that under Bush, the total of the deficits has increased by $3 trillion, a 40 per cent increase from where the national debt - the total of previous deficits - stood when Bush took office in January 2001.

Nicely done!

Climb: Russet Lake / Mt. Fissle- Date of Climb: 2/11/2006 Trip Report: Had perfect weather and a great time. Check out my blog for pix. http://hydrogenplusstupidity.blogspot.com/

With the muslim outrage rising to new levels the Danes must be sweating a bit now. Although I think that the motherland is safe from attack since 90% of college graduates can't locate the country on a map much less a bunch of rock throwing, koran spewing, suicide bomber wannabees.

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Can he squeeze out a perfect Dairy Queen swirl instead?