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OlegV

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  1. Anybody had experience with NOLS? I am thinking sending my son to one of their 1 month expeditions next summer. Not sure what it is going to be, climbing, kayaking, or backpacking. As long as the experience is dramatic and affects him in the positive way. Anybody?

  2. Neoday, I doubt, you'll encounter any ice on LR in 2 weeks. Your'll be postholing most of the ridge, most likely. That may make the progress slow and the exposure to the bad weather greater. Bring plenty of pickets and a shovel. The quazi-winter approach will be a bitch.

  3. There lived a certain man, in Russia long ago

    He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow

    Most people looked at him with passion and with fear

    But to Moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear

     

    Ahh, you are right to the point, Sharpy!!!

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  4. Tell me, what does he do in his room?

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    Why don't you bring him up here for a day or 2. Leave him with my kids and we'll go climb something (have to be easy though, I'm in bad shape...)

     

    Hey Adrian! Glad to hear you're here! Check your PMs!

  5. Oleg,

    You sound totally negative about your boy. My suggestion would be to lighten up and save the battles for things that you consider are very dangerous (things that will get him killed, arrested or you sued and bankrupt). Once he doesn't think everything coming out of your mouth is a criticism, he might be more amenable to some steering.

     

    Feel too much Dostoevsi in my mood? smile.gif Maybe. Of cause, we have our moments of trust and fun together. What hurts, he can completely destroy this next day. smileysex5.gif

  6. if he goes to live in russia, does that mean he gets draft eligibility, drafted into russian army and sent to chechnya? hellno3d.gif

    Yep, he would be recruited to the russian army at age 17. You could play hooky for a while (for 8 years!) - like by breaking your legs, harming yourself with chemicals and so on. But if they find you, there is a good chance you’ll join the ‘the oily war against terror’ in Chechnya. When I served 2 years in the russian army (fortunately not in Afghanistan) we had a guy who had severe birth defect in his heart. They still kicked his ass calling him weak bastard. Glad the guy didn’t die after all of this. The bottom line, the kid growing up here, will be harassed and physically humiliated in the army to the stage when he doesn’t want to live anymore...

  7. make sure hes not slipping into drugs, ...consider moving elsewhere in oregon... consider an exchange program...what high school is he attending in portland?

    He got 'good' 17-18-year old friends, nearly drop-outs. My wife now has the part time job plus Alex's shcool job, so she can keep an eye on him. He goes to Tigard High, and it sucks!!! Moving is an option, but he'll find the right dudes anywhere we go. It happened before. What's exchange program???

  8. O would agree about getting into some volunteer type activities...

     

    You think we didn't try this? My wife is an ultrarunner, used to take him and my yonger son to volunte at the races. Volunteer are great people and usually there is the whole bunch of them and you see they are doing this job from the bottom of their hearts. I always felt Alex was doing this just to please us. He worked at the local library, not sure it cranked up his spirit.

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