Snafflehunter
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Klenke has it right, that's definitely Phelps with the big rounded dome.
Klenke, don't you get this view from your apt?
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Shitty.
Anyone else have a pair of Quarks for sale -- at a comparable price?
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I (first pic) = baring
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Still have these Charlet Quarks? I'll take them if you do!
Send me a PM or e-mail to tsjolseth@hotmail.com
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W in 04!
Oh wait, he already won.
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I have only filtered my water two times in the twenty years I've been climbing in the N Cascades. I only used the filter those two times because the water source was a pond and my partner happened to have a filter.
I have been sick once from bad water (still not sure what it was, because I didn't go to the doctor) but do believe it was worth it to not have to carry a filter for 20 years.
I believe filters are a serious waste of weight. That's just my opinion though, and you know how those are.
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I'm sure if you look into it there is a fair system for doing a manual recount. Even if there isn't there are going to be so many people watching the recount that it will have to be.
Now that is a logical argument. Who could refute those facts?
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Funny how we don't hear Republicans whining like toddlers when the Democrats win a tight one. An interesting paradox if you ask me.
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Nice to see you Fairweather.
If you want to stay on the moral highground maybe you should give up stealing stuff.
On a more logical note if every one of the 536,978 people who live in Seattle voted for Christine Gregoire and the rest of the state's 2.8 million voters voted for Dino Rossi then Christine would have got 20% of the vote and Dino 80%. I think a bunch of your neighbors, the smart ones, voted for Christine Gregoire.
I guess smart is all relative though, right AlpineK?
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That's pretty cool.
And I'd just like to add that from what I remember from my climb of Golden Horn, it actually has some pretty solid rock by Cascade standards. The (North?) Face looked pretty solid and slabby.
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Lowered to $70 firm for the tool AND adze replacement.
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Wow...it looks like I need to 'ignore' Kojak just like I did Scotty. What a bunch of vapid drivel!
Go for it - have a circle-jerk with like-minded people. You'll never need to feel threatened - or have to think.
Kojak, it's neither your ideas nor the way you present them that bothers me. It's the sheer number of posts (7 out of the first 15 on the last page) that I object to.
To me it's not unlike TV commercials, shopping at malls, or listening to commercial radio...I just don't need to have that crap pounded into my brain every other post. I know that folks such as yourself get a little excited and can't help prattling on just to hear yourselves talk, but that doesn't mean I have to sit hear and listen to it or read it.
It's easier for me just to turn off the TV, listen to NPR, and ignore people who, IMHO, over-saturate this (CC.com) entertainment media.
Nothing personal, I tune out chics who say the same things over and over, too....but at least they can be fun when the lights go out and the music's too loud to hear them yakking.
The reason he is posting so much, sphincter err Thinker, is because it takes that many posts to respond to the predominantly liberal posting population on this message board. It's pretty easy to just skip over a post isn't it? Many could avoid the needless step of having to put someone on ignore by merely skipping to the next post when you see their name, but being the Thinker that you proclaim to be, I'm sure you've already thought about that.
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A sad way to go.
"Rocky Mountain Rescue Group member Kevin Harner said it's the first climbing death from asphyxiation he's ever heard of."
I guess he's never heard about a climber being killed in an avalanche where the climber was buried alive in the snow and subsequently died of asphyxiation??
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http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/
A refreshing view of the occupation from the perspective of a 'girl at ground zero -- Baghdad".
36 American troops captured in Falujah? you heard the rumor here first.
What's "refreshing" about it? It's the same old speculative, subjective, disrespectful, left-leaning propaganda that we've been reading since the war in Iraq began. I think it's time for folks to accept that war is ugly and support the troops who are over there risking their necks so we can sit here at our desks and spray on cc.com all day.
The following quote is symbolic of the typical liberal attitude:
"I didn’t shit the bed so I have no obligation to clean it up or sleep in it."
But you have every obligation to bitch and moan and complain about it at every opportunity? Am I the only one who sees the irony in this?
All of this IMHO, of course.
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CBS, put it back in your pants!
Sorry, Klenke .. I couldn't resist.
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In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
I believe Klenke meant specific instances of constitutional violations. You merely restated the 6th Amendment.
if you can't think of it then you are completely and utterly stubborn, or in denial.
waste of time
If it's such a waste of time to explain your opinion, why are you sitting here wasting your time posting nothing?
rrriiggghhhttttt........grow up man
Just curious .. how aren't I grown by asking you to elaborate? Maybe you're all mixed up? Or perhaps you listened to your campus buddies too much and jumped to the same conclusions they did without taking the time to think everything through?
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In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
I believe Klenke meant specific instances of constitutional violations. You merely restated the 6th Amendment.
if you can't think of it then you are completely and utterly stubborn, or in denial.
waste of time
If it's such a waste of time to explain your opinion, why are you sitting here wasting your time posting nothing?
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i DO like the idea of a law requiring us to vote... tho i also think it would never get passed in America. now the idea of the absentee ballot w/prepaid postage.. that would also increase voter turnout and COULD feasibly be enacted.
i also like the idea of a law banning the habit so many people seem to have of turning nouns into adjectives by adding "-esque"... for me it rivals the improper use of apostrophe's (er, apostrophes) as being the-single-most-annoying thing people do with the written word.
People who haven't a clue what they're voting about shouldn't be voting in my opinion. Therefore, forcing someone to vote who doesn't know shit from shinola about current events and the candidates they're voting for is a stupid idea. IMHO of course.
Besides, wouldn't this make us .... fascist?
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In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
I believe Klenke meant specific instances of constitutional violations. You merely restated the 6th Amendment.
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Hey, look, it's like this. If you really think this is becoming a fascist state:
1. You are free to leave the country. No one's stopping you. Your problem will be getting into some other country.
2. You can vote out those who are making it so and...oh wait, that's what democracy is. :superrolleyes:
I don't see any conservatives calling this a fascist state. If Kerry had won would you wussy ass liberals be spewing this garbage? And let me tell you garbage is exactly what it is. Give me (give us) a frickin' break, morons.
I agree 100%.
BTW, hi Klenke.
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It's a pretty serious climb. However, it gets enough traffic that lines are usually fixed. The party elected to use existing fixed lines but were prepared to fix their own. I believe the hardest rock climbing is 5.6 or so and there's quite a bit of steep snow and ice. Of course, there's obviously huge exposure off of the ridge.
Matt Anderson and co. climbed it free and they rated the crux rock at 5.9 (if I remember correctly). But I don't think they were wearing rock shoes and it's all above 20,000 ft. Yikes!
Something to add: Don't count on lines being fixed if you plan on summitting prior to ~October 28th. Sometimes they are fixed as early as October 15th, sometimes as late as November 1st. It's all going to depend on the weather and how motivated the Sherpas feel.
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Take me next time! How many rupies does it cost?
It really depends on who you go through to get your permit. 1 permit allows 10 or so climbers (could be 12), so if you can find someone who hasn't filled the max, then you could get on for ~US$500 per person. Add to that the cost of a liaison officer (US$2000 per team) and a garbage deposit (US$2000 per team - refundable after your expedition), and you can do the math from there. I would encourage you to look at getting on someone else's permit to save money obviously, but it isn't always possible. Try Henry Todd, or Dan Mazur -- those guys have teams up there every year. Do a google search. I think my entire trip (as a member of an independent team) cost about US$5000, but that included RT airfare to KTM, hotel accomodations in KTM, the round trip to Lukla, nightly stays in tea houses, sherpas, and porters. I was in the Khumbu region for just over 5 weeks total.
If you need any more info, feel free to PM me.
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looks pretty technical to me, at least for whoever fixed the ropes
The ropes are fixed by Sherpa or guides, but they use last year's ropes to fix the current year's ropes. In 2003, a German guide was climbing less than 500' above me while on the SE Ridge of Ama Dablam when one of the lines he was jugging on suddenly broke in half. The guy was trying to fix lines for the season (this was ~October 20th) when he fell. It turns out the line he was using was placed seasons prior, and it had been severely deteriorated by wind and blowing ice/snow.
As for the technicality part, I didn't find jugging up the fixed lines was very difficult, but after witnessing that accident it became more of a mental thing for me.
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so is the climb actually technical or are the pictures misleading to the overall character of the climb?
Notice the ascenders.
The climb is technical, but most parties elect to ascend via fixed ropes which takes a lot of the technicality (and in my opinion, fun) out of it. Nevertheless, an awesome achievement.
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Anyone know of a good deal on a pair of Quarks? $490 is kinda steep.