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'tis a great place.

seriously! in this case, fight back!! (but I guess if he is polynesian he might know kung fu or one of those other crazy martial arts)

really interesting data. Looks like their next recall will be associated with the axle...or maybe they will just downgrade the rating to something more reasonable. Amazing that the head just shattered on the smaller tests.

man made or not, was there ever a feature that begged to be climbed more than those tufas(?) quite the send!

I am amazed, with the title and all, that this thread didn't get a single poop joke in two weeks! You guys are slackin.

The author HAD to have know...

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/06/07/smith.packer.yosemite.itn?iref=videosearch 4,000 pullups

the old article I linked to said in past events the trees all recovered after a year or two

will?

concur on the olympus stylus tough. it is just that and olympus really improved their menu system. it is very user friendly

thanks folks!

hrm, found this, perhaps the same phenomenon with the cold snap in dec.? "In February of 1950 Black Butte once again became the center of local attention. But this occasion was due to the hand of Nature and not a scheme generated by humans. Winter's low setting sun revealed a strange golden band wrapped around the butte's southwest slope. Forest Service personnel from the Sisters Ranger District reported that the band was three miles in length and three- quarters of a mile wide. The gold strip stretching across the bright green background of trees was spectacular when viewed from the Santiam Highway below. Sisters Ranger District spokesman Harold Gustafson explained that the color of the band was produced by sunlight hitting dead, brown pine needles. Prior to the phenomenon, the area was gripped by extremely cold temperatures, which caused the needles to dehydrate. A thin stratum of very warm air then moved in and crowded out the cold air in the area of the band. This sudden increase in temperature burned the needles. The needle kill was considered extensive and affected mature as well as young trees. Foresters believed that no long term damage would occur, but they were concerned that there would be significant secondary damage if pine beetles attacked the weakened trees. The gold band remained visible throughout the season."

the last few months I have noticed a (growing?) horizontal band of dead trees at a mid elevation on Black Butte near Sisters. It seems very confined to a specific elevation on the south face of the butte. Anyone know what this is? I looked at fire data and there weren't any fires/controlled burns there recently. Beetle kill perhaps? seems a little weird that it is so rampant in such a confined elevation and hasn't spread vertically on the slope. I'll try to get some photos next time I go out. It is very obvious while driving east on hwy 20.

thanks for doing this aric. it really helps the issue to have some hard numbers to mull over

some friends and I were going to have a try on the serpentine arete of dragontail this weekend and I was wondering if anyone has been up to the lake. Where's the snow at? postholing to the lake or no? snow on route? Is it just too early to be trying for this peak and expecting it to be snow free on the route? Thanks for any input.

and why's that? they are starting to look pretty good right now...

clothing is aid!

thats pretty neat!

hey, at least he didn't have to spend his $$$ on bolts!

how'd he keep the battery warm enough to run the drill?!?

oh, so you are one of the fat lazy redneck fucks then too?

[video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8 China will soon be the #1 english speaking country

chop the bolts and install new ones right next to 'em! That'll show the bastards!

several years ago we were hiking into S. Sister from Mt Bachelor for some turns on the South Side. The first 6 miles was on a popular sled trail. We were dragging our boards as it was mostly level, and by the end of 6 miles the bottom of the board was coated in oil. It looked like I had tried to wax my board with oil and forgot to scrape it. Pissed me off so much. The lake at the bottom of the valley there has no outlet (drains into porous lava) so you can imagine the cumulative effects of this on an alpine ecosystem.

Fees will cause more dispersed camping up the road. From a managers standpoint, this is undesirable because it makes enforcement of rules much more difficult, and increases disturbance to the relatively fragile desert environment. Plus it is a far greater fire hazard during the summer. It is easy enough to start a wildfire with fire rings placed in a hardened, bare ground campground (take a look at 1/3 of the area inside the loop from last summer). If people are having fires up in the juniper, there is little time or access to escape if one gets started in those high evening winds. Unfortunately I put $$$ on a serious fire on up the road in the next two years.