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...Wha'd ya get?

soooooo gooood. Ever bite the heads off, stick 'em together and make funny fish?

I second crmlla, they might work for a day but definitely not for extended use. Unless you are going to be tromping around in water or slush, wear proper wool or synth.

You will, in time, realize that cascade choss is not near the quality of the sierra granite. You will learn the meaning of "Epic" quickly climbing here.

bring a shovel and use the back of it for a stove rest. All the winter stuff is, for the most part, heavy as shite. A major challenge is keeping your pack light. being able to cut things from the pack (safely) can save you a lot of backache. Try towing a sled too. Learn how to dig a snow cave too. That can be very helpful.

I second that. My boss said he wanted someone new who didnt know a thing about the industry so he didnt have to "untrain" any bad habits.

Baking with the good stuff included, or not.

As long as the water is not to murkey. Beware of eating clam after a red tide

I'll be on Hood W Crater Fri night barring a total meltdown

looks like it was torqued badly or bad steel got into the mix (unlikely) That should be a very strong reinforced part of the lobe.

the new RSS Glacier does not have the toe bail. (special orderable perhaps?) I got a pair this summer and the break in time was very long, but I have no complaints. They have a large(medium-wide) toe box as far as I can tell. They are on the heavy side but I did daily trail work for 2 months in them and they hike a hell of a lot better than Koflac plastics. You will appreciate the full leather durability.

as much as I appreciate the hott 70s folks, where is the NSFW!!! I am on a work puter! (.pdf should make the images undetectable to company, but still!)

wow, i was convinced the angle on the takeoff was way too extreme, but that worked out as perfectly as could be hoped for. He should have died though.

at about 1:50 is about what I am feeling like every time I am climbing in The Menagerie

if they start doing this in NV maybe vegas will be restored to its original elevation "the northwestern bowl has subsided more than 1.5 m since 1963" LV is sinking http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/impacts/hydrology/vegas_gw/

I knew it!

yea, 2 bros(21 & 17). one lives with her. I can tell you that things like this happen frequently with her. She just forgets about them after a while. Its always been like that. She is AD/HD to the extreme and she forgets the bad times. (this one being the big exception). For my own personal sanity, I can't stay here too long to help her out with things.

All we gotta do is brand his chest with the olympic rings and he'll do just fine

I moved out a long time ago. She refuses professional help ever since she saw her last therapist cheating on his wife. I disagree. I am visiting her in california for a few days, and stuff like this happens all the time. Disrespectful, yes, but I have to cope some how, and I write about it.

I am so stealing your idea and making a million dollarz!

As copied from my blog... My mom asks me why I think she is insane. Now (as if this is a first) I have a concrete example that I can show her First a little background: several years ago, my mom started getting really paranoid that someone was stalking her. Here is the evidence she had to support her theory; rocks in the front yard landscaping were being turned over in the middle of the night ( ooOH!), scratches in the furniture were appearing while she was out (I can remember putting one of those in as a child, but she wont listen), bolts holding things together in the house were being loosened (god forbid that should happen after 15 years of structural neglect!), a bike also disappeared out of the front yard (again obviously the stalker) and the list has gone on for the last 5 or so years. In response to this threat she has this house wired up like Fort Fucking Knox!!!! There is a motion sensor in every room, all the doors are alarmed, there are video cameras everywhere (mission impossible style in the smoke alarms too), and for several months, she would sneak my brothers out of the house after dark so the evil doer wouldn't see, and a retired policeman/PI would come and sit in the house all night waiting for said evildoer to come and loosen more screws (there werent any left to loosen in my moms head though). All the while I am sitting back enjoying the show whenever I come to visit. I woke up this morning to the house alarm. Yes all 50,000 watts of screaming highpitched siren. Apparently when my mom left this morning she forgot I was here and reset the alarm. Isnt that safe of her! When I rolled over in bed, that triggered the motion sensor. The security company calls but because I am not on the approved security list (she wont put me on because she isnt entirely convinced I am not the stalker) they cant deactivate the alarm. Apparently they were able to get ahold of her at the school eventually. She told them I was ok, and to reset the alarm. So they did. It stopped for 3 seconds, just enough time for me to take out my earplugs, and then started again! They reset it, but didnt turn it off. By this point the neighbors are coming by to see what is up; I just shake my head, they nod, and walk away. Mom wont give me her passowrd (remember I might still be the one turning over rocks in the night) and insists she is driving the 30 min home to deactivate it herself. Awesome. Earplugs in, knife in hand, I went about "deactivating" the alarms by cutting wires until I was either shocked or the thing shut up. All but the outside alarm are now "deactivated" as I sit and wait for psycho lady to get home. Oh, whatddaya know! the alarm turned off again! Now I get to sit perfectly still while typing until she gets home so I dont trip the motion sensor again. Welcome to my life! I want to get back to Oregon.

And christmas is coming! With all those hot deals, who better to buy cams for than yourself!!!

genius, pure and simple. Where can this enlightenment be found? In any glass? Absinthe perhaps?

NICE! The mental toughness necessary to undertake an adventure like that solo is impressive. Not being able to have companions I am sure was a boon and a blessing at times. Way to go!

love the throneroom shot. Gotta enter that in the next photo contest