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Yeah!!! Um did anyone notice w/e 10/11 is Mother's day? Um, how good of a skier do you need to be?

not fair, not fair, I can't see it..... (I hope it is not me....)

Uh, nothing to see here. Nothing to taste here. Move along now. Bah, haa, haaa, that small? I think you need a magnify glass, pepper and tweezers.

I thought I was doing really well when I found I liked tofu. But then I learned that deep fried, bacon wrapped tofu was off the good food list. Dang! What about buying a T-shirt? Any left?

are there any cc.com tee shirts still for sale? My son will not make it because he has swim team at that time. Sorry Porter, but my cardiologist has taken sausages, or as he calls them, angioplasty in a tube, out of my diet.

There is a nice sport wall on the way to high base camp on Ixta. From the field as you go the Iyolocal glacier route, you can see it. Ixta is good to acclimatize with before climbin Orizaba.

so where is the TR with photgraphs?

Bill Ny the Science Guy!

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The phone book puts ages in it now??? this one does http://www.whitepages.com/ This page is scary. It lists everywhere I ever lived. I kind of always thought in the back of my mind my personal information was on the internet, but it was just so acurate.... Dead on correct. Wife, her age madden name. I am very glad to NOT see my childrens information there!

This is the truth about Islam when it is unveiled. "… Islam and the Quran are part of a fascist ideology that wants to kill everything we stand for in a modern Western democracy." If we capitulate this is what is coming our way. … A Muslim murdered a Dutch director who had made a film critical of Islam. He knocked the director off his bike in Amsterdam, shot him repeatedly and then slit his throat. And the price of telling the truth is. Wilders doesn't live in Venlo anymore. The target of numerous death threats, Wilders spends his free time in a secret location under constant police protection.

I thought they confirmed it was a large white rabbit from behind the grassy knoll.

Is this going to be an official Seattle Pub Club night?

I am in total agreement!

It was not the main branch of Scouting, but Plast (http://www.plastusa.org/). Secondly, we are talking here about going backpacking with kids. There shouldn't need to be ground rules of the short like "no playing with knives". Period. I'm not gonna spell out a hundred things in advance with people that are common sense. As you should not have to.

You can keep sun screen out of the eyes from sweating by putting lip balm on your eye brows. It was Mr. Chris Simmons who learned me this. and for a pasty white boy, sweat hog like me it works great.

If that was an official scouting event then there were a lot of rules in place that maybe you did not see. Being involved in Boy Scouts with my son I have learned what these rules are concerning everything from traveling to and from an event, the minimum number of adults, two deep leadership meaning never one on one adult and child, swimming, boating, canoeing, hiking, and use of knifes, hatches, fire, cooking, cleaning, and most importantly ropes. The in-depth and detail rules for just top roping at a Boy Scout camp are enough to make the head spin. The front cover of the Boy Scout hand book (That is the nationally used Boy Scout Hand Book for the Boy Scouts of America) has a photograph of a scout climbing Rainier; however, it can not happen if you were to follow the entire Boy Scout rule to the letter of the rule. You are out side of Boy Scout rules as soon as you are in a harness with crampons on you. Oh, there were a lot of rules, it is just everyone knows the rules, and more importantly why those rule exist.

Oh, I am the living the life of an office slug! I am now at 8. I MIGHT get to 10 if I am lucky. but hey I was on IR for 5 weeks and just got in umber 8 on Friday at Stevens. I really need to go more as my wife LOVES to ski. :)No hikeing, climging, and only camping if there are toilets with running water. Otherwise we are staying in a hotel. so I am happy with 8. At least I get more time with her.

I agree, it SHOULD be, but ‘should be’ and ‘is’ are two separate things. Not to beat the drum to much, but Boy Scouts sets the ground rules for all of these. I could happen in Boys Scouts, but there will be consequences for these kinds of behavior. It is quite rules heavy but once you know them and play with in the rules, then it can be a lot of fun. I know some people hate it when I do this, but here I go again….. On the other hand, I used to organize a father and son camp out for the church I used to go to. One of the Fathers wanted to turn it into a Boy Scouts Rule Heavy outing which ALL of the other Fathers wanted nothing to do with. So as a compromise I just use a one somewhat obscure rule from the book of Ephesians 4:32 “Be kind and loving to one another”. It was a compromise. I told the boys that we are NOT going to make up a whole bunch of rules, but just use that is our one guiding rule. If they can not interpret that rule the same was as the Fathers then we will make up a whole bunch of individual rules. I can’t say it was the best, but it was an acceptable compromise. But that was a Christian camp out where a commonly know set moray SHOULD (there we go again with that word) be well established. Now that I have managed to contradict myself, forget everything I said and stick with this, you can’t go wrong with it… Ephesians 4:32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

You realize of course that is Easter Eve. I am going to be quite busy getting the house ready for the on slot of family for Easter Sunday. Have fun where ever you end up. Sorry I can’t help you out on where to go drinking…. Oh, I know, TiniBigs the second best Martine in Seattle. http://www.tinibigs.com/thelounge.html

Bottles

Amen brother!

I hiked up Fuji in 2002. I did not know what to expect so I caught the bullet train (Shinkansen) at 5:00 am in Tokyo, and got off at the Shin Fuji (New Fuji) station. I caught a taxi to station number 5 on Fuji – Go-go-me. (That was my most expensive mistake.) I think it was about 10,000 yen or so. The busses were not running yet and I wanted to get up and down in time so I could catch a buss back. I looked up the Mt. and there was an unbroken dark line of people either going up or down. I was amazed at how many people were coming down at that time in the morning. Then I learned that most people climb Fuji for the sunrise. Oh, well, to late for me. I was going up with this sea of humanity. I got to the top around 1:30 or so. I walked around the creator rim and took a short nap. About 3:00 I hustled down to catch that last buss back to the Mishima Train Station where I leaned that the Japanese National Rail (JNR) has a JNR East, and JNR West; and JNR East does not accept credit cards. Oops! I don’t travel with cash and all I had was a visa – don’t leave home with out it. Fortunately a VERY kind person who was traveling to Tokyo bought my ticket for me and I used my Visa at an ATM in Tokyo and paid him back; it could have become an epic. Well, to make a short story long, as I just did, I got back to Tokyo about 10:30. Take your own water and food. There 10 stations, I think, from the base of Fuji to the summit. Climbing (and I use the word very loosely) starts at station No.5, about 7,500 feet I would guess. At every station there is a place to buy food and water. Oh, and yes, it is VERY expensive. (Actually stations No.6 and 7 had vending machines.) If you have the time and patients you can buy a wooden souvenir walking stick and get a little burnt mark on it at each station. I did not do this. There two sets of ropes defining the path and you are to stay in the path. I would guess the path to be 3 to 4 meters wide. Another option, depending on the time allowed, you can catch a “Climb Mt. Fuji” tour buss from Tokyo, mostly out of the Shinjuku area. It will be a lot less expensive than the Train, taxi, bus, train option, and that will get you there and back again. All in all it is a mountain that would be fun to ski in the spring if they would allow it. (I am told it is against to law to do a winter climb of M. Fuji.) I have heard Japanese climbers say it is (you are) foolish if you are a climber and have never climbed Fuji once; it is (you are) foolish if you are a climber and have climbed Fuji twice. Oh crud, did I just do my first TR 6 years after the fact?

There has never been a truer word spoken.

Thank you for helping, I feel myself becoming addicted to the spary.