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No. And I hate getting caught in the rain.

Don't effing eff with me, or I'll eff you up big! I'm warning you... Goddammit, I did it again. I fucking hate when I'm all nice 'n' shit.

Yes, I received that classified memo. However, I refuse to reveal my source. (President Bush will back me on this.)

Dude, go s--, oh, I already used that one.

I'd hate to have anybody going through my head. It'd be a tight fit.

I can't get this damn song out of my head. At 1 AM, at 4 AM, at 5:56 AM, I wake up, "Heard from a friend, who, heard it from a friend, who..." Arggh! I've been infected by a song virus. Cruel, cruel thread.

Geeks have more fun. Paradisio Camp Schurman and Ingraham Flats

And here's Camp Muir

Dude, you're not talking about... ???

Forgot to say also, that I found a cc.com thread on Glucosamine and Chondroitin, and started on it yesterday. Sounds like it's worth trying.

Thanks, all. I did ask my doc (an Internist, but basically a family practitioner) for a referral to a specialist, and she chose a podiatrist, rather than a rheumatologist, which indicates to me she does not know that it is arthritis. In fact, when I called to schedule the appt. with the podiatrist, they asked if my foot had been x-rayed, blood drawn, etc., so it sounds like they know what to do to diagnose the problem. I already have a referral and appt. with this foot doc, Dr. Kierstein or some such, so I'll go ahead with that and see what he can tell me. If the, uh, shoe doesn't fit with him, I'll PM those of you who offered for recommendations. If diet, meds, and being a bit of a fatty are mitigating factors in arthritis or other foot problems, well, that's me. Hopefully this doc and/or a rheumatologist, if it turns out to be arthritis, can help me sort that out.

OMFG

Spoken like a true jazz musician.

Nice TR. I saw that dog! On my way up to, and down from, SEWS. Jeez, ouch. Didn't see the goat, though.

Tard, No problem. Capitalist

I was telling my grandfather about my upcoming climb, explaining the difference between "hiking" and "climbing" for the 52nd time, and he asked, "What do you do when you reach the top? Just come back down again?" (Which he followed up with "The only way I'd "walk" up a mountain is with a gun in my hand [i.e., for hunting].") Well, I told him, we toss a football around, have a picnic, and then play a couple games of cards. Besides the obvious ( ), what crazy, interesting, quirky, unusual things have you done on the summit?

How often do you wash your ClimbingMobile, the faithful (or not so faithful) rig that takes you up dusty mountain roads to trailheads?

I've been having pain in my right foot for a couple of years, after hiking, climbing, or walking for a long period of time. I finally asked the doc about it, and she says it's probably arthritis. She said I could try glucosamine, and an insert that goes under your (my) toes, where the joint is. I'll try these, but is arthritis an irreversible condition? Does it ever go away? Or can I only treat it? I'm too young for arthritis! Too many hills to climb to deal with this kind of pain. Plus, lately my foot's been swelling because of it.

Saturday: picked up ropes and drove up to WA Pass to car-camp before a Sunday climb of SEWS. Sunday: Woke up with a dumb-fuck migraine, met my peeps at the TH, hiked up to the slabs, felt nauseated, fatigued, and dopey, threw in the towel--er, rope, walked back to the car, drove the 200 miles back home. Fuck fucking migraines! Oh, and the highlight of the trip home was the malfunctioning of the stoplight at the site of the gigantic slide outside of Newhalem, so a line of cars both drove forward, from each side, and met in the middle. Ha! What fun. When I scooted by (after getting out of my car and heaving a flashing orange traffic barrel out of the way), a monster camper was still stuck there, unable to go forward, unable to go back.

This is a good discussion. Can't tell you how many times I've looked at a block used for a belay or rappel anchor and wondered how secure it really was (i.e, what it would take to move it). Even in L'worth. It's just really hard to tell, and often they appear to be the only anchors available. And people are so relucant to leave gear behind; the Sharkfin Tower accident has given me new respect for really making sure your anchor is just about nuclear-bomb proof, to the greatest extent possible. And no, $20 is not too much to ensure a safe return.

Was it a Tacoma Mountaineers climb?

Damn me, I'm an official girlie. What that has to do with the London Explosions, I couldn't quite say.

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