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  1. Find a rock retaining wall. The ones built of three man size rock, stacked five to six feet high, or even the smaller rock size walls. They have multiple crack options of various sizes, for placing gear and building anchors. If you keep an eye out, you’ll probably find one in a publicly accessible place, close to where you live; shopping centers, business parks, along the rail tracks on the shoreline, or your neighbor’s backyard.
  2. Check the Metolius website; they have instructions on making tape gloves.
  3. Correction to the previous post; the cam that was found is a size 0, not a number 1.
  4. Found, number 1 master cam on top of Icicle Buttress. Send pm with description.
  5. Thanks for the replies. Now that I think about it, a few years ago they were only charging for checked baggage, if it was over a certain size and weight. I put the rack in my carry on and kept the weight of my checked bag within the weight limit, to avoid paying extra. Now that they are charging for everything that isn't a carry on, and to avoid issues with TSA, it might be best to keep it with my other gear. Let the thread drift, it's entertaining.
  6. Has anyone recently flown to Red Rocks from SeaTac, with a rack in their carry on pack? A few years ago, someone asked a similar question on this site, and most of the replies stated, that it could be done. After reading those, I did it in “09” without any problems. Can I expect to do it again, or have things changed, or did I just get lucky in “09”.
  7. So it's called Skid Row, Thanks, fun stuff, and thanks to those who put them up.
  8. Nice Phil, great photos. Bring POPS with you the next time we are meeting up. Tell him he can hang with some of your climbing Buddies, that are his age. We can take him up something that would probably bore you. Could we Talk you into a slide show?
  9. Does anyone have any information on the routes below the lowest tier of Bath Tub Dome. In the guide book, the area resembles the picture of The Cocktail Lounge, but the approach description for that is different than the one for Bath Tub.
  10. I think Yakima will be calling you soon, offering you a consulting position in their R&D department. The thing is stout to say the least. The 150 lb limit is for while you are driving at 70 mph. While it's parked, I think you could hold a dance contest on top of it, or pitch a tent. Some sort of quick release attachment would be an improvement, as would be the table legs. Maybe the legs could be incorporated into a perimeter railing. Then all you will need, is three more yellow boxes, which could be used as chairs, for a table for four. We will do the boxes foam core this time, vacuumn bag them, lighten them up.
  11. That guy on Son of Sam, in a Whillans harnes, thinks it was 85 or 86. Clint was close to brand new on that trip.
  12. Isn't that ax one of Larry Penburthy's creations? An ultralight in its day, "The Thunderbird"
  13. mark1980

    Dino Rossi

    Rossi is the lesser of the two evils
  14. Couldn’t vote for lasagna unless my wife was cooking it. The whole thing was a scripted scam by Bill Reilly, Shaun O’Hannity and Williams. They knew Juan would get bounced due to his remarks and now he’s happily grazing in greener pastures. All of them are part of the Irishfoxtapus cabal that wants to bring NPR down. They want to eliminate tax funds that go to them and shine the light on those who are really pulling the strings at so called public radio. Those intellectual elitist are being guided by liberal socialist George Soros and are deeply in his back pocket. O’ Hannity knows this, as does NO SPIN BILL and their evil plot to ruin Lake Woebegone is disgusting.
  15. Republican operatives managing shadowy, undisclosed fronts running attack ads against Democrats As if demos don’t do the same thing. Who is funding all their attack adds? It would be wealthy liberals, folks in one form or another, employed by the government, the unions, and wannabe socialists. You just don’t like the other side playing the same game. What’s wrong with unfettered capitalism? Why should the government be able to limit and tax someone’s creativity and willing to take risks to achieve wealth? That punishment discourages growth and that frame of mind is not what built our nation into the greatest country in history. How’s that European style socialism working for Britain or the entitlement country of France or Greece. That’s in the press these days too.
  16. You call that far left propaganda the Press?
  17. That's perfect, Sparks tells it like it is
  18. Extractive private usage of public lands has never earned the general public anything. It has always cost the tax payer $$. For instance, many of the damn roads built by loggers get turned over to the Forest Service, who then in turn credit the loggers for building it!!! Then the Forest Service has to maintain the damn thing! That in my book that practice is a subsidy. If crap like that went away I might be will to pay to play but until the subsidies for extractive industries ends - forgot it. You’re wrong on that one. Timber harvesting in our national forests has always contributed to the public coffers. It's questionable if the contribution is of a high enough value to offset the cost of developing the public land for logging; selfishly I’d rather see an untouchched landscape from a mountain viewpoint, but the public still sees a benefit. A portion of the sale of timber is supposed to be returned to the community from which it came from and the employed loggers and the companies they work for contribute to the tax base thru their personal income taxes and the business taxes paid by their employers, and then there is the raw material that is processed into a product, and that creates jobs, private sector jobs that aren’t paid from tax dollars, and that product is sold and taxed. Then shipped and taxed and sold again, all of which the public benefits from. If it wasn’t so, what would legitimize the existence of the forest service; accept to manage the public forests for recreation.
  19. Agreed, instead of closing the park, let a non profit manage it. The state is already overburdened with all the other services they provide.....
  20. What’s wrong with bleating for a smaller government consisting of bureaucracy’s that operate efficiently. Government inefficiencies don’t have to be a fact of life and if they are all the more reason to limit governments’ size. The argument for less government isn’t about decreasing taxes, it’s about limiting them from increasing. Yes, nothing is for free. That’s why a taxpayer, whose recreational passion is bowling, with no desire to head for the hills, should have to pay thru taxation for road maintenance and the other costs that enable access for recreational purposes in our national forests. The F.S. used to be more involved in forest management, managing the natural resource as an income source form logging. That income from logging is limited today and I’d rather pay an access fee than see logging operations paying for the upkeep of roads. You’d just think that with thirty percent of our income going to federal taxes, not to mention what goes to the state, and the hidden taxes, that are in everything we consume, that something could be done better, and expanding the government beyond the size it is now, is not the answer. Maybe it’s time to rethink the Forest Service’s practices and along with many other government agencies.
  21. Vote for smaller government, it is top heavy. We need less bureaucratic fingers in our wallets, including those in the F.S.
  22. Trip: Olympus - Hoh/Blue Glacier Date: 8/20/2010 Trip Report: First TR after years of lurking, not much of a report, just a heads up. Oly is still in great shape via the Blue Glacier and will probably remain so. No moats, no hard ice, no problems and few bugs. Don't let the seventeen plus mile approach scare you. Our leader did the exit from Glacier Meadows in less than six hours.
  23. First TR after years of lurking, not much of a report, just a heads up. Oly is still in great shape via the Blue Glacier and will probably remain so. No moats, no hard ice, no problems and few bugs. Don't let the seventeen plus mile approach scare you. Our leader did the exit from Glacier Meadows in less than six hours.
  24. Check this out. YouTube- ‪SOAR Porteau Cove Squamish Yacht Race‬‎ This might work better.
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