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great post. Just return the favor...I have some friends that I have the pact with, and some whose risk adverse spouses don't care about the truth. I accidentally let it slip to my wife that ice climbing is dangerous. whooops!

What does Christmas have to do with Christians? I never understood that. If the dude is dies within few days of his birthday, but he dies in April, what are these people doing celebrating his ostensible birthday in the middle of the winter? I celebrate Happy HannaChriswanzaaear! It takes about two weeks, but, the effort is worth it.

And olympus mons boots with the distinctive center double zip... For the record, I've never been above 6k meters and have absolutely no idea about that world.

and what does he know about perfect conditions?

Warmest gloves in the universe, huh? warmest gloves in the universe.

Layback has obviously erased the drive from his memory. I suppose that living in the land of his dreams has caused some selective filtering...it's about 3.5 hours from New Paltz to Keene.

Ice climbing in the gunks is ephemeral at best, and illegal at worst. There are a few WI4's and 5's that form, but never for very long. The gunks face south east and have plenty of exposure to the sun. You will find people rock climbing in the gunks year round. As long as you stay on the white faces, and in the middle of the cliff, it's warm and nice. I've climbed in a tee shirt comfortable from convection heating, while it was freezing cold with snow on the ground. The catskills have quite decent ice, and some pretty hard mixed stuff. The daks are a lot further away, but well worth the trip. The daks are pretty much in now, and I doubt the ice goes anywhere before March. Definitely check out NEIce.com

Hey, you can only blame yourself. If any of you dirtbags are going to OR, stop by and don't introduce yourselves...

For the med... I'd go to haute provence for a month. rent a small house and tour around. If you rent a place near aix en provence, you can go to 20 or 30 world class climbing areas. it's high enough to climb most of the year. i'd swap over to the dolomites for the second month. Do the whole umbria, florence, ejumacational thingamabob. slovenia would be half my third month. decent sport climbing all over the country, very interesting alpine climbing, and some of the best wine in the world. I'd wander down the dalmatian coast in the second half of the third month. Plenty of nude resorts there. But i'd have to second Tim's comment about the percentages... For the fourth month, I'd sail through Greece and Turkey, stopping at meteora, kalymnos, olympus, and a few other spots. Then fly back to france for the tourist crap in paris in late september and some of that bouldering stuff...

i drink red wine and i'll be projectile vomiting and projectile diarrheaing within ten minutes. That continues until I am literally empty. If it managed to stay in my system long enough, i'd need that anaphylactic shit.

three castles

is it just me, or is everybody opining about woulda, coulda, shoulda rather than responding to the question? oh, right, we're on the internetz!

Try to find an old copper penny. Maybe a new canadian penny would work too. Clean it up nice, and then suck on it during ketosis time. works for me...but cope is better.

i wouldn't mind meeting any of you, but would we have to talk?

Luckily for you if you do catch malaria, you probably won't feel it until you get home, it is up to about 7 days +/- incubation period. First off Rob, Glad to hear you're on the mend. Dengue sucks. But if you present with any symptoms in the next few days, get checked for Malaria. The concurrent Dengue and Malaria is a miserable experience and is getting more and more popular, and you'll never see the end of it. Talk to a doc in Thai about getting on a plasmodium killing drug... Good luck, and travel safe!

Honestly, I have absolutely no idea, no knowledge or anything like it. For me, it's more or less a preventive. I've done enough crap to my body that I'm likely to develop OA down the road, and I'd like to push it as far back as possible...

Well, if the finger pulley injury will lead to OA, maybe you should consider doing what you can to avoid arthritis down the line...

X-Rays and MRI's of their knees, hips and ankles to determine joint spacing. In the GAIT phase two and in the post menopausal OA study, the patients on the g-c practically no decrease in joint spacing, those without had noticeable decreases in joint spacing. Radiology ain't good enough for you?

Actually, that's not what GAIT was about, and it's not what phase two of GAIT says. GAIT was a survey of old people with established histories of osteoarthritis, and has little or no application to young people. Interestingly, GAIT phase two has preliminary results suggesting, as other studies have found that low molecular weight glucosamine/chondriton sulfate orally administered has a significant effect on joint spacing. My wife has OA, I don't. We both take g-c in an effort to keep our joint spacings from narrowing.

I just pawed through the self coached climber, and it seems like it's just PRC for people too dumb to read PRC. This is my current favorite for all that: mike anderson's training protocol. Kinda interesting and free...

I use a pair of K2s. They're not made anymore. My buddies mostly use the Karhus, you just chop off that crap binding and then retrofit a plate and a real binding onto it. they're great.

FWIW, a friend of mine used them in pakistan this past summer and told me he liked them...

genesee cream ale. but the nicest can is this one:

check your pm's in the north east...

Like this one? Gosh darned gay mormon girls...How can anybody stand it? (actual utah girl. hmm. nice move layton!)