Kat_Roslyn

Rad Casey! Your looking pretty studly in that first photo up there!

Sometimes I like to stay up at Trollhagen it is off of exit 63 on I-90. It is a big Norweigen Lodge, $15 a night per person, with a communal kitchen and you can get a private room and just put the bunk bed mattresses on the floor for a little love nest. It has a huge fireplace, outdoor hottub, saunas, and snow all around. Good nordic ski or snowshoe trails and next to the Pass. There are often families there and it's cool to hang out with em and drink their hot buttered rum on the sly.

Justin, I like your optimism. I think you should keep it.

new2ctownclimberer, I had this kind of thing happen to me, the belayer was also using the guide and I swung on the an overhanging face, and couldn't swing back and make the move. With no slings on the gear I had cleaned, Fortunately I had a belt made out of webbing on that I took off & used to prus up. I still don't carry prussiks.

Wha? Work? Since when? I will be going to either Tieton or Vantage or possibly Leavenworth after class. Around 3, little late for you I know, but maybe I'll see ya.

4 metal rods the size of sharpie pens in my pelvis and one goin through the sacrum. Makes me a send-bot. Broken arm snowbboarding when I was yittle. and messed up ankle and they stuck it in a boot for two months after falling very gracefully while climbering rocks.

How about friday?

You know what they say is the hardest part about jacuzzin' on top of Mount blanc don't you?

But there was a lot of ballyhooing Alpinefox. I think that is a funny pic of the newell, obviously getting all hot and bothered and stopping to take off his jacket at the crux

You can pick me up in Eburg if'n you want. I start school tomorrow, but I don't have classes, so I imagine I git off early. Give me a call. I'll know more this afternoon. -K

Good luck trying to find it

All I am afraid about is how robots are taking over the world and soon our thoughts.

I'm sorry to hear this friend. I know you've been getting strong lately, and you'll definitly get there again. You can do it. Unfortunately I hear 'they' are taking down the grand wall and Mount Stuart. If you need someone to hang out with Ulee, you know I have a lot of time off.

Yeah Mark, Noticed a lot of that stuff last week. Not all clumped together, but sitting randomly on top of boulders. It looked like really old half rusted pitons, but after finding a few we just figured it was rock that had a lot of iron.

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RATTLE TALE!!

Beat a skinny Japanese man at a hotdog eating contest.

Are you talking about the irrigation canal? Bad idea. Very bad idea.

I like the wonderful thing about tiggers there.One of my favorites anywhere.

I plan to sacrifice a goat in my backyard.

Bumpin this. Anyone want to do anything next week? Alpine Monkey, I actually went up to the Needles area last week. Thinking on the same wave I guess.

Mammals Attack the Middle East, Part II Iran's news service recently announced that security forces... how do I say this... "captured" 14 squirrels on the suspicion that they were spying on behalf of a Western power (read: the Great Satan ). It was only a couple weeks ago that residents of Basra, Iraq, complained that British troops had released man-eating badgers to terrorize the city, which was already coping with militias that kill—if not eat—people. Judging by one admittedly unscientific report, the aggressive critters were something of a chimera: "My husband hurried to shoot it but it was as swift as a deer... It is the size of a dog but his head is like a monkey." Just try to picture that. Nevermind, look above at that picture of a honey badger, a more technical name for the "Beast of Basra ." The British admit it's feisty and perhaps not entirely attractive, but say it's indigenous to the area and making a comeback because of an eco-sensitive effort to re-flood the marshlands that Saddam disastrously drained. Back to the spy squirrels: Could the report be true? It does sound crazy at first—perhaps even crazier than the man-eating dog-monkey-deer-badger. But remember that during the Cold War, the CIA did carry out a project called Acoustic Kitty, in which they spent $20 million to train and surgically plant spy equipment in a cat. The first and only test run ended after five minutes because the program's eponymous agent got run over. In a report on NPR's All Things Considered, an old CIA spook denounced the report as "complete idiocy" (more idiotic than Acoustic Kitty?); an outside intelligence expert said squirrel spies could be "very cost-effective" and mentioned other CIA projects like the Dragonfly Insect-o-Hopper and a robot spy fish called Charlie; and a squirrel biologist questioned the Iranian report's claim that the squirrels weighed as much as 1.5 pounds—though it's unclear if he accounted for the weight of any spy equipment. Or maybe it wasn't the CIA at all but rather the British, they of the man-eating badgers. "I bet they were British squirrels, they are the most cunning," says a Persian fast-food vendor. PS: The music in the NPR piece comes from the 60s cartoon Secret Squirrel (picture above; watch intro). There's also a song and album called "Acoustic Kitty" (listen).

Where is that? Are there carpools?

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John, I am so excited to hear of your talent and determination so deservedly recognized and what an honor to go to such a nice man. -Kat