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Scott Babcock used to offer a weekend field seminar through the North Cascades Institute but it is no longer listed. They dropped a lot of their courses when they got the "learning center." The natural history staff at the Marblemount Ranger Station has Tabor's North Cascades rock collection. When you exit the ranger office after getting your climbing permit, look to your right. The back of the building you see is the research staff office and the big carts on the loading dock contain Tabor's collection. http://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/pacnw/ptabor.html

If you already know something about geology, here are two suggestions: 1. Orr and Orr, Geology of the Pacific Northwest. McGraw-Hill, 1996. 2. Go to the library and look for 'Geological Survey Professional Papers." These include topics that you would see & experience on a climb. Example: the 1st on I grabbed at random from my shelf is "Intrusion and eruption of Late Cenozoic magmas in the Glacier Peak area."

9:00 this morning I was at Harvey Field waiting for the sky to clear so I could do airplane stuff. I was killing time by having breakfast at the airport restaurant. The bartender was late and an irate patron was receiving special handling by waitstaff until the barkeep could show and they could get some drugs down the guy's throat. That's pathetic, 9 on a Sunday morning and you got your back up over alcohol.

With Clinton and Shrub I think the Navy will break its latest ship-naming tradition of giving new aircraft carriers the last presiden't moniker.

Well, a movie made from literature. You’re right, being literate means familiarity with the letters. I was giving sprayers the benefit of the doubt. Most people here write as if they don’t read books habitually.

Yes, I was going to tie her up with the pumpkin vines while I plow her garden. After her post about ‘polyandry’ I figured she’d bite on my seed drill comment.

That's a damn fine looking pack!

OR if another group is looking longingly at the idle rope, you could talk to them. Say, "if you want to TR that route you are free to use our rope there or if you want to lead it we will pull the rope." Communication: the anti-fuming & brooding agent. Because fuming & brooding sucks.

Serves you right for bringing up literature on cc.com, especially in spray.

you pull on a draw you step on a bolt you use chalk below 5.8 (a recently-acquired prejudice for me)

That's the ticket!

me heart isn't in this at spray, I am full of fail

Shit, I just bought a mini-haulbag. I wish you fuckers would keep the rulebook updated.

broccolli-eating mop wringer! I'll remember this when the starting gun goes off at Paradise!

WTF, you're posting in spray, do you expect me to read EVERY word? Jesus H Christ you dirt gargling pinhead, why don't you go join the Foreign Legion if you like war so much! (am I convincing enuf?)

Which one was it? I think it has been made more than once.

In the history of diplomacy, at least among the Western nations, there are treaties and agreements defining in general the conditions under which war may and may not be fought. There are laws *between* nations. From these historic conditions we speak of the “legality of war.”

I don’t think it is strictly necessary under all conditions that one country must attack another for it to be legal. There are some legal grounds whereby a country can attack another if the attacked country is harboring an active enemy or is actively aiding an enemy. It would have been legal to attack Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Weaponizing Cuba with quick-launch nukes was tantamount to an act of war. The degree of destabilization was both so rapid and so extreme that it was like massing an army at a border: it would be reasonable to conclude that an attack was imminent. There would be no other reason to take such drastic action (by the Sovs). In particular, the destabilization feature most warlike was the drastic reduction in warning time the U.S. would have had if the Sovs launched nukes from Cuba. Political considerations caused Kennedy to defer invasion as not the best choice but it would have been legal even though Cuba had not attacked the U.S.

robmcdan, KK: I took a small-farming class at WSU a few years ago. I was offering to give the woman a hand with her pumpkins, that’s all.

You had trouble growing pumpkins in western Washington? What, did you plant them in concrete? Tell you what…I’ll come over and drill some seed for you. My stuff always sprouts big time.

That's why everyone here has a phony username.

When I was a boy we heated the house with portable natural gas heaters. They connected with a hose to permanent gas plumbing throughout the house. Think faucets mounted at the baseboard except gas came out rather than water. For safety---as if these thinsg were safe at all---the flame was beneath ceramic blocks and the blocks were set well into te heater behind some bump guards. But the heat-loving cats would stand as close as possible...closer...closer still...pushing their faces past the bump guards...until finally whiskers & eyebrows went poof. It must not have been painful because they never stopped.

Yes, direct from Switzerland, $250 each. Not really the direction I want to go, plus they're 90cm.

I sense some tension in this thread.

Nothing received. I recall that others have made posts over the last few weeks about not receiving PMs. I have sent you a PM with my email.