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I shall singlehandedly revive spray... or I'll revive something singlehandedly anyway... Personally I like either strain in a pure variety, it's those crosses I can't stand, I get the classic "omg i'm having a heart attack" symptoms. But... on a desert island... I'll have to take a fat sack of sativa. Goddamn I'd have the neatest, tidiest island in the eastern hemisphere. Yes, I've been drinking. Why else would you come to Cascadeclimbers?

Jesus Christ, spray had 1 new topic in May, oh Cascadeclimbers I mourn ye.... No Van Halen or other faggy bands to be nominated.. I propose: Bolt Thrower Killing Joke (not quite "metal" but fuck it) Fear Factory Proceed...

Seconded. With the additional comment that once you've seen one ski movie you've seen em all.

Uhhhh... wouldn't the dude with the gun just shoot you?

Seriously, who the fuck is Van Halen? Are they the same as Bon Jovi?

Huh, that's some cool shit, my former employer sold power to Hydro so it sparked my interest in the big picture of how it all ties together. And sometimes we did get paid to turn it off because the dams were full. Also been reading Daniel Yergin's 'The Quest' which touches on this stuff. Back to spray...

Professor Google has not given me a clear answer so I thought I'd ask the powerful minds on this forum. What I've always wondered, and never understood, is how an electrical generation company like BC Hydro balances supply & demand across their network? So they're generating 100mw from a boiler/dam/flux capacitator. The load demand is also 100mw. I turn on my espresso machine and the load jumps to 110mw, how do they instantly match that demand? By the same token if somebody turns something off, and the load goes to 90mw, do they reduce their generation? What happens to that 'extra' electricity that isn't demanded? Thank you geniuses Edit (My understanding is that there are extra turbines in a hydro station/whatever. So you've got generation matching that first 90/100mw. The 'extra' turbines are turning slowly to match the 'extra' requirement. As the demand increases those turbines spool up to match it, which requires some kind of sophisticated load matching software or something???

Looking at the posting they've actually restricted a bunch of the access trails. Are these kinds of things generally 'forever' or is it a seasonal deal?

Howe Sound 25 years and a lot of paper, but the world has moved on. 180 people gone, I've never been through something like this and it's brutal. Seeing friends lose their jobs, having to lay off 2 people myself, ugh. Sad part is there is nothing coming along to replace these jobs. Newsprint was a big part of Canada's forest industry but it's ending all over the country. It's been fascinating to get in on the tail end of this whole thing and witness, firsthand, the collapse of an industry. Not an experience I wish to repeat though. If you ever get a chance to see a paper machine running full-bore I'd highly recommend it. Anyway, just posting, back to spray.

The Bottom Line? Something like that I think

I checked and it's about 6 years since that TR where you climbed Cheam's south face in jeans. Quite a progression!

I see many graphs & text heavy cut & paste posts in this thread's future.

I believe this band's merits have been debated before but now there is no doubt: Rushing into the Hall of Fame

Tami Knight?

Ah, fair enough. But who wants to climb hard slab anyway when you could climb this: [img:center]http://www.touchtherock.com/images/content/Gallery/The%20slide.JPG[/img]

There's more granite than slate.

Hey you bump this all you want, I'd been searching back through the forum to try and find the original link, good stuff

Trip: Tete Jaune (130km w of Jasper) - Various Date: 2/19/2012 Trip Report: Went with the alpine club to a new area near Tete Jaune. If you're out this way definitely worth a look. Easy access off the road leading to Mica Mountain cat ski. 1/2 hour of snowshoeing gets you into the canyon. It looked like earlier in the year the routes would've been fatter. Nice stuff, a good 100m of ice, mostly grade 3 but a couple of pitches of grade 4. Gear Notes: ice stuff, snowshoes Approach Notes: 3 hours east of PG, about 1.5 hours west of Jasper

I went to hike the Kristi Glacier trail last year but it was totally socked in so didn't see anything at all... other than the ass end of a grizzly cub running away from us which turned us back in the other direction. Apparently there is a lot of good ice climbing within 2-3 hours of town as well.. I'd like to sample it this winter if I can get off my ass.

Trip: Northern BC (PG to be precise) - Local stuff Date: 9/16/2011 Trip Report: Thought I would show people some stuff from Northern BC. Prince George gets a bad rap from the effete southerners in our province but within 4-5 hours drive is a lot of stuff (Jasper, Smithers, Tumbler Ridge etc) Plus it is a very livable, cheap city (& you can hardly smell the pulp!) Remember, Squamish also used to be known as the armpit of BC... can it be long before lululemon and little yappy dogs make an appearance here??? There are many touristy sites to take in: Good (but short) crack climbing to train you for Squamish: Steep granite-y stuff: Good hiking: With some very fantastical remote Rockies peaks to drool over: And since it snows a shite load some skiing: I haven't touched on a lot because I don't have pictures...some excellent climbing out near Chetwynd (sandystone) or Fort St James (m/p limestone)... backcountry near Smithers...even more local climbing... come for a visit, smell the pulp! Gear Notes: Domestic pickup truck Approach Notes: 10 hours drive from Van

You win some you lose some eh... I was in there in July last year and the snow conditions were very poor. I imagine it's not freezing overnight right now so everything is a big slurpy slushy mess. Plus all the winter poops & orange peels will be melting out of the snow

As long as we've got somebody to blame other than ourselves.

Wtf? That is log it & flog it at its best. I like this quote: Haha right after they logged it they found out it was important to people. Shit they would've been glad to offload the land once they took the trees. To my knowledge they never did get fined...and now they got a parcel of land worth $1.25 mil somewhere else. And there was never any problems with access at upper malamute anyway.

Do they even sell it in North American format? What's wrong with the online purchasing?

yeah nuke it...like the next time my kitchen sink is leaking I'll just strap a stick of dynamite to it, problem solved!