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The MMR autism link is certainly causing pause. Our 11-month old is coming up on his MMR vaccination soon. I think the reason people are looking at MMR is more about the timing of when the MMR is given, and when symptoms of Autism begin to appear. The thing is, if you start asking yourself what 1st world children are exposed to today vs. 20 years ago....well shit. Think about our diet, chemicals, radiation.....

Damn - two routes that I pulled up short on and had to downclimb....if only it wasn't my wife's first Mother's day weekend.

of course it had nothing to do with Patty Murray

Because Asia is much bigger than Iraq..... Iraq is a country on the continent of Asia, as is Myanmar, numbnuts. You are not that dumb to miss my point right?.....and yes....i am a numbnut..... This is an unfair insult of Kevbone. Unfortunately for all of us, his nuts seem to be quite functional relative to the rest of him.

WC - have you gotten an MRI?....if you haven't and your insurance will cover it, it might be worthwhile.

IMO, Ironically, I think the only way for you to gain credibility here is to have 5 fewer posts

hmmmm....I was considering taking my wife up this climb, but I'm rethinking it if the walk-off is really that bad.

boring is right....now if they polled people from my hometown of Spokane, then they would have some stories

I think one big difference between the Marmot and all of these is that it has a PU vs. PTFE membrane.....I'm not sure that PU has been demonstrated to breathe as well as PTFE. You might not be able to get much feedback on the Alpinists' performance in the PNW climate, but he Alpinist uses Marmot's "Membrane" laminate, so it would be interesting to see what folks' experience has shown with Jackets made out of this vs. PTFE laminates.

are you looking specifically for leathers or just a single boot...the Lowas you mention look like they are mostly synthetic

Bstach...where'd you get that little wind/rain suit? I could use something similar for our little dude

edited for accuracy - you had an extra "t" in there

Not sure how it would keep the bugs out.

I've got a hubba hubba, and love it....for the use mentioned it would be great because it's a great bug dome if that's all you need, but use in the alpine might be questionable as I don't think it does great in high winds. I don't know if they've changed the design but my only real beef with it is that the there are tie downs on the fly, but not a corresponding anchorage of the fly to the poles near these points, so anchorage of the fly does not translate to the poles.

I call bullshit. "moderate" has little to do with what the world's best athletes are doing. "moderate" has to do with what a majority of the athletes are doing. A synonym of "moderate" is "average". The world's best marathon runners can finish in a little over 2 hours. By your definition, a "moderate" finishing time would be around 3 hours. After all, 3 to 3.5 hours is achievable if you train. In truth, less than 10% of marathon runners finish in less than 3.5 hours. The average is 4.5 hours to finish. Sorry, I had to bring some logic into the discussion. No apology necessary...this is on the climber's board and not in spray

I also don't have the stones to tip my hat as to what MY definition of moderate is on this BB. Remember my Outerspace thread??? Once bitten.....

Just what I was thinking but didn't have the stones to immortalize it on a BB

I've got the day off and would like to get an early start for a ~6 hour outing in the Snoqualmie area tomorrow (Friday). I'm Thinking maybe Snoqualmie mountain - Phantom or Slot, but open to suggestions. I'd like to be back by early afternoon if possible.

I'm actually not totally opposed to that but 1. I think the weather will actually be bad there too, and 2. Kind of thinking about some cardio workout. You could always slog up to the colchuck col and beyond if vis is good

we store a significant portion of our summer water demand as snow.

It's been a month - wish I would have carried my skis up it even then.

Jared - I might challenge your assumption that more flexible will equal more comfortable when you are carrying a picket sized pack that many days. I've found that when carrying a heavy pack over uneven terrain, my feet actually fared better when they were protected by a more substantial sole and shank but YMMV.

You got a bike......right nancy-boy?

from my experience, one other thing to consider is since this is a big relative warm up, the sections of the road and trail that were a nice boot-pack in cold conditions will likely be a post-hole party, so floatation might be more necessary now than when it's cold.

True dat....just aint gonna happen in time for Panos I'm afraid