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When I was a boy, my uncles all drank this. Then they would give me the empty bottle and challenge me to find all the rabbits and/or crows on the label. Good memories. How many can you find? edit: I wouldn't drink this horse piss now if you paid me; gives me heartburn

OMG I just shot coffee out of my nose and onto my keyboard. Thx G-spotter

I wonder if he found the neutrino I left up there.

Only in Manhattan I wonder how many you get in a 14oz can?

Carpool?

What!? you've never been to the mall at Christmas?

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Would you post a sample?

All housing markets are local and determined by local factors. Comparing the Vancouver housing market to aggregate data for an entire country is stupid. Compare Vancouver with Manhatten and I am sure the situation looks different.

Shouldn't this be in the Partners Forum?

I just bought a North Face Aleutian Youth. A bit warmer and lighter than the Kindercone and on sale at my local outdoor store (Atmosphere aka Coast Mountain Sports). My son is pretty excited to hit the trail now. I am a bit surprised to hear some of you use down bags with your kids in the NW. I have a hard time being vigilant enough to keep my own down bag dry, so I have low expectations that a five year old would be up to it, so I only considered synthetic bags.

I am looking for a bag for my 5 year old for camping in the alpine in the NW Spring thru fall. Looking for recommendations. I am thinking a 10 to 20 degree bag, synthetic fill. Surprisingly, MEC has shitty selection (what a bunch of hosers). REI has the Kindercone, Nodder and Wolverine etc (spare me the Nodder jokes). Anyone use any of those with their kids? Any other recommendations?

Thanks KirkW (and Chris). Thats pretty much what I thought. Its an interesting option to keep in mind under the right circumstances, as long as one understands the limitations.

Could you explain the purpose of the "stopper knot"? Is this supposed to catch on the lip of the cravasse and prevent the climber from falling in farther? Seems to me the only thing it will stop is the rope team from pulling the climber out (rope will cut into the lip and the knot will jam into it)

Its fairly simple. If the skills of the group and conditions are such that the group could arrest a fall of one member, then it is better to rope up. If the skills of the group and conditions are such that the group could not arrest a fall, then it is safer to climb unroped. Setting a "running belay" greatly improves your chance of arresting a fall in dicey conditions. But since you are inexperienced enough to be asking the question (not at all a bad question for a noob), stick to conditions where you are confident you can arrest a fall until you have more experience, training and judgement.

Funny guy, g-spotter. Good catch though. Post edited. Oh, and BUMP

Sent you my cell # in a private message. Give me a call.

Anyone interested in heading up to Squamish after work tonight? I have a rope and rack and am pretty much up for anything...rope gunning, being rope gunned, top roping...will lead up to 5.9/5.10- I know there is a BCMC Wed night hook-up but it seems to be restricted to members only now.

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I think its alot cheaper to keep repairing them compared to the bug bucks to run them underground. I see them underground in many new neighbourhoods, so i guess if you are already digging things up to install other infrastructure, it makes sense. I would guess there are technical limitations to running high voltage transmission lines underground (i.e. induced currents).

Perhaps its the "1200’ of unprotected 5.8 slab on somewhat dirty compact granite".

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Thx, Steph. I am planning to leave the trailhead by 11pm, summit by 7am and be off the glacier by 9am at the latest.

What were the snow conditions on the Coleman-Deming route like? Icy? Post-holing? Can you drive right to the trailhead? Thinking of heading up the CD route in the next week. Thx