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A friend just emailed me this, and I nearly died laughing!

That makes great sense Mike. I wear an orthotic that has about 1/8 inch of heal lift, but I think my main problem is too much cement running on blown out shoes. I don't have any shin splint symptoms when I'm running bare-foot on grass or turf; probably because my biomechanics change when I do this??? Less heal impact and more intrinsic recruitment??? At any rate, I've been working on my gate so that I stay more even in my stride. Meaning that I try to minimize the distance from my feet to the ground when airborne. It seems to work for the time being.

There are some really good big alpine cliffs off of Chair 5. Nice steep landings!

What do you people do for these?

You can seriously snow blind yourself even if it is cloudy. Julbo makes some really great hybrid glasses that technically ARE glacier glasses, but with modern styling. The only difference is how well something keeps out UVs. I have some Julbo Transition lens glasses, and they pretty much (only complaint is that they tend to get kinda foggy since they are so close fitting to my face). Hey, why are you concerned about looking stupid with old school glasses? Retro is the new cool man!

Kevbone, my opinion of you just dropped 6 notches. THAT IS THE MOST RETARDED JOKE I'VE EVVVER HEARD. You homophobic crap eater.

I think our main problem is within our language. We obsess over time, and time dicates every word we use (past, present, or future tense). I think we are so rolled into the feeling that time is running out that we are killing ourselves. This is where I believe the "fast food nation" comes from. Perhaps we should all learn to speak the native tongue of Hoh. Time does not exist in that language, and the entire Hoh Indian culture revolves around respecting the earth and its massive power. THERE.

I Hammer nails. School isn't paying shit.

I think you are right on, hefeweizen. True, the cascades have received a record amount of snow for the month of December this year, and perhaps the conditions have been more dangerous than normal. However, what you said about americans having a different attitude towards the mountains than Europeans is SOOO true. Over here, I think there is a huge lack of respect for the mountains and their inherent danger. As a climber, I feel that I've been taught to practice humility on fear of death. Its basic, you don't travel across an open uncontrolled slope after massive snowfall, just as you don't go run amuck across a glacier with hidden crevasses. The only way we will lower the number of deaths (I believe there will always be some no matter how experienced people are) is through education. Perhaps there should be more organized mountain safety coures available to the public? Or perhaps it will only take more deaths for poeple to learn that the danger is REAL. GOOD THREAD.

Not me. We went to bed early and hit the slopes. Small crowds with all the drunks sleeping in. HELLZ YEAH!!! Whenever I go out, I get a beer, and just hold it all night. That way, I don't get any shit for being a light weight, and I'm up shredding the backcountry for hours before all the alcoholics even wake up!

I don't think there is really anything better than a flask of malt whiskey and a big Cuban Cigar after coming off of Rainier. You can just sit at camp, stair into the vast horizon, puff, sip, and be STOKED!

An interesting writer. Have you read "The Periodic Table"?

So, this is the first year that I've ever taken a flask into the mountains (well, at least had one available). I've never been that enthusiastic about drinking, but I've found that a wee shnifter during snowboarding or at a high camp can be super nice! Anyone else?

Water and exercise. More alcohol is always and option too however.

Is that your precious essence?

I was up at Cascade Pass two months ago, and as of then the road was still closed about 2.5 miles below the trailhead. I don't know if they've done any more work on it since then, but I would doubt it now that the snow is super deep.

95mph in my 1989 Toyota 4x4 is pretty scary. OH, how in the FREAKING HELL does some punk kid get his hands on a $320,000.00 car? Bellevue rich kids at their worst.

HELLA Merry Christmas everyone!

G-spotter..........

Yeah, not that much art here. Seriously, I've been getting the lamest emails from these Russian jackasses trying to tell me that they are some skinny blonde girl looking for a "cozy place to stay" in the United States. Thats just one example. I've been getting others from this guy in BC asking me to mail him my Arcteryx jacket for recalls???? WTF???? Are you so retarded to think that people will fall for this stuff?

Crystal Mountain was Hella freaking sick yesterday. Hella dropped into this steep ass chute that opened up into Hella ***untracked*** powder fields and hella blew my pants! Backcountry snowboarding is so Hella more fun than working. Sorry about your hella lame ass speeding ticket braw. Thats Hella sickie

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I was doing this old school grip exercise a couple days ago: I get into a squat rack and load up about 200 pounds on the bar at about a waist high level. Then I just pick up the bar with a slightly wider than shoulder width grip (back damn straight and core tight) and do standing shrugs till failure, then just hold the bar at waist level in front for as long as I can. I did two sets of this and held the bar for a little over a minute each. After that weight was way too much, I did the same thing with progressively lessening weight by about 20 pounds each set until I was only holding the 45 pound bar, and nearly gagging on my own sweat and suffering. I'm telling you guys, this DESTROYS your wrist and finger muscles. On top of that, it works your core like you wouldn't believe. There, FUNCTIONAL exercise.

I'm not as crude as you, but I see where yer going. I think sex is a crucial step in getting to know someone, and persanally, I would not marry someone unless there was a pre=established healthy sexual relationship. Sex changes a relationship SOOOO much, marrying someone without already knowing them completely seems like madness.