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I'm guessing eaten. Any sort of Hallucinogen could be useful here. Wait, unless its the evil nigthmare kind.......

Thank Dr. Layton! Can you refresh me a little on what the "P" stands for in RICE? Also, what is a chopat? I have a nifty little CAMP brace that places a constant lateral force on the patella, and that seems to work pretty well.

Anyone have technical experience with these? Basically, I managed to freak my right knee out pretty well after hucking myself off a jump at Baker yesterday. I was throwing backside spins on my snowboard, and on the last one, over-cleared the landing and smashed down in the flats. My body rotated to the left as my right knee stayed put, and I completely compressed. When my knee reached full flexion I felt this really strange pull in my patella followed by a "clicking" sensation as my knee cap settled back against the lateral Capitulum. My symptoms are: mild swelling and tenderness in the MCL / VMO retinaculum. Mild infrapatellar pain when in flexion, and also pain in the superior patellar tendon near the insertion. Besides wobbly patellas, everything else is super tight and I have a well developed vastus medialis. I've done this once before, several years ago...... Today I'm wearing a Camp patellar stabalizer and icing it. I can walk fine, however any kind of squating motion kills it - which is unexpected. I've got a theory as to why this happened: a couple weeks ago I changed my snowboard stance so that my feet are wider, and more externally rotated. This helps tremendously with solid landings and deep powder stability. I am guessing that this increased valgus forces enough to cause a lateral subluxation when I was in full flexion combined with left rotation. The plan is to first take a week off from riding, and change my stance setting to reduce valgus force. Then workout my legs like crazy and avoid flat landings.... Injuries are a bitch. What do you think Mr. Layton?

My mom lost me at a basketball game when I was 5. That freaked the shit out of both she and I! I ended up getting picked up by some empathetic mom who took me to the "speaker room", and at which time they blasted my mom's name across husky stadium. She came running full speed and in tears. Like you, she then took me to get hot cocoa and all was well:)

That's why you've got you're own switch to play with. "ON - OFF" You kill me Sherri.

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!

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