mkporwit

Anyone have anything to say about the Mammut Broad Peak jacket? It's a lightweight down jacket, apparently comparable to the Mont-Bell Alpine Light.

Woohoo! Finally a FA that I can aspire to repeat sometime in the next couple of years...

Horror most sublime I wrote a bad haiku, then I made it rhyme

Go ahead Dru, rub it in Meanwhile, we're stuck with the coop that caters to the latte-swilling, margarita-drinking yuppie. Thank God for FF and Marmot. Time to make this an REI-bashing thread and move it to spray...

Given that he's under the legal drinking limit, I think he may have a bit of a hard time procuring said beverage, sobo...

tasty

Ummm, Petzl? Camp? Stubai? DMM? They all make crampons and/or ice tools... I love my G12's and my Rambos, and I should probably get a few picks for those tools, but this doesn't limit consumer choice all that much...

Well, I can admit to two out of those three...

Hmmm, where to start? Cafe Senor Moose in Ballard for very good, authentic Mexican sit-down food. Naan-n-Curry in Renton for good Indian/Pakistani Yea's Wok in Newcastle for great Sichuan

Experiments show that a figure 8 fails at around ~70% of rope strength, which is about what I remembered. I was surprised that the bowline reduced the strenght more...

RPN usually stands for Reverse Polish Notation. It's a way to do mathematical calculations that maps well onto how most computers operate.

doesn't like old nuts

only likes nut-friendly routes

will lead the riots

Irritable Bowels

Also, every time I've asked to get on a route that's been in use by the Mounties it has been made available to me, with the choice of using their ropes/anchors or setting up my own. Ask and ye shall receive...

Hey Mikester, Vantage is big enough to absorb the 32 mounties that will be there. If you're over there I'm sure there will be plenty for you to climb. Especially since I'm pretty sure the self-rescue class will be off on some god-forsaken, hasn't-seen-an-ascent-since-Bill-Robbins, chossy POS routes. So if anything they'll be doing the community a favor by cleaning some of the loose shit off. Unless you're desperate to do laps on "Updrafts to Heaven" or spend a few hours sieging "Where the Sidewalk Ends"... then you may have to wait a bit.

You may want to provide more details about the cams -- brand, model, sizes and the like.

I like my son more this year too... of course, I didn't have a son last year, so I guess that's a vacuously true statement...

is wondering WTF this thread is still going on

defies definition

FW, here's the details: God's will is that we drill for more oil and build more pipelines -- ~ 4:20 Our leaders are doing God's will by sending our boys to Iraq -- ~ 6:00 L4LjsfWbZLA

I'm sure that one of the first things that they teach you in politician school is to try and avoid giving yes/no answers because they sound a little too absolute and come back to bite you. There are certainly questions that could be posed to Obama where he would also hem and haw and spin the issue. Having said that, the parts of the interview that I've seen show her as rather clueless, so I don't think it was just d3t_pin's hopeful imagination.

What prole is referring to is a segment in Palin's speech to her old church in Wasilla, I think, which has been posted here before. It got brought up again in her first interview with Charlie Gibson -- you should be able to find that posted somewhere. They play that crucial fragment as part of that interview. She tries to spin it as referring to something Abraham Lincoln said way back when, but frankly does not come across as very convincing when she explains it like that. It seems pretty clear to me from her statement to her church that she views this as a just and holy war in accordance with God's plan.

is bidin' his time