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Thanks for the submissions. Your photos have been added to the archive for 2009.

I dunno, I have pretty serious over-pronating feet. Also, it doesn't look like there is a lot of cushioning, I wonder how they'd run on concrete/asphalt? Sounds like a specious claim to me.... Back it up? Anyway, I'd love to try a pair out. Look it up yourself, I don't have the time. Basically cultures that don't wear shoes don't have foot problems...even though lots of them would be qualified as serious over-pronators. Try strengthening your ankle wuss. You muscles and ligaments are all the cushioning you need. That said, running on concrete with those shoes would take a long time to get your body used to. Cultures that don't wear shoes also don't live past age 40.

I think hanging around the bushes outside your local trailhead parking lot with a gun sounds like a well-thought out and relatively simple solution to a seemingly intractable problem. It's common knowledge that car burglars fear nothing more than attack from armed hikers hiding in the bushes. Sure, you might be huddled there some weeks before a perp attempts to break into a car, and it probably won't be your car, but shooting them would certainly solve their burglary addiction problem. A helpful note such as "Sorry about the bullet hole and blood spattered on your vehicle, if I could leave my name and number I would, but, under the circumstances, I'm sure you'll understand" might serve well in this instance. Your hike, then, would now have a clear purpose: body disposal. As anyone whose ever attempted to move a lifeless body knows, this can be an excellent work out. The possibility of law enforcement involvement might be an issue, particularly because you can hear gunshots from many miles away, and most hikers carry cell phones, but that just adds to the excitement. Also, the perp will likely as not be a straight A high school student with a loving, prosperous family, so legal action might also complicate things, in addition to a bit of negative publicity for the overall strategy, but why think defeat out of the starting gayte? These complications shouldn't prevent thousands of hikers from adopting this practical way of turning the tide. After all, if more people shot other people in trailhead parking lots, that would certainly increase law enforcement vigilance at those sites, and probably decrease breakins by decreasing the hiking community overall. And who knows? Perps might start carrying guns as well, which would make things even more spicy. Why do folks feel the need to make a simple, obvious solution so complicated? Keep it simple, stupid!

Every time you take a bong hit, Hitler kills a Baby Jebus.

Wheat is cool. I actually grow a 1 foot square patch of it last year. People would walk by and yell "That's wheat!", like it was some kind of exotic tropical wonder. I was going to put a Tonka combine out there as decor, but I couldn't find one in any of the local stores. Maybe the Kennewick Toy's R Us has one.

I wonder how many of the calendar babes will be present for CD signing at Sausage Fest tonight?

I just paid more than $12 for a haircut for the first time and my hair looks absolutely divine.

I think you spagnostics are a bit limp in your philosophical outlook. If you noodled over it a bit more you'd probably find that you're actually pastiests. After all, pasta, all powerful or not, is nothing without cheese.

I think you'd best spam several million people letting them know how you did it.

I only eat wheat that I've grown myself.

PM sent.

Oops. Somebody said it was Katie. Kat, Katie, how am I to know? Why is March such a difficult month? Send me some hi res pics so I can finally stick a fork in this calendar!

Hey, everybody. I left a rack of Camalots, 4 Friends, 400 Neutrinos, 137 ft of webbing, 19 screamers, a stuffed snaffle named 'Bucky', my 'drivin' CD collection, a bong, and a half eaten bag of Cheetos on a new route I was working on in Renton, where I'm a local. I go back 4 months later, and someone's jacked my shit! Whut up?

My Makalus got some serious stinkfoot.

Knottygirl should submit a few for the 2009 calendar. As for March 2008:

STFU, n00b

hopefully i am just being a big baby and there isn't anything really wrong with it. You'll never walk again. I'd cut it off at the knee with whatever you have available, write a book and possibly a song about it, and go on tour.

Me too. But I'm gonna put up the calendar anyway, and then pout when she tears it down. My wife doesn't even know I put the calendar together yet. Pray for me.

In warm weather I wear shorts and/or pants made from that quick dry material many of the zip off pants are made of. Quick drying (hence the name), durable, light, and pretty wind proof. I don't like the zip offs, though. Other than being really stupid looking, you're not going to just zip the pant legs onto your sweaty assed shorts when the sun goes down...you're going to want those shorts off entirely.

I'm free that week, big boy.