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IF YOU CAN'T HAVE SOME SERIOUS CLIMBING BANTER HERE THEN YOU PROBABLY DON'T CLIMB. MT. RAINIER'S REALLY CLOSE TO YOU. DID YOU KNOW THAT?

Bush: the Seahawk of the real world.

WHY DON'T YOU SPELL SABBATH RIGHT? ARE YOU TRYING TO INSULT THE CHRISTIANS THAT COME HERE?

DON'T BE STUPID! CARRY A FIRST AID KIT! There won't be yaks (or tauntauns for Mt. Squamish)??? YOU DON'T HAVE TO SWEAR!

Nauh, dis fuhnney. Befo you tellin us you'z 'n Atheis', 'n nauh you tellin' us you da Lowahd. Don' you b'lieve in yown self? Is you sum kinna Exstenchlis' o sumthin', o do you jis gotta self assteem probl'm?

DON'T BE STUPID! CARRY A FIRST AID KIT!

Gee, ya think?

Jesus, alright, already. Fixed 11 mm lines above Camp Muir, INCLUDING the brief, flat glacier crossing at the beginning. A lot of parties don't fix that, and they pay for it by losing climber after climber in crevasses. Your choice. That's about 5,000 feet of line, so most parties have a spool helo dropped at Camp Muir and pay it out from there. If you're lucky, however, another party who has already fixed lines will let you clip your ascenders into their's. In that case you can use to spool for a more rapid rappel descent down the Nisqually Glacier. I agree on the double 11s for the Muir snowfield. If you accidentally fall down the glacier to the East the only thing that will stop you is the highway.

I've given him enough valuable beta. Shit, my post should reap a $2,000 guiding fee. I'm not going to spoon feed him on the rope issue. He's got to learn self reliance if he's going to have a chance of making Rainier.

Really? Oh, you mean like the Mt. Rainier I've summitted 10 times and the Mt. Hood I've summitted 5 times? Go on...educate us. Well actually I have yet to get above 5000ft elevation (other than in an airplane), so I can't talk about those mountains yet. But I'm looking forward to an expedition to climb them. If you are such an experienced climber, lets hear some serious discussion about your climbs. What sort of rope did you use? Where is the best place on the mountain for basecamp? How many days were you on the mountain? OMFG you are like Christmas morning. OK, here's the scoop on Rainier: A properly trained and equipped expedition can climb Mt. Rainier is as little as two weeks, weather permitting. Proper acclimation requires a daily altitude gain of no more than 1,500 feet to avoid the deadly risk of PE, CE, or HAFE. For the standard route, basecamp is normally made at the base of the Muir Snowfield, with camp 1 and 2 on the Snowfield, and a 3 day acclimation rest stop at Camp Muir. From there, a serious push must be made to camp 4 just below Dissappointment Cleaver; the crux of the climb. No camp can be made on this treacherous section, so one is forced to climb in one, continuous push to the top of the Cleaver to make Camp 5. But your worries are not over; from there the expedition must wind it's way through a treacherous crevasse field to gain the final slopes at 13,500 and High Camp, which must be dug into the mountain's steep neve. This alone can take a full day. Most parties then gather their strength for a day, hydrating with local herbal teas made for this purpose, before thrusting on to the crater rim and summit. The descent is usually done over two to three days. Most parties are so exhausted they opt for the latter. Good luck!

Really? Oh, you mean like the Mt. Rainier I've summitted 10 times and the Mt. Hood I've summitted 5 times? Go on...educate us. I assure you, we're all waiting expectantly....

Yeah, yeah...see forums above. Sooooooo....what are YOU doing here, Captain Serious Climber? Have you come to, to...save us?

Oh wait...the galactic CENTER? 30,000 light years is an awful long way to walk for a drink.

That will make my starving homeless Spanish Supermodels very happy.

"Islamophobia," "Flying while Muslim," etc. The point is that a public institution has catered to the wishes of religious people. If there were a conservative Baptist group that wanted a public facility to make a similar accommodation, and there was a public facility that actually did so, I think that the odds that everyone would greet this development with a collective yawn are rather small. The easy answer with regards to swimming pools, is for anyone who wants religious principles to govern their swimming, bathing, whatever - is for them to pool their funds and create a private "Religion X" pool where they can impose their principles on themselves. If they want to use the public pool, then they have to abide by the public's rules, which in this case do not include using public resources to cater to any particular group's religious demands. The other salient point here is that neither gender, nor race, nor sexual orienation is something that people voluntarily adopt. Islam is a set of beliefs, not something that one inherits through birth and has no control over, and it's surprising that so few people have even noted, much less objected to the equation of critiques of a set of beliefs and the behaviors which they inspire to prejudices and discrimination directed at characteristics which people have actually inherited and can not be held responsible for. I agree 100%.

Nah. Not enough asteroids to make a difference. Tequila just won't work. I'll have to settle for a martini: Use rockets to alter the orbits of certain KBO's to pass close enough to Quour to knock it inward. Do this until you can aim Quour to collide with Europa. Quour's surface contains enormous amounts of methanol ice. This can be converted to ethanol using an iron pentacarbonyl catalyst. The hydrogen for this catalyst can come from the water ice on Europa, which also has an iron core. Not really all that much trouble for a really well chilled martini, in my book.

According to Al Gore your goal will probably be much more doable if you can just wait about 50 years. That will also give you time to cultivate more agave plants and lime trees. And I must say, all those statistics and figurin' is an impressive display of dicking around! We're all dicking around here. I just do more 'technical' dicking around than some. Wait 50 years for my next margarita!? FUCK THAT.

How about a War on Stupid Fucking Big Ideas? I'd support that.

You won't shit right for a millenium.

Anecdotally, every orchard I saw was way off the beaten path, because we were way off the beaten path. We purposefully stayed as far from the main highway as possible to have a more bucolic tasting experience. There were also many articles written about the bust. It was widespread.

limes? if you wanna go fru-fru, how about blackberries? got plenty enough to fill your massive gourd growing right here in my own little patch of suburbia We're gonna need another solar system....

didn't they declare war on drugs? And Poverty. And Terror. Jesus, we sure have been losing a lot of wars, lately.

The last declaration of war was on Japan (Germany declared war on us afterwards). Realistically, we will probably never declare war again. Why bother? The power of the presidency has been concentrated so much in the past half century that the commander in chief apparently feels that such a formality is no longer necessary.

France has banned religious symbols in the workplace. England is considering banning burkas. Where's the cultural capitulation, exactly? You've cited one obscure incidence in the United States, and opined that 'the Left' would back it wholeheartedly. One minor data point bolstered by unsupported conjecture. Personally, I'm not going to run for cover any time soon. If your tide of Muslim radicalism (rather that socio economic pushback, which is what is actually occuring in Europe) is such grim reality, why isn't it happening right here in the belly of the 'Great Satan'? Do we not have Muslims here? Have we not invaded two Muslim countries? Guantanamo Bay? And yet...no riots. All quiet on the home front. Hmmmmm.

jesus - where would you begin to get the amount of tequila required to prevent that frosty beverage from being hopelessly watery? I'm working on desertifying the entire Northern Hemisphere to supply enough blue agave. Stay tuned. NOTE: The following figures are calculated from actual statistics: To make a really weak margarita (8:1 ice to tequila) out of the entire Greenland Ice cap, you’d need 3.74 quadrillion liters of tequila, or 3.4 billions times the current worldwide annual production. You would need to cultivate 721 million sq km for blue agave production: the combined land surface are of Earth, Venus, Mars, and the Moon. You would also need to employ 68 trillion Mexicans; about 113,000 times the Earth’s current population. I guess I'll just have a mineral water.