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He can now...

Hey Deep Purple you're feelin' blue, yeah we're lookin' down down the Hall lookin' for you, yeah But you ain't around no no no baby you're nowhere to be found, yeah you're ain't gone, no you're just Quilceda bound, yeah

Rush is the Twinkies of rock and roll.

we had a thing ooooo, yeah still doin it baby, baby, no no no, yeah burnin down the Five Feathers burnin, burnin, wheels a' turnin' watchin those S curves stop and go yeah

Surprise weather shadows the inexperienced. It's like tornadoes and trailer parks.

Fighting solll-diers, from the sky....

I'm from WA, too, (and not 10 miles from the Oregon border, LOL) and that sure looks like a crevasse I wouldn't want to fall into. The puffery round here is amazing sometimes. Cheerist. Time to give this a rest, I'd say. It crossed the outer edge of the Buffoon Galaxy a while ago.

Freshen up the tea all you want before handing it to a 3 year old. You'll still need the mop.

I guess it's like the guy on Hood - whenever a butterfly flaps its wings it China, FUCK YOU!!!!

Don't get your brain squirrel exhausted trying to figure that one out, GGK.

I'm just glad we have this forum so we can whine about this guy's FB post.

I'll drive. Just show me how to put it in reverse, first.

Will someone please play with me?

Perhaps you could contact him personally and have all your burning questions answered. I hear he's on FB.

Most SAR missions involve Alzheimer patients who've wondered off and the ever present "lost hiker on Tiger Mt". Spicing it up a bit once in a while isn't necessarily a bad thing for many SAR folks. They're also not necessarily in short supply these days, either. 150 folks showed up for the Green River body recovery (a car went into the drink). I'm not being cavalier here, but SAR exists to help folks in trouble, and most of those folks are going to be in trouble due to inexperience and resultant mistakes. It's, you know, kind of why SAR exists.

I know I'm confused. For some, the need to disagree is strong.

Yeah, 'don't get lost' is sage advice, as is 'keep breathing' and 'stay warm'. OK. Thanks for that. This guy wasn't in that situation. He was lost. Pick a direction, go down, get cliffed out, climb back up - repeat, exhaust yourself - or drop through a cornice and die - problem solved. Or hey, lets start doing blind raps into the vertical whiteout. No way that can go wrong. Awesome strategies. Good thing the guy had the presence of mind not to follow any of them. He did the right thing given his situation and experience - by definition. At that point, it was Pass/Fail, and he got the Alive at Five pin for the win. I imagine he's probably good with the inevitable armchair expertise in exchange for seeing his peeps again.

I'm the Pied Piper of soon to need rescue noobs. Just Go Down.

It's all still a felony, Rob.

Sounds like you don't have any good advice for him, either.

Now there's some excellent advice. Just pick a direction and go down! You'll eventually hit a highway - or the bottom of the North Face, Willis Wall, or Adams Icefall. If we could only bottle and sell this wisdom.

I will ask you as well. I put myself out there so I expect to be thrown under the bus....none of you seem to "put themselves out there"....come on now folks and buck up. Why am I the only one who has the balls to voice my own serious opinion on this matter? The rest of you are like school children who dont get along. A bunch of thugs you are. If you dont agree with me you simply call me names. How fucking childish. I will ask again. Rob... do you beleive that OBL was the mastermind behind 9/11. Yes or no. Excuse me? You "put yourself out there"? What kind of personal risk have you ever taken for a cause, you do-nothing innernut moron? What kind of effort have you made to make this joint better, in any sense, you worthless waste of low quality sperm? You are treated like the one note buffoon you are. Stop being an infant and own it.

There's more than one way to be a slave to something. It's OK to change the channel on that black and white TV set sans rabbit ears of a brain you've got there, Bone. No one will think the lesser of you - I can absolutely guarantee that at this point.

The view doesn't get much lower than when watching the House Teabaggers in inaction. That is one fragrant bowlful of crazy there.

I saw kids lose it at USNA - including two roommates and a couple of friends. Our company commander lost it the year he was supposed to graduate - in front of the entire brigade of 4000, no less. He was a Texan from a small town that was undoubtedly proud of him. Not the brightest guy - he struggled to make passing grades and it finally got the best of him perhaps. I guess I've got a soft spot for kids who go that route. A lot do at the academies. Its heartbreaking to watch, but perhaps hard to relate to unless you've seen it happen up close and personal.