Hugh Conway

sounds like your car has herpes - I reccomend sacrificing a roach to the bobcat gods

"swiss women. cold as frogs, true mountaineers. As unfit for debauchery as any who walk the world." -RF Burton

le noir, le femme et le vieux

I agree Mark. I realize the loss has hit you hard emotionally, but there's no need to get snippy. Breaking the silence: Monday night the REI in Issaquah was cleaned out. Every last piece of Life is Good was taken. All of the polycarbonate cocktail sets. Every last baby stroller. The horror. No more simple words to live by

Didn't have that trouble when we were there. 'course, it was in mid-April. Mebbe it gets worse in the summer? hmmm - maybe winter inversions? Dunno - that was my impression when I dropped down from the St. Bernard. Lots of the alp valleys have smog layers now Nice cheap wine in the Aostatal though! In that region - Grimentz (1 hr bus from Sion supposedly) http://www.grimentz-stjean.ch/en/Place/ is quite scenic in the traditional sense, should be some nice walking and plenty of "alpage" Instead of stopping in St. Anton keep on going down the tracks another 2 hrs to Innsbruck. Spend the night in town then take the bus up to Stubai (regular service from the train station, bus takes 1.5ish hours in winter) - glacier walking/high alpine touring/skiing a plenty up there. The BecherHaus (www.becherhaus.com) is a half day/day climb from the lifts at Stubai. www.postbus.at and www.oebb.at provide transport links for Austria www.sbb.ch is the swiss rail system.

$1,000-$5,000 AN HOUR! AN HOUR!

I'm waiting for your reaction the first time someone blocks traffic and makes you miss a redlight so they could let someone travelling in the empty other direction make a left turn

follow the yellow signs from the village, it's not exactly hard, even you could do it Climbing Panther. Every village has numerous trails, marked, with signposts that include the hiking time to pertinent destinations. The newstand in town will sell the hiking topo map of the local region.

confusing "willing to share" with "not knowing" again? Engelberg is in the middle of the mountains and scenic. Since it's easily reachable by train its quite touristed. Valle d'osta = nicely smoggy In Sudtirol there's the fantasticly located Becherhaus http://www.becherhaus.com/ which I'd love to visit someday

I did 2/3 of the C. Huayhuash circuit in Peru in 10 days (thats home to home from LA - including 1 day of boozing in Lima). Amazing mountain views, some Inca roads, rural Peruanos who still worship skulls, and other interesting sites. Not sure if it's honeymoon material, but it was an interesting backpacking trip

Back on track: Aoraki Grand Traverse Heh. I was thinking "pants filling" but rad works as well left to right, or right to left?

Has anyone ever done a traverse in the C. Huayhuash? Some stupendous stuff to be done!

Umm, no.

I had dysentary. It wasn't very romantic. Yes, it's beautiful. Yes, there's tons of culture. Yes, it's industrial tourism. I've been to Tirol in Oe. I like tirol - there's a ton of huts in the mountains to hike/bike/ski into, quite a few that would be suitable for familys.

same shithole just more people

europe is about the same amount of time in a plane as peru, and slightly less time than Thailand. Venice is Disneyworld for the pretentious.

fecund is for the elastic waist pants

Zermatt and Chamonix. Why go anywhere else?

Austria or France

Blame the French http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0220b174-eb98-11dc-9493-0000779fd2ac.html

Dumbasses rarely see it in each other

Even Rosie refused your advances? It's flat jokes like that that forced me to break it off with you. I heard you only like men with tits as big as yours.

Even Rosie refused your advances?

Have you ever had a relationship?