Hugh Conway
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"swiss women. cold as frogs, true mountaineers. As unfit for debauchery as any who walk the world."
-RF Burton
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le noir, le femme et le vieux
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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
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...Valle d'osta = nicely smoggy...
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.
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I'll know I've been gone for a long, long time when "charmingly" is the adjective that appears before the word "rude" when describing my recollections the average Bostonian...
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.
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any more suggestions? surely there's other knowledgable souls out there.
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
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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
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Back on track:
Aoraki Grand Traverse
Heh. I was thinking "pants filling" but rad works as well
left to right, or right to left?
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Has anyone ever done a traverse in the C. Huayhuash? Some stupendous stuff to be done!
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peru is nice and all but you will need alot more than 10 days there. dont bother if that is all the time you have.
Umm, no.
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Guess you didn't have as romantic a visit as I did.
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.
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same shithole just more people
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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.
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fecund is for the elastic waist pants
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Zermatt and Chamonix. Why go anywhere else?
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Austria or France
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It takes one to know one.
Dumbasses rarely see it in each other
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What, those seven days and nights of thunder we shared were just physical?
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.
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What, those seven days and nights of thunder we shared were just physical?
Even Rosie refused your advances?
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Kind of ridiculous to give relationship advice in the form of cliches you heard on Oprah to a couple that's been together for several decades, don't you think? The non-sequitor anecdote doesn't help your credibility much either, Dr. Phil.
Have you ever had a relationship?
Car diagnosis time!
in Spray
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sounds like your car has herpes - I reccomend sacrificing a roach to the bobcat gods