Hugh Conway

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i wish i'd get a pink slip

I've the sores to prove it sickie

Brick phones >>> flip phones. Nokia 1600 is the standard

did you have light beer with those chips?

cascadeclimbers is a self-deprecation free zone

when did you turn into sobo? humourfree and snide?

A 0.6% annual return

trading for a surfboard?

what, you hate having to put out?

An 11.7% increase in 17 years without land use regulation? Are you TTK in drag?

It's overbuilt, but never used. BD Rotor + 2 Mammut wiregates. Nice reach for my 5' 10" arms.

Hell yeahs! http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2008_swimsuit/

They aren't exactly the biggest fans on Americans. Difference? They likely fear the Chinese more.

no, you just suggest it I'm not sure where you got the idea I think the Cascade snow pack is uniform, but it's one of farcical exagerated misinterpretations that make this thread priceless. Perhaps when I earlier suggested a backhoe was useful for finding layers in the Cascades? The Cascades get a large number of large storms with generally mild temps and cloudy skys ergo they are generally less intereating than places with less snow cover, and greater temperature and cloud cover variability. Yes, I'm broadly generalizing. Snowpit feedback and field snow science is one of the few things I see as unique to the field learning environment if you are interested in learning about avalanche avoidance. Weather knowledge and routefinding can be done in other ways much more effectively, imho. Rescue practice is avalanche hazard mitigation. I'm not suggesting AIARE is bad, I just don't see it as compellingly better than the other options out there, especially given the higher cost and time requirements that can make attendance difficult. Perhaps thats because I see the courses mentioned here as only a small component next to continued learning (reading, thinking) and time in the field observing and therefore the differences between courses are small next to actually attending one. That said perhaps I'm looking for different things in Avalanche Education with a different goal and perhaps different background than average. Oh well.

There are a bunch of cool photos at the WSDOT flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsdot

do you have any point besides waving your dick around?

That's what a number of the current health insurers started out as. They all found it was "better" if they went public. Better = executives get lavish paychecks instead of lavish headquarters

you are twinkletoed cocksucker who just signed his own death warrant sickie

I fail to see how that is possible given the dramatically different locations the courses are presented in and even different times at the same location. If there are no layers in the snowpack it's hard to get much good field feedback on evaluating layers in the snowpack. Since in my opinion the major benefit of a class is feedback in the field from someone with more knowledge than yourself this variability makes comparisons between courses problematic. Classroom material etc. can be done most anywhere - there may be an advantage to an oral learner doing it inside, but thats individual dependant. If this material is so independant of time and space - why do you even need to take a class, unless that is your preferred learning method? Couldn't you just create an exam process for feedback? No shit? I thought avalanches flowed uphill in the Southern Hemisphere. If you are interested in waving your dick around oh great Mountain Guide! this is a fine thread - because you and sobo's bandstand lecturing is fucking funny. If you want to help others - don't aim your lectures at me, who you've never met, and quite obviously don't know much about.

weight loss

...with curb feelers, so Ivan doesn't scrub the gangsta whitewalls when he drags up to the club. Yo. that'd leave less payload room for nuclear missiles

still brown bashing fairweather?

woah - they come with manuals on care and feeding these days

make sure you put the pussy outside before you go to sleep