Hugh Conway

I've never taken an AIARE course but they had no problem taking my money to register so I'm not sure what your point is. I think it's silly to say the students are coming from the same background when you have courses offered in Washington, California, Utah, Colorado, New Hampshire and France and the course is so short. Seriously - expecting to find layers in a typical WA snowpack? Got a backhoe? Expecting to find anything but ice in NH?

just follow the herd The Alpine 4000m Peaks by the Classic routes is old, but useful. Hochtouren im Wallis by Hermann Biner is in german and better (Hochtouren ~= alpine climbs in german)

it's just you are sober this time

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,26278,23189913-5007185,00.html Smoking is good for us :tup:

I only started doing that after living in a place where my un-AC'd appartment got to 100 regularly during the summer and cooked my skins - leaving them needing regluing after 2 days on snow the only skins I've had with the mesh came with it on and left a few little bits of mesh in the skinb glue

throw away shitty mesh. stick together. if its warm stick in fridge.

happy hour where you spend money forgetting your shitty job and then have to show up the next day with a hangover

I imagine they get fellated to sleep by the prostitutes of their choice after the finest food the world can provide. In short, pretty well.

don't tell raindawg about your bolting proclivities

for a true powder board fatter would likely be better. length wise perhaps the shorter, depending on agressiveness? some of the K2s - Phat Luv or whatever?

Being male I'd always thought it overblown until recently when someone I'd met "disappeared" and is presumed dead in an "avalanche" in a region with 1,000s of soldiers. In this case it may well have been an avalanche, but knowing a bit about the region and politics I wouldn't be surprised that a number of the others who "disappeared" were victims of foul play. That said, I'm curious the overall rate of such incidences.

Heh - typical VW group issues? I want the turbo-diesel 4x4 version.

No, they can't. Yes is can and does.....Any time I have been asked for a major credit card, for hotel, car rental, airplane tickets……my debit card works just fine. They do not seem to know it is a debit card. So you can charge something to your debate card without the funds ever being removed from your account? Bullshit. Plus you can get miles, cash or other things back from using your credit card, also good. Debit Cards can be processed as Credit Cards; they don't act the same.

No, they can't. They'll just place a hold on your account of $XXX which is a pretty stupid use of money.

Reason #4,759 Bank of America sucks

I've got one of Tom's sweet Imlay floating rope bags if you'd like to borrow it. That or a short rope are nice for quickly moving through alot of short raps in a canyon.

Garmont Adrenalin Randonee boots - size 27 - $175. They've got ~100 days on them. The liners are Raichle Thermoflexs that have been baked 3x and the fabric is has worn away on the inner left heel on each boot. They come with 3 soles - DIN compatible (unused), Vibram (worn but still rubber at the toes) and the original Vibram (mostly worn out at the toe). Located in Seattle Lake City area, PM me for info

There are a number of good local providers available depending on where you are that ofter advantages over AIARE (PADI on ICE!) or NSP (highly variable instructional quality). Not that either of those are bad, they just don't necessarily offer any advantages over other sources and get fucking real, top notch? AIARE has the same curriculum across the US. If you specify where you are you'd get more useful advice.

Me want. Badly.

FUCKING BAN ME

Fritschis are damn nice, Dynafits are good as well

BAN FUCKING HUGH CONWAY

I only lie when I tell you every mans is that short

Honestly crickets a better game. If you are going to sit around in warm weather getting shitfaced why not make it a whole day instead of only a couple of hours?

do conservatives like baseball because they love mindless tedium? or is it vice versa?