Hugh Conway
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Wow, this thread is getting more boring by the minute...
says the most boring poster on cc.com
e^ pi * i = -1
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GET USED TO IT
bitch, drive on down to Starbucks and pick me up a Quad-Venti no foam, mmmk?
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given the choice between yuppie hell ballard or 10x the number of Monroe/Puyallup/Auburn strip mall hells, condos win everytime.
Every fly into LAX? those 150miles of suburbs are because they chose low density. Its even more soulless - the build a whole mall for the starbucks.
Your only other choice is not to grow.
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SPEAK AMERICAN!!!!
get back to hitting on your XXXL american coworkers
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best tasting meal evar:
roesti mit speck, gobbled at the Moenchsjoch Huette
Gröstl >> Rösti
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Nein, du bist ein Arschloch... wie riechts sehr schlecht.
Auslander
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Ich bin Tiroler!
Fuck Langjager. Go Speck or go home.
http://www.handltyrol.at/ I can't find speck or schweinbraten in Seattle
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I've heard conflicting stores about Woolites' suitability. Technogeeks care to weigh in?
Maybe you'll have to snag the bottle of Tween-20, the Brij series, or some saponin if you want to keep the enviro bona fides in tact.My spray was better.
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Not sure what kind of home-care/assistance options are available for folks who need outside assistance to keep their loved ones out of nursing homes. It seems like this might be both better for the old person and the people caring for them than placing them nursing homes in a significant percentage of cases, and would cost the Federal Government less money.
There are various home health treatment options available - like most things covered by medicare, medicare won't cover the real costs of treatment.
The entire industry is massively and convolutedly regulated and there are increasing numbers of players in the business who's primary goal is not providing elder care (I can think of one nursing home company where the primary goal of the CEO is to sell of the real estate, milk the company of cash, then dump the business - perhaps a textbook case of the human impacts of "greed")
A useful and interesting timeline:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/nursinghomes/timeline.html
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CBC needs to learn to count.
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Not interested in people's stance on tats... just interested if your employer has an HR policy. thanks...
I've never worked at a company with an official policy, but I've never seen anyone with visible tattoos either......
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no tats. doesn't mean i haven't had moments of wanting one. would have been a home job, but i came to the conclusion that the motivations underlying the desire were pretty much what booby guy wrote above.
thats the whole appeal, IMHO. they are barbaric logos, full stop
almost got one in Indonesia but realized that was just asking for it....
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sounds like you have a tattoo. let me guess: it's a skull, empty of course.
sorry, I fell asleep.
lemme guess your tattoo - a rapier?
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I just question what good will come out of increased funding and calls to add warnings and force retailers to comply with some sort of approval / education process.
I also question the efficiency of increasing funding but it's worthwhile to point out that doubling the budget for all of the avalanche centers in the US would cost a couple million bucks a year.
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baa. i wanna express my individuality like everyone else is doing.
By posting your interesting opinions on an internet bulletainboard?
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dude, we all pay for sex, one way or another
fucking bitch stopped taking credit cards
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Apparently porter is a kegler
he's also a kegeler sickie sickie
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site since '97 only 17 out of 286 deaths were snowshoers. That's 6% - certainly not a large percentage; I fail to see where it's the dumb snowshoer getting into trouble.
People are looking at this years WA state fatalities. 3 snowshoers, 1 hiker, 2 snowmobilers, 3 BC Snowboarders. Based on preliminary reports I wouldn't consider any of them "highly experienced at avalanche terrain travel"
This particular distribution may be an anomaly, but looking at the user groups with increasing fatalities (snowmobilers, snowboarders) the base question of "how to reach the people who aren't BC skiers and climbers" is still valid - if your goal is to reduce avalanche deaths.
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you can rent snowshoes from REI and walk into avy terrain. you can't rent rope, harness, rack and start climbing a multipitch route.
You can rent boots, crampons and an ice axe from REI; what's the difference?
In the mind of the user boots & crampons & ice axe are "extreme" while snowshoes are benign.
As sobo said, and I've tried to say, I'm not sure how to convince people that what they don't know they don't know can kill them.
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How about those guys in Kananskis who died digging a pit to evaluate the slope? You can't learn if you're dead.
Avalanches are probablistics; ergo the only means to remain safe is to never be in the realm of probability. In short, to never enter avalanche terrain.
I'd also go with the "snowshoe mindset" I've met a number of snowshoers who are young, fit and driven, but completely clueless about mountain terrain. Unlike skiing which requires time to learn snowshoes have a learning curve of about 5 minutes, give or take.
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So there's a bunch of random thoughts in this post but I guess my point is that I think self education through books, videos, bulletins, courses etc. will fall far short of what can be gained from a mentor and time in the backcountry in unarguably safe terrain.
What the fuck are you going to learn in unarguably safe terrain? How to meadow skip?
Some people learn better on their own. Somepeople like listening to lectures. Multiple styles of learning. Frankly in a "standard" PNW winter there isn't much to learn from the snowpack - there's hardly any weak layers. Go to CO, UT or somewhere with an "interesting" snowpack.
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I think this is a troll-like comment
Hows it going kettle?
For someone who's confidant with "avy hazard assessment" your lack of understanding of path dynamics is rather telling. If it pissed you off why didn't you talk to them instead of whining like a little bitch on the interweb?
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