Hugh Conway

FYI if your buy/return ratio gets below something like 2:1 or 1.5:1 the "take it back" part gets a bit more difficult

Um, isn't REI a Co-op? technically, yes. practically they've been changing their bylaws for more and more "corporate" control of the poor governance kind and taking advantage of a distributed ownership which has for all practical purposes fuck all control. As an example: previously REI Members (Owners) had the ability to nominate a candidate for election to the Board of Directors by collecting a number of signatures (I believe 1% of members - there's a thread here on cc.com with more) they've eliminated that. JayB- try buying Ski Touring or Telemark gear, the selection is increasingly poor with a number of stores that used to stock not stocking anything at all. If you are going to order online, why be hampered by a retailer that has local presence?

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or the Alps where there's huts all overer the place

the mexicans have taken over railay too?

Could be an interesting week: Forecast for Sierra Nevada from Yosemite to Kings Canyon Updated: 2:53 PM PST on December 16, 2010 Winter Storm Warning in effect from 10 am Friday to 4 PM PST Sunday above 7000 feet... Tonight Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of snow. A 20 percent chance of rain after midnight. Snow level 5000 feet. Lows 25 to 35 at 5000 feet...14 to 24 at 8000 feet. Friday Snow and rain...snow near the crest. Snow accumulation up to 13 inches. Snow level 6000 feet. Highs 39 to 47 at 5000 feet...31 to 41 at 8000 feet. » ZIP Code Detail Friday Night Rain and snow...snow near the crest. Windy. Snow accumulation up to 35 inches. Snow level 7000 feet. Lows 32 to 40 at 5000 feet...23 to 33 at 8000 feet. South winds 25 to 30 mph with gusts to around 60 mph. Saturday Rain and snow. Windy. Snow accumulation up to 23 inches. Snow level 7500 feet. Highs 41 to 49 at 5000 feet... 35 to 43 at 8000 feet. South winds 25 to 35 mph with gusts to around 70 mph. » ZIP Code Detail Saturday Night Rain and snow. Windy. Snow accumulation up to 36 inches. Snow level above 8000 feet. Lows 33 to 41 at 5000 feet...22 to 32 at 8000 feet. South winds 25 to 30 mph with gusts to around 50 mph. Sunday through Monday Night Snow and rain. Very windy. Highs 40 to 50 at 5000 feet...34 to 44 at 8000 feet. Lows 30 to 40 at 5000 feet...19 to 29 at 8000 feet. Tuesday and Tuesday Night Snow and rain likely. Very windy. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. Highs 42 to 52 at 5000 feet... 35 to 45 at 8000 feet. Lows 30 to 40 at 5000 feet...18 to 28 at 8000 feet. Wednesday Snow and rain. Windy. Chance of precipitation 80 percent. Highs 43 to 53 at 5000 feet...35 to 45 at 8000 feet. Wednesday Night Snow showers likely. Windy. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. Lows 30 to 38 at 5000 feet...18 to 28 at 8000 feet. Thursday Snow and rain likely. Chance of precipitation 70 percent. Highs 43 to 53 at 5000 feet...37 to 45 at 8000 feet.

Most community colleges offer EMT programs.

Argentina is a pretty good place to get drunk and laid. So's Brasil. Peru's cheaper, has awesome climbing and.... the climbing season is best in our North American summer. Give it a full year at college and head down in May/June

Is that writing on the side? perhaps worth pointing out that the Edelweiss and Eagle have historically been more than just corporate logos.

seriuosly this shit is painful

woo fucking hoo!

note the use of "planning" and not "have sold" the above financial fairy tale is mostly bullshit now if you are going to save up your money - Asia. Pick a country; it's the future ('cept Japan).

mount analogue, daumal

a picture would helpful, and nice porn

there aren't really any trains flights to Argentina/Chile are cheap. Save up the a $k or 2 and fly.

Peter Puget is a great big cock stimulating the gag reflex

she should have been hotter and killed an English girl. then all the Conservatives and Washington staters would love her

damnit oly, Jay_B needs a new Lexus. STFU.

what, using the girlfriend lie of turning 4 into 8 :smug:

how can a leghumper have a lapdog?

north korea isn't far off either by nitrox standards

Tough guy tard. I Love it! Not sure what your business is/was in the PRC, or why you feel the need to boast about your travels in this forum. Lots of folks have been to China--it's no big deal. You speak Chinese? Congrats. I speak Spanish and a fair amount of German. Nobody cares. In any event, I can assure you that touring with a group of your fellow whities and a government liaison in a micro-bus or a cobalt-blue Landcruiser doesn't amount to squat vis-a-vis your earlier 'spoon-fed' comments. Fuck off. BTW: Do you speak Bod Skad? http://friendsoftibet.org/main/execution.html uh, Fairweather, Western businessmen have a much bigger hardon for China than liberals do. It's an authoritarian business state; whatever's good for their friends business they'll do.

oh they will after the real estate collapse

also one on the annapurna trek; seen it in Kashmir and southern India as well. New Zealand and Europe to... so anybody seen it in Africa? Curious if it or Mt. Fuji are the most reproduced real mountains in the world? (assuming the Paramount is the most reproduced "mountain")

that the same dude who was handing out shell cases on Halloween?