Hugh Conway

Next up: Motorcyclists smacking into cars!

To expand: I was in Chengdu in September, looking to get into Tibet. As of then all travel in Tibet for foreign nationals required a permit. To get a permit required you be in a tourgroup (which could be just you) but had to be guided all of the time. This included "trekking" (didn't bother with climbing). Unlike in the past these rules were rather inflexible and few people had successfully skirted them. The only person I met who had was Chinese-American and spoke Mandarin fluently. Based on 2nd hand reports little has changed in the last 6 months so I'd suggest "fuck China" Check out Kyrgyzstan/Kazakhstan instead

Why is it OK to show an athlete die but not soldiers?

Short answer: it changes all the time.

I'd expect nothing less. No fucking clue why they need to show video/stills of people doing CPR & mouth to mouth... aside from the press is a bunch of douches

Just cut out a piece of foam and put it in your boots

You take that picture this morning after the night of love with her?

Bill - NPR gets much of their news from the FT/Economist group. Not exactly a bunch of pinkos.....

David Beckham sounds like a chick when he opens his mouth

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Hi Jon. Check your PM's. I sent you a copy of my request to Dru to remove my name. Decide for yourself whether I had been rude or confrontational. I don't think he's being truthful. Jon? Dru? OMG STOP OUTING PEOPLE!!!! your name is safe with me rob

Or even quebonics

Jeeezzz lose the passive-agressive and you take away the soul of cascadeclimbers!

This topic is in SPRAY, And was started in SPRAY... You're the smart one, aren't you? He clips bolts doesn't he?

Or Tila Tequila

So will living

Is that you Dwayner? Dr Bolter and Mr. Chopper?

this wasn't either

so what about the granite areas in europe?

Clowns? Did someone send in the assclowns?

ride that momemntum!

Norrona stuff is extremely well made and certainly some of the best stuff currently on the market. Unfortunately it's a expensive and backcountry.com is the sole US vendor. Fortunately for tightwads gear returned to backcountry.com without tags is putup for sale on geartrade.com

Bug- Again I'm sorry if you thought I was threatening you. If you are worried about internet confrontation escalating to real world violence why do you want the cc.com administrators to give out peoples names and vitals to another cc.com member?

I was thinking the same thing. I was actually expecting he who must not be named to be the climber... instead it's a joke on Lambone. I like those.

I'm pretty sure most regular posters on this board realize they are to some degree accountable for their words. As an observer I frequent several professional boards where all users must use their real names. Even with their real names it's amazing how nasty things get with the absence of facial gestures and other non-verbal means of communication. With those gestures someone could quickly realize that someone was seriously hurt or worried and stop what the other was joking about, for example. As such I'm not sure "real names" add anything. I'm also sure most posters don't want their posts to be google searchable. Google is evil