Pete_H

I'd like to know how introduce my girlfriend to climbing because my wife doesn't really like it.

Why would you say that Fritschis are more bomber than a tech binding? There is way more play in a Fritschi or Marker system than in a Dynafit or Plum. Just because its bigger, heavier, and bulkier doesn't necessarily make it more bomber. But, yes, it is cheaper and has the step-in capability which is nice if you are doing more lift-assist.

If you got $700 bones, the Plum Guide looks like the best binding out there - lighter than the G3 and burly with a lot less moveable parts that the Dynafit or G3. Otherwise I'd get a Dynafit TLT. The G3 is still pretty heavy.

Is this overhanging granite sport cave real? How do I find it? FISH ON!!! An oldy but a goody.

Someone posted that on here a while back. Pretty good video.

Doesn't work.

Or go skiing.

There's a pretty high percentage chance you would be wasting your time trying to rock climb in the PNW this weekend. It looks like there's a fairly strong system coming through. Monday doesn't look too bad tho. Vantage and Smith are probably the two warmest / dryest spots and it looks like its supposed to be cold and wet there.

Local indoor climbing crag. Or the overhanging granite sport cave in Renton.

But that for the most part involves subjective danger, such as running into a tree or accidently skiing off a cliff out of bounds, or falling into a tree well. Objective danger, one encounters in the backcountry or mountains, such as serac collapse or avalanche is different.

Wonder if this was possibly part of the snowmobile rescue of the pilot who crashed his plane on the Deming.

A good on-point critique of the Republican Party by good 'ol Thomas Friedman: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/opinion/sunday/friedman-we-need-a-second-party.html?src=recg To summarize (for Kevbone): Republicans are out of date on social issues and are ideologically uncompromising about the important issues that need to be addressed moving into the 21st C.

Is this like the dead people I have known chest beating thread now?

Nothing says a good college house party like rockin' out to some Whitney Houston. Well, thank God you've still got Paula Abdul and Madonna to fill the void.

If I have to hear "I Will Always Love You" played on the news again I'm going to puke blood.

With happy ending?

It was a joke. A bad one apparantly. Wish I could say I'd never lost any friends or aquaintances in the mountains.

Me neither but that's just because I don't have any friends.

You want to live in Maryland? Seriously? What do you have against Maryland? Nothing against Maryland. But for someone who enjoys outdoor / mountain related activities it seems like it would be pretty fucking far off the radar.

You want to live in Maryland? Seriously?

not quite.... dead is dead. death is absolute. in order to have faith in something, there must be something. there is nothing after death. nothing isn't something. therefore it takes no faith to know that there is nothing. that doesn't require any faith on my part. What! Don't you believe in ghosts? You've obviously never seen the wonderful movie of the same title starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore.

Its funny, the conservative establishment can't seem to accept the fact that the vast majority of the electorate is pretty damn moderate. Could say the same thing about the Dem's too though.

A Bavarian Kletter Gymnasium in Der Leavenworth.

Just no brown ski wax on the skin track!

After the Josh Powell episode I'm pretty much convinced we should outlaw hedrosexual marriage.