Ben Beckerich

Closing a hole in gun trafficking?? LOL... How, pray-tell? It's not only super easy to bypass, but is essentially unenforceable also. The only people who will comply are 100% legit and risk-averse types, and the only reason anyone will comply is because of the very remote chance that they'd get in trouble and lose their gun privileges. People who want to ignore the law completely still have that option- and with extremely low odds of ever getting in trouble for it. But if you're someone intent on doing crimes with your guns, "low odds" aren't something you worry about at all. This law does NOTHING to prevent crime, but just makes more stuff a crime.

No, it's not a big deal, but it's a step backward, and a reminder of stupid people can be in a group. Discouraging. Let's also remember that the ONLY thing this does is add a complication and expense for already law-abiding people- criminals will continue to buy their guns illegally.... so I'm afraid the hope that a restriction of liberty will prevent a mass-shooting is utterly fruitless.

Not on this topic. Oregon has always led the way for gun rights, over WA. They didn't even allow USE of suppressors (you could own them, though- wonderfully written law) or possession of SBRs until the last couple of years.

I live in Oregon... I can keep selling my guns no-questions-asked in back alleys and abandoned warehouses.

I just can't believe more laws didn't get passed. FUCKsake we need more laws. Damn shame about Washington. Perfect example of a naive, completely disconnected majority facefucking liberty and cleaning up with the Constitution. Voter Initiative needs to be 2/3rds, not simple majority. We have a representative system because direct democracy is a bad thing. Even intelligent people can be pretty easily convinced of some pretty dumb shit.

Perhaps I can help: Tell me what routes you had in mind. I will climb them, and then tell you how rad it was.

For operational necessity, I assume... not just cuz that would be rad?

Do you have beta? Is it looking like an early season on the Nordwand?

That hospital experience sounds way worse than the fall. I seriously hope that's not a representative experience for Canadian hospitals in general?

Is this guy even a member here?

What the fuck

I know a great guy, but he's not going to work for a bag of weed. (503) 397-5516 - Dave Reynolds, Reynolds Land Surveying

Nice! Jelly

I went up last September in the hopes of colder temps than I got... was a slush fest and I bailed at the Turtle. Unless it's unseasonably cold, you're not gonna find AI3, you're gonna find 60 degree Glacier Cherry slushy without the cherry. Definitely bring your own cherry syrup.

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A nice thought, but impossible. Cops have self-preservation instinct and it'll override any level of training you give them. But it just so happens that their training is usually to preserve your own life at all costs first, everyone else's second. Cops aren't secret service- they aren't taking a bullet for anyone, nor are they checking their fire in the face of death.

Bad luck. You could make an argument that police shouldn't be firing their weapons unless they know it's safe for everyone except the intended target, but the reality is that when it's shoot-or-die, you shoot. Regardless. RIP. At least he died rich. This is my 187th post, yaherd. PP - what difference does it make that the guy was unarmed? Would they have been justified in accidentally shooting an armed "journalist?" Fucking stupid ass article title.

Just curious - what were the circumstances? IN the lake, not just chilling near it?

Wow... Summitpost. That place lives yet, eh? They must be down to about 5 or 6 active members by now...

So am I an expert or an idiot, Matt? The question is totally subjective, GK. All anyone can do is give you an opinion. People climb all August long and even into September. I've never climbed in August (probably 7 or 8 times) and been alone. I've never been hit by rock in August, never seen anyone else hit in August, and I'm not aware of any rockfall tragedies in August. It's a shitty time of year to climb for a lot of reasons, and it's just sub-par for a first climb. If you have an itch that must be scratched, climb it. Know that if you catch a groundball to the face at 80mph, it's not going to be pretty. If that's an acceptable risk to you, climb on. I think that's the best anyone can do for you.

I've never heard of anyone doing Pearly Gates this time of year. It melts out fast, and every time I've been up in August it's been nothing more than 40-50 degree crumbling unclimbable shit. Old Chute generally melts out for a couple hundred feet at the top, but it's all boulders and bowling balls that don't roll around too bad under foot. Although I have seen some pretty big rock features go from the crater rim- if you're under that shit when it decides to fall, you don't have a lot of hope.

You go on blaming those "conservatives" for this horrible problem, though..... LOL

Speaking as a politically apathetic, non-partisan person who doesn't watch the news in any capacity or care what's going on in the world... What's the relevancy? What does it matter what position we are among all the other fat, rich, safe, liberal, comfortable countries in the world? Our most impoverished are living the lap of luxury compared 90% of the non-west. We aren't the best at being privileged, spoiled, lazy, non-producing exploiters... OH NOEZ

It's only one. One.