Ben Beckerich

The best decisions about snow safety happen at the kitchen table, not in the field. You look at telemetry, you look at the forecast, you compare those to the topo of your route, and you say, "yes, these things will bring a likelihood of stability," or "no, these ingredients bake death." THEN, after that screening process is over, and a good decision has been made to go out... now, out in the field, you continue to assess and monitor. If the field is as you predicted, based on good judgement at the kitchen table, you continue up.. but if you find anything that runs contrary to that, you bail or change plans appropriately.

Yep... you'll find those are of limited use in the mountains. They're a mid-layer, with no weather protection.. so depending on your system, you'll need to take your shell pants off to put them on, them put your shell back on.. and the reverse to get them off, once you're sweating your ass off. Very impractical. I have no idea what your climbing looks like, but I'll share a learning process I experienced. The only times I've ever put on my insulated pants have been when sitting still for a lot longer than you ever should have to, in the mountains. Basically, when you fuck up, is about the only time you'll bust them out. And in my experience, insulated pants, even good mountaineer-specific pants, aren't warm enough for that... you will still freeze your everlovin' ass off and be miserable and get no sleep. So I don't generally take insulated pants anymore- if there's any risk of unplanned bivy, I just take a bag. Even my heaviest bags are less than 3lbs, and my insulated pants weigh at least half of that.. so it's not even a huge penalty for being able to actually stay warm if you did fuck up.

Dude.. post these on MP. I sold all my aliens for like $60/pop a few years ago.

Anybody got a red Becky Guide you don't want an exorbitant amount of money for? -B

I still have mine.. want 'em?

who drew

I'm basically positive that's not actually google calling you... I get the same shit from Google, Yahoo (who I do actually pay for services- website and email hosting- yet still get called from "yahoo"), Yellow Pages, and probably thirty more. They're 3rd parties, not the actual companies.

Seems like you could fill a rack pretty quick on shit bootied from and around the SE Corner..... wtf? Last year? Maybe the year before... between the two of us, Astrov and I found like 4 or 5 pieces, just poking around the bushes at the base, looking for something one of us dropped after a climb..

You voted for a law you cannot make a single argument in favor of? I thought, for some reason, I would get a rational debate from you... but you're just a vindictive anti-gun dick. Weak, dude. Very weak.

It seems like you're trying to shield your complete lack of a position to stand on by acting like we're having some kind of political debate... So here: I don't know what the future holds, and it could be that you're right, and evil big money will prevail, and our Constitutional rights will be further eroded and made even more meaningless. --- All of that out of the way, now: How can this law be enforced, and how can it be prosecuted? Realistic scenarios, please. ETA: Realistic application, please. I don't want to make it too narrow for you. Any plausible argument will work.

Dude... seriously. If you truly have nothing and you know it, just say it. Own up to it. I approve of this law just because. I have no realistic argument for it, I just don't like the idea of people being able to transfer ownership of guns without a background check, and even though there's very little recourse to enforce or prosecute under this law, I would rather law-abiding people have to go to FFLs to transfer their guns. Just own it.

Fixed it for you.

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

Got lazy with this and never got anything..... so bump. I'll be in Portland today and tomorrow for locally meetup if anybody's got something righteous.

Just for clarity, deez is the Phantom Guides, specifically. The non-guide Phantoms are double boots.... used to be called the Phantom 6000, if I remember correctly- now just called "Phantom."