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  1. I've got some Moonstone Schoeller Dynamic (? Their lightest weight) pants and they rock that I got on clearance. Very breathable and fairly wind and water proof, and their great because they have work at a vast temperature range. I wouldn't climb in Gore-Tex et al unless it was really cold and wet out, otherwise as Dru pointed out you are going to get wet from sweating. Then get some light cheap rain pants for when you aren't moving.
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    new ben harper cd

    Yeah the new CD is nothing like old Ben. Thank you corporate music! Plus you can't play it on your PC without using their stupid app. I've actually been buying CD recently after not buying them for a couple years. But I've changed my mind after I read a couple things. Some college kid in Michigan is getting suid by the RIAA for not a few million, but 100 billion dollars. Don't believe me here is the article http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1931233&mode=thread&tid=141&tid=98 Incubus, who I somewhat like, has filed suit against Sony because they are getting ripped off and want out of their contract. Sony obviously filed a countersuit saying it will cost them millions and wants their court costs for their 20 lawyers. There are tons of stories like this.
  3. This is what your kid really wants! http://216.247.25.241/miva/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LS&Product_Code=T&Category_Code=A
  4. Wow, despite the injuries he is really lucky. I think both Wayne and I can attest to wearing the brain bucket. Get better Dino!
  5. To Trask's mom, for being so fat, so ugly, and so stupid, that I could make fun of her all day long.
  6. glasscowkissmyass, you should meet wayne, that guy is definately less then 25%, I hope I'm in that kind of shape when I'm his age. ClimbingGirl, seriously show up to pub club, everyone here is joking around even though you did post on April Fools. You'll find partners no problem.
  7. People were asking about this so I just wanted to make sure everyone saw it.
  8. All right you freakin gapers here is the unfinished summary of all the Hot Deals. Got to wait for Tim to get back to help me put this where I want it. Hot Deals Summary!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  9. Man that shit happens all the time in Bellevue, everyday occurance. Speeding and..... Speeding and......... Speeding and.......
  10. You really shouldn't need anything for the length of time you are working out unless your glycogen stores are already depleted. This can be caused by not eating enough during the day, and generally your liver stores are depleted overnight. Typically a supplement isn't needed unless you are working out for over 2 hours. I've had good success with Cytomax before, during, and after. I'm trying Endurox right now that I bought on sale but to be honest I think it is junk for how much it costs. Endurox supposedly has this 4 to 1 formula with protein that increases glucagon levels. I've had serious problems digesting it at the suggested 2 scoops per 12 ounches, and their marketing crap claims that it has more calories then Cytomax but that is because your putting in twice as much! And it's twice as expensive!
  11. ALAIN ROBERTS | GRIMPEUR DE L'EXTREME Oh meseur lll out grimpeur you any day, you ssstupid emearllican an yourll freedum fries.
  12. There will be a summary page where all the deals will be shown, I just didn't get it finished last night and I was up til 3 am working on this. There will be a link on the front page to this summary. I hopefully will have this done tonight. For the time being you can use this link which is the same as the sidebar. http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/adtest.php You could reactivate the sidebar, it is only on a few pages on the message board but that's up to you.
  13. Actually the whole story is true, Tim saw the software on some porn sites and ended up getting a license.
  14. Good morning Sprayers and Sprayerettes, Geez Tim and Jon, something sure looks different around here? What the hell is going on? Is this some sort of April Fools joke? Well no this isn’t a joke. So before everyone gets all bent out of shape let’s first start with a story. Two and a half years ago Tim and I were on a climbing trip in the North Cascades. Somehow I came up with this stupid idea to start a climbing website. We had all these cool ideas, some of which we eventually did and others we didn’t. Trade beta, sell and buy gear, post pictures. So armed with the new “cascadeclimbers.com” domain (cascadeclimber.com was taken) and a $17.95 per month hosting plan we got to work. The original intent was to develop a route reporting database, similar in idea to what WTA had but obviously much better. Sitting at my house in front of my POS 200 mhz computer that had no cover Tim and I designed an Access database that would lay the foundation of our route reporting database. I went through the Nelson books and occupied the database. While I was hard at work Tim was surfing porn and came across the idea of buying and installing the same message board that frequented his porn sites. He explained we could use this instead of our database for route reports. But what about being able to search a X mile radius for all the climbs that were Grade II I replied Slightly skeptical I went along with the idea. We built up the website with various things like links and topos and this message board. I sent an email out to the UW climbing club list that has filled up my email for too many years. Tim sent out an email on the Microsoft climbing list. The monster was born. It’s strange how such a simple idea and a little work has become something so huge. While we had an idea this site could be useful and thus used by a lot of people we never had a clue that it would become this popular. Things like Pub Clubs and Ropeups never even crossed our mind. Spray and Horsecock and Snafflehounds and Teddy Ruxpin and Sauna Sausage. Dan’s Dreadful Direct and Goran Kropp and Rainier Speed Ascents. Who would have ever guessed? Well what was once a cheap hobby that took up a little time has now become an expensive endeavor with an inbox full of email from people who can’t seem to login. It is still a lot of fun for us, but in the fall we came to the realization that if we continued to grow at the current rate we’d have to figure out a way to afford the increasing hosting costs that were soon to plague us. Luckily for us this whole affair has been relatively inexpensive and there have been some very generous people who have donated to help out with the expenses. One of the goals when we started the site was for it to become somewhat self supporting, not dependant on any one individual either for running it or incurring the costs. So enter the advertising idea. Tim and I have never been keen on the banner ad idea. This site revolves around the contributions of the users so the last thing you want to do is have a bunch of annoying flashing graphics and popup ads. So for a long time we just sat tight until we really had to make a move. In the winter I came up with the Hot Deals idea, something I stole from another outdoor site. I frequently went to this website to check out what good online sale prices where out there, the rest of the site actually really sucked. What I liked about the idea was that while it was advertising, it was something that you actually were interested in seeing, I mean who doesn’t like cheap gear? The idea started to develop. Up until now there was really a lack of a targeted way for small local shops to advertise. Many of these places can’t afford advertisements in Climbing and R&I, and the newspaper is hardly reaching your target market. I know climbers who haven’t even heard of some of the best shops in town! So opening the Hot Deals to local shops and giving them affordable advertising, making a little money to pay our website costs, and giving the users something that was palatable. Sounded like a good idea that would benefit everyone. Would the users go along with it? Beyond paying the costs of running this site there are some ideas we are going to explore. We plan on making contributions to the Access Fund for projects in Washington and Oregon. A similar thing will happen in B.C with their access group. We plan on providing funds for purchase of hardware for the safe repair of unsafe anchors and bolts. We will be introducing a new gear review system shortly that is very cool. These are a few ideas and we will be thinking off more, ideas are definitely welcome. Oh yeah and we will be getting a dedicated server to run the site here very shortly. So love it hate it there it is. There still a little work that needs to be done but it’s pretty much there. If you guys see a deal and end up buying it, or go to the shop for a first time because you saw it here, please let these retailers know that you heard about it here, let them know that this is paying off for them. Any questions or comments or suggestions please feel free to reply to this thread or you can send me a private message or email. Jon
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    WTB: Panda Suit

    You can keep the car, who knows where it's been.
  17. Looking for a Panda suit, maybe two or three if you have them. Probably need a large/xlarge size.
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    Posting Attachments

    Just email it to me.
  19. Too bad that wasn't on the test.
  20. Actually I didn't read most of the thread so I didn't cheat, but I got that one pretty easily. My language skills on the other hand are so suck.
  21. I'll go out on a limb here and say that Dru is probably the smartest fucker here, Off White is close behind. Didn't General Schwartzkopf have an IQ of 181? I'll take the test now, hopefully there will be lots of science questions.
  22. What time are you going at? Hey Erik you should go, you might pass your belay test this time!
  23. I got seperated from my partner on a trip to Ingalls and thinking I didn't have my headlamp pretty much ran most of the way down to car to avoid getting caught in the dark, taking wrong turns at one point, good times. My legs hurt like hell for days, I bet that is what happened, just put high amounts of stress for an extended period.
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