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I believe it is because the racers aren't allowed on the course at a certain time period prior to the race. The teams are allowed to send forerunners down the course to check out conditions before the race, but I think thats it. So by having the women race a different course they don't have the advantage of sitting in front of the tv the night before the race analyzing how the conditions are.

Lyle, where did you learn the ancient art of phantom humping?

quote: Originally posted by vegetablebelay: What the hell is this topic doing in Mount Rainier NP? Can we get a moderator here?

I had a similar injury for about six years due to high muscle tension in my back and legs, as well as significant overdevelopment on one side of my upper body. Lots of pain. Lots of doctors with egos with misdiagnoses. No solution until this summer when I went to a new doctor and he was willing to admit that he wasn't sure what was wrong and the best thing to do was send me to a good physical therapist and have them work out the problem. After about six weeks of PT at the UW sports medicine clinic they isolated the problem and for the most part I have been pain free.

Came across this today, pretty interesting. http://www.dpreview.com/news/0202/02021101foveonx3.asp

Props to Dr. E for calling out R&I on the increasing amount of advertising and decrease in actual reading. I understand advertising is how they make their money and keep subscription costs down, but seriously, some of these ads are worthless. I usually don't off like this but really, where shall I begin. Open up the front and your greeted a two page Pusher spread of Dave Grahams's hands covered with chalk, but uh oh, he's got a little cut on his finger. Man he must have done some crazy ass V420 or something to get that. What's pushing me Dave? Dave you little bitch stop crying about you finger and get two 4 inch stainless steel plates and 14 screws put in your arm and give me a call. I bang myself up more at the gym in the night, suck it up. Umm ba by. Next page. Mammut. Dude. I love you stuff, but do you honestly think some kid with red eyes and a pierced nose is going to sell me a fucking rope? Oh god it's a Nissan ad, trying to sell me a Xterra so I can look like every other trust fund kiddy out there. Homey you wouldn't be so banged up if you didn't fall off you bike so much. Oh yeah soft tails suck get a real bike I'm done ranting for now.

I was skiing at alpental a week ago on sunday and there was some guys climbing all day next too the quad. Every time I came up the chair lift there were people standing there watching. I'm not saying that they don't have a right to be there but you can easily see it from the chair lift, and people want to watch. Skiing on friday night I couldn't believe how well lighted that particular flow is, I'm surprised I haven't seen people up there at night before. I'd be really f@cken careful though, there is a ton of snow up there and there is a reasonable steep slope above it that is pretty well loaded.

that ain't me dude.

I'm just read this whole thing and I'm still not sure what the hell people are argueing about. Who wrote the Couloir article? Anyways I've wanted to ski that ever since Phil sent me that picture. Rumor has it that Phil and Greg sit-started the descent which makes it like two grades harder dude, so if they don't have the first descent than they have the first crazy sick sit start descent. Say that three times really fast beyotch!

quote: Originally posted by Jason Martin: In 1996 two college aged climbers were killed in the Source Lake Cirque. Jason I remember those guys from SAR training way back when, pretty darn sad.

quote: Originally posted by W: Sounds like paid ad to me. Fuck it ain't us! I wrote these guys a longshot email a few months back to see if they would send us a couple units to test out. Idea was to get a few and give them to a few of you fine folks in exchange for a review on them to see how revolutionary they really are. I'm sure Climbing will write a glowing review in exchange for lots of full page ad mula. Obvioulsy I got no response.

my personal fav

i just can't help myself

no phil it adds up to i'm leaving work right now to go throw some japan airs and look for ski bunnies.

I pulled the thread Mike. If you want to threaten people send them an email or something, don't bother posting it here becaue I'll just erase it. Are we clear?

Geez what a day, first someone calls me fat, now I'm a professional nob shiner. Man I don't know how much more of this I can take

Icegirl you don't know where that is? Ropegun2002 might have to edumacate you. That's Monkey Face at Smith Rock.

Larson you suck that is only two words! LOL. How bout this: Had Major Stock In Enron.

I just got off the phone with our hosting company, told them to look out for seal team 6 dropping out of nightstalkers and some really angry dude hot boxing in a humvee. There is a tech support girl there, I think her name is Tracy, sounds kinda cute on the phone so could you maybe spare her?

Werd. There are about 7 more pictures up and they all have captions now. More to come....

The skiing tonight was absolutely awesome, the snow was exceptionally dry. I might just go up every night this week, it is that good.

I've put about 20 new pictures up on the front page. They are missing captions because my text editor crashed. I've only got about 50 more pictures to do . If you wanna check em out without having to refresh a thousand times just start with this one and work up http://www.cascadeclimbers.com/images/home/front_69.jpg .

People may disagree with me but I think MOFA is a waste of time. I had to take MOFA for a SAR requirement, and we set up a thing through the Mounties. I haven't taken the WFR but after my experience with MOFA I wish I would have spent the time taking something else like WFR. For the time spent I didn't come out really learning anything new, and the certification at the end was a bunch of crap, supervised by people who were obviously incompetent. If you've had no prior first aid experience MOFA may be a good option, but my guess is you've had some pretty comprehensive first aid training in Ranger school and something like WFR or EMT would be time well spent.

<lunchbreak> I think it is hard for anyone to know who posts on this site, if you don’t want people to know who you are you quite capable of doing it. Maybe Christine Boskoff does (or did!? lol). Fact is there lots of talented people who post and most likely there is a lot of talented people who don’t. Whether they are a “greats” or not there are people who don’t post here regardless of their experience level for varying reasons. Is it because they don’t have a thick enough skin and are afraid of getting mobbed on? Maybe they just don’t believe in disseminating climbing info on the net. I don’t really know the answer. I’ve met a lot of really cool people because of this site. I’ve also met a bunch of people who are aware of the site but don’t post here and they let me know why they don’t. I’m hesitant to let people know who I am partly because more than often people have a hard time distinguishing the difference from the person who runs the website versus the content that people post on it. People have been pretty rude to me about this whole deal, and while I’m pretty open to criticism and don’t take it personally, you can’t help but wonder how is what’s said here any worse than how they just treated me. It would be nice to see more people post here though regardless of whether they are a newbie or a “legend”. The more people who contribute the more likely you are to get the beta on the climb you just itching to do, or someone to buy that tent you just dying to get rid of, or the partner you need because your new to the area. I can’t think of one negative thing that would come from more people posting here, legends or not. But to be honest I don’t think that will happen unless people start treating each other with a little more respect and stop posting really senseless shit. And this isn’t something will come from policing the site, it’s going to have to come from the group policing itself. People accuse me of being some cyber cop or garbage like that but to be honest I don’t read about a tenth of what is posted here because I’m to busy at work and just don’t have the time or just don’t care. You can argue day in and day out about the merits or evil of spray, but it’s not the spray that detracts the outsiders, it’s some of your attitudes. I’m going to leave it up to the group what direction this message board goes. </lunchbreak>

So how is everyones New Years Resolutions going? Mine was to eat healthier.... is the beer, bag of potato chips, block of cheese, and crackers that are sitting here as I write this count as healthy?