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The map above is with the old TRs and it's a fully functional mockup. Getting all the TRs into the map is going to take some time. To elaborate on what I said above, part of the problem is that in the USGS data there is a Short Peak and a West Mountain etc, and when I strip those I'm searching with Short or West, which obviously will hit a lot of TRs. The idea I'm working with right now is that when someone posts a TR they are given the option of adding the location/s name (with autosuggest from our database), which ties into our peak/location table. I say location because it could be a crag as well. If the location doesn't exist they will have the option of adding it to the system. I'd be interested in hearing about how people would like to be able to search TRs. One idea that came to mind is to be able to search a month range.

the worst crime a man can commit is being ordinary True true. You can be out of the ordinary and make a spreadsheet with all your TR locations for me to import.

The elevation is coming from the USGS data. The crux in all of this is how to get the USGS peak names to match up with the TR names, which can have abbreviations, misspellings, a chained TR, or crazy name (Ivan!) etc. What I'm basically doing right now is filtering the USGS peak names subtracting out "mountain, mount, peak" and then doing a full text search with that truncated name against the TR table, saving it as a one to many relationship since one TR can have many peaks. The whole point of this is that we have 7000 TRs and individually indexing them all would take forever, so this is the start, and then manually digging through the rest to provide a location. I still need to add Oregon and BC data. From there I need to come up with an elegant way of people flagging TRs that have the wrong peak associated with them, as well as don't have a location yet.

Scotch induced coding. Getting close to something useable.

Can people report any downtime or slowness to us, either here or in a PM. Performance seems to be pretty good right now but some feedback would be nice.

We are sorry for the downtime this morning. We just moved our databases onto newer faster hardware but obviously there is something not right. We'll get it figured out. Thanks for the understanding.

Man, it's been almost 8 years since my buddy cratered there. We still aren't sure what happened but somehow he became untied at the top of the route. He was in pretty bad shape and we weren't sure he'd make it, but recovered from a pretty bad brain injury and still works and has kids. Positive vibes for you guys dealing with this!

Yup. I've taken the USGS peak data, dumped in a db, and am figuring out the best way to query the TR data to index it.

I'm too excited about this not to start posting some teasers. COUNT( * ) name lat lng elevation 249 Mount Rainier 46.85277778 -121.76027780 14416 88 Mount Adams 46.20250000 -121.49055560 12287 9 Little Tahoma Peak 46.84944444 -121.71222220 11014 39 Glacier Peak 48.11111111 -121.11388890 10433 148 Mount Baker 48.77722222 -121.81333330 10420 12 Bonanza Peak 48.23777778 -120.86611110 9347 172 Mount Stuart 47.47500000 -120.90305560 9209 32 Buckner Mountain 48.49500000 -120.99777780 9091 6 Mount Fernow 48.16194444 -120.80805560 9078 112 Mount Shuksan 48.83083333 -121.60305560 9058 3 Seven Fingered Jack 48.15055556 -120.81388890 9022 26 Mount Maude 48.13722222 -120.80388890 9016 25 Goode Mountain 48.48277778 -120.91083330 8989 12 Mount Spickard 48.96944444 -121.24027780 8970 20 Mount Logan 48.53666667 -120.95194440 8937 18 Black Peak 48.52333333 -120.81555560 8920 4 Gardner Mountain 48.50722222 -120.48805560 8911 60 Eldorado Peak 48.53750000 -121.13416670 8861 9 Dome Peak 48.30166667 -121.03166670 8852 3 Lincoln Peak 48.76805556 -121.85944440 8842 14 Mount Redoubt 48.95805556 -121.30166670 8822 117 Dragontail Peak 47.47861111 -120.83333330 8809

Are Mitt's kids going to enlist when he takes us to war with Iran?

Sprayers and Sprayettes, We are moving to some new database hardware tonight at midnight, so the forum will be closed at 11:30PM. We are hoping this will alleviate some of our issues with the site being unresponsive. We should be back online by 1am. Love, The Stuntaz

Don't forget about the financial deregulation that led to 1 million people losing their homes and an 17% effective unemployment rate!

Man that sounds a whole lot better then sending hundreds of thousands of our citizens into 3 foreign countries to have 6500 of them die and tens of thousands more seriously injured.... over a bunch of lies.

http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=1&Number=190294&Searchpage=1&Main=13163

Gator posted an investigation on here somewhere about the Kropp incident. I believe the first piece that pulled was too small.

Things seemed to have stabilized a bit so we have upped the search range back up to 11 years. We are still working on getting onto some faster hardware.

Man I don't have room for one of those things! I had to get a roof box to accommodate the BOB and the dog for longer trips. Now we have nowhere for the box. Now I get worse gas mileage! Who's stupid f*$@ing idea was this!

Thanks everyone. Looks like there are a lot more options then I realized. He's in the 97th percentile right now so this is going to get interesting.

John, which LittleLife did you get? What logic are people using for this, getting a light carrier for the mom to carry the kid and the dad carries everything else, or getting a big carrier for the dad to carry and mom carries as much as she can. He's in the 98th percentile so mom is going to be carrying him for a pretty limited time. A bit off topic but what age did people start doing overnights?

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What are people using and liking? Both the Deuter and Osprey look like pretty good options.

Hey Everyone, As I'm sure everyone has noticed we've been having some problems the last week or so which culminated in today's downtime. There are two issues behind this. First, our database for the forum has grown in size to the point where some of the queries are bogging down the database server. As a short term solution we are looking at getting our databases on some better hardware. Second, our web host, who we've been with for 10 years, appears to be having problems keeping up with their growth. They have served us well (no pun intended), but it's time to find something that fits us better. Before these issues even came up I started looking at our options, and we are still evaluating those. I'm hoping to get our servers in Seattle to remove one weak link in this puzzle. There is actually one last issue. There might be a misconception that there are several of us working full-time running cc.com, which is far from the truth. There are two of us right now, just Porter and myself, and we keep this up, dealing with host issues, tech support, help desk support, all the non-sense, in our spare time. So with that in mind I hope everyone can hang in here with us as we work through these server issues. Thanks!

It looks like we are back up! I'll have more about this and what we are trying to do to rectify this tonight.

I found my max HR by going down a deep dark hole. Max HR isn't a measure of fitness, just a measure of what your genetics gave you. Training can make it go higher. More importantly though is to be able to do an effort at that level and be able to recover from it repeatedly. Saying your 205 doesn't mean anything if you are curled up in a ball barfing on yourself. OBLA = Onset of Blood Lactate Accumulation. You measure it with a blood lactate meter and it is basically the balance point of when lactate is produced faster then it is removed. Unless you are training by power or distance/time it's not a terribly useful test because in a lot of individuals HR can be effected by how rested your are, time of day, caffeine intact, stress, etc. A pretty good way to determine your aerobic threshold it to do a 20 minute time trial/workout on whatever it is your doing, whether it is the bike, running, stair climber, and take your average HR from that effort.

That is the formula stamped on all exercise equipment. It's irrelevant. I'm in my 30s and have a max HR of 205. I've bike raced with guys the same age who's max HR is 178, which was my aerobic threshold. It has nothing to do with fitness, more genetics. You can have a high max HR and have a low OBLA value, or vice versa.