jon

60 minutes @ 158 on the stairs made you throw up and use all of your glycogen? Maybe you're doing it wrong Or maybe her max HR is 175. Everyone's is different.

I was under the impression we did cardio all the time?

So these guys post a poster of an Eagle on monkey face and in the process kill three hatchlings?

I've had to make a temporary change to our search function. The biggest range you can search now is just 1 year. I will change this back after we get a better handle on this.

MySQL. We've had a DBA look into things. The problem is we have some pretty expensive queries, mainly the forum search query. I've been working on moving the forum search over to Solr which is insanely fast. We are also looking at moving the db onto a separate VPS or maybe a dedicated.

It looks like we have some of the issues worked out for the time being. Please don't hesitate to let us know if you run into performance issues.

Ditto on the IB 260. I've abused the hell out of mine and I sweat like mad. Check out the MEC T3. It's been a good hooded top as well. http://www.mec.ca/AST/ShopMEC/MensClothing/Hoodies/PRD~5016-259/mec-t3-stretch-hoodie-mens.jsp

We have are on a dedicated dual core 4Gigs ram, standard LAMP setup. Our db is on a shared DB server. We are looking at moving the DB onto the dedicated and putting nginx in front of apache to serve static content.

We now have the dog on the problem. We are sorry for the continued problems. Some of our database queries are taking up to 91 seconds which is totally unacceptable.

Tecnica's fit wide feet better. If you ski a lot I'm of the opinion finding a good fitter comes first, then have them recommend the best boot for your feet, then have them tailor the boot if necessary. Why spend all that money to ski to have your feet ache/hurt/kill the entire time? I have odd feet and I was lucky in that the shop owner had the same feet as me and knew exactly which boot to put me in.

What are you in right now? What are you feet like? Do you have kancles?

Coquihalla Hwy, a few miles err kilometers west of the pass.

Jim Nelson, owner of Pro Mountain Sports and author of Selected Climb in the Cascades 1 and 2, has written a great piece on how to choose the right ice axe. http://cascadeclimbers.com/blog/2012/02/23/ice-axe-review-how-to-buy-an-ice-axe-by-jim-nelson/ Thanks to Jim for the great article. They are coincidentally haveing a BD sale right now so if you are in the market for a new axe check out the article and head over to their store.

We've got another great article by Blake in the blog about gear you should leave behind and what to use in place of it. http://cascadeclimbers.com/blog/2012/02/23/forget-that-bulk-webbing-by-blake-herrington/ I've posted this here because I'm sure this is going to generate some great discussion. Feel free to reply in the blog as well.

We're having some server troubles today, sorry for the slowness. We have everyone in our corporate office working on the problem.

You guys made the right choice. We went touring in Manning on Thursday and there was a pretty good crust.

Can we save all the speculation and poor choices talk for another day? Let's let people grieve for the loss of their friends, and then hopefully gain some insight into what happened so the rest of us can learn from what happened. Thanks.

@ryanb interesting about the Plums. I might have to read more about it. Nick, I think the answer depends on a few factors including how light and how rich you are. If you are neither, I would go with the Fritschi since it sounds like you are a lift skier. Reason is they are more bomber and generally cheaper then other setups. You can ski them like a normal ski including fast GS turns. They also ski better inbounds if you are doing a lot of side-country. I just got back from a trip where we did some side country and some of the skiing out in the resort was survivalist, and I was glad I wasn't on my Plums. If you feel after a season or two you want a higher performance touring setup, then move to a dynafit setup. In that progression you end up have a quiver that works for everything instead of a rather big gap between skis.

How bout a pros and cons of all the fabrics and insulation available, including care tips Yes that's a great idea.

Thanks everyone! We are on top of this.

Please keep spray out of the Access Forum.

What about that shop in Port Townsend.

Did it come with a year of free service? I know the Costco ones did. I have an original spot and would love the newer one.

YOU CAN STUDY ONLINE........ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/

I want to build on what John said. Everything he said is true. Ride the 545 from the Microsoft campus to downtown Seattle and you will start thinking differently about your professional future. The other consideration you need to make is getting work experience. Two years ago when unemployment was at it's peak we hired 2 entry level positions (I work in science). We received 40 resumes that had been vetted by HR. 40. Of those I think we interviewed maybe 5. There were people with 20 years of experience, with Masters and PhDs, lots of industry experience for an entry level job paying nothing. There were also, and I have no problem revealing this, a lot of UW graduates with double degrees, great grades and deans list, even a few going straight to masters, but they had ZERO relevant work experience, just some labs. Those went into the garbage. Maybe I'm unconventional, but part of the educational process is actually getting work experience to apply your knowledge. So make sure you choose a program and a city that will accommodate that.