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RICK, RIP BITCH!

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Yeah I've seen that setup before, it's pretty cool. I think the only problem is with the biner on the end you seriously increase the potential of your rope getting stuck above you.

Check online for Bend, you can roll with me if you get one, I might be staying down there a while though.

Bend, OR and The Gorge, same weekend.

Bronco, you dumbass, you forgot to ask how much they can deadlift!

Wierd. I guess I'll start a new poll and post the link in reply. 24th - 26th isn't an option because it is the Jack Johnson/G.Love concert.

Sketch, go get a map. If you aren't familiar with the area it is easy to get lost and be going in circles forever. The trail is marked, but like Oregon road signs not super obvious.

Email from Christian Beckwith Alpinist Magazine is seeking contributions from climbers for its next issue. In particular, we‚re looking for pieces for two departments: The Climbing Life and Short Pitches.The Climbing Life offers a forum for our readers to share their observations from their own climbing experiences. The section features succinct essays, revealing anecdotes, amusing insights, pithy observations, tightly written slander and bald-faced lies on climbing-related subjects of the author‚s choosing. Essays, vignettes and anecdotes should not be about you, your friends or your climbing. Rather, they should offer an impartial, third-person observation about some aspect or occasion of the climbing life that amuses, appalls, inspires, excites, arouses, infuriates or in some other way moves you. Pieces should be well-written, 250- to 500-word essays that capture the color, sound, and/or taste of the world from the climber's perspective. Pay is $.30 per word for the piece; submit pieces to submissions@ alpinist.com. Short Pitches are another reader-driven forum that allow authors to capture those treasured moments we find on our climbs in poetic vignettes. The precision and brevity of Short Pitches render them a close cousin to haikus: they should be no more than 250 words and paint simple images based on very specific, very concise occurences from your climbs. Pay is $.30 per word for the piece; submit them to submissions@alpinist.com. Thanks!

YOU STARTED IT! MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

And you mean taking it to the individual as in your first post of this thread?

Greg, do you know what that is the sound of?

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May Valley and Maple Valley have some good rides, and there is a backroad section in Maple Valley that kicks ass if you have some people to amp it up with. I like riding out to Carnation and Snoqualmie from Redmond, good hill work, not many cars, very peaceful at times. The Nestle Horse area is incredible.

And you wonder why? Read what you wrote below. Completely rediculous. Why the hell should it? That's like saying "Dude those new La Sportiva Ice boots suck because they don't work with my Salomon downhill bindings." Yeah no shit. Can a windows machine plug directly into a network, discover all computers windows and mac, and be able to connect to them without changing ANY settings. The answer is a certifiable no. Regardless HARDLY any people have the need for this capability, connecting to AD that is. BTW when is windows going to install firewall software. And oh yeah Loren, Mac require a patch every couple months as opposed to twice a day. I use Firefox and I can read any website correctly that isn't using that .net garbage.

have you actually ever compared a powerbook to a PC equiv or do you just assume they are the best? Yes, their style is nice but they are seriously fucking overpriced. It isn't even like the iPod where their design is nice and the wheel thing is cool. You just get to pay more for the little apple logo. They also use suck ass HDs, which is the limiting factor in notebooks these days. Lots of the PC manufactures are now offering 5400 and 7200 rpm drives in notebooks now as options, thank god. BTW, for what it's worth, if you are intersted in style, check out the new Sony S series. Widescreen 13" WXGA super-brite screens and great components. From your requirements it looks like you are looking for something cheaper and more utilitarian tho... Nols posted a pic of the centrino stuff.that is the key. well, centrino is basically just marketing for built in wireless + pentium M, but the Pentium M is far and away the best mobile processor on the market today. Their battery life can't be beat. On a random note...the super-brite screens (like in the sony I mention above) are fucking amazing. They are nite and day better than the standard laptop screens. Let's dispel a few rumors here. First Apple users aren't any more stupid than PC users. Loren you do tech support and you know this man. PC users are just as dumb. And it doesn't help that PCs have literally thousands of things that can go wrong with them. Why doesn't my video card work? Why is there no sound? Why isn't my internet work? A common complain from a PC user is that Macs are confusing, and this is based off a their impression in 1995 running OS 8. Yes going from a MSDOS environment to a graphical environment, with this wierd mouse thing is strange. OS X is by far the coolest operating system I've ever used, and I've used a lot. It doesn't crash, it has great innovative features, and it's fun to use. Seriously fucking overpriced. Yes they are. And there is a reason, because THEY SERIOUSLY FUCKING WORK! You can either buy a cheap laptop running windows and have it break and lose your hair and be weeks without it while it's being repaired, or dealing with missing DLLs. Or you can get a Powerbook and never have to deal with any of these problems. If time is important to you like it is me, I'd rather pay for something that works than something that I will spend hours trying to get to work. I gave up a fast, dual monitor, w2k system at work to use my Powerbook instead. I can run all the same apps I need, my networking to our w2k works better than w2k machines, and I don't have to worry about intrusion because my employeer won't put in a firewall. In my group, every w2k machine has been hacked.

Please vote for your favorite date.

Most of your energy during climbing comes from fat stores, BUT your body cannot use your fat stores unless you have carbs in your system. You can replenish 8000 calories, it's just a matter of whether you are willing to carry it.

DUUUUUUUDE, It's shorts over polypro, no wonder you couldn't hack it in the mounties! Is that a meatloaf?

Does 98 support USB? Shit should just plug and play, right? Maybe you should get a mac. CD burners are notorious for corrupting systems on windowz.

Don't hate the player, hate the !

Icicle Fire: What’s New: Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest Type III Incident Management Team (Incident Commander: Rick Long) is now managing the firefighting effort. Fire camp remains at the Leavenworth National Fish Hatchery, but the number of fire personnel and other resources are being reduced. Two helicopters, two fire engines, and 214 personnel are still assigned to the fire. Fire Status: The fire is contained, but continues to smolder within the fire perimeter. Crews will continue to patrol the fire area putting out any hot spots they locate close to the firelines. They are also working on fire rehabilitation including constructing erosion control diversions on fire lines, repairing stream crossings, and seeding grass. Specific concerns or questions about fire rehabilitation may be addressed to Don Youkey at the Leavenworth Ranger District. Fire Facts: Started: July 15th by a lightning strike. Location: Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests, Lake Wenatchee and Leavenworth Ranger Districts, approximately 9 miles southwest of Leavenworth, in the Icicle Creek drainage. Community: The Icicle Fire is not threatening the community of Leavenworth. All areas north of Icicle Creek Road are open. The shoreline along the south side of Icicle Creek is also open to allow people fishing to wade the creek and stand on the opposite shoreline. A closure remains in effect until further notice for an area south of Icicle Creek, and includes the following: ß Trout Lake Trail #1555 and Trout Lake ß Eightmile-Trout Lake Trail #1554 from Trout Creek to Windy Pass ß Jack Ridge Trail #1557 ß Lake Ruth ß Lake Victoria ß The west and north sides of Windy Pass ß Mt. Cashmere will also remain closed to climbing. Trinity Fire: Fire Facts: Started July 22nd by a lightning strike. Location: Lake Wenatchee and Leavenworth Ranger Districts, in the Chiwawa River drainage, 3 miles north of Trinity (50 miles north of Leavenworth) in the Glacier Peak Wilderness. A closure remains in effect until further notice and includes the following locations: ß Chiwawa Valley Trail (#1550) (The Buck Cr. (#1513) and Phelps Cr. (#1511) Trails are open.) Extended forecast: Current weather is clear and dry with morning haze. Two weak upper level disturbances will slightly lower daytime temperatures to the mid-80s to low 90s. Valley winds to 6 MPH are expected to clear the air. Recreation Opportunities: Leavenworth area campgrounds are open. Leavenworth area trails are open except those south of Icicle Creek, listed above. Lake Wenatchee area campgrounds and trails are open, except Chiwawa Valley Trail (above). On the Leavenworth and Lake Wenatchee Ranger District, campfires are restricted to established fire rings in developed campgrounds only. Outside of these developed campgrounds, all other fires and use of charcoal briquettes are prohibited. FIRE DANGER REMAINS VERY HIGH!!

Several of the moderators, including mattp and TTT, have gone through and indexed a lot of the reports. If you there are TRs that need to be indexed still you could send the moderator for that forum a PM or reply to the thread asking for it to be indexed. We are just starting to migrate to the version of the message board. Most of the suggestions are definately doable, just a matter of finding time to do it.

Jessica Simpson wants to be on the next cc.com GGC (Girlz Gone Cragin) video. She likes cragin better than snowshoeing because she doesn't have to put on those gross dried beaver tails.