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Dru bought it to carry his massive star trek action figure collection around in. Bingo.

Don't worry I'm not going to sell your precious battery charger. As of 10 minutes ago the truck is sold. Of course it ain't a done deal till I see the $$$. I still have a chipper and a International with a knuckelboom up for sale. I'm willing to part with the knuckelboom for 5 grand. You can pick up 3000 lbs logs with that thing.

I also lived in Moscow for 6 years. I was pretty shocked to hear about that shooting. As far as gun control goes something may need to be done, but I'm totally against taking away somebody's right to hunt or shoot targets. I had a bunch of friends in Moscow that hunted. They were all great folks and very responsible.

On a side note: I just got my PMI insurance dropped. I didn't own 20% of the house so the bank sent out an appraiser to look at the condition of my place. All the repair and improvements to my place really jacked up the value and thus the portion of the property value that is mine if I were to sell the place. I still have homeowner insurance though.

USGS maps are the standard that all these other companies use and manipulate to their liking. To the best of my knoledge you can go straight to the source and get a cd of USGS maps then if you like combine a couple grids to get your perfect map. In the past I've used a lot of Canadian topos. Most of my trips have been during cold and wet conditions. To deal with this I stick the section I want in a ziplock bag or coat the maps with goo to help prevent moisture damage. The bottom Line is I'm using a USGS map (or Canadian equivalent) and the other companies are just trying to sell you on their manipulation of a USGS map. Why pay them when you can coat the map yourself or get a ziplock.

There's a very small bit of chips. If you want to go full on I've got a chipper for sale too. Then you can drive around and chip branches for your own custom chips.

There's probably nobody here who really wants this, but I need to start selling it. The rig has about 200 grand in miles. These things can go up to 500,000 before you've got real problems. As it is you can pack the thing full of chips and then dump them with the hydraulic dump. There's plenty of spots for gear with one 5'x 6' storage bed behind the cab and two smaler boxes under the dump box. It also comes with this IMT lift You need to put some new wire rope on the thing, but it lifts up to 500 pound logs Anyway I'm asking $13,000 for the thing in as is condition

Wow. I'd forgotten all about that, and some of the details are still a bit sketchy. I've been running stairs, but I'm not sure I'm in good shape to Beck this weekend at the Ski In.

Camping right at Smith used to be cool back in the old days when you could crash right on the picnic benches. Now you have to pay to camp at their, "special," camping site. The only thing it has going for it is they have showers, but even without camping you can still show up and fork over a couple bucks and take a shower if you want to. Skull Hollow rules. of course the politically incorrect name is Skullfuck Hollow.

The computer salesman eyed you up and could tell you weren't ready for full size internet pages.

On a similar note how long should the pig have remained hanging on Model Worker? Trust me a lot of work went into hanging it. All and all an interesting fight, but I have no real opinion to post. edit: shit I failed to realize I had to make it to page 6 Here's a real opinion: A 6 page online argument means nothing

I can't speak for climbing, but I've done a bunch of bc skiing in the Wallowas. Skiing there was great and you could see a lot of peaks that looked like they might have good climbing. I'm not sure how much cragging there is close to the car, but if you're willing to walk I bet you could find some good climbing.

It's more than some people

Do a search on CC for Dan's Dreadful Direct

Well a 15 year old Sherpa chick climbed the mountain, so she doesn't get the big prize. The next big event is when the first preteen climbs the mountain.

That was a pretty cool trip. I've done some multiday traverses in the Cascades, but obviously there's a lot of cool stuff that I have to put on the list.

All the power Seattle gets comes from there. I believe the city built the town when they were building the dams.

I remember some cool climbing cartoons with Tin Tin.

There will be some rock climbing interest. I'd give you a ride if I could drive.

I may have to show up. The 29th is my birthday

Crotch Rocket

I would have said something like that if I hadn't been in a hurry to catch the bus.

The only thing I've ever liked about the Mazama store is it's the closest place to climbing and skiing with beer and food. Service typically sucks though I've never had to wait behind 20 lesbo bikers who cut in line and shit. Actually I don't have an issue with lesbos, but using their status as a mega group that has more rights than everybody else sucks donkey dicks (not that they would like to suck donkey dicks) The brewery in Twisp is a good spot.

I was busy at the doctors yesterday, so I didn't weigh myself. Right now I'm at 212.5 lbs. By the rules of the start date I'm down 4 pounds or by my start date I'm down 7.5. I've actually put on some weight since last Wednesday when I was at 210 even.

I vary on how much I read a TR. If it's a climb I want to do or have good memories of having done then I may read the whole thing. Other times I may not want to take the time to read them, but I enjoy looking at the pictures. If you're going to post a TR of Das Tooth then you'll get more interest if the account of the trip and the pictures are mixed with funny and possibly stupid stuff that happened on your climb.