AlpineK

right ...whatever

shut up Dru Hey man I've got a rope sitting in my garage. PM me and it's yours.

Judging by the pictures you posted last year with the sheepskin vest and that bandana you'll have no problem dressing in lederhozen. Achtung baby

A friend of mine knew people who worked at this job. I guess there's some potential for some sick routes. It's kind of like being paid to climb a much bigger version of the UW rock with tourists staring at you. The biggest downside is you have to wear lederhozen.

I'm going to look at a cherry tree this woman wants to kill later today; she doesn't want the wood.

Hey man I haven't gone for a pagetop for a while...plus I'm bored.

I love how this thread requesting the best material from CC.com has degenerated into mindless insults.

I'm sure that guy is a rocket scientist or brain surgeon.

If I was choosing an event to go to and I had the choice of watching a slide show of a woman doing some bad ass climb or watching another woman analyze the same woman through a filter of feminism I would choose the former; I can't even imagine going to see the latter. I work in a male dominated field. Of the 20 or so companies I know of around Seattle I don't know of one that would turn away anyone who applied for a job and showed that they had the work ethic and aptitude to do the job. Yet I could count the women that worked in my field and lasted more than a year on one hand. I don't think that women face any challenges that men don't in my field; I just think it illustrates the diference between men and women.

I think I would stay away from that lecture because I would have to hear terms like, "empowerment," or, "nurturing environment," over and over until I had to puke.

Oh yeah and to make Jay B happy we're spending 1 billion dollars every 4 days in Iraq. We could be developing new tecnology.

I believe most of the gas tax goes to pay for roads. I think folks would be willing to pay more for gas, and it wouldn't have a drastic effect if you added a tax for research or carbon sequestration. In the end we need to come up with some new tecnology. Guess what that tecnology is going to be built by a business and in the end it will be a positive contribution to our economy. Of course we could do nothing and let China come up with the tecnology and then buy it from them and increase our trade deficit with them.

I'm not sure anyone will ever be able to harness the power of spray. Everybody's always talking about new fuel sources, but I don't know. Everything I read says that it's going to be a long time before it's realistic to expect something like a hydrogen economy. I have read some good things about carbon sequestration recently. In fact one interview I listened to made it sound like it was a lot more likely to be practical in a relatively short time period as opposed to fuel cells. Also the cost quoted didn't seem too outrageous ...20 cents a gallon added cost to gas. The main problem is you've got Bush and his friends on one side who are going to fight tooth and nail for the status quo and on the other side you have environmental groups who will try and undermine any solution that isn't a silver bullet. I've also read about rich liberals from Cape Cod (like the Kennedys) who are fighting hard to stop an ofshore wind farm. I guess they care about the environment as long as it doesn't effect their property value.

After looking at the Kiwi route and the Angel Glacier on Wad for a week and then looking at the picture in Don's guide book I find this hard to believe.

Sophisticated....try stuck up. I saw this program on Canadian TV. I only saw a few minutes of it, but it's quite possibly the best TV program of all time. Trailer Park Boys

So there's a low snopack around Vancouver, and there's a low snowpack around Terrace, but Waddington is getting a normal snopack. Yes the elevation is higher, but you need precipitation to make snow. Seattle rainfall is 1.25" below normal for January. I'll have to look at rainfall totals further north. Edit: Environment Canada's 0-3 month prediction for precipitation is for below normal totals in BC. They show temperatures as average for coastal BC and below normal for central BC.

There are 2 areas on the base marked as, "Central Impact Zone," that you want to stay out of...especially if you hear gunfire.

Fun times. Good luck to you Ken. I'm going to have to try and climb Mt. Kenya sometime. Maybe I'll come visit.

I just looked at the Snow report for Shames mtn. up in Terrace. They have about 95cm at the lodge which is a really pathetic amount. It's lower elevation than Wadd for sure, but I wouldn't be too optimistic about the snow pack at Waddington.

hmm...No sir, I didn't like it.

How many 'yahoos' here do you think will actually catch your reference to "A Modest Proposal"?? Huh...what? Duh... that's so fucking obvious it's pathetic.

Sadly I have to agree with this statement.

Yeah...I need new AT ski boots.