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And a step-ladder... Step ladder not required with sheep and goats. Light is right baa

Nice find Tav. I was pretty sure JayB was quoting some questionable sources. Kind of like the time he claimed growing organic food was so expensive based on the costs of bags of designer soil at Whole Foods Market [video:youtube]

Velcro gloves and goat mating call sold separately. baa

I think you need to consider what grades of climbs you plan to do. If it's all Alpine or Water Ice 3 then you can get away with whatever works best for your preferred style of skiing. When you start climbing harder ice or mixed things get tricky. Heavy, stiff boot suck when climbing, and light flexible boots rule. The question is where do you need the flex. If you're in crampons all the time you want ankle flexibility but a stiff foot bed is just fine. I got some of the new Dynafit TLT 5s last winter. Each boot weighs a pound lighter than one of my old Megas. They have a vibram sole with a rocker design. The ankle flexibility is crazy. In climb mode they're almost like light hiking shoes, but they lock down solid for skiing. I know I suck for product plugging but... I'm not familiar with they bindings or boots ilookeddown is talking about. If they eliminated the duck bill that is an advantage for climbing ice. It all boils down to how hard do you want to climb, and try before you buy. You'll have to figure out what kind of fashion statement you want to make Splitboarder comment in 5, 4, 3...

CC has a ton of great Trip Reports and discussion. Of course bickering on the Internet is endemic. It ain't just CC. Here's a nice song. [video:youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ1gJanU3iw

[img:left]http://cf.mp-cdn.net/91/cf/0e0a05a24854683123462d42aaae.jpg[/img] [img:center]http://s1.postimage.org/1i1di3hxg/Texas_system.jpg[/img] [img:center]http://wasg.iinet.net.au/srt/prus.gif[/img] Of course some folks only use one prussic unless competition rules demand a backup. [video:youtube]

If JayB and KK move to the Fracklands and process waist water by drinking it that should make up for the problems.

Not me, but the answer is yes. I did find toner a nice avatar image

I went straight to the requested web page twice using Chrome. Maybe you have mice in your computer or the service provider does

Perhaps they don't have the search function that says, "Did you mean..." like Google does. Possibly an oversight, or installing a function like that is a major time consuming pain.

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Walk away form the board and I missed 2 whole pages of in depth research

My idea is spend more money on these [video:youtube] Deeper in debt? So what, more wars and military spending will fix everything I'm sure the CC brain trust will fill in two more pages of boring drivel by 2PM

Nice pics! Mmmm powder In the Fall folks want to ski since they've probably taken time off and or miss it. The same is true about climbing in the spring.

You got some issues with Bob KK? [img:center]http://img.perezhilton.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/bob-hope__oPt.jpg[/img]

It would be cool if somebody came up with a [img:left]http://ualr.edu/lasmoller/mathresources/bigpi.gif'>http://ualr.edu/lasmoller/mathresources/bigpi.gif'>http://ualr.edu/lasmoller/mathresources/bigpi.gif[/img] [img:center]http://ualr.edu/lasmoller/mathresources/bigpi.gif[/img] [img:center]http://ualr.edu/lasmoller/mathresources/bigpi.gif[/img] Plan

Happy birthday Ivan! [img:left]http://www.greatdreams.com/nine/9starb.jpg'>http://www.greatdreams.com/nine/9starb.jpg'>http://www.greatdreams.com/nine/9starb.jpg[/img] [img:center]http://www.greatdreams.com/nine/9starb.jpg[/img] [img:center]http://www.greatdreams.com/nine/9starb.jpg[/img]

What's wrong with sauerkraut? Missing the Brat are you? [img:center]http://www.marions-kochbuch.com/food-pic/bratwurst-with-sauerkraut.jpg[/img]

Apparently the 9999 plan saves you 5 bucks. I'd say go for it.

The Pandora I know is around but not in the NW full time. I'm afraid yangxue is a one post wonder now.

It ain't too hard to figure things out [img:center]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/315053_2502169234844_1271355165_3030915_1224980822_n.jpg[/img]

It's interesting listing to Gil Scott's comments. A different era but.. [video:youtube]

I'm thinking all future VH Threads in Spray need this addition [img:center]https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s320x320/318388_10150339270951132_505386131_8073977_1180977071_n.jpg[/img] [video:youtube]

A friend and I met Derek Hersey on the Diamond. He was guiding a client on the Casual Route. The minute we saw him we told him to cruise on past us. Even with a client we knew we'd never keep up. He proceed to tell us about soloing two routes on the Diamond in a day which he connected by downclimbing the Casual Route. Something along the lines of, "I slid down the Casual Route." If that wasn't impressive enough he told us his dinner the night before this guiding trip consisted of a bottle of vodka and a block of cheese.

Anything floating unattended in the great lakes is free. Apparently lots of floating dope