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My understanding is that Madeone is stil closed and folks are still working with Clack. I think there was some turn over on their Board of Comm'rs and so folks thought there was a new chance to get it reopened. I'm not sure who's working on it, but I think a web search would turn up there names.

So why the hell don't sailors finish a bowline? I learned it for a number of reasons and learned to tie it with one hand. But nobody EVER told me to finish a bowline when I was tying into a harness on deck.

I learned to tie the bowline while sailing as well and then started climbing and wondered why those stupid sailors ever used the bowline to tie in. I heard several stories of fathers losing sons, husbands losing wives, friends losing dogs, over the side in a storm cause of a failed bowline. They are easy to mis tie and they work themselves lose unless you tend them regularly. I'll never use one in the mountains. But I've never learned to tie the double either.

The Swarm must have caused your childhood fears!

Shit guys, me and everyone I know has tons of scary skiing head injury stories. I feel naked inbounds without one. I guess if you don't ski that hard that it isn't that necessary, but I'm wearing mine.

I've got no idea what makes a $200 helmet better than a $80 helmet. Best bet is to get something comfortable with some type of soft liner on the inside if you're just using it for skiing. The good ones are way warmer than any hat you'll ever wear, but you won't want to wear them for aerobic activity because they'll be too hot.

I made it from Jackson, WY to Ann Arbor, MI in 30 hours by myself with a nap or two thrown in. I think you could get from PDX to Philly in 48 hours with two drivers no problem.

Spend the morning in the Muir hut. Seriously. Best hangover cure ever. You'll eat and keep it down. Then you'll pass out. Then you'll wake up a new man.

I've also got an extra seat leaving Friday at about 5:30. We're coming back on early Sunday morning but other will be coming back later.

Is this the big buttress that meets up with the big ledge and the start of Kashyra or whatever its called?

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If the terorrists really wanted a Dem in power and knew anything about anything they wouldn't escalate attacks before the election, because that would only serve to strengthen Bush's hold on power. The best way to get a Dem in power is to slowly and deliberately undermine the American economy until the election without letting anyone know about it.

so toast the lives they lived.

Well, I like the message, but I'm not sure the American people can deal with all that text. Maybe if they just had the cartoons and no words it would get some air play.

Shit, I can't believe you expect me to read that whole fucking sentence. Can't your draw a stick figure or trim it down to a two syllable slogan or something. This is America for fuck sake. I don't have time for journalism.

Peter De Vries (1910-93), U.S. author. The narrator (Joe Sandwich), in The Vale of Laughter, pt. 1, ch. 4 (1967). Sheesh, Scarmbler. Gettin a little nasty are we? Maybe this geography link will help the next time you're talking politics.

Yeah, yeah, pick out the three fairly graded climbs on the front side and call it good.

Hold on a second lest we just go on assuming that Smith is in the "stiff" category with Yos and Index. Come on. Maybe the Gorge is stiff (as stated above) but the rest of the tuff is pretty soft at the moderate grades.

We're dumb.

Niger and Nigeria are two different countries.

Get off the Clinton diversion shit. Noone is holding Clinton up as a model president, ok? Move on. Bush is a different person with different issues. Beck's got it right.

I think its complete bull shit the only thing the press picks up on is the fact that someone leaked the ID of a CIA operative. People, Bush LIED TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE INTELLIGENCE!! Christ, and now we're caught up in some stupid fucking who said what morass which the administration will spin in the media until we're all dizy and tired of it. Its all a freaking diversion from the real issue.

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SWEET!!! That's freaking awesome! We need more good tv like that.