tivoli_mike

Actually I was several blocks away in Downtown LA from Camp OJ by the courthouse. I had taken a stroll over there the day before and saw the media encampment. F*cking unbelievable. There was a four tiered interview bleacher stand where a guest would basically walk across and then down the steps through about ten different news crews...

Found this again whilst cleaning my office. Picked it up from a grandmother of an old gf. She originally claimed that they were selling these the year after JFK was killed in Dallas. There is a manufacture date of 1964 on the underneath. Nice Morbid pen holder for the desk, with snazzy Kennedy half-dollar holder.

"Mazamas $75 annual and $15 per climb for members" The Mazamas are like the Mounties, right? $15 a climb, for what, pray tell?

Link to Billmon

Send the Nose! Send the Nose!

Here is a set of JPGs of an old guide, should be a good start. Mt. Erie Ghetto Guide

Yeah, REI could be going belly-up any day now. Uh huh. On a positive note, though, the catalog that came with this year's dividend featured La Sportiva Katanas, which is the first high performance climbing shoe REI has carried in years. Perhaps the sleeping giant is waking up? Or acknowledging the explosive growth of climbing gyms. "Bouldering, its the new Yoga"

"It's difficult to tell how much time passes when you're listening to a solo from the depths of Hades." OK, this is not what I should be reading when its late on a Sunday night... The story is pretty gripping. Much like an old H.P. Lovecraft story

toof! luckily we were the second party up, in front of the party of five...

True, I am really curious as to what causes the drops in CO2 concentrations over time, it appears they peak shy of 300ppm and then there is a rapid decrease...farting cows being wiped out

Paleoclimate data like this though is a little more informative.

The glacier shots from this site are pretty good global climate

Then there is the Seattle Style With "accro branching"

There is never any waiting on viaferrata routes! Of course this looks kind of fun:

Note the railings...

that's just wrong. Of course now we can discuss various discussions of via ferratas ratings. Perhaps by how many blister you get on your hands from gripping the rungs.

Know someone in the oil business in AK who was a petroleum engineer. One day they asked all the engineers to line up at their office and the managers walked down the line and asked people to sound off "one or two". "Ones" were let go. This guy was a "two". Does wonders for morale...

*plonk*

Bush was right? He found the WMDs? Oh man, I must have missed that.

gotta love the mountie pics

Climb: Mt. Persis-West Ridge Date of Climb: 1/2/2005 Trip Report: Scottp and I with canine escort settled on this as a nice way to start the year. We were able to drive all the way to the trailhead for this climb, passenger cars will have no problem until the next dump of snow. Found the trail ( orange tape ) and began the steep ascent. This trail meant business... Encountered snow about 3300' which made passing one of the lower Talus fields quite tough. Not enough snow to cover the field but enough to make the rocks slick as ice. Finally broke into thick snow ( 6" worth ) around 4200' and did some postholing about 500' from the summit. The views were absolutely stunning of Index, Baker, Shuksan, Glaicer, Rainier, and the Columbia tower in downtown Seattle ( I am not kidding ). Ran into one other on the way down. Round trip from the car was about 5 hours with a couple of rest breaks and lunch at the summit. Gear Notes: wagon, leash Approach Notes: road is clear all the way to trailhead at 3000'

To Anacortes young man!!! Mt. Erie awaits!

I have got invites ( nine ) as while. PM and ye shalt receive!

Hmm, looking at the Canon site for printers: http://consumer.usa.canon.com/ir/controller?act=ProductCatIndexAct&fcategoryid=103 I don't see the 960, which one is it similar to? I am looking a printer as well for my new camera.