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I guess that would make Bush a "drinker" now, wouldn't it? Yup

Ski crampons. Seriously, 5mm isn't going to kill you. Nor will having the skins be 10-15mm narrower than the shovel.

Oh, we have enough faith that his red state ways were thoroughly expunged at Harvard, any lingering maladies were treated at Princeton, and Stanford saw fit to imbue him with Golden State liberalism.

Yes Mr President!

They forgot the most important part though: Making sure to warm the Thermos before you fill it.

He's not a crony - he's only been a bushie for a few months. A crony would have been picking some supplyside quack.

Dru- Anybody who's got a car in Africa is wealthy enough to be a target

Finally remembered to put the cover sheet on.

They give you head every run.

Unless you are going switch all full twin tips give you is an inability to stick your tales in the snow (no anchors!), big rooster tales, and a shorter contact length (hey! I've got 190's that really... 177s). Not that they are bad for what they are, but most of the park skis today seam rather disposable (of course so are foamcore atomics). After selling my Volkls I'm lusting after something a bit different.

There'd have to be women for them to be interested.

What, no link?

Says the boy with the useless equation on the front page...

The victims were blaming the government for a lack or response; inadequate food, tents, etc. Thought it interesting because of all of the "welfare state" tripe after Katrina.

It's human nature; read the comments of some of the earthquake victims and it sounds like Katrina.

No, this explains the spam

I don't think Messner said that; merely that the sport as widely practiced is different than it was. It does seem a different era. There are far more parties with money, skill, and desire, but no creativity than there were previously. How 11 different parties will fly to Patagonia to wait in line at the base of the Compressor route when their are hundreds of other lines to be climbed nearby, many unclimbed or rarely climbed.

Based on the experiences of people I know who do hospice/palliative care few people want to die, and very few people accept it easily. Accepting death is a very time consuming process for most people - look at Oregon's assisted suicide law and how few people who know they will die choose to end life prematurely. Every day matters. It's the young who accept death easily, perhaps because they don't know all life has to offer yet? I don't know, I do believe strongly that given a chance to live another day, and possibly climb another route most people would answer yes immediately. Perhaps many wouldn't regret the path that led them there, but few wouldn't change the last days.

Rarely do the dead wish to be so.

On a tangent: Why do people say "at least they died doing something they loved"? Does it matter if you die prematurely from a heart attack, a car crash, or a climbing accident? You are still dead. Do they think that because a person was doing something they liked when they died that at the end they weren't petrified and fighting with every ounce of their being to live? Dead is dead, nothing will change that. What you did in life is what matters.

like 4 or 5 am. Early enough to stop off if you need to be at TLine at 6am. I go for the sugar donuts.

Your ACL will go before the boot releases from most bindings. If you don't really care about skiing you can get a cheap "approach" setup for $100 or less. Used ramer binding from ebay and whatever skis & skins you can find cheap. Then you can save your money and get a real ski setup which will be much more fun to ski on.

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we can hope! Unfortunately I have the extraordinarily frightening image of a miers/bush lovechild