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Sat: Bus ride down the C. Austral. Included suspension breaking on 1 yr old sprinter. Sun: Football!

I´m in the middle of researching this, but does anyone here have any reccomendations? Mid June ish probably. Other spots in the Indian Himalyas would be interesting as well.

Threaded cylinders are now easier to find than Benzina Blanca

I just got back (am in Chaiten now). There were 2 other tourists for the 3 days I was there (thankfully they gave me a ride when I was hitching). I had an entire 100 site campground to myself. It´d be awesome to be there in August, but transportation could be a bit difficult if you don´t have your own. Tomorrow I´m taking off down the Carreterra Austral, which I´ve heard is fantastic. I´m bringing back tons of pics, decide once you´ve seen them! The whole of Pumalin is like a US national park, but without anyone (even in summer, they get something like 10,000 visitorsa year, and I´ve heard that number is a bit on the high side as it probably counts people taking the Carreterra straight through. You´re from the Santiago area, correct? I´ll probably be there the end of the month. Maybe.

I have no patience for them, but the similarities between the republican elite in the US and the Latin American oligarchs are amusing.

If any of you ever get a chance to go - do so in a heartbeat. It´s an incredibly awesome place (pictures will follow, eventually). All made possible by the North Face and Esprit clothing sales. http://www.parquepumalin.cl/ Damn two faced environmentalists

I have a deadbird Sirius that´s performed well the world over. Cut´s kind of shitty for a climbing jacket, ends irritatingly mid harness for me. The newer Patagonia shells are very nice and a bit more progressive than the arcteryx stuff.

It´s taken them 4.5 years to start paying attentions, you really think they´re going to start paying atteñion now?

Stay at home. If you can´t figure out where in the world to go, you shouldn´t travel. Wales. Cloggy won´t be hot.

Whoop de fucking do da. You can apply online for all of them.

In my experience a stable productive job doesn^t give you much time to spray. A shitty unstable one gives you oodles.

I´ve managed to find a place close to work ever job I´ve had in a highly ünstable¨ industry. Problem is I´ve usually had to change cities

Can I borrow your guns for my ¨tanquility¨ break?

Because the US has such excellent public transportation a wide variety of quality affordable housing near the average suburban office park?

Oil consumption and economic growth don´t have to be linked KK. Read the prize. Cheap oil has encouraged profligate consumption, and government has reinforced this. Anytime you do or buy anything you are directly or indirectly supporting oil consumption. Buy that new toy for junior at Walmart? Plastic toy (oil products) trucked(major diesel consumers truck fleets are) to store (brightly lit thanks to the Natural Gas power plant). So to reduce your oil consumption you can either live on your farm eating only what you produce, or shoot yourself. I´ll take the former, the righties should choose the latter

ANWR oil would be expensive to produce. Middle East Oil isn´t. There´s no point mucking up a nice place merely to satisfy ethics if the longterm economic case isn´t good.

When the state with the greatest federal spending per capita and federal jobs per capita stops taking my money I´ll stop telling them what to do. Alaska the libertarian welfare state

If your interest is in flying as recreation, yes. I was looking at flying as a way to access out of the way places on a regular basis (fly to Bishop-Mammoth Ca as an example)

ANWR and the California coast have a wealth of environmental life compared to the Sahara, Patagonian steppe, West Texas, among other wonderful places people toil for oil. Nice try KK. Supposedly huge impacts? Go to a fucking oil field sometime and tell me if you see animals playing on the derricks and swimming in the spillage pools

The kicker is the maintenance and upkeep required for a plane. Many $k a year. The annual cost of ownership for a Cessna was on the order of $10k when I researched it. Thats alot of climbing trips. Flying clubs are a cheap way to learn to fly (usually), and allow the less than wealthy semi affordable access to a plan.

A whoping 18 one use authorizations, allowing max 4 clients per guide.

rei ¨listens¨ like my grandmother does. You hear a yes, they don´t get what you are saying. Or in this case, they´d prefer you didn´t exist. Like when you ask to special order a Screamer,and they tell you they can´t because the price code ends in .99. and you say, but that´s retail?! And they say no can do. Get out more. And my Mercedes sedan went down many a logging road. 300k miles

I think it´s steeper than 35. Regardelss, in goodcorn it´s not difficult. In hard conditions it´ll be different though.

Sort of. The certs very from national guide association to national guide association. NZMGA has a similar cert structure to AMGA, and the completion of all certs = UIAGM. Switzerland has a 3 year apprentice program. Britain has a different system. As for granting IFMGA guides access to the national parks, itll be over the dead bodies of Exum, RMI and the other concessionaires.