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Nothing like $14 for a pit toilet and a crappy picnic table!

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Depending on where you climb in the East, some of the areas have been 8 month a year after work cragging sites for 50 years (Carderock in DC comes to mind). Polished doesn't begin to describe the rock.

They own Dana as well, and Garuda, and Tubbs and Atlas. In short, most of the not that innovative any more, once K2 bought them out, gear manufacturers. And Dan Quayle is on the board.

OMC in PDX, as of a couple weeks ago had TCU's for $30, and Forged Friends for $18!

That also own Ex Officio. The only one I'll miss is Volkl.

Heaven forbid they do what they are supposed to

The Camouflage Smock of the Waffen SS, as well as the MP43 (first assault rifle) Shaped the face of modern war. And that's to say nothing of the V2 (ballistic missile), V1 (first cruise missile, ME262 (first jet fighter), and on....what do you expect from a nation of scientists and engineers?

Screw football, I wouldn't go to MIT cause I dig girls , not tools. MIT's in downtown Beantown. There's some fly honey's down there. It also has/had the highest intramural participation in the US. Harvard has the Harvard Mountaineering Club. As for the pontificating NOLSe - I went to a school with the best program in this country in my field, and a D3 football team that hadn't won a game in 3 years. WTF do you think I picked it

When you have 1Meg of stored e-mail, you have 3 megs @ 50-100kB for some commercial e-mails, that's 30-60 e-mails, or 10-20 a day. Yes, I get that much e-mail, probably 50% of which is spam, which the crappy Yahoo filter doesn't catch. And since I've had my account for 6 or 7 years now, I don't want to change. I get even more e-mail at work

Not have your mailbox get shutdown after day 3 of 2 week trip because of spam, daily updates, and correspondence.

Ulrich Inderbinen, 103, Swiss Mountain Guide, Is Dead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: June 15, 2004 GENEVA -- Ulrich Inderbinen, a legendary Swiss mountain guide who made his last ascent of the storied Matterhorn at the age of 90, has died. He was 103. Inderbinen died in his sleep Monday at his home in the southern Swiss resort of Zermatt, his family said in a death notice published Tuesday. The ``King of the Alps,'' as Inderbinen was known to admirers around the world, spent 70 years leading mountaineers up Switzerland's most forbidding peaks. He was 95 when he finally retired. Advertisement Even in his 90s, he regularly climbed peaks of more than 13,000 feet and estimated that he stood on the summit of the Matterhorn -- ``the most beautiful mountain in the world'' -- at least 370 times. ``I have never felt bored,'' he once said in an interview with The Associated Press. ``That is unless my clients walk too slowly.'' Inderbinen was born into a family of nine children Dec. 3, 1900, and spent most of his childhood tending animals in the mountains above Zermatt, at that time still an impoverished farming community. He made his first ascent of the 14,700-foot Matterhorn in September 1921 with his younger sister. He got his first job as a mountain guide four years later. ``Mr. Inderbinen showed himself thoroughly safe and reliable, so I hope to climb with him more frequently,'' wrote his first customer, a German doctor. He was extraordinarily healthy, only taking time off once -- when he was grounded for 10 days with a shoulder injury after slipping on ice. He made his first trip to the dentist at 74 and never needed glasses. ``My good health I attribute to my positive attitude to life, my enjoyment of nature and my profession. As a child I learned to be satisfied with little, to make no demands on life and always to work,'' he said in the 1996 biography ``As Old As The Century.'' ``Stress and haste are unknown to me. I live as I climb mountains: at a pace that is slow and deliberate but also purposeful and regular. Among my colleagues I am known for not liking to stop before I reach my destination,'' he said. Inderbinen said one of the best periods of his life came after his 80th birthday, when he took up competition skiing. He always won as he was the only competitor in his age category. He received a pair of skis for his 90th birthday -- a gift he put to regular use -- and a mountain-climbing ice ax when he turned 95. A deeply devout Roman Catholic, he fulfilled a lifelong dream by traveling to Rome to receive Pope John Paul II's blessing when he was 96. Despite his international reputation, Inderbinen remained modest. Foreign television crews wanting to interview the living legend found he was a man of few words. He rarely took vacations and never saw the sea. He never owned a car or bicycle. ``I am the only person in Zermatt without a telephone,'' he would say proudly. His clients knew they could find him in Zermatt's church square in the early evening. Throughout his life he remained under the spell of the Matterhorn, Switzerland's most famous landmark. ``It's simply a fascinating mountain which was as appealing to me on my last climb as it was on my first,'' he said. His only regret in life, he would always say, was when his family vetoed his plans to climb Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro at the age of 92. ``I've really no idea why they were all against it,'' he sighed. A journalist once asked him if he was afraid of dying. ``Not really,'' he replied. ``When I look at the death notices in the paper I scarcely see anyone of my own age.'' The funeral will be held Thursday in Zermatt, according to the announcement in the daily Waliser Bote of Brig.

Yeah, Betty's Pies - worth stopping for. Betty's is good. There's a place in Grand Marais, before the Gunflint turnoff that's even better though!

Which camp? Carolyn's got the line on climbing spots. And the BWCA rocks. As do the pies of the North Shore!

Check craigslist.org things of suspicious orgin often turn up there.

It's a $1.99 in Cali It's not bad stuff. It finally brings us into line with the major wine drinking countries in the world. We finally have a supply of cheap, decent wine.

Skiing often falls in with "climbing" for me. Generally I just use the phrase "I went for a wander"

I tried to keep a ski pack filled with ski stuff. Problem was I would either not dry things out - Moldy Gloves Or take things out and dry them and then forget them. Back on subject - check out the BD Slide pack. Most of what your looking for, and cheaper than the Stash http://www.bdel.com/php/specials.php?gear=lightware&id=251

All the snaffle and vermin will be after the blood for nourishment though

My freedom loving school (Fairfax, Va) did make you recite the pledge. What's with the Rehnquist court and so many copouts lately? First Corporate Free Speech, now the pledge, what's next?

GRRR! Smiffy was fun on Sat too. Can't say the same about the Crooked, but eh, that's life

Not much will survive UV light.

As long as no one escalates to "Whats under a Mt Hardwear Trail Kilt"

I can see that. I'm a crappy stealhead fisherman - mostly 8wt w/heavy tip.