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WTF? It's a 'bile only parking lot?

Sorry to diabuse your idealistic notion of a locally based economy. The world is heading the opposite direction - and will continue to do so. Or are you willing to give up road trips, and never go more than 100 miles from your home? Buy only climbing gear produced within 100 miles (got to transport it!) Give up on fresh fruits and vegetables in the winter? (those come in from far away!) As for this gem That's everything. Everything you consume has had contact with oil. Food. Consumer Goods. Everything.

Uh.... before Oil came coal. Oil wasn't considered strategically signifigant until this century - when Winston Churchill (Lord of the Admiralty at the time) decided to switch the British fleet from coal (abundant in Britain!) to oil (not very abundant pre-North Sea). Realistically energy conservation and reduced use is the future - and the quickest way to obtain these efficencies is by raising the price of energy(oil)

The Lofoten Islands!

So, make the technology economically viable and go for it. eg - end the oil subsidies (road funding!) A prime historical example is the El Portal road to Yosemite. There used to be a railroad that ran from Merced to El Portal(other side of the river as you drive in). After the road, built by the state with convict labor opened, it was no longer viable - esp. when the bus companies charged more to go from El Portal to the valley, than from merced to the valley!

Moguls are created by inferior skiers who cannot handle the steepness of the slope they are "skiing" and are forced to make "jump turns" while "skiing" downhill : Are you stupid? Jump turns are LESS likely to create moguls. Moguls are created on abut every slope - it's what happens when snow is displaced by turning.

To save others some effort

Your just defending your unsound opinion based on your feelings. How liberal of you.

How many of those bemoaning outsourcing cheer the rise in their 401k's?

Which was worth absolutely nothing. Framses != Superior Crash performance - if they did, the mid size GM SUV's wouldn't suck in crashes so bad, would they.

What exactly does one expect from Bogus Basin?

You can also pick up copies of a Climber's Guide to Oregon at the Multnomah County Public Library. They've got several, and much better hours than the Mazamas.

As others said... They sunk to a new low though. Returning the bike fenders that came without the required mounting parts(3 out of 4 struts, not enough screws), the counter girl marked them "Return to Stock"

Place ski on floor. Find places front & rear where ski touches floor. This is the chord length - 1/2 is chord center.

I probably won't be able to make Friday - I can bring a "recharge" up Saturday if anyone has anything in particular they'd like.

Sustitute "old beacon" and you'd be right. Analog has nothing to do with it. It's called frequency drift. And I agree that $140 is alot for a used beacon.

There are only 2 questions you need to know the answer to: 1) Do I ever want to use Dyanfit bindings? (if you don't know what they are, probably not yet) 2a)If you do, find the best fitting boots from Scarpa/Garmont/Dynafit 2b)If you don't, find the best fitting boots from Scarpa/Garmont/Dynafit/Lowa With the exception of the Dyanfit MLT all of the boots out there are burly enough for skiing anything on rando sticks, or most alpine gear. If your interested in skiing at high speeds, with big skis - you'll know which boots you want.

This seems the big attraction to me of the new wide range camming units - instead of owning a couple sets of cams - own one. Is their any good reason (aside from pride, simplicity & cost) you wouldn't want the most versatile pro period?

Yeah. Magazines never have anything useful in them that you'd want to refer to in the future.

Gary Hemming? I think he committed suicide before it filmed. Even if he was alive htat would have fallen into the soloing era. He's not credited either. Hamish MacInnes is... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072926/fullcredits

I dunno. The manager in the ski section at USOC is nice and knowledgeable, as is the aforementioned climber upstairs. Most of the retail shops in PDX are a mixed bag - some are nice and knowledgeable, some rehash verbatim product data sheets, some are clueless (except for REI, they blow, most of them work there for the "scene") I can only look forward to the Pearl District REI

I have 1 or 2 extra I'd be willing to sell. PM me.

He's a real poseur Never contributes All around jerk who never is nice to complete strangers Never gives out good beer

Jon- He was diagnosed with cancer just after he signed with Cofidis. Cofidis paid his bills even though they had no clue the status of his health - they just asked for a doctors checkup(one of the conditions necessary for a valid contract). Not unreasonable for $1.25 million a year! Instead of the Drs visit they compromised for Lance racing in 4 races in the '97 season - or they had the right to cancel the contract. He didn't - they walked.

You mean this one? That's 2m aka 6 feet. I'd be interested to know if there burial data includes cars & structures. If someone's buried 6 feet deep you've got alot of digging.