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I recently purchased a LaFuma Warm 'n Light 800. This is a great bag at an even better price. Previously I'd looked at a "light is right" type bag for biking and rock climbing, but I just couldn't justify the price and honestly, the bargin shopping. But an upcoming bike trip to the SW piqued my interest just enough... I like how LaFuma "rates" their bags. Using this bag as an example, they say +40 is comfortable, +35 is reasonable, +30 is cold. Ok, bag ratings are as subjective as climb ratings (maybe even more so!), but judging by the loft of the bag (800 fill down) and a few other "warm" features, these seem right for what I'd want in that temp range. The bag weights 1 lb. 13 oz. (+/- a few oz), has a light nylon shell (no w/b shit here. It's light!), head/neck elastic draw cord, medium gauge two way zipper w/ pull cord, small velcro zipper flap with nice "get the fuck out of my way" flap holder, "stash" pocket at the top of the zipper, and the thing packs small! Best thing of all is the price! I bought this at Neptunes in Boulder, so you know I didn't get any deal. No sale. Price: $125. I bet MEC's got something comperable and bargin shopping... yech. I've never owned any lafuma stuff, but I've seen other examples of their products and prices and it seems they make a pretty reasonably price, mid quality/features/design range. I like to seem this.

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http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/02_EVENTS/EQ_021103/ak_animation.html This is pretty cool. Just pay attention.

uh, I think "the literature" says something about 2x the height... 2.5x? You know, dominoe type shit.

so what makes a scientist a scientist? A PH.D? he's got one. Just because it looks badly upon scientists, doesn't mean he is not a scientist. Ever heard of a vita ? I'm not trying to convince anyone of your dumbassery, but I can say for sure that anyone that is involved in real research who happens to read your rant will immediately be able to tell you don't know shit about how research works. It's just obvious.

Saw a Granite gear day pack yesterday and thought it looked pretty trick. Seemed like it was about the right size for a long bc day, long quick hike/climb. Light wieght and no frils, and $75 on sale. Anybody know about these?

Best Approach: DNR helitac, Bell 205++. 40 minute flight one way from Loomis heliport to helispot 24 (ahanola pass), 4 hour hike to cathedral. Daily re-supplies @ 0900. Hiding your rack in your line gear is your own problem to figure out. Seriously, the chewuck/longswamp/tungsten mine works pretty well. One long day and you're there, relatively flat, but possibly closed next year 'cause those god damn fire people love to tear shit up!

I hate to be a dork and bring this one up again... I cjecked out the chelan SAR web page and din{t really see anything addressing this issue. Maybe I missed it. What else can you tell me and what do you mean by "needed to be reeled in?" thanks

Does anybody know what{s going on with the CHelan COunty SAR posse? I heard some rumor about the tech rescue posse going away and it seems like the last ime Iwas in wenatchee I saw a sign about something like the sherrif was looking for volunteers? Am just making stuff up here or is there something Chelan COunty Climbers should know?

I was just talking with a fellow student who works at NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and he told me they have an "atomic" clock at NIST that had to be re-calibrated when moved from the basement to the third floor due to a difference in gravity and hence a difference in relativistic effect! Holy Shit!

i did it without oxygen she tried it w/o ou\xygen and I got arrested for attemped murder!

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I cant't say this sends me into the pins/no pins camp; it's just a thought. Consider the damage done by placing pins excluding the damage to the rock. I think many would say pitons (like bolts), reduce the value of a piece of rock as a climbing resource. A similar "damage" is more and more people visitng a location and reducing the solitude. (I'm not saying anything about the mountaineers here...) People (jusifiably) remove the pins to restore (or partially) the adventure of a climb. But this does the physical damage. Now a common responce to the overcrowding thing is "people need to explore and go find a new place w/ solitude." It's intitable that more and more people will climb, and if you want soitude, you're going to have to work for it (or snipe mounties...) The solution could also be applied to the piton situation. Maybe less so than crowding, but there will be times when someone doing the right thing (or at least doing a frickin' close job) places a pin. So in order to preserve the nature of the rock, adventure seekers find a new location (and proably some solitude at that. Obviously there are some serious problems with this argument when taken literally. And as I said above, I'm not saying this is a strong enough argument to justify abandoning ehtics (and crags) left and right. Just something to think about. (I'd also like to come clean now as a show of good intentions. I have at times cut switchbacks, made fires where I wasn't supposed to, hacked at a tree with an axe, pissed in a stream, and sinfully wished for a bolt on a run out slab climb. I ask forgivenss. Amen)

I've participated in projects long-lining bricks into Entiat trails. We'd send a mission plan in and the Navy would send back the status of that particular training route for our particular time slot. Otherwise, they keep pretty quiet about it. low fast jets+thin long wires= well, remeber italy?

Funny story (I thought...) I grew up in the sticks near wenatchee. One spring some dipshit (well, he didn't know any better) from Malaga (Wenatchee-ites should be catching on about now...) walked up to our door and essentially said "I was driving up that road and got my truck stuck. Can you help me pull it out?" Now this road is maintained at minimum standards for light logging traffic and sounds to be one of these "soft bed" road. And this particular road is super clay-like (=slikc as shit (literally)) when wet. So we told this guy "look, the trucks stuck up to it.s axes in thick clay mud. You're just going to have to leave it until things dry up some or you're going to ruin the road! Sorry." THe guy leaves ( I thin we gave him ride to the Malaga store!). Three days later the guy comes to our house again. This time it's "Yeah, I was trying to pull my truck out with my bosses truck, and , uh, like, it got stuck too. Can I use your phone?" A week later (it had dired up quite a bit!) a wrecker went up the road, pulling the guys original truck and the dude driving his bosses. It ened up (Malaga store "gossip") the guy pulled something out of wheack on his front end and couldn't drive it! Ha haha ha ha! One word: Malaga!

and cars... While I'm not annoyed by Mr. Natural personally, the image that comes to mind when I read his posts grates. I went to WWU, now I'm in boulder (worse!) and both share a population of early twenties, middle class pseudo-itellectuals whos rhetoric reflects their ignorance. Again, nothing personal Mr. Natural And yeah, what CVS and cbs said....

maybe these people khow: http://www.chiwawafanclub.com/

http://www.gdargaud.net/Climbing/Ecuador.html http://www.gdargaud.net/Climbing/Peru.html

While it might be sacrificing fucntion for value, there are some pretty good deals on ebay for brand name, low temp bags. I saw a Marmot... it was there -40 down bag for something like $180! Pretty god deal... So if you're willing to sacrifice what you exactly want for a super good deal, check out ebay.

I'm sure you've heard these two, but they seemed to be the key to my elbow/wrist problems: 1. Take time off. I tried to decrease how much I was bouldering/gyming, but it didn't do any good until I just stopped climbing for a couple of weeks. (I think the thing is that once your on the wall/rock, it's just too hard to hold back!) 2. Ice. I'm sold on icing. For three days I iced once/day in the evening. No problem immediately afterwards.

Is it that boulder that's on the east side of 32nd? I seem to rememeber the rock having been blasted away at for the version of the freeway that came before the freeway. TNT rock? Dynamite rock?

You're talking duffle bag at those wieghts and loads....