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You had me ready to offer you some cheese for your whine ( ) right up until the highlighted text. WTF are sleds doing in a wilderness area???

If that was meant to be disparaging, it did not have the intended effect.

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Now that is some funny shit.

Pretty sad to see an artist that you listened to during your college years spiral downward and crash'n'burn as badly as that...

Now that's fuq'n funny, I don' care who y'are.

Yer GF's helmet topper is kewl.

Oh, it's in there. Trust me on that... Propz to the old man. Now it's a question of rather or not the whelp wises up. RuMR and I have had this conversation with you many times in the past, kev. You need to beat your kidz more. At least once a week, whether they need it or not, just for general purposes...

Rob, were you born a poor black child? He was, but then he decided to become white...

"We all got it comin', kid..."

From the Couv, the fastest route to GE is north up I-5 towards Chehalis, take Exit 68 (just before Chehalis) onto US-12 heading east. Go through Packwood and up to White Pass. Once at the top of the pass, the South Tieton Loop Road turnoff (the second one, not the first one) is about 15 miles on the east side of the Shite Pass summit. Turn right onto STL Road and within a mile you are at the trailhead. You never get to Crackima by the aforementioned route. Shit, you never even get to Snaches...

I have an ARVA 9000, which is an older, single-antenna style digital transceiver. But even though it's an old model, I am, without fail, always the first to find the "victim" in my rescue unit's practice scenarios. I bought it on a trip to the Italian/French Alps border region in 1999. Beaconreviews sez this about the 9000: The ARVAs are French transceivers that have not been widely distributed in USA. The ARVA 9000 is an older model that was discontinued in 2001. Summary: This is an interesting beacon in that it has one antenna, yet the audible tone is digital. The tone increases in both cadence and pitch as you near the victim, and the screen displays digital numbers. Read more about audio feedback here. Although I have only done moderate testing of this beacon (and it has been discontinued), the ARVA 9000 appears to be one of the most capable of the single-antenna transceivers I have tested (i.e., the long range you would expect from an analog beacon and the best audio and visual indicators of the analogs). So since the 9000 isn't available anymore, I would highly recommend a newer model from ARVA. I can't say enough good things about this beacon, except the price...

Kev, Check your PMs. Mui mui beta is posted there now. Everything that everyone has said since my post above is spot on. But I'm intrigued by the upper pitches of RTL, so I wouldn't pull the D-ring on the 3rd pitch (as tvash suggests) on that one whenever I get there...

I thought that was great! Teach that little whelp a valuable life lesson now, while she's still young enough to learn something. Yes, there may be more distance placed betwixt the two for the present, but if she ever pulls her head out of her ass and grows up, she will look back on this as a turning point towards a brighter future for herself. I know that's how it worked for me, although I didn't have a laptop or FB when I experienced a similar episode of this version of tough love. I ended up living in a tent in the woods and eating canned food and working on the line in a textile mill (that would have eventually killed me if I had made a career out of it - I have several scars to prove it) for 6 months as the upshot of my impudence. And I turned out so much the better for it. I remember thinking how much of an asshole my dad was when I was 18. But by the time I turned 23, I remember telling him, "You know, Dad, every year that I get older, you get smarter." He said nothing, and just nodded his head knowingly...

I don't care. I don't give a shit. I just take what I want...

This TR, obwan? Very good resource, that link. It's Joe Puryear's old site. RIP, Joe... Kev, If you haven't got it figgerd out by tomorrow, I'll post up detailed directions to get you to the stone and the free camping after work tomorrow night. I have to get up at 0-dark-30 these dayz, so I'm off to bed now, or I'd do it tonight.

I have done this with bottled beer at 40 below - instant Barley Slurpee™ - gotta drink fast!

What did you tell him/her when you got to the top and were totally busted, cuz there weren't no death-ray there? How do you know? Have you been to the top of Beacon Rock? Don't be stoopid, kev. Who here hasn't??

Love this pic, Nastia! That is about as good as it gets...

What did you tell him/her when you got to the top and were totally busted, cuz there weren't no death-ray there?

Why bother with the Vantage Bridge camera when you can practically stand in the Feathers parking lot with the Silica Road exit camera? And get your temp readings from this WSDOT page? Too warm for ice, today, and 36 seems pretty chilly for nubbin' tuggin'...

Congratz, man!

Sadly, Phydeaux left no progeny, and no known siblings survive him. He was a one-off kitteh if ever there was one...

Hi minx! Phydeaux would be pleased. Then he'd sit in your lap and purr till you couldn't stand it any longer.