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Re: picture #3 - I see Holly is very quickly learning the fine art of the Climber's Air Hankie, with follow-up Back-of-the-Hand Nose Wipe. Right on, Jason, fer learnin' her them backcountry skilz ra-ight!

List of pigs over 1000 pounds Ain't the Interwebs a wunnerful thing? All this "information" out there just waiting to be discovered...

I just spoke with our (CWMR) man-on-the-scene who was up there yesterday with the IC. He said three Bell Jet Rangers were prowling the skies over Stuart, Sherpa, and Argonaut yesterday for about 30 total hours of airtime. Didn't find any sign of them. Still haven't found their campsite, either. Search continues.

Lunger, OW gave you the righteous beta, fer sure. You don't need a permit if you park along the road. Look for the galvanized steel bike rack and park in that pull-out (for Royal Columns). It's free. Peeps are right about needing a Fish & Wildlife permit if you use the lots at RC, The Bend, Vantage, etc. If you go to The Bend, don't park in the lot where the Quonset hut is. It's a $66 ticket. Park in one of the several steep "driveways" on the opposite side of the highway from the hut. If you take OW up on his Option A for camping, you might run into scores of hunters camping out this time of year up there. It's the first bridge that crosses the Tieton River (more like a box culvert crossing => no superstructure), and will be the first bridge you come to after Windy Point CG. If you go around the sharp bend to the left and come to the second (brown) bridge, ya done gone too far. I don't hunt, but I think the season's on, or very near on. What this does is put hunter wannabes out there scoping the terrain/kill prospects for when the season does come in. But the camping's free. Alternatively, to avoid the extra driving, you can drive up the gravel road directly opposite Royal Columns (identified by the chain link fence and gate across it). It ends up in a short bit at a nice open meadow with chossy cliffs around it. You won't get locked in. At least, I've never heard of anyone ever getting locked in. Tons of good camping by following OW's Option B, too. Tons! Rattlers should be bedding down by now, what with the low temps at night/early morning up that way, but a curious pooch might manage to root one out if he works at it long enough... All bridges are in at RC, The Bend, and Moon Rocks. The Tyrolean is so last (5) years. Drederek is correctomundo about the trail. It's the Tieton Nature Trail. Well defined and would make for a good mtn. bike/trail run with the canine. See here.

Hey, I finally got moderated! A complete deletion of post and attachment! I thought if I wrote "NSFW" in big red letters and left the pic in "attachment mode" ( so you'd have to click on it to open it), things would be OK, but apparently this is not so. I feel sooooo part of the club now.

And ya hafta wonder WTF that kid was thinking when he saw that pig, and looked at the pistol in his hand... "Eee-yup, Ah think this'll do 'er jes fahn. If'n not, Ah kin shimmy up yonder tree and holler for Pa to bring the scattergun and some punkin' balls. We'll have bacon and pork chops 'til next year wuther Ah git 'im or Pa gits 'im."

It IS a school-sponsored sport at VA Tech, ESPECIALLY during Engineer's Week! Hmmm you probably went to school in one of those sorry ass east coast schools where the drinking age has always been 21. At the UI we were legally in bars at 19 back in the day and all those sorry suckers from WSU were willing to risk DUI just to get a drink when all we had to do is walk to the booze. Hmmm... welllllllllll, when I was a senior in high school, the drinking age was still 18. It changed to 21 on New Year's Day of my graduation year, but I was legal for all of 6 weeks. Not that it mattered anyway... all the stores that I bought beer and cheap wine from still sold to me after the age changed anyway. But there were still kids that risked the DUI by driving the 60-mile round trip all the frickin' way to West By-Gawd Virgina where the age was still 18. Besides, my folks bought all the beer and good wine that I needed. They started me on a tad bit of red wine at dinner when I was ten years old. We were living in Italy at the time, and it seemed like the right thing to do. I still love a good glass of Sangiovese...

Hey Steve, We got pinged last night for a rescue of a 53 yoa male and a teen, but the page said Mt. Stuart. Same folks, I reckon? I can't go, as my wife is in Oly for the w/e (taking a state licensing test) and I have the Tribal Members for the whole w/e. Good luck, my friend. Hope they are found safe and sound soon.

Seriously, M, really scary! The cockroach is disgusting. And I thought they were big in Houston! Ha! And that rabbit! 23 pounds, and he sells 'em to N. Korea for meat? I can just see the ad: "Feeds a starving DPRK family of four for a week!"

Those pics are just too damn precious! Took my two tribal members out to the Blues last w/e. No pics yet, but it was still pretty smoky from other E. WA fires, and the burn damage from last year's Columbia Complex fire makes a lot of the background look like the moon...

It IS a school-sponsored sport at VA Tech, ESPECIALLY during Engineer's Week!

Wellllllll, there both cow colleges... Vandals Rule. Don't piss me off Sobo I'm angry and I'm dumb Yah Kurt, I can read your autosig jus' fine.

That's mah boy!

Screw that! Do what I do for getting through dense books/subjects: really good college level course lectures on tape/CD/DVD It's like going to college in your car. Just not quite that expensive (although some of these titles ain't cheap, neither). I've already been through: Military and Social History of WWII (Thomas Childers - this guy is GREAT!) History of Hitler's Empire (another Childers masterpiece) High Middle Ages The Era of the Crusades History of Ancient Rome (so thar ya go, DeC) From Yao to Mao: 5,000 Years of Chinese History History of Ancient Egypt History of the English Language Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution (modern physics for non-scientists - this is a great set if you ever wanted to know about this shit and you "didn't get it" in college) The American Civil War Robert E Lee and His High Command US Economy in the 20th Century Origins of the Universe Dark Matter, Dark Energy Human Pre-History and the First Civilizations ...plus a whole raft of others that I can't quite remember right now. My wife started me on these things when we were first dating, and she already had a bunch of them. Almost ten years later and I still can't quit the addiction.

People still have sex in their fifties? Damn, hope my shit's still working then... I'm only two years away from 50, and my shit's still workin' just fine. I think it'll keep running for a few more years after that. At least, I hope it does... After that, there's always Viagra. 8D

Wellllllll, there both cow colleges...

We used to have a saying at the VA Tech Cave Club: "You can't drink all day unless you start first thing in the morning." Truer words were never spoken... :brew:

Thanks, OJ, for that reminder... ... "Hey Honey, You're right! Love is the greatest of all! And I'm gonna last forever!" <...in-out, in-out, in-out...> I have to wonder, though, will her boyfriend/hubby be able to read that when he's banging her doggie-style thirty years from now...? Or maybe she'll have switched to the widescreen version: "This Bible verse has been formatted to fit your huge ass." BTW, second JayB's rec on Christopher Hitchens. The guys says what really needs to be said. "God is Not Great" is a must-read.

Have to agree with that rec. "Climb" was excellent, and "the rest of the story" that desperately needed to be told. Other climbing books that I liked... "The Boardman-Tasker Omnibus", authors are obvious "In the Zone", Potterfield "Addicted to Danger", Wickwire "Feeding the Rat" (story of Mo Anthoine of Joe Brown fame-a really good read), Al Alvarez "Big Wall Climbing", Doug Scott (it's almost 35 years old, but a really good history of BWC throughout the world's ranges from the English perspective) "Nanda Devi", Roskelley Anything climbing-related by David Roberts (I second the rec from above) Second the rec on "Challenge of Rainier" by Molenaar and wish to add "Challenge of the North Cascades", Beckey Non-climbing related books that I've read in the past year... "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism...", Ahmed Rashid (really really dense read, lots of Muslim/Islamic lineage to wade through, but really sets the stage for what is happening in the world today) "Infidel", Ayaan Hirsi Ali (a Muslim woman's, who becomes apostate, perspective - this is the same woman who was a Dutch Parliamentarian who had death threats/fatwas put out on her after she did a short movie with Theo Van Gogh, who was murdered as a result. She was to be next...) "From Baghdad, With Love", Lt. Col. Kopelman (really fast read) "Lone Survivor", Marcus Luttrell (really, really fast read) "The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell", John Crawford "Shooter", Coughlin, Kuhlman, and Davis "Three Cups of Tea", Greg Mortenson (starts out as a climbing story, but changes tack quickly - a really good read) "Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time", Dava Sobel (really really really great read, if you like this sort of thing) "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage", Alfred Lansing (this is a really really really really great read - a truly magnificent story - and NOBODY DIES!) That oughta get ya through the winter, eh? Speaking of reading... what does it say on the tramp stamp on your avatar pic?

Oly, Glad to hear you're back home and in front of the interwebs again. Spray on!! ...sobo

Like this one? Or this one?

Wow, Oly, I just saw this. That is so suck. I hope you heal up well and quickly. We need yer luv spreading across the intertubez.

Pick Jamin. I'm sure he'll fit the bill... if he's still alive... And he can school ya on placing rap bolts to avoid heinous 5.1 downclimbs...

He fell out of a tree at work (he's an arborist). This is the original thread.

The sum total of all the truths that mankind has learned over the millenia cannot surpass that one statement.