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Perfect! Thanks, Rudy!

Thanks Jopa and Rudy. Either of you guys have a phone number and/or address for them so I can get them shipped off this weekend?

OK, so I’m need of some shoe repairs. I’ve got a week-long trip planned for early October, so time may be an issue. A search of this site wasn’t really forthcoming with much info on who blows and who doesn’t (with respect to shoe repairs, at least ). I’ve used Dave Page in the past, but he was kinda snotty, but reasonably priced (then) and on time. So, with a month left before the trip, who do I send my dogs to for new rands and half-soles? Barrabes? Rumatas? Dave Page? TIA

I bought some of those and retro-fitted them to my old BDs and Smileys, thinking that the "express feature" would be great. IMHO, they suck. They kept coming unscrewed, and superglue didn't help. And they futz up the racking sequence, so I just went back to my old skewl racking system of Trango holster clips and beefed up my screw placement technique so as not to get sketched while placing. FWIW, I carry: 3~17s, 4~13s, 2~10s, and one or two FRPS (irbus) leavers. And whatever my partner shows up with.

The latter - mook, as in "book", as you surmised.

Yeah, you're right. I should just STFU. Alcohol levels are dipping again.

Hardly a trip report...

That sounds similar to an accident on Orchard Rock at Peshastin Pinnacles about May 1999, in which my group of climbers (one of whom is an MD) was first on scene. That guy got a basal skull fracture out of it, and his belayer got broken legs and pelvis. Thing is, he remained on rope at the top of the crag, but was incoherent and combative when reached. He did not fall to the ground, but his belayer did on an unbraked "air rappel". I believe they were b/f and g/f, or maybe even married. Can't remember the names...

If the slot is too long or too wide to mess with, go left and up at the hogback to the West Crater Rim route. I think it may have several different names. Someone from PDX will no doubt correct me. Mazama's Route, Old Chute, something like that.

Yes, dryad, you win the geek award of the day, and extra credit for the correct proper noun plural.

I can speak from experience on that. So, another one crashed? There's a reason I don't climb at Vantage anymore...

Hood, and especially the south side, sees ascents all year long. Go for it!

Precisely, but I wouldn't call it "stealing". I "borrowed" it and gave them full credit. You see, I was in a big PF haze back then, and before each trip up to this area, I would jam to my MLOR tape (yes, sad, a tape), especially Learning to Fly. So in a way, they got credit. Agreed?

Momentary Lapse of Reason but then again, I'm biased, since I put it up.

If you haven't already, you've now earned yourself a place in heaven... even for a lawyer! Great job!

Something else you might want to consider is supplementary disability insurance. For those employers that offer paid disability insurance to their employees, they typically do not provide for 100% income replacement (why would they? folks would claim disability and collect a full check for not showing up to work). Most pay disability at 2/3 to ¾ of your full pay once disability is established (short-term or long-term). I bought a policy over 10 years ago from NW Mutual Life that makes up the difference in my employer’s disability insurance program in the event I become disabled, irrespective of the cause of the disability, which was important to me. I told the agent up front I was a climber and scuba diver, so there would be no questions. I was assured that it didn’t matter how I became disabled (didn’t ask about botched suicide attempts ). It costs me less than $20 a month, and is cash-convertible. My employer-paid health insurance picks up any injuries I may receive while climbing and stuff, so life insurance is the thing now. I looked around a bit 18 months ago (shit! have I been a daddy that long already? ), but haven’t knuckled under to actually getting a policy. I should get back on that. Good on you TM, for doing something about it now before Bundle-o’-Joy gets here. You won’t have much time to yourself afterwards…

TM, This has been discussed here before. A search of the board reveals: this one, and this one, and this one, and this one. I think the best discussions came out of Terminal Gravity's and Jens's threads. And listen to what rbw1966 sez in these discussions. He's in the legal biz and what he sez sure sounds like it makes sense. HTH, and congratulations on Fatherhood!

Send a PM to 007, I hear he's looking for partners for a DIY trip to Cho Oye (sic).

True dat. Makes you feel good for giving something that others would have to pay for somewhere else. And did you know that being a member of Mountain Rescue gets you into the volcano parks free? Join up and try it, and offer your skillz to folks in need at the same time. Haven't paid since I've joined up. Flash my card at the park entrance, waved on in. Flash my card at climber registration, waved on by. How cool is that? It does require you (on occasion) to haul your ass out of bed/leave the party/change plans to go find someone, though. But it works for me. YMMV.

...or symbiots.

From the Lost and Found forum: Lost Trekking Poles Jeezus, E, it's been an expensive weekend for you, eh?

OK, I'll admit it, I'm cornfoozed... I thought that this past March/April, the Access Fund, along with other supporters, won the "repeal" of the NW Forest Pass on FS lands (only?) thru Congressional petitioning. Is that not correct? Beginning in October, the NWFP is kaput on FS lands? I know that doesn't help those now being ticketed, but isn't this crock of shit circling the drain? My own personal view: I bought a pass the very first year it came out, thinking the logic of what was being said about the pass was true. I later tuned in to various websites and heard conservationist lectures that caused me to change my opinion. I never bought another one after the first year. And I drive around with that original pass still in the window, just to piss 'em off/make a statement. I've never been ticketed, but have gotten warnings on at least two occasions, maybe three. I wrote letters, based largely in part on material culled from Scott Silver's site, to the FS and flatly stated I refused to pay, citing the myriad of reasons provided on Scott's site. I have never heard from the FS since, and this was at least two or three years ago. Granted I didn't usually go to oft-trammelled THs, and even less so now that I'm a daddy to a two-year-old. But from what I've seen at the THs where I do go, my money hasn't ended up there. PS: I do pay the $5/day parking fee at State Parks (like at Peshastin Pinnacles, say), because I can actually see what my money has bought (working toilet complete with TP, irrigated lawn, picnic tables, gravel parking lot, etc.).

Those ant mounds are quite prevalent in the woods over here on the drier side of the state. Although I must admit I've never seen one that big. Pretty industrious little buggers...

Nice save, Dad!