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This thread should be paired with this thread. It's all because of this extreme left-wing, liberal pansy-ass, disenfranchised welfare case, not-my-fault-I-suck-and-am-a-lazy-freeloader entitlement mentality bullshit.

And you make scandalous references about me checking out some guy's eyebrows...

The going's gonna be tough. Better go skiing instead. From the WSDOT Mountain Pass webpage... "TODAY .. HEAVY RAIN AND SNOW. NEW SNOW ACCUMULATIONS 12 TO 18 INCHES. SNOW LEVEL 4000 FEET NORTH AND 5000 FEET SOUTH. AFTERNOON PASS TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 30S. WEST WIND IN THE PASSES 10 TO 20 MPH BECOMING EAST. TONIGHT .. BECOMING WINDY. HEAVY RAIN AND SNOW. SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 12 TO 18 INCHES. SNOW LEVEL 4000 FEET NORTH AND 5000 FEET SOUTH...FALLING TO 2000 FEET AFTER MIDNIGHT. LIGHT WIND IN THE PASSES BECOMING WEST 20 TO 30 MPH. FRIDAY .. BREEZY. SNOW SHOWERS. SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 3 TO 6 INCHES. SNOW LEVEL 2000 FEET. AFTERNOON PASS TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 20S. WEST WIND IN THE PASSES 15 TO 25 MPH. FRIDAY NIGHT .. SNOW SHOWERS. SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 3 TO 6 INCHES. SNOW LEVEL 1000 FEET. WEST WIND IN THE PASSES 10 TO 15 MPH. SATURDAY .. SNOW SHOWERS LIKELY. SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 1 TO 3 INCHES. SNOW LEVEL 1000 FEET. AFTERNOON PASS TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 20S. SOUTHWEST WIND IN THE PASSES AROUND 10 MPH SHIFTING TO THE SOUTHEAST IN THE AFTERNOON. SATURDAY NIGHT .. SNOW LIKELY. SNOW LEVEL 1000 FEET. SUNDAY .. CLOUDY. SNOW SHOWERS LIKELY. SNOW LEVEL 1000 FEET. AFTERNOON PASS TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 20S. SUNDAY NIGHT .. MOSTLY CLOUDY. SNOW LIKELY. SNOW LEVEL 1000 FEET. MONDAY .. SNOW LIKELY. SNOW LEVEL 1000 FEET. AFTERNOON PASS TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 20S. MONDAY NIGHT .. MOSTLY CLOUDY. SNOW LIKELY. SNOW LEVEL 2500 FEET. TUESDAY .. MOSTLY CLOUDY. SNOW LIKELY. SNOW LEVEL 3000 FEET. AFTERNOON PASS TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 20S. TUESDAY NIGHT .. MOSTLY CLOUDY. SNOW LIKELY. SNOW LEVEL 2500 FEET. WEDNESDAY .. MOSTLY CLOUDY. SNOW LIKELY. SNOW LEVEL 2500 FEET. AFTERNOON PASS TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 20S."

The sarcasm is veritably palpable.

If ya want to derail gt's training program, just throw a little of this into the mix. Werx every time.

Sleds will take you from the plowed road (FR 1200) up the snomo groomed (gravel) roads to the end of FR 609. You may be able to get a bit further from the end of FR 609 on sleds, but very soon you will be in thick trees and you'd be better served by being on flotation devices instead of a machine. I got the impression from Alex's post that it was only 20-30 minutes on snowshoes from the end of the 609 road to the base of the climbs. That's about as fast as anyone can do it, except mebbe Dan -. Since you don't have a sled to get you from FR 1200 to the end of FR 609, you'd best add about 2 to 3 hours (mebbe more, I don't know how fast you travel uphill-it's about 3 miles or more) for that portion of the approach. Go in on skis/skins if ya got 'em, as the ride down will go much faster than with snowshoes.

Not to be trite, SS, but 2001: A Space Oddysey, much like the classic Floydian-based film The Wall, is best enjoyed whilst experiencing hallucinatory drugs. Get yourself some 'shrooms and just lie back and relax. You'll see it just like Kubrick did.

Rodchester, I do believe that the filing for Tax Year 2003 now removes the "marriage penalty" and the standard deduction (for non-itemizers) for a married couple is now exactly twice that of a single person. (we do not have enough to itemize, since we rent our house) Not how it used to be, as you know. As for the rest, I am in agreement with both yours and Rob's position: Tax benefits for married folks, my ass. As stated earlier, I lived way more comfortably as a single person. And ehmmic, it's got nothing to do with accountants, it's got everything to do with controlled vs uncontrolled spending. But we are finally getting a handle on that now.

Definitely a good read there, ehmmic, and a finely tuned argument to boot. But as a counter-point to the article, I can't help but recall how much extra $$$ I had lying around in cash and other investments before the wife-to-be moved in 3 years ago, compared to my financial state as of late, what with said wife and now a baby boy.

FYI: Larry Jr. moved back to Yakivegas a few months ago. He got divorced. He sent me an email when he got back to town, but I haven't hooked up with him yet.

Cragg and another buddy of ours went back the next weekend and repeated Peekaboo and Horsetail Falls, but Union Creek Falls had fallen down by then. It was coming apart as we were climbing it on the 11th the weekend before. It may come back in one more time this season, but not this weekend. I would expect that all of our Little Naches ice has vanished by now. It's been high 30sF days/32F nights here since last week. Not good for holding Peekaboo or Horsetail together. Go to Strobach and give TR. Read up on this thread first.

I'd have to give that a "ditto". Really nice TR, guys!

Righteous!

Alex, you buttwad! You scammed snow mos to hitch a ride in? You're a be-yotch! Nice work. I was wondering when someone was going to get in there and get some. When's it gonna be broadcast?

Is this some sort of fad or something? This image looks like it was taken near the resort town of Cassis, very near (like a few hundred meters) Les Calanques. I must admit, when I was there and was walking around on the top of these old walls, far above the water, I wanted to jump from one to the other, too. But then I thought, "How stupid of me it would be to get killed while on vacation with my fiance' doing something as stupid as this?" So I just went soloing in Les Calanques instead. Edit: OK, well, the photo link is an ".htm" format so it doesn't put up an image when you paste the URL, but it's the thumbnail in the extreme lower right corner of Mister E's link.

So it IS that chosspile of welded tuff near Terrebonne after all then, isn't it?

Except that the tape goes nowhere near the pro...

Was surfin' the cable this past weekend and tuned in right when they started that "chopper race" sequence. I noticed all the fat stuff, too. Have no idea where it is, tho. Didn't stick around for any more. Headed over to The History Channel (my fave).

All three of my company's offices (Seattle, Yakima, and Oly) got hit today. We had to shut down our email gateway until we got it sorted out. I personally did not get an infected email, but many others here did. There should be a "lynch law" passed that sez that once we find the fuckers that write/release these virus thingies, we can just kill them, no questions asked. It's a total waste of GNP to fuck with this shit with an increasingly depressing regularity.

Looks a lot like that choss pile down near Terrebonne.

cute.

...The 38-year-old Seattle man and his wife rode their snowboards past several warning signs and under at least one rope into steep terrain... ..."The area is marked out of bounds because it is dangerous..." Doesn't take a rocket scientist. Recreational Darwinism.

WTF? Is UBB code unabled?

Classic. Morbid, yes, but classic nonetheless.

As always, pindude comes through...