Zenolith

max and eric, see your inbox. I will write "SOLD" next to anything that is spoken for with a check in the mail.

Various Gear for sale, all of it is in good to excellent shape. Most of the cams are extras which have been placed less than 5 times or not at all. Some of the biners are discolored from being stored in a rope bag. Here is a link to pics of all of it: http://picasaweb.google.com/powchaser/GearSale?authkey=DkGqdXJCW6s You'll get a much quicker response if you email me. powchaser gmail com You pay actual shipping from 97463 Sold everything except these: BD Switchblade Step In Crampons (dual pts only) $60. red Camp Tricam $5.

That sucks to have to dig, or find some other way in, but what should the FS do, post a guard to stop vandals? I'd be suprised if there are more than two LEOs for the whole forest.

Apologies if this is has been posted. A fellow rescuer sent this email out. I know its a long shot but this site sees a lot of traffic so... If you hear of any sales fitting these descriptions (ebay, etc.) please PM me. I will pass on the information to the owner and he can check it out himself. Just asking for your eyes, nothing more. Thanks. "Last night 12/03/06 nearly everything I own, all outdoor gear, was Stolen from my vehicle, via two broken windows. I would estimate that value of these goods to be in the range of $10,000. I highly doubt that the person who stole them will use them. With this in mind... If any person hears of the [suspicious] sale of used backpacking, mountaineering, or climbing equipment including but not limited to: MSR snow shoes,arc'tyrix shell pants, black prophets, ice axes, crampons, older dana designs and osprey backpacks, TNF sleeping bags, OR bivy sack, DTS tracker beacon, Orange Patagonia shell jacket, puff ball jacket and pants, ski helmet,pickets, avi probe, a Suunto T6 watch, Suunto vector watch, medical kits,several assorted base layers and other outdoor clothing..."

I like to tell whiners on ski and climbing trips that the (bad) conditions are "character building." One said, on a particularly bad weather day, "Well, I guess I'm Bugs Bunny by now then!" This character is going to re-join Eugene Mtn Rescue next week. I'd bet they're talking about what they'll eat when they get down. That always keeps me warm. Respect. Edited to add: Kauli, Hell yes, you can still hope! They are having a serious challenge, but it is not unlikely that they will make it down safely. That is not just a line to give you hope, I believe they will be OK.

I went up on Wed, the 29th and was skiing knee deep fluff (the snow fell at 3000 ft Tuesday night). It was great and even thought the snow level hase come up again for thu, fri, it is supposed to be back down to 3500, 3000 for this new storm. The warm spell DID stabilize that hoary snow, and we now have a great base (and an ice lens!). It is cooling off fairly slowly with this new batch of weather so I think bonding will be good to the slushy layer.

Does the tree have an inherrent right to exist "undamaged"? Why? Does it "deserve" to be "allowed" to live without whatshisname and hisbuddy poking it and stuff? Ethics are simply your own preferences backed up with some shit that seems more sturdy than "just" your preferences. (Call it god, science, experience or whatever, its just an excuse). There are no tree ethics any more than there are rock ethics or ecosystem ethics. There are only ways of doing things that "we" approve of and ways we don't.

Cams: Yellow rigid stem friend, brand new, used once, $20. 0 Metolius tcu. old, beat up, $5 .25, .50, .75, Rock Empire quad cams, $8 each. #4, #5 Rock Empire quad cams $12 each. #10 metolius quad cam, used a few times, $40. Camp tricams, pink (used) and red (almost new), $12 each. BD Hexs: 10, 9, 7, 5, make offer. ABC nuts (like BD Stoppers) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, make offer. BD Stoppers: 5, 12, 13, make offer. MSR 24' picket, $15. You pay shipping or pick up in Eugene. Email or post with questions.

I'M TAKING A FUCKING MENTAL HEALTH DAY! ok?

oh look! its the gymsters fan club. mr e, you have an average of 200 posts per month. what the fuck else do you do? they must have have internet at your gym.

I suggest a change in the climbing lexicon. Calling gym users 'climbers' is confusing. Its like calling people who use a rowing machine 'kayakers' or calling a girl that jacks herself off for you a 'whore'. Phuck that. They're gymsters, just below hamsters in the social order.

bungle, holy cow. your observations are prophetic. short, small dick, big suv, obsession with guns, powertripping...its textbook.

My usual partner is going thru a pussywhipped stage so I'm on the hunt for someone or two to climb (alpine) and bc ski with near Eugene. I will be going to the ice in BC later and like to climb in the sisters (esp. B Top and N Sis) and Jeff, Hood, Shasta, etc. Game to go most anywhere though. I have all needed gear and a 4x4. Email or PM me.

yay. i was the first to vote in this third poll at 11:22pm. but, i can't see the results oth the other two polls without making the answer to the last poll incorrect. that would skew the data and make this all meaningless so, will some one tell me if the other two polls are still at 100 percent? thanks.

Looking for people to ski with and do multi-day ski/climbs. I am an advanced BC skier and a decent mountaineer. Also dig the rare ice pitch or three. Right now my regular partner is P-whipped and has hangovers when we need to hit the mountain. So, fuck that. Anyway, I live in Eugene and play mostly in the Willamette, Hood and Deschutes NFs. Call (541-484-4504) or e-mail (krowell@coa.edu-much slower response).

Bought new in 2000 and have used it as a winter bag for about two weeks a year. So, it has about 75 nights' use. No holes, down still lofts nicely, stored in a closet hung from the foot. I am selling because this bag is too big for me. It is larger cut in girth and sized in length for someone around 6'. Buyer pays shipping from 97402. Calling is better than e-mail. 5414844504

how do you like them apples, eh? not like you remember?

summer was made for her to wear that dress, knocked-up, arthur richland. you know its me anyway. word. z-love

Hey Maiden, I think I know you. Post a nekkid pic under your avatar so I can be sure. K? Z-love

We just sit around in the mountains looking nonchalant, dropping bombs and such until the chics notice. And, believe me, notice they do! Just keep that maidenhair under your brian bucket or you'll be beating them off with an ice axe....Oh, that was gross! Nevermind, don't beat them off, not even if they ask you.

Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Good one! Maiden, you found me. (Not hard, I know) These flacid boobs are jealous...All this time there's been men on here posting as females to get everyone excited, but now that there's a real one they just can't deal.

I think Iain wins this one because he was able to representatively argue both sides in one thread. Great job man!

Here is a list of US bombing targets up to 1999. NONE of these bombing campaigns led to the establishment of a humane democracy. Who believes that Afghanistan (or Iraq) will be different? China (1945-46 & 1950-53) Korea (1950-53) Guatemala (1954 & 1960) Indonesia (1958) Cuba (1959-60) Congo (1964) Peru (1965) Laos (1964-73) Vietnam (1961-73) Cambodia (1969-70) Guatemala (1967-69) Grenada (1983) Libya (1986) El Salvador & Nicaragua (all of the 1980s) Panama (1989) Iraq (1991-99) Sudan (1998) Afghanistan (1998) Yugoslavia (1999)

Clearly this was a troll for "Wow, you're a studly chic" comments.

"Canada Becomes Muir Hut" Seeking Refuge from the Drug War Ross Crockford, AlterNet July 11, 2002 It's a different war, but some things never change. Forty years ago, Americans fled to Canada to avoid fighting in Vietnam. Today, American medical marijuana patients are following in their footsteps, claiming to be political refugees of the U.S. government's war on drugs. "I'm a member of a class of society they're trying to oppress or wipe out completely," says Renee Boje, from her home in Vancouver, British Columbia. Boje is probably the most famous American fugitive in Canada. The U.S. is currently trying to extradite her to face charges for conspiracy to cultivate hundreds of cannabis plants at the Los Angeles home of Todd McCormick, a cancer patient and medical marijuana activist. If convicted, Boje, 32, faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years -- a penalty so severe that she's become the poster child for the increasing numbers of U.S. citizens heading north to take advantage of Canada's liberal pot laws. "There are hundreds of Americans here," she says, "because they're being persecuted by their own government." Many of the refugees are quietly growing and using their own weed -- the Vancouver-based Compassion Club, one of a dozen operating across British Columbia, estimates that over 100 of its 2,000 clients are Americans. But others, like Boje, haven't kept such a low profile. Over the past couple of months, several prominent U.S. activists have fled to British Columbia, including Steve Kubby, the Libertarian Party's 1998 candidate for governor of California, and Ken Hayes, who operated the 6th Street Harm Reduction Center in San Francisco. Kubby, who has adrenal cancer, faces a 120-day jail term for drug possession, which he says would kill him. in February -- even though he was already in Canada -- Hayes was charged with conspiracy to grow more than 1,000 plants and could be sentenced to at least 10 years. Both Hayes and Kubby have formally claimed refugee status acccording to U.N. convention, arguing that they have a "well-founded fear of persecution" in the United States. Canadian immigration officials have found their claims to have sufficient merit to allow them and their families to remain in the country until a final hearing in a year. "U.S. officials have violated the law and intentionally targeted the leaders of the medical marijuana movement by using conspiracy charges," says Kubby, from his home on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast-just before he's due to read the daily news on pot-tv.net, an internet TV channel. "I'm being threatened with a death sentence. How can anyone justify that and say it's not an attempt to persecute me?" Public statements like this have already won the refugees plenty of attention from Canadian news media -- and American officials as well. "Providing sanctuary to some of these people who see Canada as an easy place to escape the long leash of U.S. law enforcement is dangerous," said Robert Maginnis, a White House drug policy advisor, in a recent interview on Canada's Global TV network. "I would hope that the Canadian government would see fit to send them back to the U.S. so they can face charges, because we have, just like you do, a sovereign right over our citizens to enforce the laws of our land." The exodus is partly a result of the vast difference between how medical marijuana laws are applied in Canada and the U.S.. Although California voters in 1996 passed Proposition 215 creating a Compassionate Use Act, for the past two years, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has used federal law to raid and prosecute medical marijuana clubs across the state. In May last year, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the DEA's actions, ruling that "marijuana has no medical benefits", and this June the U.S. government obtained an injunction shutting down the few remaining California clubs for good. The Canadian federal government, on the other hand, has granted permits to possess or grow marijuana to more than 800 Canadians who suffer from AIDS, cancer or multiple sclerosis. And Canadian courts, which are not bound by mandatory minimums, tend to be lenient on those who don't have permits. For example, last month the B.C. Supreme Court stayed charges against a Vancouver man caught with 96 plants because he has AIDS and hepatitis; a few days later the same court granted an "absolute discharge" (i.e. no jail, fine, or criminal record) to the director of a compassion club who pleaded guilty to possession of five pounds of marijuana. Alex Stojicevic, the Vancouver lawyer representing Hayes, Kubby and several other American refugee claimants, says it's "nothing new" for U.S. citizens to flee to Canada to avoid drug charges. What's new is the accelerated crackdown on medical marijuana ever since the Bush administration took office. His clients' argument, he says, is that they're being persecuted for holding a political opinion shared by a majority of California voters, but not by the feds. "Since Mr. Ashcroft became attorney-general and Mr. Bush the president, the view is that things are going to get worse," says Stojicevic. "That's what's fueling this." Stojicevic admits that many of his clients are not likely to win refugee status because Canadian courts have consistently held that "the United States is still a country where the rule of law applies, and the real forum for complaining about these things is there, not here." However, a few Americans might be allowed to stay for other reasons. Earlier this year, Renee Boje married a Canadian, and they now have a four-month-old son. Stojicevic also notes that Boje's case is unique. While the other Americans will simply be ordered to leave Canada if their claims of persecution fail, the final decision to extradite Boje is up to Canada's minister of justice. He may consider (according to Canadian law) it "unjust and oppressive" to send a young mother to 10 years in prison for watering some plants. Unfortunately, the U.S. activists have made a difficult situation even harder for themselves. In April, after one of them showed reporters marijuana he was cultivating, neighbors complained and the Mounties arrested Kubby, Hayes and several others. (Hayes also says a DEA agent based in Vancouver tried to intimidate him into returning "voluntarily" to the U.S.) They were released only after Marc Emery, the leader of the B.C. Marijuana Party and the owner of pot-tv.net and a giant marijuana seed bank, put up $5,000 bail. If convicted of cultivation and possession charges, each of the Americans could be ordered to leave Canada before the final hearings of their refugee claims. The refugees are unrepentant. "I don't want to go back to the United States," says Ken Hayes. "The people who are still there fighting are doing a noble thing ... but it's inevitable that wherever there's liberty, that's where people will seek to be." [AlterNet]