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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

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Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctic breaks-up!

Nicely done morons just keep doing the same thing over and over again. The whole while expecting a different out come. When is are government and some of the moron citizens going to wake up


Tuesday, March 25, 2008

SUV Morons

If you drive a SUV for anything but construction work you my friend are a moron!








If you drive a SUV for anything but construction work you my friend are a moron!

Monday, March 24, 2008

Easter Sunday Night Ride


Melting some snow with the dinotte tail lights HAHA


18 degrees

17 miles.

The roads were empty these early morning holiday rides are simply amazing.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Mileage Update

First 107 Days

Mileage update

Bike commuting 1045 miles

Cycling for fun 246 miles

Walking commuting 16 miles

Snowshoeing estimate 24 miles

Cross country Skiing estimate 33 mile

Sitting in a motor vehicle just under 200

1364 miles of no motor vehicle travel

Friday, March 14, 2008

DiNotte Tail Lights

All right guys and gals if I'm ever run down from behind at night you better scream bloody murder.




Thursday, March 13, 2008

Green Rant

The human race has exactly one, single chance to get this right. We get our GHG output to a net negative profile worldwide before the permafrost melts and releases gigatons of methane or most of us, our our children die. The computers ticking away in your Aspen ski resort are going to get awfully lonely waiting for new check-ins then.

Anybody who thinks corporate greenwashing is anything but cynical marketing is truly deluded. Most of these companies have people near the top that can understand the consequences of not having an arctic ice cap. They are all just practicing an I got mine now bub, policy at the executive level. Or haven’t you noticed that GM’s executives still get paid millions while the company loses billions of dollars per year?

The fundamentalist christians that disdain greens are just one mega-tornado from turning into fundamentalist Amish. When god starts hunting you down personally and hammering your churches and destroying your towns down to the last outhouse it could be time to listen. When they do us liberal greenie weenies may be tolerated but those too stupid to make the switch and caught in last minute profit-taking are going to be strange fruit on the old oak tree.

Americans have no problems with human sacrifice. Push them hard enough and they won’t wait for new laws and new courts. These people are being pushed very, very, hard by Wall Street and the GOP now and they are getting the idea about where their real enemies are.

Monday, March 10, 2008

Testing the Mountain Hardware Conduit SL Bivy



So Saturday night I snow shoed (6.2 round trip) miles to bivy at Mead pond just north of RT374 to do some testing of this new bizy sack.



Conditions
Heavy wet snow
Temps 25F
Wind chill 18F
Sleeping bag Moonstone synthetic hollow fill –35F

Strong Points
Keeps the user dry
Weight 1.2 Ibs
Easy to Set up
Very pack able

Weak Points
Not big enough for use with a winter bag
Lacks a hoop around users head.

Over all I like the bag I’ll deal with the fact of it being a bit small for my sleeping bag.

Friday, March 7, 2008