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Yep.:D Much obliged.

The reason more people wearing helmets get injured is because more people wear helmets. I bet that if you polled the people of California, 79% would respond that they do not wear a helmet while biking. Why? because that's the proportion of people who got injured who were not wearing helmets...

Article said no new trails an no cutting anything above 2500 feet. Only thing I can think of to compare would be Big Squaw Resort up in Greenville. Only half the mountain is groomed and only one lift is running. The rest is free to hike up and board down.

Dragonflies (order Odonata) is, without a doubt, the best group of insects on earth! They are the bomb! They spend their larval stage eating everything that gets near them in streams and ponds. Mostly, that's mosquito wrigglers. Then when they turn into adults, they fly around eating...

I've got a small (9 inch total length) tripod that works well with my point and shoot. The legs are flexible, so you just grab the bottom and pull/bend it to the approximate position you want and set the camera up. It's really basic, but it's light and easy to carry and use.

Did you know that spiders with the pretty red hourglass are...TICKLEISH!!!!? Yeah, you can tickle them and they really like it. ;)

How can I get my hands on some stickers without going to Lincoln?

I stand corrected. You know better than I. Here in Maine it seems like there are lots of snowmobile trails and plenty of snowmobilers. And as far as I can tell, the snowmobilers stick to their trails and leave hiking trails alone.

I go to Bowdoin, but I don't know if that makes me a Maine resident... I'll help if I can, but I'll be in Illinois all sumnmer.

I want a big (ish) dog that I can run and wrestle with. Not now, cuz I'm in a dorm, but eventually.

I don't think that wearing a helmet makes me reckless. Also, helmet's don't prevent accidents, they prevent injuries. So the study isn't really saying anything earth shattering. Like Maddy, I'm gonna continue to try my luck and wear a helmet. Same goes for when I board.

That's pretty sweet. Maybe I'll have to start at Katahdin and head north, eh?;) But seriously, I might.

Probably the only time people are hoping that someone else needed to be rescued. I think snowmobiles are permitted everywhere that is not explicitly forbidden to them. Sure is a shame that someone went up a hiking trail though.

grouseking, what editing software do you have? iPhoto? Photoshop? Nikon? Depending on which you've got, your mode of attack will be slightly different. If you have iPhoto, it will be hard to blur out the background without smudging the whole thing. Photoshop is the best, but it takes a lot...

How many peaks are we talkin' here? 40? 50? 100? I think there should be some sort of winter summits requirement to complete the list.

You could also try cropping the bottom, removing some of his body. That way, face will stand out more from the rest of the frame since there's less of that light brown color in it.

That is indeed a Resplendent Quetzal. We took a family trip down to Costa Rica a few years ago (it was cheaper than going to Big Bend). The Quetzal is probably the most beautiful bird I have ever seen. We saw males twice on our trip, on the last and second-to-last days and that just made it...

I'd be down. Couldn't take a full week, but probably 3 days or so. I'd need to figure out how to get up there though...

I see the teeth. Wouldn't it be "Taking a bite out of winter" though?;)

That's a good idea. I hadn't thought of that.