California

The jungle! Next time I get an itch for the jungle I'm out of here!

California

eighth largest in the World

used to be 7th

No limestone though,

Sucks., except for Yosemite, the Eastside, and Jtree. I will be outta here soon

Why is it so many Colorado climbers dislike/hate/slag/u-name-it on California? It's just such an obvious rehash oh their geographical inferiority shizzle, they've been hurling since I began climbing

So the next time you blabber about Californians coming to Nevada? STFU m'kay?

Especially maddening are those dirt piles we call islands, just off the coast - Catalina, the Channels etc

Now compare those to Sard, Corsica, Mallorca, Kalymnos

wilderness permits were "sold out" six months in advance this coming season..

them you are from Colorado and they'll say, "Where is that?"

whats incorrect Gary,

4. If you're unable to get a reservation, consider a first-come, first-served permit.
Wilderness permits are available during business hours at any permit issuing station starting no earlier than 11 am the day before the beginning of your wilderness trip. Priority for permits for a particular trailhead is given to the closest permit issuing station, though it is possible to obtain a permit for any trailhead at any permit issuing station. This mainly affects the most popular trailheads that fill up quickly each morning, such as Little Yosemite Valley trailheads, Lyell Canyon, Cathedral Lakes, among others.

"Bizarre Game Targets Women: Hunting for Bambi

(July 10) -- It's a new form of adult entertainment, and men are paying thousands of dollars to shoot naked women with paint ball guns. They're coming to Las Vegas to do it. This bizarre new sport has captured the attention of people around the world, but Channel 8 Eyewitness News reporter LuAnne Sorrell is the only person who has interviewed the game's founder.

George Evanthes has never been hunting. "Originally I'm from New York. What am I going to hunt? Squirrels? Someone's cats? Someone's dogs? I don't think so," said Evanthes. Now that he's living in Las Vegas, he's finally getting his chance to put on his camouflage, grab a rifle and pull the trigger. But what's in his scope may surprise you. He's not hunting ducks or deer, he's hunting naked women.

"I've done this three times," says Nicole, one of the three women allowing themselves to be shot at. Two other women, Gidget and Skyler, claim they have done this seven times.

Hunting for Bambi is the brainchild of Michael Burdick. Men pay anywhere from $5000 to $10,000 for the chance to come to the middle of the desert to shoot what they call "Bambis" with a paint ball gun. Burdick says men have come from as far away as Germany. The men get a video tape of their hunt to take home and show their friends.

Burdick says safety is a concern, but the women are not allowed to wear protective gear -- only tennis shoes.

Burdick says hunters are told not to shoot any woman above the chest, but he admits not all hunters follow the rules. "The main goal is to be as true to nature as possible. I don't go deer hunting and see a deer with a football helmet on so I don't want to see one on my girl either," said Burdick."

Southland (and, largely, Sacramento) really belong east of the Mississippi in attitude.

but you all don't have anything like hunting nude women with paintball guns for money like Nevada does.

But then, as we have described, the appeal of California withered. Since 1990, domestic migration to California has flipped to a deficit. In the last two decades, the state lost nearly 3.4 million residents through migration to other states. In other words, it lost about four-fifths of what it had gained through domestic migration in the previous 30 years. Foreign immigration filled the gap only partially. Inflows from overseas peaked at 291,191 in 2002 and sank to just 164,445 in 2011. Meanwhile, net domestic out-migration has averaged 225,000 a year over the past ten years.

Fritz, They always come back.

Bluering was voted most likely to have an aneurysm in Highschool. Damn, dude, what's your blood pressure run?

You're quite practiced at being a DICK, blue guy. Lighten up, stupid.
No body gives a sh#t what you think.
You and Hedge were made for each other.

Ahh california; it's a beaut of a state to visit (not counting the rat race population centers), but soon nobody will be able to afford to live their as desperation for tax revenue increases. Maybe the last permanent residents can turn out the lights and the whole place can then be turned into a national park.

Edit- Gary our repub governor (former oil co lobbyist) just succeeded in a major reversal of oil co taxes.

It does appear some Californians are fleeing paradise.

just hard to pick up and go. Texas is looking good though!

the erudite and enlightened character of Idaho.

And when locals hear new arrivals ranting anti-God bluster, see ancestral parks turn into gay hangouts

"....new arrivals will change the erudite and enlightened character of Idaho."

"...Fritz we already have one of your wolves down here and the poor old sot can get a job I'm afraid. He just isn't qualified to make it here. He got lost trying to make his way back too, the poor sonofabitch.

Anyway you can come get your wolf any time :-)"

we build for whoever pays us.

I don't believe anyone has ever used the words "erudite and enlightened" as a description of Idaho

n 1964 tuition at U.C. (including Berkeley) was $110 per semester ($220 per year).

Our current California budget seems loaded with consumption, and impoverished in investment.

Interesting summation Jennie......not believing in the existence of God, however, is not being anti God. How can you possibly be against or opposed to something/someone you don't believe exists?

The places my dad rented to mormons always smelled like Spaghetti-O's and/or cats when they left.

The problem with living in Orange Couty is you are $200 in gas and 5-6 hours from anyplace you really want to be.

Jennie: How about a run at Gov'nor?

The Boise area and the panhandle would never vote for a mormon twit...

In recent time, along with the bleeding of our natural resources we have had downturns in the military budgets of the numerous very large military establishments in the state, and our base industry "giants" (like Albertsons, Hewlet/packard, Morrison Knudsen) bought out and sold after loading with debt, or disolved totally, absorbed. Idaho is number one in independant business.

Ain't that all you gots up there?

force that can't spell despite having an 18:1 student:teacher ratio? morans!

f----- tea baggers

I am on a mission to reclaim this State.

I am a Rand Paul conservative, a libertarian.

I love California, born/bred! I will change it!!

People without the land under their home shouldn't be allowed to vote. Renters don't take care of anything.

seems like you could get that one Kenny. I did a move or two free when i nailed it lol! Its endurance fest bu that crack is a STELLAR one truly, and is highly under rated..

edit: Ol' Rox IS an Alabaman. Or an Alabamchild.

Erudite in Idaho? Try Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway.

There's quite a list of well published writers from Idaho. Hasn't anyone heard of Heather Sharfeddin, Beatrice Sparks and Mimi LaFollette Summerskill?

i wuz bornded in LANCASTER,, when it was A through F street period..

One example of that is a generous and unsustainable pension system, a political hot potato, not unique to California but shared by most states.

I know the Irish were considered non-christian

Besides, I were educated but 2 ours from Idaho... what does ya spect?

People without the land under their home shouldn't be allowed to vote. Renters don't take care of anything.

A lot of great white people come from the faralons Patrick?

The white sharks keep some of the surf spots in no. cal. from getting to crowded.

Patrick you're a true IrishMAN - a little GIRL around snakes hahahahahaha!

So, Paddy, I take it you've not had the singular pleasure of stepping on a nice wee stingray at a lovely California beach?

Jennie, Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in Illinois.

From Wikipedia
"and during the Chicago influenza epidemic in 1891, he spent a half year at his brother's ranch on the Raft River in Idaho."

(As I have read books on him, that’s it as far as know, six months or so, hardly makes him a native).

I could use a good Irish man who can do handiman work,