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Skyventure Colorado is in Denver and is about 30 to 45 minutes from the Airport. There is also Light rail from the Downtown area that will take you to within a 15 minute walk or so from the tunnel. Skyventure Orlando is also pretty close to everything from what I have heard...

Whatever kind of beer was in the beer truck at the American Boogie a few years ago was damn good. Knocked me on my ass too

Raft the Grand Canyon in June. Get my instrument rating. (get my private pilots was last years goal) Race in 2 adventure races. Get over 30 days of (snow) skiing for the season Get my professional engineers license that's about it...

I love cheesy poofs you love cheesy poofs If we didn't eat cheesy poofs we'd be LAME

Cool....I'm going to have to get it

Rattlesnake. I cooked it too. We were on a river trip with some interesting folks from Idaho. They found a rattlesnake and took it upon themselves to kill it. They skinned it and told me to fry it up since it was my night to cook. Damn thing was still moving when we began to fry it too How did it taste?? Like Chicken.

Define too far? If you dont try to drive up to the slopes on a weekend morning, or when there is a big storm, it only takes an hour and a half to two hours to get to the slopes.

...or just find your way to Denver and go skiing and tunnel flying in the same day.

Donate the organs that are useful. Cremate the rest of me and split up the ashes to be spread in my favorite places. I would request that as many of my family and friends as possible visit those places to spread my ashes. Some would go to the sky, some would be spread in the high mountains here in Colorado, and some would go down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.

...or just find your way to Denver and go skiing and tunnel flying in the same day.

Everything you do in life has a risk to reward ratio, and everyone has their own threshold for when it gets too high. Skydiving has a high risk, but that is offset for most skydivers by a high reward. It sounds like you've made a good decision based on your own preceptions. That said, climbing comes with it's own risk. Going to the gym and top-roping are both relatively low risk, however there is always that tendancy to push things. Be careful about getting pushed into leading somthing you aren't ready for...I've had several friends get hurt that way. Likewise, make sure you trust everyone you go climbing with. Unlike skydiving, in climbing everyone has to be a bit of a rigger, and while there are some very safe climbers, there are also a lot of dumbasses out there. Have fun on the rock!

It's about 50 in Denver today

Happy Birthday Alana!

It usually means that you arent allowed to park on the major streets, so that plows can operate and get the streets cleared.

Maybe you should consider adding a security/storm door infront of the main door. That window is pretty big, and anyone who wants to get in would be able to get in.

If you come to Colorado and go rafting, I can arrange such an occurance

Cold water will do that to you, unless you have a dry suit on, your muscles become very ineffective and it becomes very difficult to get back into the boat after only a few minutes in the water. That, and climbing back in a raft can be very difficult to begin with. What was your guide doing in the water when you were still in the boat anyway?? It's a major beer fine for a guide to end up in the water unless ALL of the other people in the boat fall out too

I guided whitewater rafts for 6 years...I have seen many, many people swim whitewater. It's kinda funny how the average person reacts. Despite being given an extensive safety talk, almost everyone forgets what you told them the minute they hit the water. For most people, there is nothing more terrifing then being in that moving water. The majority of people "blank out" and do not participate at all in getting themselves out of the situation. Most of them just let the water take them until someone rescues them. I've seen people go completeley catatonic to the point they wouldnt even grab a rope or a paddle, but be just fine as soon as we got them back into the boat. Given that being in the moving water is such a scary experience for most, as soon as they have something solid to hold onto without submitting themself to the will of the moving water, they are going to hold onto it for dear life.

Looks like that's not the only thing they were charged with: http://www.whas11.com/topstories/stories/012607whasmjdTopChurchTheftsArrests.202e6ad3.html

There is some industrial grade stuff they make for removing smoke and fire damage...you might try to get your hands on some of that...

I dont think that dog could possibly have enough jumps to be flying a stiletto. Someone needs to talk to him before he kills himself.

Define warm? We are supposed to have a high of around 60 in Denver tommorow.

It's a long process and you're going to need a patent attourney. It's going to be expensive, so you will either need investors or a substantial personal investment. Depending on the device, you may need to do some prototyping as well.

Yup. That's why I've never brought it up before. Still, all it would take is one skydiver bringing down one passenger plane, and all kinds of things would happen. Too bad FARs usually only get written in blood. As for the increased workload for the pilot switching transponder codes, it could definatly be an issue, but you could resolve it somewhat by using a progammable transponder with single button code, or making the "climbing aircraft" code one digit from the jumprun aircraft code, or even make a new type of transponder for jumpships only that goes to the discrete code at the push of a button and reverts back to the old code when the plane starts decending (I know, I know, expensive, TSO issues, so on and so forth). Using "ident" is a good idea, however, the problem I see is that there are different controllers for different altitudes in the same sector in congested areas. If something like this were implemented, then all controllers, high and low, could see the jump ship and be positively alerted (as opposed to passively watch) what was going on.

Football is about dealing with the weather. One of the best things about it is that it is played in the sun or the snow. I've always thought that it's kind of a cop-out that they only pick warm climates for the super bowl. I'd love to see a snowy super bowl in Green Bay sometime... As for the game, the colts completely dominated in every way, they solidly won that game. And FWIW, the halftime show sucked...I felt stupider for having watched the first few minutes of it.