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- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup water
- 2-1/4 cups sliced fresh or frozen rhubarb
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Pound cake or vanilla ice cream
- In a small saucepan, bring sugar and water to a boil. Add rhubarb; cook and stir for 5-10 minutes or until rhubarb is tender and mixture is slightly thickened. Remove from the heat; stir in lemon peel and nutmeg.
- Serve warm or chilled over pound cake or ice cream. Refrigerate leftovers. Yield: 1-1/4 cups.
Reviews for Easy Rhubarb Sauce
"This is a great recipe! I used a little lemon juice instead of the juice. I made a lemon sponge cake to put it on."
"Very tasty. I always used orange zest in my rhubarb. There are many varieties of rhubarb and Victoria Cherry Rhubarb is one of the best with deep red stalks. If you over sweeten your rhubarb you can counter act it by adding 1/2 tsp or more of citric acid. I keep a supply in the freezer. Rhubarb purists never mix strawberry in with it......"
"Made this, used Splenda in place of the sugar, was wonderful with low fat ice cream, topped with a crushed small mini-cone, or a few crushed cinnamon graham cracker crumbs. Wonderful old fashioned flavor dessert, and best of all simple & convenient to have on hand for unexpected coffee guests."
"I don't usually add the nutmeg or lemon peel because we like the simplicity of the recipe without those ingredients."
"My mother used to make this. We had it on toast instead of jam in the morning."


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−Archery Meeting1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Members and friends of Grace Bible Church in Silver Lake will be starting their next session of an archery ministry called Centershot for those of all ages. Centershot is a Bible-based archery ministry that consists of 45 minutes of archery instruction and a 45 minute Bible study one day a week for 8 weeks. The church provides the bows and arrows which are used during the training sessions in the church basement shooting range. Participants pay a nominal fee to help cover the cost of the study book. The next session of Centershot will begin Sunday, February 1 from 1:00 – 2:30 pm. To sign up to reserve your spot(s) contact the church office (320)327-2352.+1:00 pmArchery Meeting
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Rainbow Sportsmen's Club is having it's annual Free Fishing Contest Sunday, Feb 8th from 2-4 pm on Brooks Lake in Cokato. Raffle tickets can be purchased from club members in advance or at the contest for $1 each for a chance at cash and merchandise prizes. There is a Junior and Senior class for the fishing contest and there will be a lunch wagon on site. They will have some free minnows and can drill your holes. Bring out the whole family for some fun and excitement. Brooks Lake is located North of Hwy 12 on Johnson Ave N in Cokato. Info…Contact Dave 612-670-1916 or Tim 320-980-0460+9:00 amFishing Contest
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The 42nd annual Schafskopf Tournament will be held Sunday, Feb 8th at the Brownton Community Center. Donation Tickets are $1 and you need not be present to win.+12:00 pmSchafskopf Tournament
−Turkey Hunting Seminar12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Grace Bible Church of Silver Lake will be hosting a special Outdoor Club Meeting on Sunday, February 8, at 2:30 pm at the church. This free informal get-together is titled Turkey Hunting 101and will include sharing by Rodney Schmidt and Dr. Tom Rakow. Turkey Hunting 101 is especially designed for the person who wants to know how to get started turkey hunting, or who wants to pick up some helpful tips from others. The seminar will last about an hour and includes a brief devotional time, presentation on the topic, and a time for input and questions. Anyone any age is invited, and there is no charge.+12:30 pmTurkey Hunting Seminar
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Beth El Synagogue of St. Louis Park presents an evening with Taya Kyle and Jim DeFelice on Sunday, Feb 8th at 7 pm. Taya's late husband was Navy SEAL and Author Chris Kyle. Taya regularly speaks to audiences across the country about the challenges facing veterans, first responders and their families. She also talks about the value of knowing who you are, what you believe in and standing strong for it. Tickets available online at besyn.org+7:00 pmNight with Taya Kyle
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Razz's 4,000 square feet of gourmet chef's paradise didn't happen overnight or even develop from a master plan. The original chef's garden began with a 3- by 5-foot raised bed, located a stone's throw from the restaurant kitchen door. This little plot produced precious fresh herbs and vegetables, but demand soon surpassed what the garden could provide. It whetted Razz's appetite for more; more varieties, more volume and a more dependable source of fresh, quality vegetabl herbs and fruits.
A 1992 visit to Fetzer Vineyards in northern California's wine country provided further incentive. While at the vineyards, Razz spent time with John Ash, Fetzer's chef and culinary director, touring (and falling in love with) the chef's four-acre organic garden, laden with more than 1,000 kinds of vegetables, herbs and edible flowers.
Inspired, Razz returned to Phoenix and, using funds saved from his cooking classes, began constructing the garden. He selected a site located smack-dab in the middle of a steep, narrow canyon just down the hill from the restaurant. With help from two of his prep cooks, he built a series of terraces and raised beds from the multitude of rocks in the poor canyon soil. The soil mixtures vary for the numerous planting beds, depending on what's being grown. Some planting beds are left natural to grow native herbs such as the Mexican tarragon, tansy and epazote. In others, the soil is amended with silt, sand and compost to improve the growth of garden vegetables and flowers.
Three years later, the garden is a beauty. Bright sunshine filters through the lacy leaves of mesquite and palo verde that arch out protectively over the garden. Naturally rugged hills and boulders of the Tapatio Cliffs serve as a dramatic backdrop, while the native desert plants that surround the garden offer their own unique colors and textures. Razz envisions a time when the garden gradually blends into the desert, the herbs and flowers reseeding, the berries and vines rambling to escape the confines of the garden. Or perhaps it will be the desert plants that find homes in the terraced beds.
The garden thrives from early spring (February in Phoenix's low desert climate) until late fall (October). The majority of the garden remains fallow November through January, something Razz hopes to modify to increase productivity. However, this downtime gives the garden a chance to "rest", and Razz and his crew get caught up on chores such as collecting and drying the woody stems of herbs for use in the restaurant smoker.
Winter is also the time to collect seeds. Some are spread into the surrounding desert to naturalize, some go into new planting beds and others are stored in envelopes to be planted later on. The soil in the annual planting beds is turned over and amendments are added for drainage and nutrients. By the time February rolls around, it's planting season again. Many vegetable and herb seeds go directly in the ground, with seedlings set out for a staggered harvest. Additional seedlings and new crops are planted each month through the summer to ensure a steady stream of varied produce to the kitchen.
Razz is well on his way to developing his own version of Fetzer's gardens. Currently, he grows more than 125 varieties of fresh herbs, vegetables, edible flowers, berries, fruit trees and native plants. But plans are in the making to expand the garden to include some 250 plant varieties. And then there's the co-op garden he's planning with area chefs that will become a dependable source of quality vegetables, herbs and fruits.
All of Razz's crops are grown organically. He believes "Nature takes its own course" and does not want to interfere with the garden's natural balance by using chemicals. To combat whiteflies, he plants broccoli raab as a host plant on the perimeter of his garden. "The whiteflies love it and congregate there, leaving most of my other garden plants alone." Ladybugs are also released to combat aphids. Other than that, the garden practically runs on its own, and from the look of things, that's how it should be. Plants are often left to reseed, and volunteers are allowed to grow to see what they will become.
Late this spring, two years after seed was sown directly into one of the planting beds, lavender and cilantro seedlings appeared, much to Razz's delight. "I keep a map of the garden, but sometimes I forget what I've planted. I have to l the plants grow for a while before I decide if it's a weed or a crop! I think we're crazy, sometimes, the things we try. But that's what makes it so much fun--and the fact that everybody told us we couldn't do it."


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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 6:34 am
Post subject: ISO books where the heroine doesn't like the hero at first
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If you can get it, Lorraine Heath's ALWAYS TO REMEMBER is a great (A+) book, IMO. It's set after the Civil War and the heroine hates the hero because he did not fight during the war. He was against all war and if I remember correctly, was kind of a medic. She vows, having lost her fiance, to make the hero's life absolutely miserable. This is an extremely touching book with a fabulous hero and a heroine you sympathize with almost immediately, although most people would not be in favor of her obsession. You can probably get it for free from your local library; if they don't have it (and mine didn't), they can find it in another state and have it sent to you.
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Loretta Chase does this a lot. In fact, more often than not, her heroines begin by not thinking much of the hero, from her early Regencies (e.g. KNAVE'S WAGER) to her most recent, SCANDAL WEARS SATIN.
Miranda Neville did it, especially in CONFESSIONS FROM AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE.
Jennifer Crusie does it (BET ME), SEP does it (the one about the woman who owns the team).
Practically everyone I can think of has done it at one time or another, and generally more than once.
I think it's a fairly common gimmick.
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Loretta Chase does this a lot. In fact, more often than not, her heroines begin by not thinking much of the hero, from her early Regencies (e.g. KNAVE'S WAGER) to her most recent, SCANDAL WEARS SATIN.
Miranda Neville did it, especially in CONFESSIONS FROM AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE.
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Although not many books come immediately to mind, this sounds like a pretty common scenario. Of course, the most famous plot of this sort is Austen's
Pride and Prejudice
Far from that classic, the following have similar dynamics:
Julie James'
Just the Sexiest Man Alive
Mary Kay Andrews'
Deep Dish
Laura Lee Gurhke's
I'll post again if I can think of more.
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Mary Balogh uses this trope in SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS and THEN COMES SEDUCTION.
Eloisa James does it in DUCHESS IN LOVE and YOUR WICKED WAYS. Lisa Kleypas does it in THE DEVIL IN WINTER.
Nora Roberts has this trope at least once per trilogy in the ones I've read. Usually building up to a match between the two who spar the most. My faves though are stand-alones: CARNAL INNOCENCE and THE WITNESS.
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The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
London's Perfect Scoundrel by Suzanne Enoch
I think at least a half of the historicals I have read start out like that - very common!
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Tempting the Bride
, the last book in Sherry Thomas' recent trilogy, and
Not Proper Enough
by Carolyn Jewel both have this theme.
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This is one of my favorite scenarios, so I'll be watching this thread closely!
Linda Howard has a few, the two that come to mind immediately are MR. PERFECT and PREY.
Susan Anderson - JUST FOR KICKS, CUTTING LOOSE, and OBSESSED
Elizabeth Hoyt - SCANDALOUS DESIRES
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I just read a great short by Charlotte Stein called Restraint, in which the heroine hates the hero because he hates her... or does he?
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Narciso Rodriguez is famous for no-frills tailoring and razor-sharp silhouettes, but his greatest gift to women may be the illusion of curves. It's at the core of his bias-cut slip dresses (like the wedding gown he designed for Carolyn Bessette that made him famous) and his sculpted sheaths with a bombshell fit. Right now, the Cuban-American designer is high on bright color. "I especially love it with white," he says, referring to a spring dress with thick stripes at the bust and seams that contour the body. Blocks of color lend structure to his clothes, becoming "part of the architecture," says Rodriguez, and give two-tone bags and shoes a little more reach in the wardrobe. "It's just so optimistic," he says.
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Volleyball Looks To Cap 2012 Season With Strong Final Weekend
While the Ivy League championship will not land in Princeton this fall, the Tigers can maintain sole possession of second place and send their seniors out with two more wins during the season-ending road trip through New York this weekend.
A loss last Saturday to Yale clinched the league title for the Bulldogs and left Princeton alone in second with a 9-3 Ivy record. The Tigers currently stand one match ahead of Penn and two ahead of Columbia in the race for second place in the league.
Princeton will open the weekend Friday night at Cornell, a team Princeton defeated 3-1 earlier this season. The duo of Lydia Rudnick and Kendall Peterkin, which currently stands 1-2 in the Ivy League in kills this season, combined for 33 of the team's 53 kills in that match.
On Saturday, the Tigers will conclude their season with a 5 pm showdown at Columbia. Princeton won a hard-fought 3-1 decision at Dillon Gym earlier this season over the Lions; sophomore setter Ginny Willis had 54 assists in the match, while freshman libero Sarah Daschbach had 19 digs. Saturday's game can be watched on GoPrincetonTigers.tv.
The weekend will be the final one for the senior trio of Rudnick, Molly Bagshaw and Jennifer Palmquist. They have helped Princeton to 39 wins in 56 Ivy matches, with two more to play. If the Tigers sweep the weekend, they will have gone 22-6 in league play as upperclassmen.


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The Third annual Battle of the Brews will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 20 in the Delaware Electric Cooperative Free Entertainment Tent at the Delaware State Park, 18500 S. DuPont Highway, Harrington.
There are 100 beer entries this year from 51 competitors. Seventy percent of contestants are from Delaware with the remainder from surrounding states. Winners will be selected in 10 styles or categories with the top beer of each style competing for Best of Show. Styles include pilsner, ales, Belgians, porter, and stout, among other categories.
Results will be announced between 5 and 8 p.m. The champion will receive a $250 cash prize.
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Starting next month, the legendary Fania Records will be hosting a Fania Armada club and pop-up store at The 1986 in Brooklyn. The happenings will run from May 22-25, and will bring together an array of Fania music and merchandise for sale along with an all-star lineup of DJs showcasing sounds ranging from Latin soul, funk, boogaloo, salsa, and more.
Headlining DJs will include Louie Vega, Tony Touch, Que Bajo (Gecko Jones and Uproot Andy), and D'Marquesina. And if that weren't already enough, know that the party definitely doesn't stop there. View the flyer above for a few more details, and head over to the individual event pages below for even more of the low-down.
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Jack M. Quigley passed away Saturday, March 9, 2013 at the Delaware Veterans Home, Milford. He was 75.
Jack was born in 1937 in Camden, New Jersey, son of the late John and Elizabeth (Passwater) Quigley.
He served his country proudly and with honor for over 27 years of combined service of Army and Air Force, where he retired as Master Sergeant. He was wounded in combat action during Viet Nam and had over 1000 hours flying security on C-5's. He then worked 12 years Civil Service at Dover Air Force Base.
Jack had taught Sunday School as a teenager and had a love for his dogs.
He is survived by his loving and dedicated wife of 52 years Jeannine Quigley, three children Christine and her husband Endel of NM, Kathleen and her husband Christopher of NJ and Patrick and his wife Colleen of SD, grandchildren Aleks, Sean and his wife Shannon, Krista, Shane, Casey and Jacqueline, great granddaughter Caitlynn and two sisters Myrtietta Carroll of FL and Betty Rutledge of MD.
Per Jack's wishes, his service will be private.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Alzheimer's Association, Delaware Valley Chapter Headquarters, 399 Market Street, Suite 102, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Letters of condolences can be sent via www.pippinfuneralhome.com.
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Profiles of hope. Profiles of courage. Profiles of charity.
For 101 years, the stories of struggle that make up The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund's annual campaign have inspired readers to help New Yorkers in dire financial need.
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In the old abattoir of Rome- today the Museum of Contemporary Art- two public gardens dealing with botanical spontaneity. On the occasion of Enel contemporanea 2012, an international art event that takes place in Rome annually, 75m of evergreens, perennial herbs and impromptu flowers alternate in volume and density and translate the vitality and ecological memory of the old meat district of Testaccio.
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Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law
Edward Rock writes widely on corporate law and corporate governance. In recent years, working with Marcel Kahan at NYU, he has written a series of award-winning articles on hedge funds, corporate voting, proxy access, corporate federalism and mergers and acquisitions.
- Corporations
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Securities Regulation
- Antitrust
THE ANATOMY OF CORPORATE LAW: A COMPARATIVE AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACH (2d ed. Oxford 2009) (1st ed., 2004) (with REINIER KRAAKMAN, ET AL.).
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Articles and Book Chapters
Corporate Law Doctrine and the Legacy of American Legal Realism, 163 U. PA. L. REV. 2019 (2015)
Symbolic Corporate Governance Politics, 94 B.U. L. REV. 1997 (2014) (with Marcel Kahan)
Adapting to the New Shareholder-Centric Reality, 161 U. PA. L. REV. 1607 (2013).
Shareholder Eugenics in the Public Corporation, 97 CORNELL L. REV. 849 (2012).
The Insignificance of Proxy Access, 97 VA. L. REV. 1347 (2011) (with Marcel Kahan).
When the Government is the Controlling Shareholder, 89 TEX. L. REV. 1293 (2011) (with Marcel Kahan).
When the Government is the Controlling Shareholder: Implications for Delaware, 35 DEL. J. CORP. L. 409 (2010) (with Marcel Kahan).
Embattled CEOs, 88 TEX. L. REV. 987 (2010), reprinted in 52 CORP. PRAC. COMMENTATOR 561 (2010) (with Marcel Kahan).
The General Counsel of a Nonprofit Enterprise: Some Questions, 46 HOUS. L. REV. 17 (2009)
How to Prevent Hard Cases from Making Bad Law: Bear Stearns, Delaware and the Strategic Use of Comity, 58 EMORY L.J. 713 (2009) (with Marcel Kahan).
Hedge Fund Activism in the Enforcement of Bond Covenants, 103 NW. U. L. REV. 281 (2009) (with Marcel Kahan).
On Improving Shareholder Voting, in RATIONALITY IN COMPANY LAW: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF DD PRENTICE (Jennifer Payne and John Armour eds., Hart Publishing, 2009) (with Marcel Kahan).
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The Hanging Chads of Corporate Voting, 96 GEO. L. J. 1227 (2008) (with Marcel Kahan).
Corporate Taxation and International Charter Competition, 106 MICH. L. REV. 1229 (2008) (with Mitchell Kane).
Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control, 155 U. PA. L. REV. 1021 (2007) (with Marcel Kahan) (winner of the 2007 De Brauw Prize for the best 2006 paper in the ECGI Law Working Paper series).
The Corporate Form as a Solution to a Discursive Dilemma, 162 J. INST. & THEOR. ECON. 57 (2006).
Symbiotic Federalism and the Structure of Corporate Law, 58 VAND. L. REV. 1573 (2005) (with Marcel Kahan).
A New Player in the Boardroom: The Emergence of the Independent Directors' Counsel, 59 BUS. LAW. 1389 (2004) (with Geoffrey C. Hazard).
Corporate Control Transactions, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 463 (2003) (with Michael L. Wachter).
Corporate Constitutionalism: Antitakeover Charter Provisions as Precommitment, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 473 (2003) (with Marcel Kahan).
Dangerous Liaisons: Corporate Law, Trust Law, and Interdoctrinal Legal Transplants, 96 NW. U. L. REV. 651 (2002) (with Michael L. Wachter).
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pill: Adaptive Responses to Takeover Law, 69 U. CHI. L. REV. 871 (2002) (with Marcel Kahan).
Norms & Corporate Law, 149 U. PA. L. REV. 1607 (2001).
Islands of Conscious Power: Law, Norms and the Self-Governing Corporation , 149 U. PA. L. REV. 1619 (2001) also published in 44 CORP. PRAC. COMMENTATOR 115 (2002) (with Michael Wachter).
More publications can be found here.
Working Papers
Does Majority Voting Improve Board Accountability? (July 29, 2015), U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 15-31: U. Chi. L. Rev. (forthcoming) (with Stephen J. Choi, Jill E. Fisch, and Marcel Kahan). (forthcoming)
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Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance (July 21, 2015), in OXFORD HANDBOOK ON CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE (forthcoming 2015); U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 14-37. (forthcoming 2015)
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Taking Politics as Markets (Too) Seriously (with Nate Persily) (forthcoming)
Research Areas
- Corporations
- Corporate Governance
- Securities Regulation
- Antitrust
- Labor Law
Penn Law - Saul A. Fox Distinguished Professor of Business Law (2001- ); Associate Dean (2006-08); Professor (1993-2001); Assistant Professor (1989-93)
Visiting Professor - Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Columbia Law School; NYU Law School; International Banking and Capital Markets Law, Institut fur Arbeits-Wirtschafts und Zivil Recht, Johann Wolfgang Goethe - Universität, Germany
Institute for Law and Economics, Penn - Co-Director (1998-2010)
The Wharton School, Penn - Professor of Business and Public Policy (2001- )
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After three years in the Israel Defense Forces and a childhood spent dodging rocket attacks, the son of an architect and lawyer outside Tel Aviv has shoulders, wit and a sense of place larger than most seniors. Or graduates.
By Gregg Bell
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SEATTLE – Gal Hakak has pride. He has something of an edge.
He also has a background and maturity unlike any in the last decade of Husky athletics.
The freshman tennis player, already among the top three in Washington's lineup, angrily flung his racquet into his bag Tuesday night. It was immediately after a flurry of service errors had led to the first loss of his dual-match college career, 1-6, 6-3, 3-6 to accomplished Pepperdine senior Francis Alcantara.
"I don't like to lose," he said flatly inside the Nordstrom Tennis Center about a half hour after UW (2-1) lost its first dual match this season.
The outburst was a spur-of-the-moment reaction. You see, Gal Hakak has experiences that put losing a tennis match into its proper perspective.
Hakak is a 22-year-old freshman. He has shoulders, wit and a sense of place larger than those of most seniors. Or graduates.
He's scrambled underground on 10 seconds of notice to dodge incoming rockets. He's served three years as a soldier in one of the most dangerous, deadly regions in the world.
He has learned counter-terrorism measures, how to apply deadly force. His hands are weapons far more lethal than for their ability to hit blistering first serves or baseline returns.
Hakak didn't grow up like Huskies senior captain Max Manthou, who was playing on the adjoining court inside the Nordstrom Tennis Center while Hakak finished his match Tuesday. He didn't grow up like Keith Price. Or like C.J. Wilcox, Jazmine Davis or any other of the approximately 700 Husky student-athletes.
Hakak grew up in Israel. The democracy is also one of the world's approximately 30 nations that require each teenage male to serve more than 18 months in the military.
In his country all men must serve three years in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF); women are required to serve two years. The IDF is the backbone of Israel's security against the constant threat of attacks from neighboring Syria, Jordan, the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip and throughout the Middle East, which has been rocked by wars and bloodshed since well before World War I began in 1914.
"Not many of our guys have been holding the weapons that Gal is used to holding," Huskies tennis coach Matt Anger deadpanned.
When Hakak was at Aviv High School in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ra'anana, he and classmates went on a class trip south down the Israeli coast of the Mediterranean Sea. They were close to the Gaza Strip, the 25-mile-by-7½ -mile Palestinian stronghold run by Hamas, which has been named by the United States, Israel and the European Union as an Islamic terrorist organization.
Suddenly, alarms jolted their visit. The town Hakak and his friends were visiting was under a rocket attack, apparently from Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Hakak is a 22-year-old freshman. He has shoulders, wit and a sense of place larger than those of most seniors. Or graduates.
"In many areas of Israel, those things happen. It is unnerving. When it happens, it's just a terrible feeling," Hakak said. "When the alarm goes off, you have maybe 10-15 seconds, max. It comes fast.
"Everyone was just running everywhere, running to the basement. Then you are just sitting, very anxious. And you wait for the boom."
The rocket missed the place in which Hakak was hiding. But the incident was the way of life he lived before he enrolled at UW in September.
I asked him what it was like as a boy growing up certain he would soon be learning how to kill.
"It's just pride, that's what you feel," Hakak said inside a film-study room of the Nordstrom Tennis Center about 30 minutes after Tuesday's match.
"You know when you are growing up that the day will come when you will finish high school and you will go into the army," he said. "You see your friends and the guys that are older than you, they come back to the high school for ceremonies and they are in uniform. You figure, 'Hey, I want to be like them.'
"My father served in the army. My grandfather served."
His sister, Shaked, serves, too. She is 20 and in the Israeli army as a sport instructor for special combat soldiers.
"Every person in Israel serves," Gal says. "And they made it, for me, a safe place to grow up, because we are surrounded by so many countries that want to destroy us.
"So I felt that this is my time. This is my time to contribute and donate my time for my country. This is my commitment, even though I am an athlete."
Born in 1991 – the year Iraq fired Scud missiles into his country in a failed attempt at provoking Israel's escalation of the Gulf War -- Hakak grew up playing soccer and basketball "and every sport," he said. He also took karate near his family's home in Ra'anana, a city of about 68,000 15 minutes outside of Tel Aviv home to many high-tech companies; Microsoft's head office in Israel is in Ra'anana.
Hakak comes from a learned home; his father David is an architect and his mother Galit is an attorney specializing in international business law.
They met while each was in the -- you guessed it -- Israeli army.
I asked their son when the last time was that he saw his parents.
"I see them every day!" Gal declared, with the biggest smile of our half-hour talk.
Turns out Hakak already has a best friend at UW: Skype.
"That was my time to serve. That was my commitment to my country."
When he was eight, a fancy new tennis center opened near his home. His father began taking him there, and Gal says he instantly fell in love with the speed and power of the sport. Within a couple years he began focusing on tennis. Soon he was one of the top teen players in Israel. In 2009, he won the Israeli junior national championship. He repeated in 2010.
Yet as good as he was in tennis, as piqued as his interest was in exploring the wondrous possibility of using his athletic talents to secure a free university education in the United States (as he had seen many Israelis before him do), Hakak first had to become a soldier.
When he turned 18 he took a psychometric test to assess his personality, attitude and values. After that timed test, Hakak received a questionnaire.
"(We) doubt that it is legal to reprint any of the questions of this questionnaire," the Jewish Agency of Israel writes in its instructions to its military inductees, "however suffice it to say that among other things, it is on this questionnaire that you will be able to inform the army if you've ever heard voices talking to you which nobody else heard, or if you ever felt that you were not in control of actions which your body committed."
Hakak then underwent a battery of medical tests and had an interview in Hebrew with a representative of the Israel Defense Force.
Far from standard stuff for a Husky student-athlete coming out of high school.
He graduated from Aviv High in July, 2010, two months after he turned 19. He and his high-school buddies then went on one, final fling to Greece before they all went into the military.
"Yeah, I had three weeks. That was the trip before the army. It was summer time in Greece. Pretty nice," Hakak recalls now, sounding wistful.
Three weeks later after Hakak received his high-school diploma his family massed around the bus he was about to board that took him 30 minutes from his home to Bakum, a military base in Tel Hashomer.
It was a grand sendoff, a proud rite of passage into Israeli manhood.
"When I joined the army, it was just magical. It was a magical moment for the family," Hakak said.
"My family got really excited. It's like a celebration. You come. You go to the bus. All the family and everyone are happy. The grandmother is crying, because she's excited.
"And then the bus goes into the base. You see the family maybe once every two weeks – though you get to talk to them once a day.
"But they got really excited. They got more excited than when I came here. When I came here, they were very happy. But when I joined the army they were like, 'The boy's grown up now. He's a soldier.'
"It's a big thing. It's a big thing in Israel."
Upon the bus arriving at Bakum he got his uniforms, his identification cards and tags, his immunizations and injections.
"And then that's it; you are a soldier," he said. "Your freedom is gone. You used to be able to do what you wanted. Now, you have people telling you what to do every minute."
Hakak says that loss of freedom the biggest adjustment he had to make in the military, but it was not overwhelming.
"For me, it wasn't such a big deal. I took it in a good way," he said. "That was my time to serve. That was my commitment to my country.
"That was my turn."
Each day for three months of basic training he woke at 4 a.m. He might run six miles with his unit then shower, perhaps prepare his uniform and gear for a post-workout inspection – all before he's eaten breakfast. Then he'd put in a full day of training and classes before getting maybe five hours of sleep and doing it all over again.
"I feel like I am more mature than other classmates. Sometimes I feel like I can manage my time in the right way better," he says now.
Hakak notices fellow UW freshmen, those that aren't student-athletes, often waste time or claim to not have enough of it to adequately complete their academic requirements.
"We come here and practice four, five hours a day, and I still manage my time," he said at the Nordstrom Tennis Center. "It's not easy, but I think I do that better than the other guys. I know whether I should sleep or go out – or not go out -- when it's time to go out and when it's time to rest. I know to eat healthy food."
He also knows how to shoot an Israeli modification of the U.S. Army's M-16, 5.56 millimeter automatic rifle. His had a sawed off barrel and other changes to make the Israeli version a lighter and more versatile weapon.
22-year-old UW freshman tennis player Gal Hakak during his three years of mandatory service in the Israel Defense Forces. (Photo courtesy of Gal Hakak)
"I was pretty good. I'm sure tennis helped a little bit, with the eye and the coordination," he said, "but I am not the best sniper in the IDF, that's for sure."
In those three months of basic training he traded his tennis racquet for gas masks and for krav maga, the Hebrew term for "contact combat." Hakak learned that art of hand-to-hand combat with sources in boxing, judo, jiu-jitsu, wrestling and realistic fighting. Krav maga focused Hakak on potential terrorist attacks or abductions in close quarters and urban settings. It taught him brutal measures of counter-attack.
Krav maga methods are intended to be decisive and likely deadly, in the fastest manner possible. They target the body's most vulnerable places: eyes, neck, voice box, face, solar plexus, groin, ribs, knee, foot, fingers.
The Mossad, Israel's institute for intelligence and special operations renowned for its ruthlessness, uses krav maga.
In other words if you see Hakak around campus or Seattle, don't mess with him.
As unique as he is, he is not the first to take this path to the Huskies. He's not even the first UW tennis player to serve in the Israeli military. Ari Strasberg, UW Class of 2003 was a four-year letterman for Anger over a decade ago. He helped Hakak choose Washington. Strasberg also served three mandatory years with the Israel Defense Force, about a decade before Hakak entered the IDF.
The IDF's commanders recognized Hakak's athletic gifts and assigned him duties off of the front lines. He became a military ambassador to the Israeli youth, so to speak.
"In the IDF I was an athlete, so I got special conditions of service that allowed me to keep training," he said of tennis. "I worked more with kids and teenagers and prepared them for the army. I prepared kids who had difficult lives after school.
"The army also takes on the educational part in our society."
In 2012, during the second year of his three-year military commitment, Hakak sent unsolicited e-mails to tennis coaches in the United States. Anger was one who answered. UW didn't have a scholarship available that year, but fortunately for Hakak Anger had one in 2013, when Hakak would be out of the military.
He'd been to the U.S. one time before – for a junior tournament in Cleveland when he was 13 – prior to his arrival this past September for the start of classes. On one of his first days on campus he attended the Huskies' football rout of Idaho State. He was blown away that 70,000 people would cheer so ferociously for 18-, 19- and 20-year olds.
"They are students!" he said, marveling. "In the United States, the best thing for me is the attitude toward sports. It's unbelievable. The attitude here for student-athletes is amazing. I feel really fortunate."
That, coupled with Washington's reputation for academic excellence that stretches all the way to Israel and Strasberg's hearty endorsement to become a Husky, made UW Hakak's choice. Sight unseen.
As experienced as Hakak is in life, he is not as experienced in losing – as Tuesday's mini, post-match outburst showed.
After he slammed his racquet into his bag following the loss to Pepperdine's Alcantara, Hakak banged both his knees with his hands. He then closed his bag by angrily snapping his zipper across.
Afterward I asked his coach if he liked the intensity in Hakak's reaction to losing, or if that was a concern.
"This is what you play for, for the competition."
"As long as someone is handling himself properly, sure, I don't want someone to be comfortable in defeat," Anger said. "I thought he was OK. I want guys who are in that blue-collar mindset that we are talking about. He is playing to win. That's what we want them to be."
Then again, it's been a while since Hakak had lost. A long while.
In order to keep all four years of college eligibility while he was in the Israeli army, Hakak could not enter competitions. The NCAA could have deemed international matches at his age the equivalent of one season, or more, in college tennis.
So each day at about 4 p.m., after he did his military training or met with teenagers, Hakak went to his local tennis club to practice. And practice. And practice some more.
For three years.
"It was tough not to compete," he said. "You practice three years, and you can't compete while you see your teammates go to tournaments."
He threw his arms toward the ceiling.
Is there another freshman competing during this academic year – anywhere – after having to sit out the last three years of competition?
"I get to play! Finally!" he said.
His smile seemed to ease the pain of his first college defeat.
"This is what you play for, for the competition."
He hopes to develop well enough under Anger at UW to join the professional tennis tour upon graduation. He has sights set on a degree in economics and thinks beyond a tennis career he may want to return to Israel for a career in business, or perhaps to follow his mom into law.
He'll be 26, if he graduates on time.
Something tells me will.
"Yeah," Hakak says with a wry smile, comparing himself to most freshmen -- or most college students I know.
"I know more how to make the right decisions."
Gregg Bell is an award-winning sports writer who joined the University of Washington's staff in September 2010 as the Director or Writing. Previously, Bell served as the senior national sports writer in Seattle for the Associated Press. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
Gregg Bell Unleashed can be found on GoHuskies.com each Wednesday.
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still looking at sensible cars, and noticed that Accord's seem to be good value. high spec, stylish, powerful hi tech engines etc...am i missing something?
still looking at sensible cars, and noticed that Accord's seem to be good value. high spec, stylish, powerful hi tech engines etc...am i missing something?
I bought an Accord because of the low milage it had. Traded it in after 12 months, and a big hit on price, because it was uncomfortable. Reliable cars, but not my cup of tea.
"Whatever the result, Farage will always be a Dick" - Gary Lineker
I have had 6 my current one is 25 years old and never misses a beat. It also has abs and electric everything which all works. They are the most bomb proof cars on the road.
I had one on a 3 day trial about 4 years ago, I didn't want to give it back at the end but ultimately too small for my job.
Cheers BB
my mum's got a '99 version whihc she gets serviced once a year - it happily pootles about the shires doing 40-50 mph and then copes well with a blast down to devon or somerset every once in a while.
the seats are a bit narrow in the hips though but ok unless you are a man monster (i fit and i aint thin).
i have a 54 plate accord tourer (estate). i can get my mates wifes electric wheelchair in the back plus a ton of shopping and 5 adults so space isn;t an issue (for me anyway). it's reasonably quick (130 indicated on a private road occifer) and handles ok if a little disconnectedly (mums 99 plate is he best handling fwd car i've ever driven and it;s an auto too). cdti engine is amazing but watch the exhaust manifold (recall and free warranty repair if under 125k miles) and the clutches / flywheels can be a bit iffy if not installed correctly.
other than that - a spacious cruiser that'll last until the heat death of the universe.
From now on if my comment can be expressed in the form of a tired internet meme or picture.
So it shall be done.
thanks chaps, mostly positive if maybe a bit dull/ unatractive by the sounds of it - sorta explains the depreciation againt what i always thought was a quality motor and out of my league. i think i am going to take a look. its a 54 reg with 50k on clock 2.0 VTeC engine in silver with half leather, cruise control etc for £4999. which is 2k cheaper than the same age/ milage/ lower specc'd Touran!
I bought a Civic 1.6 petrol around 8 years ago with 50k on the clock. Sold it 2 years later with 100k and it still purred like a sewing machine. Great engines and general mechanicals but the bodywork started going a little. At the right money and in the right condition they are a no-brainer if you don't care less about the 'pensioner' image.
I don't like stuff that sucks.
This is my one
^ Not seen one of them for yonks!
I always had a soft-spot for the old Legend especially the Coupe. They lost so much money, bet you could pick up a decent one for a couple of grand these days.
"I am easily satisfied with the very best".
My sister had a 54 plate 2 litre with all the toys and it was very nice indeed - quiet and comfortable. *
However, on its original tyres (Goodyears I think), it was also the most terrifying car I ever drove -I took it 10 miles down a B road in the wet and the front was so skittish and jumpy that I was continually scared that it was going to dive off into a hedge (and no, I wasn't speeding - I was sat at 35mph on a road that I can comfortably take at 60 even in my wobbly old Range Rover!).
However, a year later and with twoMichelins on the front it was fine, so what I'm trying to say is, make sure you test drive any one you're thinking of and, if the ride is skittish, budget for a tyre change!
* - of course, being Japanese, it was also completely dull. Apart from the scary ride bit, obviously..........
There are two types of people in the world:
(1) Those that can extrapolate a conclusion from incomplete data.
It's a Honda: it won't go wrong (6 1/2 years of a Civic & a Jazz 7 only a problem with an air bag sensor, Mrs B's had her Civic for 4 years & no probs at all); the VTEC engines are pretty good; that sort of money you won't got too far wrong.
I had an Accord Tourer (estate) with the 2.2 diesel as a company car from '05 - '08.
It never let me down for the entire three years.
It was good to drive with a very responsive engine and the load area was massive. It also had incredibly comfortable seats so was really great for long journeys.
On the whole, I rated it highly.
Steve: Epicurean genius or total fruitcake?
I've had at least 15 Accords and none of them have missed a beat.
They wont set the world on fire, but they are generally well screwed together. The later Tourer Diesels are pretty good, especially once they have 6k plus miles on them.
My mate said it was like being in limo. Maybe cos I cleaned it! He drives a Vectra so maybe explains it.
You go for a walk in the park one day and wheelchair ninjas, Nazis, and pots and pans robots show up to kill you. And dinosaurs show up to eat the remains. You\'ve seen the news...?
I bought one new in 2001 a 1.8 petrol vtec and it's been superb , I've still got it and it still drives like new even with over 150'000 on the clock and it's needed nothing other than routine servicing .
I think the service schedule plays a part in the depreciation , it's every 9'000 on mine although I think they pushed it up to 10'000 on later models and Honda's servicing isn't the cheapest around .
As already mention they are dull and uninspiring but if you want something that will
" do exactly as it says on the tin " you could do a lot worse than an Accord .
Ah BP that`s one I`ve had . There is a 2.2 version of that with leather. Best Accords are made in Japan or America's Ohio factory. All Jap ancillary components on these.They are usually the Estates and Coupes. The rest are Brit built and not just quite as good overall .
These older type also have Double Wishbone suspension with the newer Brit ones having the harsher and cheaper Cocky Highlanders Walk (McPherson Strut)
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Governor Hickenlooper joins other cyclists in the Pedal the Plains Grand Fondo today.
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If Jason Terry were to ever get traded this will be a WASTE of a tattoo
BTW peep the NBA championship on the finger of the tat, if Terry doesn't ever win a Chip with the Celtics it's even more of a failure
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Coffee Talk Tuesday - Which 303 Area Bike Store is Your Favorite?
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Tuesday Coffee Talk allows all of us to engage in community related topics and share your 2 cents worth.
I get this question all the time, Which bike store do you recommend I go to?. Oddly, my answer always starts with a "depends" and the store I do 90% of my shopping at, Excel Sports, which may not be the best store for those looking to buy a bike for a 10 year old. I've been to a few around town and outside of Boulder with lukewarm reaction. As readers of this website it is very likely that your peers see you as "the bike expert" at the office and your opinion carries a lot of weight so how would you answer this question?
Recently, Redheaded Writing had a very mixed customer service experience with a couple Boulder bike stores and she wrote about it.
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My favorite bike shops...
Submitted by Dave Rahbany (not verified) on
Boulder Cycle Sport stood by me on a warranty issue for a bike that I didn't even buy there. They happened to sell that brand and that was enough for them to follow through with the manufacturer until I got a replacement frame. They didn't charge me a penny for their troubles. For that, Boulder Cycle Sport is my go-to shop when I'm ready to make a new purchase.
University Bikes has always delivered good repairs at reasonable prices. I was also given a free replacement for a tire that blew a sidewall the day after I purchased it, even though they didn't install the tire and couldn't be sure it wasn't a poor installation by me (of course, I contend my installation was flawless and that the tire really was defective). UBikes has a good, long history in Boulder and I think they serve a very broad customer base.
Finally, Full Cycle has been able to fulfill special requests that other shops couldn't, so I like to use them as well. They're reasonably friendly, and tend to offer some good advise when I need to improvise a solution to a tricky problem.
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What's cool is there are a ton of great shops in the Front Range. There is a lot of variety around here and each shop has it's own flavor. Personally I like Golden Bike Shop because they seem to have the little bits and pieces I need for my mountain bike setups. I hate having to order stuff. I'm not a wrench, so I have a mechanic that I use who works out of his garage. He's honest, give's it to me straight and I like that. I guess what's key is honestly, if a bike or part is going to take 2 weeks, 1 month or whatever, shop employees need to be clear about time frames. It's happened to all of us where we were told one thing and experienced another.
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Hands down boulder cycle
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Hands down boulder cycle sport. Best products AND people.
Points: 4
Cycleton in Stapleton/Denver
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Cycleton in Stapleton/Denver is a good one
Points: 2
Hmm, the spoke on the hill,
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Hmm, the spoke on the hill, morgul bizmark, cycle logic, the high wheeler...
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Fav Bike Stores circa 1980....
Submitted by Kublai (not verified) on
You forgot Dick's Schwinn, Pedal Pushers and the ORIGINAL Boulder Cyclesport (became CycleLogic)
Points: -3
Fav Bike Store(s)
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I'm just getting ready to try The Service Course for repairs, I like the ProTour experience they tout and the lack of a retail side - just repairs and feel free to bring in your own parts. I've often had the very capable Phil Miller at Performance work on my bike (I always schedule directly with him). Excel has lots of great parts in stock, I seem to be there often. Vecchio's is where I go for old school charm. Bought my kids some mountain bikes at great blowout sale prices at Bicycle Village. Lots of choices in Boulder, just sharing a few experiences I've had.
Points: 4
University Bike Shop on Pearl
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University Bike Shop on Pearl St. Every time I visit they always hook me up with a great bike and great service.
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Imagine I take a polymer like polyethylene, of length $L$ with some number of Kuhn lengths $N$, and I tie into into a trefoil knot. What is the difference in entropy between this knotted polymer and a circular polyethylene unknot? Is there an approximate way of calculating this for knots of a given crossing number (or other topological invariant such as a Jones polynomial)?
The idea of knot inflation is that of A. Grosberg and it is tricky, but I'll try to explain some of it. Construction by way of scaling analysis is required to tackle this.
Suppose the volume of our polymer is given by $R$. Now fit a tube of fixed length, $L$, over the polymer; this tube has diameter, $D$, across its length that is just large enough to contain the polymer. Now the tube is inflated with a fixed $L$, then $D$ is uniformly allowed to increase until a maximum $D_{max}$ is reached. An aspect ratio, $p=L/D_{max}$, is then a weak topological invariant. Affine transformation of the inflated tube is done so that the polymer will fit in a sphere of size $R$, with $L_R$ and $D_R$ such that $L_R/D_R=p$ and $L_R D_R^2 \approx R^3$. He then uses this construction for finding the entropy.
The trick now is to assume that most of the available conformations of our polymer with a certain knot are also available to a trivial knot within our sphere of size $R$, giving $$S= S_{trivial} + \Delta S_{approx}$$
We can say that $S_{trivial}$ should be proportional to $N$ and so we can rewrite it as, $$S = sN + \Delta S_{approx}$$
with $s$ not a function of $p$ or $N$.
Now he confines an ideal knot in a cylinder (ties the polymer to both ends of the cylinder), and considers what will happen to the entropy if $p$, of the cylinder, is varied. He finds that $\Delta S_{approx}$ is proportional to $-p$. Finally, a polymer with the maximum amount of knots should give $S\approx 0$, so that means $p \approx N$ in that case, giving $$S = s(N-p)$$
Thus the entropy decreases with increasing knot complexity, $p$. This method is very crude, at best, but it does provide a qualitative approach to your query.
To see his full argument I'll have to refer you to the citation: A.Y. Grosberg "Entropy of a Knot: Simple Arguments About Difficult Problem," In: Ideal Knots, Edited by A.Stasiak, V.Katrich, L.H.Kauffman, World Scientific, 1998, p. 129-142.
In that same article he extends his argument to calculate the probability of finding a knot as $$P(N) = N_0 e^{-N/N_0 - sp} $$
I asked this related question on mathoverflow: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/72937/what-are-the-statistics-of-prime-knots-in-3d-random-walk. The physics references provided in the answer, and the articles which cite them, are illuminating.


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|Joe Hanssen
|Route Climbed: South Slope Date Climbed: July 7 '02
|Conness is a great day climb in the Tioga Pass area. The summit block was fun, similar to Matterhorns. A bunch of marmots were up there. The basin from Sawmill campground to Alpine Lake and up to the saddle between Conness and White was filled with killer mosquitoes, I didn't stop till I got to the saddle where the wind kept them at bay. Solo
|Posted Jul 29, 2002 6:29 pm
|Route Climbed: Glacier Route Date Climbed: June 30, 2002
|Summitted Conness via the far right chute on the glacier route. Main purpose was to ski that chute and the bowls off the east ridge. There was still a fair amount of snow heading into July, although getting very suncupped. Click here for trip report
|Posted Jul 16, 2002 9:01 pm
|Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: July 8, 2002
|After bagging North Peak, I traversed over to the summit of Conness. 5.6 is a very generous rating for the North Ridge. IMO, it's more like 5.2. I saw that Joe Hanssen had been there the day before. It's always fun to run into SP people's log entries. Car to car in 4:55.
|Posted Jul 8, 2002 4:23 pm
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: August 2000
|We took the slow long way. Hiked into Youngs Lake from Lembert Dome. First night out we heard a bear running by as other campers banged pots and shouted.
Next morning we took off, overlarge rack clanking away, and climbed one of the finest ridges in the Sierra's. It was a great mix of easy simul-climbing with shorter, harder belayed sections. We were S-L-O-W. Fervent promises were made to go faster and lighter in the future. Surprised at how many other parties were on the route. Finally summited and ran down the sandy slopes back to camp.
That night the camp was cleared out, and the bear harrassed us until 4:00am. In case you're wondering, no, we had nothing close to camp to attract the bear, except our own BO. It's an overused area, so she's conditioned to keep looking for food 'till she finds it.
|Posted Mar 31, 2002 4:48 am
|Route Climbed: east ridge Date Climbed: summer 98
|a great day
|Posted Nov 1, 2001 10:42 am
|Route Climbed: West Ridge Date Climbed: 10/13/01
|Climbed the W. Ridge on a beautiful Fall day with my partner Larry. It was a fourteen hour trip from car to car. Included in that time were a couple of questionable decisions on the approach such as decending from the plateau into the notch closest to the SW face. I suspect much time would be saved by decending the notch located much farther to the South.
I don't know how mother nature managed to sneak one last perfect day into the mix before she let loose with more typical October
weather, but I know that we were lucky to have it. Even on the exposed ridges and on the summit itself, the sun was coming through with nary a breeze to pierce it's veil of warm comfort.
The climb itself was more sustained that I suspected in that I perceived that after the first few hundred feet the terrain would taper off to easy third class climbing. This was not the case at all and we encountered solid fourth and moderate fifth class here and there until high up the route. Since we were soloing with a lot of weight on our backs, we were looking forward to the route easing off, but we were not able to take off our climbing shoes until only a few hundred feet below the summit.
The trip back was thankfully uneventful, except for meeting a fellow climber named John who had climbed the East Ridge. He told us about this great site SummitPost.com.
A truly great route with magnificent exposure.
DJ Reyes
|Posted Oct 14, 2001 1:56 pm
|Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: October 5, 2001
|After a very short bouldering session at the Volcanic Tablelands near Bishop, I drove up to Saddlebag Lake. I left my car at 12:15, intending to run a few laps around the lake for exercise. But when I caught my first view of the North Ridge of Mount Conness from the NW corner of the lake, I decided to go check out the route instead. Before I knew it, I was at the base of the North Ridge. After a few minutes of thought, I decided to go for it. I was wearing running shoes, shorts, and a button-down-the-front, short-sleeve shirt. I had no food, water, backpack, or rope...nothing but my car keys, which I tucked into my sock.
After gaining the ridge via some nice 5.easy rock, I cruised the knife edge on terrain that started at Class 2, then increased in difficulty to Class 3/4. When I reached the "tower," I downclimbed some fun Class 5 rock, then cruised up to the summit. I stayed close to the ridge so that I could enjoy some of the excellent exposure. Near the summit, I encountered some hysterical women who commented on my attire and the fact that I had no water with me. I mumbled something about "deprivation training," but what came out of my mouth was probably incoherent. I descended the Alpine Lake Route, getting back to my car at 4:25pm. Car-to-Car time: 4 hours, 10 minutes.
|Posted Oct 6, 2001 10:44 pm
|Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: August 2000
|North Ridge of N Peak to N Ridge Conness, car to car from Saddlebag in 9 hours.
Only challenging climbing is the downclimb on Conness, blood, gore, and death potential. If you're not comfy soloing 5.7, take a rope, and you'll probably only use it for this rap. A 100 foot rope would do it.
|Posted Sep 18, 2001 4:03 pm
|Route Climbed: Alpine Lake Date Climbed: September 1, 2001
|I found this route to be mostly second class. There are a few fun third class moves along the way. BTW this is my third time on Conness. Standard route from the southeast, N ridge, and Alpine Lake. Looking for someone that wants to do W ridge.
|Posted Sep 2, 2001 9:56 am
|Bob Burd
|Route Climbed: From Young Lakes Date Climbed: Aug 1, 1993
|Stopped at White Mtn on the way up, but no more than class 2 the whole route. Mosquitos were nasty at the lakes, but no problem while hiking. Took a class 2-3 chute down on the southwest side and stopped at Roosevelt Lake on the way back before returning to Young Lakes. Trip Report
|Posted Aug 26, 2001 5:15 pm
|Route Climbed: Alpine Lake Date Climbed: September 25th, 1999
|This was my third attempt from the Saddlebag Lake trailhead, I finally made it with Shubo (Steve) Dai. The first time in 1998 Devesh and I turned back from the Conness-White Mountain saddle, where there was steep snow (we had no ice axe or crampons). The second time in August 1999 Darrin and I turned back at the east ridge after running out of time. Conness glacier is an impressive sight.
|Posted Aug 14, 2001 3:25 pm