Well, the base camp is at 9300'. La Paz, the capital of Bolivia is at 11,910' (and has a population of 1 million).

btw. I was doing one-legged drills on my trainer the other day, I don't know how you do it. I'd love to see your pedaling efficiency compared to a competitive cyclist's one-leg efficiency.

Right but the peak of Everest is 29035ft. I thought the quote posted said that they were going to bring the flame to the peak, not simply base camp (though the 'highway' is only to base camp)

I do those too, and find that I must get at least some power out of my fake leg since I do find them difficult. That said, I find that I really only use one leg climbing big hills. Hence me not loving big hills!

oh, duh. Yeah, I was thinking by 'the flame' you were referring to internal combustion. i'm a moroon! I guess they'll just have to put an oxygen mask on the torch. Everybody else is doin' it!

There's never any problems with pure oxygen and open flames! Hopefully they are filming the fun!

hahaha.. indeed! flamethrower time! oh the humanity!

it's not like it's going to burn anything down on top of everest!

The more I hear about these olympics the more I'm all for a boycott.

yep. I love how they keep promoting it as a 'green' olympics. What a joke.

Last minute heads-up: The showing/judging of Bike Week poster competition submissions is happening tonight. Zippered has a few photos in the contest and so do I.

Neat. Are you heading down? If so, when?

I'll probably get there between 6:30pm and 7:00pm.

ok so is anyone else playin COD4 with ps3? if so whats your username...get online!!

username: exhibitx

probably won't be on tonight but i usually play a bit after work and a bit on the weekends, ad me and invite me

i need to stop playing this game once i hit level 55 (i'm 53 right now), so addictive.

wicked...will add you tonight...

wha? stop playin? good luck with that...I finished the game in a few days and havents stopped playin...I gotta say...its the first console shooter ive ever played (was on clan ladder for ghost Recon for PC) its really hard for me to get fast with the controller...anyway i can add a mouse and keyboard?

How many levels are there?

not too many...

ummmmmm like 20 or suttin? cant remember off top of my head...

but then u gotta try and complete it on the harder skill levels!! cmon man! cant finish it and just leave it there and that opens up a s00per cool mission (epilogue) called mile high club...

edit: exhibit my uname is my sons...valgour

I just started playing it a few nights ago. I've been pretty impressed so far, but I'm only a few levels in. Games keep getting more and more like movies, especially with the cinematic sections between levels. The start of the second level where you're coming in over the coast in a helicopter with rockets flying out of the town blew my mind.

I'm playing the 360 version though, so unfortunately I can't join up with y'alls. I actually haven't played it online at all yet. Waiting for some friends to pick it up.

yo thats what kept me hooked...got soap-opera-itis...'ohhhhhhh man gotta complete that level too see what happens after...' Carlotta said I looked tizik(crazy like rockhead crazy) when i went to bed after playing it like 5 hours in a row...

Sorry, I meant character levels. Someone said they were stopping at 55 ...

55 is the highest

the end of the single player (which is way too short) is unreal, very movie like

thanks for posting this! i noticed there isn't much info about it, so i don't quite know what to expect tonight.

aiming to be there about the same time (fashionably late, but of course). finally, i can show up at a "cultural" event in my bike gear and not get any funny looks...

I used to be COD, but now I'm 30 days.

Green as in greenbacks is what I've been assuming.

Are you heading to the bike poster screening?

wah wah wahhhhhhhhhhh