To: ralfph who wrote (411 ) 3/4/2001 11:10:33 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 8273 I get to go tomorrow, chainsaw in hand, clearing roads and skid trails etc ... checked it out yesterday afternoon, windfalls all over the place ... not one of your name-brand mountains with altitude and all that good stuff, but there is snow there, i had to sand one hill to get up all the way .... but very very little snowpack all over, yes, problems this summer unless we get more in the coming weeks, which doesn't look likely .... yesterday i heard New York was expected to get two feet today, don't know if that happened. The Lundins - haven't followed them since Argentina Gold, and before that Arakis ... Tenke tnk.to got a mention by russwinter on the Anatolia thread a while ago, he thought it worth a look, they have Patricio Jones from the old arp.v [there's a new arp.v now] on board, that's the only detail i remember ... meant to check it out and didn't. Little online time in market hours this coming week, looks like ... shame, because i see a possibility of a bounce in the Naz coming pretty soon ... just a brief reaction thing if nothing else, perhaps more .... what if AG put off a 50-point drop this last week just to prove that Angell character wrong? ... it wouldn't do to let it appear that anybody had the inside scoop on the Fed, would it .... rates are too high, this is fairly clear, it's just a matter of time as to when they ease .... not that doing so will help the dot.bombs going broke, they're history, but a Nortel or a Cisco could find a bottom soon maybe ... a friend figures 25Cdn will be defended for nt.to, if that breaks the 18-20 level should hold, or there will be a lot of fund managers lined up for jobs at Tim Horton's. What i'd really like to know is - where is that direct access deal? ... maybe in hand, but just put off for signing and announcing until the market is less ugly? ... or not in hand at all, that's the other option.