There are plenty of other ways to keep victim warm. The claim here is that supposedly "even with a fire, you can't keep someone warm without a foam pad", which is false.
... a lighter and some firestarter. Most places in the PNW you can make a pretty good raging fire in the subalpine or below and that will keep you a lot warmer than a thin puffy jacket and foam pad will. Also it's lighter and you can smoke or torch your TP or melt ice out of ice screws with it too.
I usually carry a few shake and heat pads too. Pretty much never a stove unless planning to bivi, maybe not even then.
Or perhaps some people prefer posting in a forum where the moderators are less likely to, say, delete the whole thread if it is revealed that one of those selfsame moderators illegally power drills in designated wilderness areas....
There are things you know you don't know, and there are other things that you are too clueless to know that you don't know. These are the Rumsfield "unknown unknowns" and its when they show up that you get into deep shit. Remember "it is the wise man who knows he is a fool."
joey joey joey, you should go back to hex machine nuts...they take a lot more skill to place than the newer stuff...
goddamn u are an arrogant fuck...
How many windshirts are in your quivers? Unless you guys post the number of windshirts you each have personally sold during your x # of years of retail experience it's all so much willy waving.