Schoeller gives better performance and looks nicer. Hell, i wore my dead bird schoeller pants to a job interview! they look like dress pants almost.
anatoli boukriev only had one shirt and one pair of pants that he wore everywhere from weddings to 8000m peaks. you cant do that with polypro and fleece but you can with schoeller. i cheat, i have a pair of carhartts too for trad rock and fixing my car.
the brim on the seattle somb. is way too small. i wear a kiwi drover hat if i need a hat. impractical for alpine climbing but good for hiking in the rain. like a umbrella for your head. and doesnt bleach-out like a nylon hat does if you wear it in bright sun on glaciers.
there are only 56 condors left in the wild and ~150 in captivity so chances of seeing a condor outside of certain specific protected sites are basically non existant.
now the quetzalsaurus....
classic, dude.
i was at this sport cliff the other day, and my belayer casually says to the two next to us 'that grigri is threaded wrong'. it was. that was some funny shit.
"uh oh dude, you're the hand"
only paternalistic moderrators should downclimb lib ridge in other words.
"its all fun and games till someone loses an eye" or as i have heard more than once "don't come up the way i just did, it's too hard"
Anyone who buys a Seattle Sombrero deserves worse than that.
No shit.
funny how it seems to be the desired accessory for the shorts-over-polypro look at me i slog up volcanoes and have a rack of hexes crowd. Gore Tex hat? whatsamatter can't figure out how the hood on your jacket works or do you just like your head to sweat in hot weather?