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I got em I like em. I broke them to my feet by hiking twice to Prusik last yr. They blistered me big time but are now broken in fine. They are great with the bent crampons like M10s or Grivel Rambos. Waterproofing is best to use SnowSeal or some type of wax and liberally reapply (even if you are conservative). In summer, lighter than p;lastic boos for doing those multipitch rockclimbs with a glacier approach is the reason i bought em. However I find that together with the crampon, they excel for ice. Like switching from a mitten to a glove, much better sensitivity and control. A friend borrowed them last year after he forgot his boots at home. We did Night N Gale and it was -15C out for most of the day. Perhaps because the boots were a bit small for him, he frostbit a big toe and ended up losing the nail. Anyways if its really cold out i would still prefer plastics. Also its harder to ski in them for mtneering approaches I think. Do not get the red freneys (Freney Light or something) except for summer-only use is what i hear, more of a competitior with LS Trango than an ice boot.

Cool TR. Something to look at besides Spray

I thought free heel was two words

judging by conditions in the FraserValley right now it is raining up to at least 7000 feet level. the temp on the car dealership sign was up to +15 c a few hours back as the front moved thru. pineapple anyone? thefreshiez are taking a hit big time

Skiing down faster than cramponning down unless you up.

You mean does he Flash them?

I thought you were monitoring the Who's Online and the answer was gonna be Lowell Skoog or Lurker. Or it was Lucky Lager.

Ya and the E face of Tantalus too

i didnt look, what is it about TLG?

It sure wasn't Ho Chi Minh

pagetops are so last week, right iain.

Why dont you get the nigerian bank spammers on their case? just make a bunch of posts using that email address. or, log on as one address, get a password then change your email to that email.. you know all the tricks right. great ways to get them lots of spam.

italian or spanish accent?

That NA Ski Historyu sez Sylvain Saudan was on 1st ski descent of waddington NW, but the Ski mags Snoboy gave me say Pehota said that Sylvain was too chicken to actually ski it...

yeah but sexy that half dome was only about 45 degrees.

ooops oh well. I guess you were at the slideshow and i wasnt. chris/ beeker did that plinth thing too. i think they actually skiied almost 2000m vertical on that run.

QUELLE tristesse you pseudo frog. Leave the language to us bilingual types.

johnny foon aka chilton skiied University pk in alaska; Siberian Xpress on Garibaldi; NW Face of Welch; Mt Avalanche in New Zealand; stuff in Antartica etc., jia and chris skiied N face of plinth (i climbed that face, it is consiastently at or over 60 degrees near top and consistently over 50 for >1000m ) Ptor and Troy (team dirtbag) skiied N face of Robson; Ne face of Marriott (2 rappels); W face of Monarch (skiied down 5.7 rock route) etc. I wouldnt doubt that they could or did ski Coleman Headwall if they say so. Trevor would do it!

If they funded Rainier out of the military budget they could call-up Ray and Mike to be rangers!

It means you have to buy the beer

Invading yourself must be fun!

If it wasnt for the French we'd all be abseiling. Petzl Charlet makes more inventive gear than BD I will say that much. Crazy French designers. Bending ice tools and inventing Tikkas and Tiblocs and whatnot.

Uber Lhotse Traverse FA post monsoon 2004. JC Lafaille, T Cesen, S Karo, Y Kosholoenko, R Borbon

Lawn goddess have you ever met Foon? Or Ptor or any of the Whistler crew? Cause the Euros are in awe of the stuff those guys ski. They probably woudnt even need to rap on Thermogenesis.

Crazy unicyclist's name is Kris Holm and he climbs 5.12 too. But he says he'd rather be a 5.14 unicyclist than a 5.12 climber cause the latter are common as dirt nowadays. qv. The First Course, Squamish; Bright Angel, Skaha etc. He also fiddles. Im certain you can do a websearch on Kris Holm aka Holm Boy and find out more info than that.