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skin tents from Varmit mountain werks with built in down Stephenson's Warmlite air mattress with The North Face Met 5 heater technology in the canopy, softshell ground access hole available in two colors, dirt or money. go for double wall for versatility and comfort in all season, all altitude outings, but a light four season double wall tent can be around six pounds and even as low as three pounds. a four season, double wall, two person shelter worthy of denali at three to six pounds that also works great camping at the coulee in the summertime... stephenson's warmlite, the hilleberg hoop tents, some of the garudas and the tnf westwind (if you can find either of these) have good room to weight to strength to versatility ratio.. hoop tents give lots of room for their weight, usually have a good vestibule built in, and compare to a single wall I-tent with vestibule in terms of weight and may be more stout and wind shedding in their 'limpet' style design. I had to retire an I-Tent once, it had just gotten too manky for its own good, too much greasy food aromas, flatulence, and vomit smeared into the canopy over the years to make it very habitable. then the floor delamed so i axed the damn thing.

I'll be on the bunny hill this weekend as well, dryad, but learning how to teach skiing to people, otherwise I'd join you...

a second for WB-400 for winter pants for the PNW. bought a set of WB-400 bibs this last year and find them excellent single layer pant. It's less breathable than schoeller's Dryskin because of the laminate. WB-400 might be a bit heavy for a jacket IMO, but both Mammut and Marmot offer them this season. The biggest agvantage of WB-400 is it's extreme strechiness compared to the powershields, the Gore Eiger or Gore Trango softshell fabrics.... these are used in the Marmot sharp point and Mountain Hardwear alchemy jackets respectively. WB400 is pretty respectable winterworthy pant material IMO.

ain't no myth, just retreat!

real job? why? I have enough of those already!!! all i know is, my office at my main job, IT DOESN'T SUCK! mmm, work....

why risk smuggling drugs across the boarders unless there's a lot of money to be made? how much black tar heroin could you back into black & white bars? pot in cookies across the boarder sounds so, so, dazed and confused. but funny... "No, man, don't eat that cooky, save it for later *wink, wink*"

I'm at work,enjoying the view and getting drunk on the company's beer supply while surfing the web and planning publishing domination.... here's how my day started off at work... At my nine A.M. meeting with my two ace reporters one of them cutting her Dolce and Gabanna shirt- "SNATCH-coming soon to a theater near you" up and off with a pair of sicissors, which the other reporter and I both found quite intriguing... Then, a beer before coffee and doughnuts with a publisher and my ad saleslady, discussing future growth, then some bullshitting with my boss about our measely competition, now listening to rock and roll and drinking a labatt's work done for the day nand now at a quarter of one, going to score some organic greens, and then off to home, with satisfaction of a job well done (and a damn entertaining meeting to boot!) but sometimes, work sucks.....

you've washed a soft shell a half dozen times? what are you, a dirtaphobe? and what softshells do you mean? there's plenty. everything from a loden wool to high tech, really water resistant stuff. powershield is a softshell, and it has a lot of different face fabrics offered in different clothing lines, some which repel rain/snow better than others. even with a goretex shell, these eventually lose their DWR, begin to work a lot less effectively unless it the DWR is renewed. good luck, and don't wash your shells so much, weather it is gore, encapsil, powershield or dynamic extreme. Retreat when DWR is gone.

is this some kind of religious climber's chat room? is there a HIDDEN AGENDA to the seemingly random manipulation of CC.com by the man behind the curtain? biblical revelations explaining this shit? WOAH, stop the cart!

only if you're IN the Northwest! otherwise, I'll take colorado powder in colorado anyday. but the wasatch is nice when close to the wasatch... and New Mexico is so sublimely Southwestern in nature...god it's nice snow when you're there

i thought this was an internet bulletin board that did not necessarily accurately reflect reality, as is much of the internet. it's been nice to do reality stuff with people from cc.com. and this site is pretty entertaining while online, isn't it?

"if the choss starts to trundle, climb faster" that is a caveat. a warning or caution. from the latin, "let him beware", added to emptor it comes out as, "let the buyer beware" your peopless caveats are a bit off the mark. Ohhh, am I going to get banned for saying that? yeah, whatever. another caveat: "verglas is no one's friend" my 2 cents...

sexy cocoa, pussies, man, am i getting hungry! i just think it's lame that a 'moderator' can insult my upbringing, delete my reubuttal, then lock the thread to prevent his feelings from getting hurt and send me a series of PM's about what an idiot I am... wow, what a quality example of moderate. i should get a little pussy around here... oh, and i didn't work for the guy that got fired, trask.. beer and view as usual!

well, good thing i never would use a microsoft tool unless absolutely necessary, i've never prompted that screen I believe the asshole award goes to alpine k, who removed my thread, then got the silverton thread locked when it got to close and personal to his worthless trustafarian ass for brains.. i call BS moderator bullshit... why did it get locked? too much talk about how good the local skiing is, wherever you live? or disparaging of trustafarians? or me living in a trailer and not being ashamed to admit it? again, if CC.com is moderated by asswipes like kurt, removing posts he can't 'deal ' with, then cc.com is for pussies that like to brown nose and suck up to 'moderators'

boy, is cc.com getting weak! alpineK takes away a post and locks a thread in the freshies zone as soon as it bagan to go against him... has this site become completely contrived and sterilized, censored bullitten board this has become. I posted about trustafarians, the inacessability of BC to americans if they want to move there, and a plug for regionalism while insulting alpine k, and either he or someone else removed my post and locked the thread. in a bindings post, i keep bringing up how internet templates not to size is really stupid, and this gets removed as well. what gives, cc.com.... "moderators" having little crying fits if there is disagreement, between circle jerks about who's got the most posts? what a lame place to try to express an opinion

whatever! too bad you can't move to canada, kurt because it sounds like thats where you want to be, hoser! I know how suck it is for housing in CO, but WA is suck for ski towns. And Canada is pretty suck for americans, coz you ain't canooks! quit yer bitchen, and go out and ride! go enjoy the snow you get, whether it's TLG in CO or BC or WA summer skiing for suntans, just go get some! I don't want to live in a trailer south of leadville so i can work in eagle/ vail-been to Colorada, been there, done that.

what a bunch of regionalists, get over it! It is all great, depending on how you look at it- Face shots on doubleblack diamonds at Crystal yesterday- Skied the July 1 at Snoqualamie Pass on a ski traverse around Chair peak in shorts two years ago, and the skiing in June is usually excellent in many places in Washington State. but A Basin and the cheap skiing in summit county is great too. Colorado actually has SKI TOWNS, people. hmm, is washington missing something here? the one thing we aren't missing is a hella long season and plenty of good powder. now quit'cher bitching and go get ripping, the snow is excellent! happy tofurkey day!

yeah, i'd say! Paul Parker (who designed the original T1) has worked for Garmont for the last few of years I believe. He is the godfather of plastic boots, and garmont is way on top of it... Scarpa just began offering thermofits this season? come on, let's get real. Garmont is the leader in the plastic tele boot game. I'm going out in leathers and three pins tomorrow to ride the pow, who needs plastic boots anyway?

Paul Parker is working with boot manufacturers in Europe to coordinate the shared development of the NTN, a difficult consensus to build it will probably get phased in over several years, like the switchover in avy transceiver frequencies. some kind of a melding of the gusseted scarpa randonee boot and the salomon pilot skate system, is what I'm thinking it will turn out to resemble, or a linken plate, with the hinge adjusted somehow. but don't hold your breath, 75mm NNN is the only way to tele in 2004. but you know, the O2 was the NO 2 last year, so it remains to be seen how this goes... i think its a catch up binding, it didn't look too terribly different when i saw it. i know some stores returned it and won't be selling it, instead selling the O3 rather than O2 or both. voile 3-pin cable is a very laterally retentive binding and is redundant against failure. Definetly best on the uphills (by far!) when you run on just the three pins and much better for the logging road slogs out- way, way, better when your heels are not held down by a cable. there really isn't any real argument as to what binding is best for the Backcountry IMO.

Voile's CRBs and their releasable have some issues. A better choice in releasable BC bindings is to go with the Voile 3-pin cable on top of Rottefella releasable plate. If you can't ride deep pow in three pins, maybe you don't know how to ski in balance?

I am not a member, but the mountaineers as a group is amazing! Look at the diversity- the book publishing arm (impressive) the square dances and the sailing trips, the socials and the clubhouse. What isn't impressive is the danagerous learning curve embodied by the climbing arm of the Mountaineers that churns out a lot of inexperienced "climb leaders" and "instructors" that in turn disinform and endanger others out in the mountains. I have heard dozens of tales of disasters undertaken when a leader or instructor is sooo clueless. Like some idiot instructor who couldn't figure out why his boots froze when he left them out in the vestibule, or "i didn't have enough pro(while teaching a basic course) so I decided to run it out, then I peeled, and decked and broke my ankles" stories from the perps themselves. I have seen this stuff all over the Cascades. Lost groups of mounties wandering the volcanoes in the fog. Groups asking if i had a cell phone to report an accident when they were literally twenty minutes from the cars if they hustled. No offense to the mounties, but two years of experience doesn't make people qualified to mentor others in the mountains and be instructors. the mounties should stop that shit in my opinion.

anytime you are have climbing wires up with the voile 3 pin/cable bindings the cable can ride on the deck of the ski and not on your heel. Skiing without the cable deep powder makes the tele dance brings snow nymphs to your heels, so devine!

cork trees are becoming scarcer and scarcer, they only grow in one area of the world i believe (medditreanean spain /portugal i believe) which presents a problem to the wine industry as well, so synthetic corks will become more common. if you buy table wine by the 4 liter jug for 'table wine' in europe, it will have a screw cap. italy has a colloqualism for them, i believe

Bringing this back up for a new day, if chinook pass is still open the snow will be something good! Leaving Seattle 9ish AM Monday to skiing up at Chinook Pass if the road is still open, and stevens or snoq pass if chinook is closed ... rock skis and messing around and yoyoing near the highway. Back to town the same day.