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I'd rather get a Met than a MOAB (not to mention a MOAT )

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I could definitely "use an extra 50 or 100 grand". I've has an attorney send a cease&desist letter, and recieved a terse response. It's litigate, not negotiate. But litigation is a complicated decision, and what's right, or wrong, isn't the only contributing factor. The parent corporation of the offending company has annual revenues of $50 billion. Bringing a lawsuit could cost me $200,000, or more. What's the risk/benefit ratio? As my father told me, life is hard. Sending you a terse response is cheap for them. Big companies ignore patents and trademarks regularly when they know the intimidation factor is high or the cost of settling out of court is a small fraction of their profits. Take a cut of their money. I'm with Attitude - sending you some legalese is a quick easy way to maybe scare you off, then the problem just disappears. If you registered a trademark that they're infringing on then that sounds pretty simple to me. But then again I'm no lawyer.

Been for sale in Europe for years. Google for avalanche airbag backpack or some such thing. Basically an airbag with a ripcord, keeps you on top of the slide unless you get sucked into a terrain trap.

Have take-home exam

Maybe she is Miloshk Antonopov.

Moo-hahah, Allison gets in a surprise lefty on Kurt! Stick it to her big K! Funny considering how congenial y'all seem at the pub

Not a problem since you rarely if ever see anybody hiking in carhartts.

"mostly" ?? well it's not about the numbers is it? I don't want to be accused of chestbeating. TOO FUNNY Actually, when I bought my costalots I just didn't quite know what I was doing. Not that I don't like them or anything, but if you're primarily interested in alpine climbing then you probably only need one set and something lighter makes more sense - like DMMs, or Metolius.

I'm gonna show, I want to meet Timmy

Scenario went like this: Idiot guy hits on girl and convinces to go climbing. Girl has no idea what she is in for, just trusts the "expert". Expert makes idiotic mistake - there is no way to interpret rope on webbing for top-roping as anything other than dangerous negligence. Girl falls, suffers life-changing injury, gets no damages and is stuck with the medical bills. No wonder she sued. The thing is that in this case the partnership wasn't for real. When two people that know what they're doing climb together they're both implicitly acknowledging that error on behalf of one person can lead to death or injury for either or both.

Kaia isn't working at Jim's very much (at all?) these days. It's the off season I guess.

What happened to putting little marks on your gear so you can recognize it at the end of the day? I liked Erik's take - one obvious mark, another "secret" one

Seems that there are quite a few ways the guy could have "rescued" himself, which is interesting considering that he was apparently pretty calm the whole time? What was the climbing like, that he was on? Was it fat ice? As for your friend, whoever suggested just replacing the draw with another one had the right idea... that way the guy could even have finished the pitch

Trundling too? Not that I've ever heard of a trundle resulting in an accident to somebody below.

That's probably me chatting with the party of two that climbed after us. My two partners were a little bit ahead, at the boulder where we stashed the snowshoes. Can't wait to get my pictures.

And what might those be?

Get crampon off foot?

I have a set of costalots, .3 to 3.5, and I badly want a second set of Metolius or DMMs. The bigger camalots are so frigging heavy it makes me want to train like a Russian avatar just to be able to lug them around. The .5, .75 and #1 have been good to me though, they make up the cam selection on my alpine rack.

I was only kidding. See you there.

Good deal Matt! Sounds awesome. I should go practice some, I'd like to ski that some day

Battle won, war not over

Quick, somebody change the venue bwahahahaha

I had no problem filing for myself and my wife last night. One free cam, in the mail