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This will be a fine story for pub club

Damn fine

Since he disappeared for a month I figure somebody had to give him a warm welcome back Since when are you the one to ask people not to start shit anyway?

Dan Larson sucks!

The weather hasn't been so great, let's cross our fingers and hope they're just hunkered down.

Actually it's just one of my stoppers.

Just bring whatever you find to Pub Club, we'll figure it out.

I'll join this competition for most impossible recovery: Lost one Petzl locker on a loop of green (or was it orange?) 6mm accessory cord, girth-hitched around a shrub above the overhang at the top of the small gulley just east of the Imperfect Impasse, below Whatcom Peak. It's the gulley that's the wrong way to get up to Perfect Pass if you find yourself at the headwaters of the Baker River... Also lost one picket, somewhere in the Pickets.

I use kiddie goggles They're $20-25, unbreakable (fold in two), small so they pack well - they don't come out of the pack that often anyway - and do the job just fine. I think mine are Bolle but any of the big brands is going to be making decent goggles. If you don't like the kiddie ones, just get the cheapest version of something nice. Should not set you back more than $30.

I think it took me a couple of trips to realize that my thermarest had a puncture. I would inflate it and go to sleep and be kind of cold but try not to mind to bad, then I'd be in such a hurry in the morning that I didn't notice it was flat by then. There were two punctures but they were so small that it took quite awhile for the air to leak out.

I have 3/4 length and full length self-inflatables and closed foam mattresses. The shorter ones are the thinnest Thermarest and Ridgerest, the longer ones are a thin Karrimat that I use under the short Thermarest, and a regular Thermarest. If I had to own only two I'd pick the Karrimat and the 3/4-length Thermarest. BTW my short Thermarest is 5 years old and got two punctures in it last summer. I took it to Cascade Designs and they fixed it for free. I'm going to be using the short Ridgerest on most summer trips but it isn't as warm as the Thermarest.

From the avalanche forecast (emphasis added): I keep reading about ski patrol setting off this avalanche and the other avalanche, is it possible to call and ask? Maybe not at a listed number, but then again maybe the avy control ski patrol people wouldn't mind sharing what they know?

Has anyone been able to successfully download the "issue 0" from the website? I've tried over and over again but it always fails.

Yeah, and use their car keys for self-belays.

Yeah, or maybe just wear a parka if you get cold.

Maybe that's all it does?

Conditions: natural/spontaneous, human-triggered Low: very unlikely, unlikely Moderate: unlikely, possible Considerable: possible, probable High: likely Extreme: certain Same scale everywhere in NA?

Sizes 44, 60 at 70% discount

The approach definitely isn't getting any better...

Yup, nice post!

When you add the tails to the Denalis you're increasing the length and the surface, but when you lengthen the Grivels you're opening up the hole in the middle. The only surface increase is because more of the rails is exposed to the snow. Even without increasing the surface the greater length will still give you more flotation methinks. Who cares though, the only reason to use these snowshoes instead of some big old pair of penguin feet is that you're going to be in the trees and talus and boulders and whatnot, and at that point you have a different tradeoff - bigger snowshoes are going to get more tangled up. They will also be a total nuisance on your pack once you start climbing. If you're not going to climb and thrash, take skis...

Stay away from AT&T's new GSM/GPRS service, it doesn't even work properly within Seattle. We're returning the phone we got. Most wireless plans come with a 30-day money back guarantee, which gives you a lot of time to experiment.

A ton of snow came down since the Cpt. went. The conditions are hardly worse right?

Actually, I'd like to know that too...

Cool post of the day