marylou

Those fuckin' savages! We should take over that goddamned country for it's own good! I'm gunna go up to Vancouver tonight for the weekend. Should I start the invasion while I'm up there?

Aren't they all kinna like that, or are the Protestant sects somehow more guilty of this than others?

The older Cirruses actually are filled with Thermolite. At least the two I have are. I look forward to replacing the jacket with a Montbell Thermawrap in the near future.

Roe overturned civil libs narrowed again logging in Wilderness or some limitation to the Wilderness Act drilling in ANWR stem cell research completely eliminated

My skiing has been greatly improved by skiing in AT boots. They are softer and not as forward-leaning, and I find that the boots cause me to have to check my balance a lot more and be very light on my feet, which in turn has made me a far more graceful skier. Sorry about the thread drift. I agree with IaXX, AT boots are a great choice. If you get the kind with Thermofits in them, you will have delightfully warm feet!!

SB, I just started AT skiing after 30 or so seasons of lift-serviced DH skiing, and what I found is that my ability level in the BC is quite a bit lower than inbounds due to more obstacles and natural snow. Now I know that isn't the case for some, but bear in mind that it might happen to you. You might want to work on your chops inbounds too 'cuz you need every bit of ability you can muster out there in the wilds.

Could it be a fit issue? I ended up with the Mens version of that boot (Laser) and they ski great and walk/skin very comfortably too. I like them WAY more than any alpine boots I've ever skied in.

That's a good shop.

Rob's right. Except for lab testing, most gear testing is extremely subjective, as it is tested by actual people. Doesn't make it less legit unless they are actually not testing the gear, and usually you can tell by reading the review if that is the case.

The place Jay's talking about is called the Brick. Also good in Roslyn is Village Pizza, and the Roslyn Cafe, the last one being a good b'fast spot.

Ahh, the Vallleeeyyyy.....just hearing the name of that place makes me hungry! My other faves in E burg: Palace for b-fast Tav for their nachos D and M for da beenz Casa Fiesta (one in Cashmere as well) on Canyon Road for da Mexican. But for a fancy pants place, the Valley is soooo yummy.

I got mine really wet a couple of weeks ago and the piezo would not work. I lit the stove with a lighter, and once the heat dried the stove out, the piezo worked fine again.

I did lab testing, so it probably wouldn't interest you. I tested the Jetboil, Giga, Simmerlite, and Brasslite, if there's interest I'll dig up the results and post them, but really since it's lab testing, it's nothing you can't see on the REI Product Information Guide. Our field testing was all more seat-of-the-pants functionality, and regrettably we didn't do anything with snow melt tests. I had to do almost all of the stove testing myself, and can't always do it all of the testing I'd like to do. Backpackinglight did some semi-scientific field testing on stoves, I bet if you look at their site you can find it. They do a really nice job with their gear testing, far better than I, with my erratic and sometimes nonexistent pool of field testers can do.

The big canisters work fine. The Jetboil is okay, but a Pocket Rocket or a Giga does it better for less of everything. I did a review with some lab testing in the WTA mag a couple of months back.

Writing negative reviews doesn't actually make it so they won't send you samples anymore.

Drew, that lady in the bathing suit is scaring me.

The MEC Brand stuff can all be sent to the US. I've bought a lot of their stuff over the years, never a complaint. Good schtuff.

Depends totally on available water. If it's plentiful, a liter and a filter is fine by me.

Neeever gonna happen. Take a 2/3 majority of states to make a constitutional amendment, and too many small states benefit from the current setup. A more likely, and logical reform is for states to opt to use their electoral votes in proportion to the popular vote. In our case then, in WA, JK would get 6 or 7 and GWB would get 5 or 4, more than likely. Being a Democrat and living in a state that goes to the Democrat in presidential elections, I would prefer do do this alongside a bunch of other states. I'm okay with the concept of allocating our EC votes proportionately though.

Heh, I just went the other direction and replaced my S40 with the 5 meg ELPH. Even going that little bit smaller and lighter is going to get me to take the camera more often. Let's hear about printers.

JDJr: I've never heard of, or seen any information that would suggest sil won't hold up as well as PU. If you happen across it, please post anything you find. The denier of the fabric should have more to do with the durability than the coating, unless either PU or sil deteriorates from UV exposure more rapidly. It's an interesting question, though. Silnylon has been around long enough that if this was one of the issues with it, I really think the info would be out there by now. BTW I just did a little Googling and didn't get anything of note. Here's a bit about materials: the Betamid is PU, the MSR shelters are PU on one side and sil on the other, and the Beta Light is sil/sil.

You may not care, but it's a violation of the Wilderness Act to use a power drill in a Wilderness. Some people may have a problem with that.

I don't think I'd worry about durability with silnylon over PU nylon.

Please consider not abusing the return policy. I have mixed feelings about many of REI's business practices, but that doesn't make it right, at least in my mind, to abuse their return policy.

Or maybe it's because we don't care. I mean, it sucks to be that woman, and I hope justice is served if the complaint is legit, but some dude's philandering, well, what does that have to do with real politics? Let's talk about legitimate issues, or let's forget it. I don't have Cable TV, so I guess I don't even know which side this O'Reilly guy is on, not that it matters.