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If any of this stuff gets a few more people out to vote, then it's a good thing in my opinion.

I saw Don Serl there, but since I don't know him, I didn't say hi.

It's a new stove for next year. Liquid fuel, no pump, no bottle, just put the fuel in the resivoir in the stove. It has a heat exchanger as well, and an integrated windscreen. Like the Jetboil canister stove, it has its own cookpot/cup dealo with the heat exchanger on the bottom. It's pretty cool but they have a ways to go on it, it's still in prototype. They're also talking $170 retail, which is a bit rich for my blood, personally. The thing that replaces the fuel pump is emerging technology, and apparently that is part of why it's so expensive. They also have some of the same thermal technology rolled into a new canister stove, but they were not demoing it. And did I mention the pink sleeping pads?

Hey, you left your tin foil hat over at my place last night!

Thumbs up for both places. I think we can thank M. Volken for the Itailan place being stinky-friendly as his shop's across the street. Not that he's a stinky guy or anything like that. Rhody's in the Shell Station (on the way to the mfk road) has great bbq but does lack in ambience. I've been hearing great things about Gordy's lately, exit 32 on the S side of the fwy.

I liked the Osprey hipbelts as well. The new women's sleeping pad from Cascade Designs is sure to be a hit with men and women alike, and to boot, it's pink! Lots of stuff being made out of eVENT, more refinements to get weight down here and there. I didn't see a drinky bottle in the shape of Jessica Simpson but there was a nice Tiki Head one there. Schwagwise I got an autographed poster from Timmy O'Neill to add to the bathroom collection, a really cute Cloudveil T-shirt, and the new Mountaineers Books/AAC history of mountaineering book, which is really nice. My favorite thing that I got (don't laugh) is the orange Nalgene bottle from Katadyn. I know, silly. Rest of the goodies are more work-related. Wish I'd had time to look at climbing gear, but I hadda stay focused on what I was there to look at and didn't have any extra time.

Murraysovereign just suggested to me that we have a Salt Lake Pub Club next show. Sound like fun?

Besides the new MSR Cap Stove, anyone see anything of particular interest at the Summer OR show?

I find Thorlo socks to stay wet a whole lot longer!

Never a problem with Smartwool. If you like wool, you might also try Dahlgren socks.

If you can afford it, you might check out this guiding service. I took a basic avy course from them last year and can't say enough about the quality of the experience.

Try Firefox. It's not half bad. I still want FF to remember what tabs I had open from my last browsing session. Someone said there was a plug-in for it to do that, but I'd have no idea where to DL it from. Any suggestionz?

Burn all the fuel out of them, puncture, throw in the recycle. No one's going to tell you that officially because they don't want to get sued if you screw up, but that's the way to do it, perfectly acceptable to the recycling peeps.

I have one of those GG silnylon compression sacks, been using it for months....bomber. I'm pretty sure Pro Mountain Sprots has them.

Hello tow-headed Chinaman! One time I was talking to a kid about my job, about how sometimes I work with famous people, and this kid asked me if I ever worked with Shakespeare. Hm, maybe the job really is aging me prematurely.... Thank you for allowing stagehand to post.

Europeans, DUH.

I'm not talking about purifying the water they drink, silly, I'm talking about having one less G-infected poop occur every time they go after being treated and getting rid of the G. It's a communicable disease, don't we want to minimize that?

If someone is a latent carrier, aren't they potentially contaminating? Am I misunderstanding carriers as a method of spreading Giardia?

Uh, to keep from infecting others, spreading giardia?

Now that is awesome!

Doing a little research on the place, may go there some day. Anyone know of any good resources on trekking/easy climbing in Patagonia? Googling produes a lot of commercial guiding services, not exactly what I am looking for.

Iodine has the additional disadvantage as not having been proven effective in killing Crypto. Here's one of the many studies on that, I know it's not the most current, but I'm lazy and it was the first hit on Google. study

FF, I tried the MIOX this past weekend. We were a party of four with one filter and one MIOX. It was definitely easier and quicker than filtering, but it's a hundred and thirty bucks, and it's battery powered, two major drawbacks. The major advantage over drops is that the MIOX is EPA approved. The Katadyn tablets are as well, but I'll tell you, those tablets leave a serious chlorine taste, and the MIOX does not. I haven't tried the Aqua Mira drops, can someone chime in and comment on the chlorine taste? I know it's not a huge big deal, but I much prefer my pure mountain water taste like pure mountain water.