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ManBearPig is very real! I'm super duper cereal.

La Sportiva Glaciers. I have wider than normal feet, and find La Sportiva boots to fit well. I tried Scarpa Freney (old model) before and it was too narrow for me. The Glaciers did not give me any trouble (or blisters) breaking in. They are my all-purpose montaineering boots on most places around here. The Glaciers have a half steel shank (so, they are not super rigid), and if you use NikWax frequntly, they resist water quite well. Needless to say, whichever boot you decide to buy, try them at a shop before shelling out the dough. Good luck .

As someone said, "Necessity is the invention of all mothers"!

Work sucks donkey balls . Good job fellas . I'll have to try it some time.. getting hold of a boat might be an issue though. Oh well.. I'll wade across.

Crazy shit .

Damn.. Thats not you Steve?! I thought it was you , though the "smellz" part was suspicious .

Post deleted.. sorry for the confusion .

What is your favorite place to get your rock shoes resoled? I live in Pullman, and the local option (in Mos-Cow) didn't do a good job last time. I sent another pair of shoes to Portland a couple of years back (forgot the name of the place, but they did an awesome job). But it also took quite a while. What are the options in/around Seattle? Anything in Spokane? I'm looking to resole a pair of La Sportiva Cliffs. Has anybody tried putting Five-Ten (Stealth ?) soles on a La Sportiva (or for that matter, any other brand) shoes? I heard that those (5.10s) have the most sticky rubber.

I got it (along with other medicines) in India. It came in handy when my partner got sick due to altitude, but we did manage to get back down quickly though.

I don't have an answer to your question, but thought I'd bring up a related point. You should be able to get most common drugs (like ibuprofen), and many not-so-common ones, for dirt cheap over there. When I went to India in May, I gladly forgot all my prescriptions at home . Luckily, I knew all the medicines, and managed to get them (well, the Indian brands) for all of Rs 87/- (~ $2)!! This was in Leh, and from what I've heard, Kathmandu is a much bigger place than Leh. And yes, you can just walk into most drug stores and get what you want (without a prescription) -- as long as you know what you want .

Beautiful pictures from both trips!! Keep it coming Pat.

You could've made those pictures a tad smaller . Good ones! Martin's SP link has the pictures as well.

What a shitty TR . Awful pictures as well! My brains ached reading it. Of course I'm being sarcastic .

i'd be frightened of any procedure that yields not a single google-hit Its extracorporeal lithotripsy . Edited to add: Shit.. but then there is no connection to foot . May be it was Layton joke..

Great read John!! Thanks for posting. Here is to team Harro .

Wow Arc, take it easy dude!! Several of us here follow the conditions in Canada. Thanks for posting Joe. Keep it coming .

Here are the pictures (links fixed) .

Awesome job. Thanks and keep it up!!

Thanks for all the info .

Awesome job!!

Really sad ... . Thanks for posting though .

Sounds cool and tempting . I might be up for it.. lets keep in touch regarding the same Matt.

Holy Molly!!! F'n awesome job! Can't wait for the rest of the TR.

No. We were a team of two climbing further left of those guys when you were attempting that stiff roof move on TR. Yeah.. small world! It was hard to miss when you were talking about that naked dude though . PS: You've got some cool pictures on your web page!.

Were you at Post Falls after that? I think I heard you mention about this naked guy when you were down there. Strange indeed!