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airlineconsolidator.com is a good start. Its much cheaper to fly from new york generally. I would disagree with everybody about flying somewhere else before geneva, except for london. Geneva is a hub for three airlines and you can often get good prices direct or one hop from new york. Check out Zurich as well. EasyJet and RyanAir are kind of a total pain in the ass due to the fact that they fly from places like stansted and are very anal about how much your luggage weighs.

oh, one other thought: physically and permanently bend it out to only 128 and then see how it rides, if it's okay then just bend it the 2mm when you're putting on the wheel, not permanent like...

they've got one where it takes a sim card. then your special friends can sms you and the thing plays like one of 90,000 rhythms...

Oly beat me to it. Read Sheldon's page, it really explains pretty much everything you need to know. Its really rather simple. The string alignment thing works very well.

aw heck, everybody else is making shameless plugs, why not me too? cilogear packs page All of those packs would satisfy you...and no pesky straps to cut off! </shameless plug> I think larry the llama has a point about fit.

all Grahams are wankers. Its what makes the ladies love us! Who else gets such a great nickname in kindergarden? great report guys, looks like a ton of fun!

The favresse brothers are mutants...

I've been using a prototype / sample Ti Cinch for awhile and i love it. It's not a grigri so you have to learn a new method, but once i adjusted, i dumped the grigri into the bottom of my aid pile.

pink, grey, orange for morning, afternoon, evening. If i have to pick one, i pick orange. I have heard that blue is really good for blown in days, but haven't tried it yet. Pink doesn't do it for me in flat light which is why i pick orange for the only color.

or use a rubber band to control rolled up extra strappage...

wow. you are cycked! it blows my mind that you didn't hurt any disks while you broke your C-11, thats frigging weird! if you ever meet kelly cordes, ask him about his back. good luck with recovery and regaining your strength!

thanks for the recommendation ! but seriously, other than my sleeping bag, i don't think i've ever bought a single piece of outdoorsy gear for more than $500. Including my car! I buy plane tickets and road trips for that kind of money. Maybe I'm just too poor to understand...

...but the reserve isn't met because the dude knows they're going to sell for a lot more than $360 when they hit the stores! I just can't understand spending so much to buy so little.

kudos, klenke, kudos.

Sorry if i came on a bit strong about the meds, it's just some scary stuff. good luck with it!

First off, sorry, OP, I know nothing about the hypoxia tents in practice. From 1989 to 1992, I my Vo2 max was measured at least a dozen times. At that time, I was on the US junior development bike team. I wasn't very good to be honest, but this was my take away about volume of oxygen measurements. 1) They suck. 2) They're almost totally inaccurate for anybody not using them on a regular basis as a consistent, scientific and controlled method. My vo2 max could vary 15% based on how long I'd been awake. 3) vo2 max is under pretty constant flux as your training cycle progresses. You can vary 20% based on your training cycle. 4) There was almost nothing known at that time about how to improve your vo2 max successfully. On the other hand, improvements to your anerobic threshold and your areobic efficieny are another matter entirely.

zig-zachary!

Watch your ass with those meds...my gwife was up to 20-30 600mg vics a day before she went cold turkey. Hope your recovery is incident free. Good Luck.

reachy thin faces...my reach from flat foot up to jug is about 99 inches. But really, seeing how much spew came out of the world this weekend, let's say drinking beer.

That has nothing to do with it at all. The depth of the layers of material and the radius of the turns is the limiting factor. No jacket on the market comes close to matching the radius of the bottom of most packs. You can see this in the dead bird packs...they're totally different shapes because of the machines, not because of human considerations. Beyond that, laser cutting is far superior to die cutting, but there really isn't any gain from the cutting technique...it has more to do with production efficiency and the type of material more than assembly technique. As to my packs, well, they're lighter and better and i'm just so cool as a result... uh, yeah. it might be true, but everybody on the planet has a different set of needs, and no one pack is going to be right for everybody.

um. well. i disagree. I admit, that as a competitor, i'm not exactly a non concerned source. At the same time, as a competitor, I really looked at these bags very very closely. The first welded bag in wide release was berghaus' crag pack, which as been around for awhile. The primary problems with seam welding is price, pattern and strength. The strength bit is wierd: the bonded parts are so much stronger than the rest of the fabric, you tend to blow out the fabric rather than the seam. So, after it blows, you throw it out: the tears tend to go on the bias and get big. Since it's not just the seam, it means replacement. Seam tapers and seam welders--like the bemis stuff used in the dead bird packs--can't make the tight radius turns that characterize packs very well. So, you change the pattern to allow you to use the machine. Unfortunately, what i've seen so far results in either a very functional bag that sucks as a load carrier for hiking (ortlieb or river bags) or a bag thats okay for hiking but hard to load effectively. At the summer OR last year and at last year's winter OR, dead bird was showing off these packs. The prices are incredible. While the Berghaus crag costs only about $185 for a 40L bag, the 30L deadbird was projected to cost $225 and the 60L was going to be about $600. And I hate the trend towards non replaceable snap on buckle parts. Don't people break them? Am I the only person who breaks plastic?

I think that my experience in Turkey sounds really similar to y'all's experience in the great beyond. English teaching / translating work is always available, and pays premium wages. On the other side of the stick, most local companies pay crap and nobody seems to work properly: hours worked does not translate to productivity. If I may make three suggestions consider: 1) Translate financial documents. With a basic grounding (from the economist perhaps) or a biz dictionary, you can translate annual reports / propaganda. Any company interested in international business or receiving USAID money often has to produce something, and they've got a couple of thousand dollars budgeted for it. 2) If you're legal, see about running the language school. While it might seem strange to manage a biz for somebody else, it leads to my third point. Or work for a multi-national. Say coca-cola or pepsi. They're everywhere, they pay well, and they work. 3) Start your own business. This will require intense research into the optimal method. For example, I founded my company in NY instead of Turkey and then opened a 'branch office' in Turkey. That saved me about $1500, but I have just about all the legal rights of a similar company in Turkey. good luck! Can't you get a job tutoring rich parents in english for $20 an hour?

Well, no. In conversations with my IP lawyer, he believed that the issue of confusion was minimal between the prior art of layton and the prior art of the assh*les in SF. First of all, their trademark registration has a totally different layout and image and their trademark concerns that art in relationship to a tee shirt or other casual clothing. Second, it's a wholly different market. My IP lawyer was quite confident that he could and would kick their ass. Dirtbags, Dirtbagz, Dirt-Bag, and the use of Dirtbag on sweatshirts and other clothing are all open ground.

-- JosephH in the NYT. So what did you actually say J?

afaik, there has never been a dealer contract specifying what the company does with it's profits. You'd have to sell everything for retail, pay employees, and then send a big check out once or twice a year as a disbursal based on purchases. I think it'd be pretty simple to form. You'd just need to make sure that you sold at least some gear to people at a storefront...