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Nylon's properties begin to degrade at temps above 190F. EPS (thin shell helmets) begins to soften at around 212F. The 6000 or 7000 series AL alloys used for biners can change properties due to heat aging at temps as low as 250 F - well below the flame temperature required for charring. Since the price of guessing wrong here is death or maiming - of yourself or someone else, new stuff might be a good option. You can sell a used rope on craigslist for about 30 bucks - boaters love em. Just disclose the history so that the buyer doesn't use it as a tow/anchor line or other critical, high stress application.

Well, I'm off to the Ted Nugent Red is Ded benefit. Anyway, this is way places like Gitmo are such a bad idea. That absolute power thing has been known to go south on occasion.

Trying to decide between the One PX and the TLT5. If you've got a pair you're willing to let my friend Colleen try on for fit, that might result in a free six pack or wine delivery.

We were told the Dynafit One PX is wider in the toe box (and therefore better for more paddle like feet) than the TLT5. Is that accurate?

My last incident happened so fast that no fear was felt at all, just an otherworldly sense of "did that really just happen?"

28.5 or 28 refers to the liner size. Shells are sized by mm of length, sometimes called sole length. My TLTs are 28.5 liners with 307 mm sole length, for example. The sole length should be stamped on the shell somewhere. It's true that one shell size will fit two liners (often the difference between liner half sizes is merely the thickness of the removable footbed), but not all companies group 28 + 28.5 into the same shell, as does Dynafit. Scarpa groups a 27.5 and 28 into the same shell - different convention. Each make should provide a chart that matches sole length to liner size.

Fear really is the mind killer. BTW, there was no statistical difference in the actual decision making - just in which parts of the brain lit up during the process.

Lefties light up their left insula, which process social and self awareness, while Righties light up their amygdala, the fight or flight center, when making decisions involving risk: Linky Love versus Fear driven politics. No, that doesn't sound familiar. No, not at all.

Drink it in. This TR may not last... We had a full day of nasty white out the following day. After an aborted attempt to go skiing (my fault), we detrashed and cleaned the shit out of that lookout and its surroundings - the place looked better than Josh's metro-spotless condo when we left. Note to folks using the Lookout: Don't attempt to dump the wood burning stove ash when its blowing 30 mph outside. Just store it in the bucket inside the lookout until the wind dies. It took us over an hour to shovel off the melt water snow area after a member of another party did exactly that, creating a St. Helens-like ash plume of fail. For those wishing to gift the lookout with supplies - white gas, propane, and butane canisters are on the registry. For white gas, which is for emergencies only BTW, there is a half gallon can in the attic where you can deposit your offering to the dead dinosaur gods. I'm going to haul the vestigial remainder of my white gas up next trip, as well as a spare propane (green canister) stove burner for visitor use. Finally, I find its way easier to just blue bag it than hump your coffee bullied ass down to the toi toi, which is a ways down the slope and not all that convenient in stormy conditions.

Paging Mock Hunt.

We both skiied shirtless, but the younger bloke won the beauty run off. No, my hamstring was a souvenir of a brief, not-so-scenic flight the following day.

Chippendale Basin

Trip: Hidden Lake Peak - Date: 2/2/2013 Trip Report: The actual summit of Hidden Lake Peak, from the East. Josh and I broke trail up to HLP over Feb's first long weekend. Slogging commenced as the trees thinned towards the upper basin, but it was only deep for about 1000'. Panorama of the Triad Skiing was amazing. We both agreed it was one of our best days out ever. Shirtless temps, zero wind, at least for a day, before a full blown rime storm/white out took it all away. Chippendale Basin (E of the true summit of Hidden Lake Peak) Approach Notes: We drove to the Sibley Ck turnoff in an Outback - deep ruts. Lower clearance vehicles were parking at the plowed road end (Monogram Lake TH)

SKI SHIRTLESS OR DIE. Feb 2, 2013.

which is really the same as a Mock Hunt, if you want to get Snipey about it.

on a life long Snipe Hunt.

Mock Jock

Now I don't pretend to know Rob as well as you do, KKK - but he often posts clear opinions on a variety of subjects, and, while he is naturally sarcastic (a trait which is seldom appreciated by those who don't quite get the joke) he seems pretty tame over all. I know his opinions on complex matters may not be as well thought out or stated as your own, but he's trying. With enough positive examples from folks like you, he'll get there eventually. But hey, I wouldn't know, really. Haven't catalogued and analyzed his posts as you have. Oh, and I'm selling something you might be interested in: Apollo projection screen - $80

That blame esta occupado, I'd wager.

Finger cramps, perhaps. Not enough electrolytes.

Anyone know if the TLT Mountain TF-X fits that same as the standard model, or does a thicker liner mean less width in the toe box? Colleen's shopping for boots this week.

Wouldn't a free market be inherently communist?

JoshK's had some success widening the toebox of his TLT shells. You might PM him for details if that's your wish.

The hairless monkey loves a good backstory. The less real information a monkey has, the more baroque the backstory. This is how one gets from questioning the premise and sincerity of outrage after N Korea's 3rd nuclear test to CC.com posters giving the rotting corpse of Stalin regular blowjobs. Mostly, folks here rail against that which they perceive offends them. Moochers are a big Bogie Man for the Right, for example. "I didn't bootstrap my self up from slavery to sit and watch while..." The process of generalization and targeting then begins. By the end of the process, some CC poster who makes a pretty limited observation is *actually* using his trust fund to finance an international program of shooting babies in the face and gleefully selling the leftovers to the Asian aphrodisiac industry. It's human nature. Some who fancy themselves above the milieu might think they're immune from this primal trait - to the even greater amusement of their observers. Mostly, though, its just simple tit for tat. Your online nemesis thinks its cold? You slam the thermostat off. Too warm? You slam it to 11. The reality is, of course, that few posters here really know each other at all. For example, I know four sprayers personally - I've met a handful of others on occasion. That's my reality, anyway. I find it helpful to keep that reality in mind.

If they are playing the 'pay me to stop' game, which it seems they are, then testing a nuke every now and then could be a profitable venture. It seems like it has been in the past. In addition, it is a powerful 'do not fuck with me' message. The threat, of course, is not that N Korea will go toe to toe with America in a strategic nukular exchange. Rather, any conflict with N Korea will put America at odds with China, put S Korea at risk of bombardment from 70,000 artillery pieces, or increase that risk that N Korean missiles and bomb materials will magically find their way into the hands of Da Evil Doers. So, yes, if you're a resource poor, inefficient, totalitarian regime who wants to keep the lid on your closed society, blowing off a mini-nuke now and then to remind the world that you're still capable of farting in its closet is perfectly rational...if you've got the leverage do pull it off. N Korea clearly does. 'Rational' is from the regime's standpoint, of course. The regime certainly isn't crazy - they've pulled off a 60+ year long remake of 1984 - quite an accomplishment really, and one no that few, if any, regimes have even come close to topping. So, no, I'm not on the 'LIKE IF YOU'RE OUTRAGED' wagon regarding N Korea's third fireworks display (OUTRAGEOUS!!!). Generalize that to mean I fully support the N Korean regime, with all its civil rights abuses, as needed.