Vickster

figured every guy made his own hotdog cooker out of a sock...

Nuke that fucker and nuke it hard, 20 megatons baby! And let me ride that fucking pig! Omfg 'm such a waste....... and drunk.

Sorry, I'm totally wasted ROFL!

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http://www.ngoilgas.com/news/a-nuke-to-stop-the-gulf-oil-spill/

http://www.oil-price.net/en/articles/use-nukes-to-contain-the-oil-spill.php

http://www.mchalepacks.com/ultralight/detail/Merkebeiner.htm

I'm 6'6" and 250, integral designs eVent Unishelter. Lots of room, can put your boots up by your head. Jim

Scarpas fit a size small... I hate them all.

The REI Alpine bod goes pretty big. I got huge thighs and a 38" waist

Im selling a new one in the seattle are for $70 cash.

The only way to for sure stop that leak right now is dump a bunch of sand on it and fuse it to glass with a low yield nuclear weapon. Otherwise they can keep trying boyscout badge projects until the cows come home and still fail.

I use to own a transfer 3 and it was solid, ended up being too small. Switched to a Deploy 7 because I liked the fact it would collapse small, had few points of failure, and was slightly lighter than the Transfer 7.

I wonder if the number one reason people pass on the allak is it's price.

I toughed it out a few years in a bivy, it got old... I'm 6'6" and needed a tent with room. So that might be one requirement that you do not need to consider. Since nobody I climbed with could stand my snoring like a freight train I bought a hilleberg soulo. Room enough for me, room enough for my stuff, and very lite considering how strong it is. I bit the bullet and paid full retail for it, worth every cent. After the Soulo I got a Bibler Fitzroy to use as a 2 man tent. It is a very well built tent, but I need a vestibule. So... I sold the Fitzroy for a profit and scored a Hilleberg Allak for $400 on craigslist. It is roomy, lite as they come, and built like a brick shithouse. Fully guyed out it stood up to winds 80mph sustained with no snow wall. Ya it was a rough night but it held up just fine. Taking it down was kind of rough, had to get 2 people from the hut to help us so it wouldn't blow away. I have heard the Allak can handle even higher winds. Somewhere I read that some dudes were in an allak on Shishapangma in winds 100mph sustained gusts to 120mph. But they had a snow wall. Other tents were shredding but the allak was unphased. The only drawback is the $$$. I hunted on craiglist twice a day before getting my allak cheap but they are out there. Which makes me wonder... does anyone independently wind tunnel tents to test their various points of failure? So... I needed a tent that was larger, light, and tough. Which narrowed it down to like 3 tents, 2 of them being Hillebergs. I am glad I am tall otherwise I probably would not shelled out the extra cash and never owned my awesome tents.

Seamgrip

I use: Ryobi Tek4 Durashot Digital Camera A fair review of the camera: http://www.oneprojectcloser.com/waterproof-and-dust-resistant-digital-camera-the-ryobi-tek4-digital-camera-review/ I hate messing with a camera on trips bottom line. Taping batteries to my armpits so they would stay charged in the cold. Taking off my gloves to take a photo because the buttons are small. Getting the camera crushed in my pack. In the past I used a cannon powershot preceeded by a sony cybershot. The dying battery was always my number one issue with both. I ended up crushing the cybershot. One day at home depot I saw this camera for job sites. Shock resistant, waterproof, and had a huge ass rechargable lithium Ion battery. The battery is at least 10x the size of all compact digital camera batteries. I figured what the heck and got one off ebay for $100 new. First thing I did when I got it is put it in the freezer for 3 days after charging it up. After taking it from the freezer I loaded up 3 sim cards with like 200 photos and 20 min of video. The battery was still fine, in fact it has been a month since then and I am just charging it again. The buttons are big enough to use with gloves on. The pictures are good enough for me.... there is a slight delay between your ability to take photos and I guess the image quality is not top notch. My requirements for a camera were: 1. Battery life 2. Durability 3. Ease of use 4. Image quality I figured I could always photoshop pics that were not perfect. If the camera doesn't work I wouldn't have anything to photoshop.

ID eVent bivys are great. I used a ID eVent Unishelter for 3 years and had no condensation issues really, just some frost buildup after a nights sleep up by the vents. It had room for boots inside. I eventually gave up bivys entirely, I am too big of a dude to get dressed in one. Got sick of standing out in the crap to put my clothes on. Since I am able to hump it no problem, I got a Hilleberg soulo, lots of luxury for another 1.5 lbs.

For down jackets, I still love my eVent FF Volant. Also love my Icefall parka. FF parkas are all I have ever known. All the mass produced down parkas do not have long enough sleeves for my arms so I had to go custom. Regarding durability... I remember seeing a Rainier ranger using a volant one trip, he told me that it was donated by FF 4 years ago and that it had seen constant use. While it was on the grungy side, it looked to be holding up great. For synthetic, I use a Hooded Mammut Stratus jacket. It has a good long sleeve on it, toasty warm, and was dirt cheap too.

The La Sportiva Lhotse has a generous toe box.

There was a guy selling a Hilleberg Allak for $400 the other day in Seattle, I would have bought it if I didnt already own one! Find a good used Hilleberg, screw all that Chinese made crap.

I lovr my superfeet. When I get them I wear them in running shoes for awhile then rotate them into climbing boots. After 4 years the 3 pair I have are getting pretty nasty.... If anyone is offloading size G (13.5-15) I will take them or buy them or whatever...

I generally listen to the same songs in my 1 hour workouts on Step Mills. Usually burn about 1200 calories in an hour. Got my warm up feel good country song, then a techno remix to get the heart rate up, followed stuff that keeps me going, toward the end a fitting suicide song since I am reaching my anaerobic threshold and feeling the pain... and for the cool down a spaced out hippie song since I am fairly spaced out at this point. 1. Highwayman - Highwaymen 2. One Night in Bangkok - Vinylshakerz French XXL remix 3. In the End - Linkin Park 4. Closer - NIN 5. Evolution - Korn 6. Mr. Crowley - Ozzy 7. The Night - Disturbed 8. Parabola - Tool 9. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica S&M version 10.Dragula - Rob Zombie 11.Inside the Fire - Disturbed 12.Fade to Black - Metallica 13.White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

Mammut Extreme outer with the OR Alti Mitt Inner liner. Im a pussy and get cold hands, this is the warmest functional setup I could come up with. I also use a pair of OR Contact gloves as replacement liners if the first pair get wet. As for color... the Mammut Extremes I got are an older model and are in a blaze orange and blue... Go Broncos!

Mammut Lazer = Solid I use mine for everything.