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I'm looking for a new pair and while I have used the older Everest, formally One Sport, have never really used the new Millet design and am looking for anyone who may have experience or knowledge of how the two compare other than the weight.

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For sale: Brand New La Sportiva Nuptse 44.5 $350.00 Feathered Friends Swallow bag is 2 years old, 2 oz overfill, 15 degree, dark blue Epic, std length left zip, used 4 days, $300 Garmin Oregon 450T GPS $400.00 Brand new Mountain Hardware Trango 3 tent Trade for FF, WM Down, Montbell Bag etc....Mchale Pack Only reply to: allen(a)Livingingswflorida.com

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Never worn, size 44.5. Just in time for Denali season. $325.00 OBO or trade for FF or Montbell bag or down gear. Call 239-989-1106 or email Allen(at)Livinginswflorida.com. Please, Do not reply to thread.

Brand New never worn. Bought too small for wife. Mens Size 8 $175.00 OBO. Trade for Montbell or FF bag or down gear. Call or email only 239-989-1106 Allen(at)Livinginswflorida.com

CustomFit Liner inside the boot made with a special thermo-moldable foam that comfortably wraps your foot while providing outstanding thermal insulation. Bought too large for my son. Used only a few times. needs a good home make offer. Do not reply to this thread call 239-989-1106 or email Allen@livinginswflorida.com

No not at all. As I said this is a Snoqualmie Pass Ski Resort fabricated thing from over a year ago. Never given a notice or formal arrest etc.... Have no idea ????? but have been given a notice to appear and need representation.

I live in Florida. My son just receive, by complete surprise, a notice to appear in King Country for a trespass hearing so I need a referral for an attorney for a minor criminal matter involving an alleged back country trespass which has been fabricated. Is there any good attorneys on this board or someone that you can refer me too. Please email Allen@Livinginswflorida.com or call 239-989-1106

5-10 Aslum(sp) with Stealth C4 rubber Size 39 or 6 1/2. Used 1 day. Still has the writing on the soles as new. Needs a good home for a great kid. Hate to throw out. Email me at Allen(at)livinginswflorida(dot)com or call 239-989-1106.

Thats what is so great about living you can choose to do with our time what we want and be whatever we want? Although I have to admit, I fail to see why anyone would want to live a life of complacency and mediocracy when one can, with little effort, do so much more. Why choose to have a life not fully experienced or of little insignificance or to simply exist? Ah yes... your choice. Done

Easily done, blue-blood, for even less, and with style and comfort. Smart folks adapt to their means." So you are already condemning yourself with complacency and planning a life of mediocracy when you can do and have anything you want? Smart folks don't think, talk, and accept small when all it takes is an proper perspective, attitude, and effort to go big!

"my parents never encouraged me to climb, but they always believed that i could do anything that i wanted to do. my mother, always the authoritarian, believed that if she gave me the guidance to make informed, educated decisions that i would go on to be successful in whatever it is that i chose to take part. ultimately i chose to rock climb, which led me to want to climb mt hood and the other cascades, and now i attempt such endeavors not because my parents guided my dreams (because those dreams didn't fully exist when i was a boy) but because my parents taught me to think and evaluate that with which i was presented. my mother took her job as a parent very seriously and she never approved of the risky, dangerous adventures - and still doesn't. when she asked me after my recent accident if it all was worth it i told her "absolutely." her response was, "well i guess you thought it all through then and weighed the consequences." when she and i recently spoke of that day when she turned off the tv while i was watching the late JB free-solo, i told her that i met JB and told him the same story (he laughed). she didn't know what to say. parents don't have to encourage their kids to climb for them to want to do it and if they do there is no guarantee that the kid will want to continue to climb. i've worked at a climbing gym in the past with kids aged 6-10, teaching them the basics of movement in climbing and some parents were there coaching their kids along side of me. others just brought their unexcited kids in and dropped them off, expecting them to get excited without them. you can't pump up a kid that doesn't want to get pumped up. my point (finally) is just that parents - like you are alluding to - make all the difference in what their kids do and get excited in doing. it is remarkable that jordan is doing what he is doing with the encouragement and support of his parents. if it was me and my parents i'd be at a baseball game. :)" Sounds to me you were extremely blessed. Our parents must have went to the same school! When I had my son my wife and promised him, in his crib, and ourself's that we would improve on providing him everything that we had been blessed with as children and would eliminate those things that I wished would have been different for myself so as not to continue the chain. I woke up this morning with a message to remind myself of the truth of the universal law that always proves true of what we receive in life, will be in the exact proportion, what we do in the way of providing value for others... meaning all we have to do to get more of anything we want is to help more people get what they want......

No, the youngest climber to scale Everest had been Temba Tsheri of Nepal, who reached the peak at age 16.

"Any sane parent would say, "Gee that's nice, it's important to have dreams at your age." Not buying the little prince a plane ticket.... Really, maybe if there were more parents that took their job of being a parent more seriously and really took on the full responsibility of what they applied for when they had their children by helping them reach for the stars and accomplish great things instead of sending them to baby sitters, expecting schools to raise them, and surrounding them with negative, cynical, small thinking people, the world would be a better place. Is it all about exposure. This just in; 7 year old raises $8500 for Alzheimers. What have you done recently? www.tonic.com/article/7-year-old-raises-8500-dollars-for-alzheimers-research-through-comics/

For what it is worth, I haven't been bitching at all and sprayers kidding.... really? Ok.... I can do kidding... When is kidding and tearing one down about a huge life long dream and accomplishment at someone else's expense a constructive, positive, and worth while endeavor that adds value to this world? $30-50K is a big deal to anyone however, the fact is, in the big picture it is NOT a lot of money. I appreciate your ideas as they are goods ones. I did a climb & trek two years ago and raised $10,000 for cancer research which I gave to Fred Hutchinson as a promise to my mom who died of lung cancer as she stared out the window at Mt. Rainier from her hospital bed. In addition, I did just pledge to donate thru Word of Life Ministries the entire $25,000 that they need to build an orphanage in African village (www.wolm.net) and I'm personally fund raising $100k for another 8k climb as a cancer donation to FH as well as committed to a cause to help another climber raise $1m for Alzheimer's Cure Fund. We all can help in whatever means that we have been blessed, How about you? You can donate here: www.wolm.net or here: https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/AlzheimersDiseaseResearchF/OnlineDonation.html Real people? Real people.... help real people be the best they can and do not condemn, belittle or criticize others who are doing more than they themselves do.....

No not a hedge funder and I appreciate your honesty you should be commended it will take you far. Not everyone on Everest in wealthy or well off for that matter. Most are hard working people who have worked, raised funds and marketed themselves raising money for months and years to have a chance. My friend TA is a school teacher, Nat Smelser who summited with us in 07 builds furniture etc... Lots of good everyday folks who work hard to do great things. I also have several friends on Everest right now and several that have both summited and some that have not... yet. Anyway you do Everest is tough. Yes...it can be made tougher as can most any climb and done in different or a variety of "styles" by fixing ones own ropes, cooking ones own food, heck why not even find your own way thru the ice fall like Whittaker did years ago? However, there is no right to condemn if one has not done the feat in any "style." To criticize or condemn is a right earned from success and experience not a privilege for those who have done nothing. A thought that has served me well over the years: The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twister pride in cynicism; there are many who confine themselves to criticism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the rôle of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance. It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Better idea... you do go K2! $30k to climb Everest is NOT very much in the big scope of things. $30-$50k barely even buys a car these days... and you are right, most anyone with the fitness, determination, and money can get a pretty good shot of successfully climbing Everest and all of the 7 Summits. However, this is the case with many. many, many climbs and probably guessing every climb done by just about everyone in this and most all posts. So like us, and like everyone who has done it.... go do it, then come back and tell everyone how worthless of an achievement it is if you still feel that way? Same with the other 7 summits which are even easier. Go do them.... then come back and tell us how you wasted your time, money and effort. I would go os far as to suspect that many on this board and elsewhere could say the same about the climbs that these posters have done which are even less insignificant in even more ways. What's odd and ironic is that those who criticize can't do it! "the fact taht everest is becoming/has become a summit that can pretty much be bought so long as you (or someone on yer behalf) can foot the bill" Please share the ones you, and the others, have done that can not be?

Now with your comments... go ahead and show the world, or at least the others on this board what, or should I say who, you really are... and embarrass yourself's.

It is amazing how many little thinkers there are and how envy and jealousy makes bitterness which just further keeps those that participate in this activity from accomplishing anything that is great themselves. Seems so many would rather sit around and complain, make fun of, belittle, and tear down others, than to go out and make something of themselves! My son started racing Motocross at 6, won his first national championship at 7, and after 10 years on the road living out of RV's from track to track, home schooled, etc... received contracts from both Honda and Yamaha. He, and our family, have gave up so much to make his dreams come true as I'm sure Jordan's parents have. It is amazing in a land where one can do, or be, anything that they truly want to be if they are willing to do whatever it takes to do it, how envy and jealousy make such bitter and negative people who do little to nothing with themselves to accomplish anything. The same time and effort would be better spent on moving one self further as opposed to the opposite. Why not just go out and do good works for others and make something grand out of one's self instead? Seems to be a more efficient, enjoyable and profitable way to spend one's time and energy. I suggest that you who throw stones should instead find a life for yourself that you can be proud of. Rich? His dad is a helicopter pilot. They make 60-80K a year, not an amount that most would consider rich. I couldn't support my family with much, on double that, and neither will you so... so with time better spent one can better get to figuring that one out... huh? Jordan.... probably ends up making $500k - $1M off of that climb by the time all is said and done. Congratulations Jordon! Some Info for what it is worth: "That mural just fascinated me so much. My dad picked me up from school and I said, 'Dad, I want to climb the seven summits,' and that was it," Jordan said. His father, Paul Romero, a helicopter paramedic who is trained in high-altitude rescue, and his father's girlfriend, Karen Lundgren, have trained him for top-level mountaineering. They reached the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa, the first of the seven peaks, when Jordan was 10 years old. Romero and Lundgren are both adventure racers who compete in weeklong endurance races that combine biking, climbing, mountaineering and paddling through wilderness areas. "They are the most supportive parents ever. I do feel lucky for that," Jordan said. "I don't know if other parents would encourage their kids to go big. But that's what I'm doing this for — to encourage kids who don't have that, to go big and set goals in life." Romero said his goal has always been to help his son attain his dream, even as their quest raised questions about how young is too young to scale Everest, a mountain where harsh conditions have claimed the lives of dozens of climbers. "It's important to remember, this is all Jordan's idea and Jordan brought us here. It's definitely not about a dad dragging his kid to do these quests and do these mountains. That's a hard thing for people to get their heads around," he said. "People that know us ... understand it very well. They can see into his eyes and understand how driven he is."

Stealth C4 rubber Size 39 or 6 1/2. Used 1 day. Still has the writing on the sole as new. Also have a kids full body harness that also needs a good home for a great kid. Email me at Allen(at)livinginswflorida(dot)com or call 239-989-1106.

Stealth C4 rubber Size 39 or 6 1/2. Used 1 day. Still has the writing on the sole as new. Also have a kids full body harness that also needs a good home for a great kid. Email me at Allen(at)livinginswflorida(dot)com or call 239-989-1106.

I had two pairs, one for my son and for myself. Both leaked after a week. I returned them to GORE for testing and both were found to be defective. GORE gave us a free replacement of any boot we wanted based upon GORE'S 100% satisfaction guarantee. Las Sportiva said they wouldn't do anyuthing.

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