especially if they're moronic
pot kettle black...errr, in your case potbelly kettle black...
No kidding. And these opinions, especially Sobo's, don't seem like they came from the mouths of fools who didn't think them through.
Since when did an opinion instantly get labled "moronic" as soon as it diverged from one's own? What a flat world to live in...
oh...i think trashie is more "round" than flat...
I'd say everyone's a moron, some are just sub-morons
And W said, "Please to meet you, let me introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste, come closer here and let me look at you, see into your soul."
I'm fairly certain Putin is a dementor - he sucked W's soul right out.
If you are arguing that NSP & AIARE are better you are arguing just that.
Your know-it-all blustery insult of calling someone a know-it-all is gleefully ironic.
Thanks for the complement!
My argument was that the standardized curriculums don't any benefit over the non-standards and that there are good and bad providers on both sides to give good advice information on location is very useful.
Yes and NY & VT My point was the conditions are dramatically different between the regions
I know enough to know I don't know everything, and that anyone who thinks 2 days is enough isn't worth admitting to the conversation
I guess I need to be a guide or on SAR to know everything
they are soft and squishy but nice if you are looking for lightweight. The shell isn't much lighter than a laser. The tour lever has been known to break
I'm sure you could ski a big fat ski with them; they aren't the ideal tool unless you are a fool
I've never taken an AIARE course but they had no problem taking my money to register so I'm not sure what your point is.
I think it's silly to say the students are coming from the same background when you have courses offered in Washington, California, Utah, Colorado, New Hampshire and France and the course is so short. Seriously - expecting to find layers in a typical WA snowpack? Got a backhoe? Expecting to find anything but ice in NH?
just follow the herd
The Alpine 4000m Peaks by the Classic routes is old, but useful.
Hochtouren im Wallis by Hermann Biner is in german and better (Hochtouren ~= alpine climbs in german)
I only started doing that after living in a place where my un-AC'd appartment got to 100 regularly during the summer and cooked my skins - leaving them needing regluing after 2 days on snow
the only skins I've had with the mesh came with it on and left a few little bits of mesh in the skinb glue