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i keep my reactor in my truck with a french press for coffee on the go, or for winter camping. it's powerful and reliable, but it isn't the most efficient stove (power and reliability are more important than fuel savings in the situations where the reactor shines). For ice routes with a bivy in which keeping a canister warm would be a seious issue, over a week of glacier base-camping to keep the canisters from piling up, or areas where getting canister fuel is not possible I would opt the MSR XGK-EK over the reactor. if I had to get a new non-winter stove, I would seriously consider the new jetboil Ti over a micro canister such as the "pocket rocket" or the Soto. Looking at its weight compared to a micro canister stove + pot, it's pretty damn close. Add a bit of fuel savings and some serious boil time convenience, I'd rather pack an extra once or two. I think the fuel savings would come into play more by using it car camping since most folks rarely do long enough backcountry Climbing trips to notice any weight savings by bringing less canisters. And if that is the case, probably best to bring a whisperlite. I'll let the folks over at backpacking light fight it out.

anyone got both the Sol Ti, and the Reactor? if so, please PM me, I have a science experiment for you.

wasted an hour - my firewall decided to block it. prob solved, thanks mcaffee!

screw it

ok well my log in problem has stopped, but still no idea how to fix chrome. i googled it and didn't find anyone with similar problems.

hahahaaha I am retarded. I did indeed think that.

my web browsers have been acting screwy, maybe one of you techies could help? This just started today, didn't change anything. I keep getting logged off every time I switch pages. This is the 1st time I could stay logged in long enough to post something. I clicked on the "stay logged in" box and told IE9 to remember my password. Any thoughts? Why am I using IE9? Firefox's new default Yahoo! search change was super lame. I then used Chrome. One day, chrome stopped loading web pages. Can't get it to work anymore. Ideas? I may or may not be able to post back until I figure this out.

a hash pipe would not have a sufficiently sharp enough radius fwi, you can get some pretty cheap instruments online. google gua sha (some pretty graphic pics too) don't try and mimic gua sha therapy, it is way more invasive and has a different non-western goal in mind. Buuuuuuuuttt, basicaly close enough to the same thing. the redness can be similar to this therapy (instument assisted cross-frictional massage), but i wouldn't make it your goal. girls, don't plan on wearing a cocktail dress any time soon if you're doing this on your shoulders. anyway, one of those little "sharkie" tools, a dab of lotion and you've got something more effective and a shitload lot smaller and cheaper than that forarm massager pictured above

simple forarm therapy modeled after some pretty expensive therapy (grason, iastm) (sorry about my spelling, I'm typing quick) 1. warm the area (literally) 2.get a dull rounded surface that's still kinda "sharp" like the handle of a spoon. the broader, the bigger deeper muscles, the narrower, the more superficial/delicate structures (tendons) 3.at a 45 degree angle to the site, apply short forceful "scraping" motions in all direction. DO NOT LIFT UP 4. treat each area ~l minute. it could bruise or turn red with speckles (petechia) 5.stretch 2-3 times for 30 seconds 6.do mild exercises on the area this self "massage" does quite a lot, google the benefits of graston technque for more info (reduction of scar tissue, regeneration of injured tissues, proliferation of fibroblasts, remodelling of tissue in the correct direction of load, reduction of muscle spasm, blah blah blah)

do you have an example of an E? full body flag?

kimmo, I agree with you and Sol. Gene summed my 2nd point up. I sandwiched two points in a poorly structured post, and it looks like I accidentally deleted a bunch of stuff. the big reason I posted that was not for you guys. you obviously climb at a very high caliber and your training needs to be different. It was for climbers that want to emulate you guys, but aren't there yet. You guys are trying to tweak deficiencies you have for highly specific climbing moves. sorry, one other thought. Rings are probably too difficult for rehabing a shoulder injury unless you are at a very late stage in your rehab regime where the strength is mostly back, pain is totally gone, and proprioceptive feedback needs to be reprogrammed (kinda like technique for your shoulder muscles).

What he said. rings are the new swiss ball which were the new stability board which was the new foam roller etc etc rings are just another iteration of stability training. sometimes they get popular (you can probably buy a swiss ball at the gas station) sometimes they don't (anyone own a body-blade?). It's funny since rings have been around forever, but are now being re-discovered and re-packaged (TRX $190!!!!). I'm they are not "compression" strength specific, many other exercises can help (bench presses, flys, or push-ups anyone?), but the added level of instability works more than just the big dumb muscles. for climbers not training for bear hugs and slick aretes, they are a great substitution for regular exercises to train antagonistics and stabilizers to prevent injury and gain core strength.

most climbers will already have the set-up 2 etriers and a daisy chain. For some of the exercises, the rungs on the aiders are too painful. I had a couple grips that came with exercise tubing that I girth hitched on the aiders. If you don't have those, you could hunt around the house or home-depot and rig something cheap up for a better handle. Duct-tape a small dowel rod to the aider step?

+1

what, no internet out there?

big market for "track my snowshoe"

i make my own by taking a giant imprint of the route i want to train on. very very sport specific

Thanks Justin! Any filmakers out there? I also have some great script ideas. send a pm

The Mammut Trion Light, and the Trion Pro both look interesting. Weird thing on the Trion Pro - such a burly patch for "crampon wear" on the front...but how the hell do you attach the crampons? I've been digging my BD Sphinx 45L for almost a decade now...not made anymore.

no. you make app, I fuck you.

I may post this again in the climbers forum if this gets over-spray-loaded. But I've got a unique idea for a climbing app. Send me a PM (i won't reply to posts) if you've got programming skillz, can make an app, and want a part-time project, maybe make some $

Steve, I appreciate you enthusiasm, but like all hype, cure-alls, and anecdotal evidence.... 1.) I never buy the first round unless it's cheap and I want to play with it (like I did with the alpine smart) 2.) I'm going to wait until the jury is out, because it takes months of use my many people to find out what your really do and don't like about a product.

"cheese and rice!"

Gene, I think Nate was referring to the argument stated in both threads that 5.12 and beyond climbers don't like mastercams. In any "scene" it is hard to tease out actual opinion vs. group mentality, posturing, and wanna-being. I remember not long ago when it was hip to trash talk a route that was long seen as a big challenge to most. I am far from immune to this, but I agree with Nate.