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Foam helmets can absorb just as much impact - ask a road bicyclist whose used one. The problem with foam helmets is they are disposable. Once it's absorbed an impact it's pretty much done - suck to have to bring a spare helmet on a climb.

I was ignoring you. I don't pay attention to remembering retarded posts from 18 months ago. A sample size of 1 is not a usefully large sample. Now my patagonia lightweight gloves where the finger seam has blown out 3 times, same place, that's a sample.

Gee, another cracked rant. Yehaa. I have 3 pairs of Cloudveil gloves. They all rock, they are all durable. As for Cloudveil's "roots" they've always been a virtual company based in Jackson Hole, sort of.

I'm interested in the T2's. Check your T2's.

Eh? Davo Karnicar skiied an Elan - the local boy had the local company make him up a pair. If your looking for super light weight check out the Dynafit Rally - it's $99 from Life-link. Of course if your using Silveretta's it won't work, so scratch that.

Buy the biggest memory card you can afford. 256MB are cheap now ($60 or so). 512Mb is the way to go though - buy enough memory so you don't have to bring along a spare.

A nasty feeling under the arch of your foot? Depending on which boots you have, you may want to investigate the support the shell gives your liner/footbed. On my lasers it seemed there was arch support in the shell (i.e. the surface the liner/sits on was not flat), so when a supportive footbed was installed the arch ended up being to high. Pressure point. I ended up keeping the stock footbeds in, and after a bit of use they now are super comfy.

I'm assuming you mean at the higher zoom powers (i.e. longer focal lengths)? Not shooting slower than 1/focal lenght w/o a tripod. The other thing to consider is most zoom lenses, particularly lower cost, particularly wide range (i.e 5x, 10x)get to be pretty poor quality.

No insoles? Boots without insoles are mammoth uncomfortable in my experience. Absolutely no support. And since I have fairly low volume feet, they slosh around, which sucks.

What's interesting is that O'neill came out on the "Bush doesn't have a clue" side versus the party line "Bush is in charge, he makes all the choices" And that the he brought along a couple thousand pages of notes to back it up. Of course he probably fabricated all these to match his opinions

555's weigh about as much as Diamirs. Diamirs are easier to get into, have a toe release, and all around are much more like an alpine binder. True step in convenience.

I was a good yuppie and bought the bag to fit my Tikka after losing 2 lenses in the pack (they'd pop off and get lost). The Tikka Plus fits as well in the Pochette as the Tikka did. Tikka Plus has more light.

Start with Finnegan's Wake.

I think Sratch n' Sniff might help you on that one Layton.

Get the Tyson Bradley guidebook. Or hell just look at Andrews website http://www.pawprince.com he's got all the beta you'd need.

I dunno. I kind of like the larger format guidebooks. Sure you can't through them in a pack, but I normally photocopy the routes of interest and leave the rest of the book in the pack.

Good - because I never said that. In fact in my previous post, that you don't seem to be able to read, I said literacy was a slight positive, and genocide a massive negative (slight != massive) (slight <<<< massive) Getting so enflamed over a 20 year old oral story with no documentation (and if the Soviets did anything well, it was beauracracy) is stupid.

Scott- Oral histories, particularly family related, are often incomplete, and slightly distorted. The stories usually distort over time. I'm not denying that her father disapeared - millions did. Stories such as hers are withing the realm of truth. Chill out man.

JayB- Hundreds if not thousands of jews were killed in the pogrom of October 18, 1905 alone. The government of the tsar is just as culpable for these deaths. I find and average of 40 prisoners a year - thats one every 9 days, a bit low for 19th century Russia (Serfdom was in effect for 1/2 of that time period!) I don't dismiss random executions as 2-bit, they are disturbing and disgusting. I dismiss 2nd hand ancedotes that are over 20 years old as 2-bit.

While the nation was distracted last month by images of Saddam Hussein's spider hole and dental exam, President George W. Bush quietly signed into law a new bill that gives the FBI increased surveillance powers and dramatically expands the reach of the USA Patriot Act. The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004 grants the FBI unprecedented power to obtain records from financial institutions without requiring permission from a judge. Under the law, the FBI does not need to seek a court order to access such records, nor does it need to prove just cause. Previously, under the Patriot Act, the FBI had to submit subpoena requests to a federal judge. Intelligence agencies and the Treasury Department, however, could obtain some financial data from banks, credit unions and other financial institutions without a court order or grand jury subpoena if they had the approval of a senior government official. The new law (see Section 374 of the act), however, lets the FBI acquire these records through an administrative procedure whereby an FBI field agent simply drafts a so-called national security letter stating the information is relevant to a national security investigation. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61792,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

I've been thinking I should change my avatar to Mr. Malaprop

1. Sikhism (100%) 2. Reform Judaism (91%) 3. Bahá'í Faith (88%) 4. Jainism (86%) 5. Liberal Quakers (81%) 6. Orthodox Judaism (81%) 7. Islam (76%) 8. Unitarian Universalism (75%) 9. Hinduism (73%) 10. Mahayana Buddhism (72%) 11. Neo-Pagan (65%) 12. Theravada Buddhism (63%) 13. Orthodox Quaker (58%) 14. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (56%) 15. New Age (55%) 16. Taoism (52%) 17. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (50%) 18. New Thought (44%) 19. Scientology (42%) 20. Jehovah's Witness (40%) 21. Seventh Day Adventist (37%) 22. Secular Humanism (36%) 23. Eastern Orthodox (35%) 24. Roman Catholic (35%) 25. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (29%) 26. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (28%) 27. Nontheist (20%) 40% Jehovah's witness! :hellno:

Scott- Read above. Read. Here's a hint (literacy=+, murders=-(*10^3))

No, they hate them for killing their mothers, fathers, children, brothers, sisters, friends and countrymen. What's next? Are you going to tell me that this did not happen? All I've said this whole argument Scott is that the same regime that taught them how to read and write, killed their mothers and fathers. The 2 are not of the same order of magnitude (one a decent positive, the other a massive negative), but both should be considered in one's assessment of the regime. Particularly when one criticizes those in the past for an infatuation with Russia, say in the 1930's, when it's plusses where in great relief (rapid industrialization, a growing economy, increase in literacy, etc) and it's negatives (dekulakisation of the Ukraine, murder, torture, etc.) were well hidden away from the world.

All those people you studied with I'm sure hated the Communists for teaching them to read. For someone who studied there your perspective is sadly lacking. Or are you against ridden as you sit in your home, and think "at what cost to the indians did I obtain this?"