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F**king beautiful!!

Go Ramenless or go home.

Not a paid endorsement: I've been keen on the Princeton Tec EOS for about a year now. It's a little under 4 oz with batteries (3x AAA) and has a damn good route-finding beam at the high setting, and decent beam for trail walking at the lowest. It also has a voltage regulator so the brightness is constant for each setting. When the batteries can't support the highest setting it resorts to the next lowest setting. The first one I had strangely used up one of the three batteries sooner than the others and hardly lasted through a summer weekend. It took it back after a couple trips and exchanged it for another one, which has not had the problem at all. Bad circuit board I'm guessing. A set of lithium batteries easily last through a several day trip in the winter. I've got an Icon as well but never use it because the EOS is just as good for route-finding and about half the weight.

Wow, f**king proud gents!

Thank you for going to places like this and bringing back pictures. Checking out your trip here has pretty much made my morning!

Some great shots there Wayne! That is a damn cool mountain. The SW face (last picture?) is wicked for sure.

Nice pics Alex; that must have been a hoot. That sucks though getting so close to the finish and losing part of the rig, along with 4 knots of boat speed. And, good chatting with you on the way over to Victoria!

Howdy Mike, hope you're doing good too. That trip must have been in the old Peugeot wagon? Nothing handles like a car you don't give a crap about...

Kurt! Hope you're doing good these days. Nope, no additional damn horses; just unloaded, er, sold our house. You noticed that it's LEI red not just red, right? Cheers!

Cool, lads!

Thanks, and will do. You too mate. Actually I have taken skis on other bikes I've owned. Definitely does not help the handling though.

Beautiful. I'm thinking that there is some fine alpinism. -M

Trip: The Mighty Tooth - Date: 8/23/2008 Trip Report: Scampered up the Mighty Tooth. It was fun as always. Actually this TR is just an excuse to post a picture of the new wheels that took me up to the trailhead; a really fun 600. Now that it's broken in, it's really, really fun. Maybe too fun... The thing just floats around the curves whereas the old FJ lumbered. On smooth tarmac it's like carving through some steep creamy powder. Mmmm, creamy... now I'm thinking about a tall cool glass of Guinness. Anyway, here's the damn picture: Gear Notes: 6 plus neutral Approach Notes: Spiffy new ride

Beautiful!

Damn cool

Nice looking climb Picketeers!

Way cool, Wayne!

Rode the motocycle by there Sunday. The faces are dry and there's a lot of snow coverage still so the bugs weren't bad at all. Enjoy

Nice sporty attempt; way to keep it together! Thanks for the beautiful pictures.

You oughtta know, eh Jim...

"I would also doubt the possibility of ice crytals coming though a First Light tent wall." We doubted it too for the first half day.

Yeah, for sure the bigger tent for the multi-week trips.

One December trip into Stuart, at the north ridge notch, we watched ice crystals get blown through the Firstlight fabric and build up inside. Gusts were not much over 40-45 knots but the white stuff was coming in through the walls, not just through the closed zippers. Glad we had synthetic bags... That being said, I'd definitely bring one for a climb of less than a few days where you can watch and wait and then blitz up the route before the shit moves in. Hopefully. Really hopefully. For a route requiring more than that, you're probably going to get nailed by some weather and I would personally rather bring the ID bivy tent instead of the Firstlight. The Leaktex or whatever-Tex bivy tents I've had in the past were incredibly bombproof; good for Alaska trips with a compatible partner. -M

Everests sold.

Sweet!