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Take your false attributions and stick them up your ass, clown.

Yeah, of course. That's how it works: Collect taxes from the Blue NE and Pacific states and send it to the hypocrites Red government-hating bloodsuckers.

Why not let the magical perfection of...

My favorite backpacking gear, by a longshot, are my McHale packs

+1 to Exped UL 7 Synmat, kicks ass on all other 3-season pads. Exped Downmats for winter.

After Starbuck's came out with Via I...

Incorrect. I have hundreds of days of mountain travel in highly breatheable woven softshells. See above. I was an early softshell adopter per Cloudveil/Schoeller Cloth. The notion that body heat...

Fortune loop yesterday (Sunday 5/19). Fun. Standard tour: ascended over Ingalls Pass and above Headlight Basin to Fortune SE ridge, descended ridge then SE aspect bowl. A slomo hisser caught me up...

These statements are true for dry cold snow. But both statements are untrue for wet falling snow in temps near or above freezing point, which can quickly wet out a softshell. Once the softshell is...

I prefer to be comfortable on 100% of tours

But what if it's wet and/or humid weather? Stay home and watch Oprah?

The difference is fit and stretch, both of which are critical. Semi-VBs (and full VBs) work only if they hug the skin.

MH Effusion Hooded Jacket. (Be sure to get the hoody cuz the non-hoody has knit panels that defeat the function). Wear it next-to-skin. Wear a puffy or shell over it until just before you start...

Several. I was on the leading edge of softshells. I started with the original softshell, Cloudveil (Schoeller) in the lightest weight and also in the middle weight. The lightest weight was very...

Lindahl and XXX-er represent the two theories of cold/cool weather aerobic activity gear. Lindahl advocates layering and high breatheability. XXX-er advocates a single layer with a membrane that...

RUN AWAY!!!! NIGGAHZZ!!! OH NOOOOOO!!!!! NIGGAH IN DA WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!!!

Many.

How many next-to-skin semi-VBs have you tried? :tongue:

Begs the definition of "soft shell." Lots of Windstopper stuff is marketed as "soft shell."

Depends where you tour. IME, soft shells are fine for skinning in dry interior west snow, but not for many PNW tours because much PNW snow is wet and IME quickly wets out and/or penetrates...

Interesting question, but purely academic under the Florida SYG law. The Florida statute provides an exception to the SYG presumption where "the person who uses defensive force is engaged in an...

If we really want to skimp, we base it on assumption of 10g of fuel to boil 1L. As you know, actual fuel use depends on water temperature (e.g., 34F snow melt vs. 45F mountain stream), wind and...

Ah, like historically record high filibusters by the GOP?

Democratic controlled Congress, my ass

The what?

Very convenient that you omitted Rosenberg's "DEFLATION HAS BECOME THE CONSENSUS VIEW" slide, his comment that "the economy's potential to grow is much lower than usual," and his observation about...

Good. I've never used more than 15g of fuel for summer afternoon snow>boil one liter with the 1.7L pot. For sun-baked PM snow, it's often closer to 12g fuel/liter boiled. As I noted above, once...

Oh yeah, right, that is the Sloan Creek CG. The TH is near the confluence of Sloan Creek and the NF Sauk.

Depends on how you define "extremely cold." Inverted can is not necessary for the WA...

FTR, my issue is the delamming of my Shift LT.

Of course a more breatheable fabric is less wind resistant. Duh

I looked again at the delamming. It's more than a few bubbles. It's delamming...

Yeah, the trail approach to Longs melts out early down low. There is a sun-protected gully to the S that usually can be skied almost to the bottom through May most years but it's better on the down,...

What JB system are you using? The JB Sol works much better in the wind than other JB models. In mild winds, my JB Sol has roughly the same fuel efficiency as my Reactor. The other JBs can get...

Cool. Did you go over Longs Pass?

You picked a good week for weather. As trip time approaches you might want to check NWHiker and TAY trip reports re the crevasses on the south margin of the Cool Glacier (i.e., where the upper...

For the firm I prefer a mom with a hard tail with a narrower waist

Skin laps at Hyak Wednesday evening. Goo so true

Nationalism? WTF? Americans group themselves not by national origin, but by brands of clothing made by third world de facto third world slave labor and marketed by multinational corporations. A...

Then you should rant against Leninism, not communism.

Are suggesting that any political system would function on a standard of "completely volunteerism?" Serious, dude, slowly back away from Ayn...

Slavery, i.e., deeming people as property, has capitalistic underpinnings

Well, you seemed to also be advocating the position that capitalism is justified by human nature.

An emerging trend among some intellectual thinkers is that communistic principles -- which, again,...

No. I never said that, of course. Nice try, strawman.

Beginning of time? WTF? Are you one of those kooks who believes the world is 6,000 y.o.?

Humans existed for hundreds of thousands of years before civilization. Indeed, civilization has been...

Nah. Humans lived in communistic groups until relatively recently. For nearly all of the existence of humanity, communist principles were the natural state of things. Before the neolithic...

My Westcomb Shift LT fabric is forming little bubbles in places. I say "bubbles" because I really hope it's not delamming, although it sure seems like it.

FTR, I have 15 or so days of relatively...

Am I the only guy who likes the TLT5 forefoot flex?

I support a final solution to ilikestrawman's idiotic trolling

If Congress is broken, then necessarily the electorate is broken. In a democracy people get the government they deserve.

ilikestrawmen has taught us that a man with discriminating literary tastes is necessarily a bigot

Not sure where OP is going with this. The WWII Jewish death toll is not limited to death camps and concentration camps, and includes >1,000,000 massacred in the countryside, burned out or died from...

Good that you state that in the present tense. A few years ago, some TGR gnarmags were singing the praises of drilling holes and mounting Dynafits on grunge APs, i.e., Coombacks before there were...

I know nothing about the Cham 107 HM and Cham 97 HM other than they look like very cool designs and that the 97 HM may portend of a movement towards rockered tip pintail tight radius <100mm waist...

Mt. David on skis? Nice. Not surprised to hear it was mushy.

Did two Bean Basin tours this weekend. Mostly SE and E aspects. Mushy and unsettled weather, but fun. More sun needed to...

Not to W95s, but I've chopped tails off several pairs of skis. How to do it varies with different ski construction, e.g. extent of end cap. Epoxy or JB Weld worked fine on all but one for which I...

Hex footprint, eh? My 'mids have a square footprint. I eyeball each corner to get it as square as possible -- which is the key to getting a good pitch for windy conditions. It would take me awhile...

Looks like a terrible spot to pitch a 'mid. Took me a few years of 'midding to learn that 'mids are not designed to stuff into a nook like that -- and that's one limitation of 'mid designs: they...

IME, if the anchors are sound, a 'mid can withstand a pretty good storm. My MegaLight and (old) MegaMid have held up in some pretty bad all-night storms with whipping winds and 60mph gusts. Helps...

Ha. I've pondered doing the same sort of thing to my 12 y.o. Stephenson 3R. (It's seen lots of use; I sewed in new door zippers last year.) If I cut out the inside wall and trimmed to floor as you...