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Are you asking if we like the blonde girl?

Did anyone touch the champ's great pacific octopus?

Impressive photos!

Hoods...

I'm a poor guy when it comes to consumer items and ski fashion. I don't have a seasonal ski wardrobe of $300-$600 items. At those prices I have one of everything. I have one soft shell...

Hi BB, I looked at Westcomb... and didn't feel very inspired.

It is becoming a little hard to avoid hooded 'softshells' these days.

In big storms I usually have my hard shell over my softshell...

Quitter! Surrender Monkey.

Anyway, I need to be picky as what ever I buy, I'll wear for 30% of the days in a year, for the next 4 years. The stuff is more than clothing, it is part of my...

It is a nice looking jacket, but those pocket openings are way too low relative to hip belt, and too small. The Arcteryx Venta pocket is the good stuff. Or the Norrona Falkitend Flex1.

Hoarhey...

Being a little more serious: I don't think they are actually all that especially light for their size and price. They are on the light side, but not amazingly so. That is not a criticism, just an...

TGR = most will not have skied them.

And some of those who have may well be in the elite backcountry set, which prohibits equal social interaction with outsiders /very cynical. ;)

I don't sweat very much, however in high exertion touring - trail breaking in deep powder and mild temps, I understand what Big Steve likes. Though I prefer to have one very very thin layer between...

Fuck dude, you need to rest :)

I can't answer all of that.

I like pit zips.




They are pockets, not core-venting zippers. For core venting and cross flow with my pit zips I use the...

I'll entertain you during your ACL recovery. :)

The people I see with these types of packable poles end up regretting them as once their backpack gets a little full, or once they do not want to...

Perhaps I will be :)

But I still differentiate between the benefits of breathable and the benefits of on-the-fly rapid mass-ventilation of unwanted heat and intake of moving cool air, aka, pit...

Thanks for your stretch-woven info, lots of it.

I almost entirely agree about not needing a shell jacket in winter. If it starts getting nasty, I just put my belay jacket on. However there are...

More than the number of Praxis that jim s doesn't own.

I guess so. Basically, a soft to the touch flexible breathable less weather resistant "hard: shell. Worn as an exterior most of the time except when weather worsens.

Even if I find the...

I thought about things like that for their breathable qualities, but it needs to be a good windblocker, and fleeces/wools aren't (in my experience). Plus snow precip sticks to it. The hardface...

Thanks for all the suggestions. Recently I have been researching the design features I want (big pockets, pit zips etc) and thought I'd try looking at the problem from a technical material...

Which material, or brand, provides a softshell which is most of all windproof, then very breathable at the expense of being not very waterproof?

Excellent report.

Some friends of mine did it recently - I'm looking forward to hearing their stories.



Lucky your glove didn't blow away.

Guess so. I removed my post. It was perhaps informative, but O/T.

Why the kangaroo avatar? You don't see many Americans posting on foreign forums with Uncle Sam as their avatar. Why are many Australians so overt with their nationalistic icons? Yet so intolerant...

Unrealistic - I suspected I was, but had no benchmark.



I've turned off review previous picture for this reason.

Agreed LCD is not good in bright light.

I guess if you cant stop water coming into the bathtub, then make the exposed liners water repellant. How well do those treatments stand up to the friction of ski touring?

They let in snow melt like the Titanic. I find them the best and worst spring boot at the same time: very easy on and off in a tent, however, really leaky.

Sorry, no fix to suggest.

Should I just delete my post?

Sorry for participating.

I don't know. But as a guide I consume approx 0.8 x 100gm canister* every day on my own using a JetBoil. That includes boiling about 6 cups for food/coffee. The rest is melting corn snow with...

Up until last week I was skiing thin powder on new Protests that I bought in late March. So glad I got them this season, not next. I'm hoping for one more creamy day on them in late May before they...

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Why do people think moms will last forever? 40 days for most people is a full season. I get moms for free, and usually have them...

Missed this.

Fantastic.

Envious.

Just reading this thread...

Me: "I want to go to South America for a month"

Wife: "Too bad. You need money"

Me: "Fuck off, I don't need much money if you stay here and look after the dog"
...

Horrifying.

I am quite likely being ignorantly unrealistic.

Unfortunately the RX100 does not allow customized fps/drive speed. There are two speeds:

- very fast for 2-4 seconds, depending on image size,...

My post was never meant to be drawn into something bigger which I just worked out.

To clarify, the delam, what ever it was , happened first season after sale I think. I saw dude on them second...

...to create content to sell advertising on his site, no less.

/crude of me, but FFS.

I found it undignified. It started out so dramatic, and continued to be so, that it was hard to take his "post-match" diagrams seriously, despite being interspersed with well meaning thoughts.

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Did I miss something? X v.s. Y?


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Hutash - I have a shitty Exped one-man for which I sometimes just pitch the fly. It works well, just the wrong tent design for the application.

The other tents I have can't be pitched without the...

I'm not interested in being a photographer, I just take photos. Used mine for a few month snow over winter and what it produces for the size is good enough for me compared to what I had. I don't...

Same in Canada for AST 1 and 2.

Digging in the snow would likely not have told these guys anything they did not already know from carefully reading the bulletin and recent activity, which they...

I bought some Praxis skis a few seasons ago in the lead up to the season. Never mounted, had to sell before xmas based on lack of funds.

Two seasons later I saw the buyer in another country, who...

I wonder how many maritime backcountry skiers who practice good travel habits would have made a similar route choice, thinking that a wide enough berth had been provided considering the terrain and...

It certainly is.

Unfortunately when I talk to people who think they have good training and experience... they often do not even know what the Expert Halo is. They certainly do not utter the...

I like it! But in my situation, 2-3 foot [of rapidly settling maritime] snow in 24 hours on a regular basis would not work well with non-vertical sides. I'm imagining the tent being in place for 10...

I don't have a location like that in mind.

Treeline, 3-5m snowpack, a rigid framed canvass walled floorless structure buried in it. I'd go in and pitch it once there was 2m on the ground. Then...

I wonder if I put a 2x4 post below the apex of each arch pole, that kind of structure would handle getting buried under a lot of snow...

Do you know the brand of that shelter that have on the platform?

I toured a 9000' day on my Protests this week, mostly not deep powder and wind effect. That is the biggest day I've done on a ski that size. I had so much good feeling.

Also skied a 4500' route...

The motivation was not to save weight (about 200gms). But to get rid of the useless floor when snow camping. Also remove some packed bulk. It worked really well - very happy with the set up over...

I cut the floor out of an unloved heavy but quite bombproof condensation factory, aka, a North Face Westwind tent.

Pity I need to use a fly sheet with it. This would be great if it was single...