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smartwool socks are the greatest. expensive as hell, but i'd be willing to pay more than their price. i hope some marketer out there isn't doing research preparing to gouge us all now.

bob, that's probably a very good idea. it's just that some days i wake up and don't even know if i'm gonna hike or where i am going (i often decide on the way up).

yo periwinkle, any chance you'd post that photo?

Got the rare chance to hike with some company as I was joined by my brother today to hike North Twin. In the excitement of outfitting him with all types of my gear I pulled the ultimate bonehead move and forgot my boots at home. I didn't realize this until we were at the trailhead, so I was...

there is a small cairn on the summit of north twin... it's maybe knee high. for flags on the 48 it would probably be best for visibility to head to the outlook immediately to the west of the summit (which seems to be higher to me anyway) where there is NOT a cairn. that way you'll have...

way cool...

i have discussed this same problem several times with a climbing partner. we had actually planned a technical ascent; i'll have to ask him about some of the details (he did the research, i had the idea).

Congrats HikerBob. I am very ahppy to see you finish, and I have always been happy to read your reports and view your photos. For quite a long time we seemed strangely on the same pace, and even more oddly, climbing the same mountains just a day apart. You started to outpace me this fall and...

but of course, the only time i pronounce the "eee" is for rhyming purposes in camp songs as well. ;) i actually enjoy the variation in phonetic interpretation on this one, although i must admit that i think the "lock"ers are wrong (for the reason dave mentioned).

i must say, in all seriousness, that the above was a fascinating online interaction.

that's very cool. congrats. i feel for those that turned around too.

i have the cat's meow... i've slept in it from conditions of 88 degrees down to 5 degrees. it's a very good bag. i'm a 5'10" male 160lbs and i find it to be a little on the snug side (but not overly so).

in and out via glen boulder is the move. i've done it this way, although i must tell you... if it's hot, that climb out of there and up to bootspur will be painful. i ran this route a year or two ago when it was 98 degrees. and watch for moose poop on the davis path.

wow. no one else noticed this? this guy is the man. i have mixed feelings about my vasque sundowners. i've had them forever (they're due for a resoling soon) and have thousands of miles on them, but i'm feeling the gravity of the trail runner. especially for dayhikes.

haha, crack of noon start... that was my day precisely. i hate to say it, but those were some fools heading down flume slide. one guy looked like he was on the verge of losing it and he was bleeding from the leg. two boys looked to be descending as gracefully as possible on that trail (and it...

i used to race and have trained on the kanc several times, although never this time of year... i fear huge campers and boat trailers... no close calls with those?

nice report. you're close man...

I don't quite understand why it's necessary to stoop to stupid barbs (the DU comment). Instead of making a chain of assumptions about me and flattening the debate into the standard "hardball"-style namecalling "political discussion", why not actually engage meaningfully and take the time to...

nice knee-jerk reaction, forestnome. please reread my post; i was not calling these people reasonable (notice the quotes ?), and the point was discussing a potentially troubling trend in the radicalization of environmental activism spurned by alienation and a (justified, if perversely employed)...

i appreciate that. it was unclear from my post, but my invitation to redboxers was a general one and not leveled at you personally. a few referees red-carded me for my politicization of the topic. yet the topic is inherently political. as environmental conditions worsen (as they inevitably...