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I don't know -- every time I go for a hike / run with Jason Ferris I'm about a mile behind, never thought it was a problem. Do you have an issue with this? OK, and what % of time are men just having a bad day vs actually having a heart attack? I've turned around on a bad day and told my friends...

Cool Stuff! Way to get out there and test your limits and have fun! -Dr. Wu

Yeah, of course I realize that... I'm actually being serious in a thread and not talking about Gary Moody!? Who hijacked my account. Anyway, I use the Injinji toe sox because I got blisters in my arch the first time I wore the shoes. Like I said though, my feet stayed way cool throughout the...

Not sure if you're being facetious or just Al Soccardy but no, I'm surprised just how good the toes look. No blisters, bruising or even hot spots. The balls of my feet feel somewhat tenderized but it's amazing how much abuse the soft parts (toes & ball) of your feet can take and not feel too bad...

No -- I have not tried the Bikila's yet at all... next shoe, probably. The grip issue for the KSO is funky: the shoes have almost zero grip really... the rubber on the bottom is akin to a severely worn out trail shoe. They're not really designed for stuff like the Flume Slide in my opinion...

Jess still has a few more peaks but looks like we'll get it done soon enough... big finish on Tecumser sometime in September. The cooler part though is getting Jess running on some fairly difficult trails. We had a blast running (only flats and downs) the trails this past weekend. She is...

Very cool stuff and way glad you're back from your ankle injury! Nice pictures. -Dr. Wu

Actually, your calves: you're on your toes (not a bad thing) almost all the time. The first few weeks running (back in March) with the Nike Free's and the VFF's my calves hurt like hell but eventually you get used to it. But doing all the hikes/runs this weekend was a new level, my calves...

My wife, Jess, is finishing up her NH48 so we took a 3-day weekend with some vague plans of doing a bunch of 4000'ers. I've had the Vibram Five Fingers KSO "shoes" for about six months but never use them hiking so I figured this would be a good opportunity. Wore them on all three hikes. Flume...

Roy always tells it like it is! Rock on! -Dr. Wu

C'mon... two types of people read these things: (1) hikers like us who probably won't need rescues for doing stupid things and, as it seems, rarely for injuries. And (2) non-hikers that get angry that their taxes or fish&Game dues go to hikers doing stupid things or getting injured doing hiking...

Pretty cool scoping out a sweet spot like that. Seems like nice hardwoods out there too -- won't make the spruce allergy flare up. -Dr. Wu

It's not a natural law. It's how, basically, Ben Franklin set things up. In theory, fire departments could be at least semi-private and charge you for rescues. Police is a little more tricky I guess because they provide overall "protection" and do a number of other activities. S&R does one...

There won't be any forced rescues much like a tow truck isn't going to force you to get your car towed away (except if you're parked illegally or blocking traffic, I guess) and if you're simply not feeling good an ambulance crew isn't going to haul you away and if they do, that's what the courts...

Because you're unable to get out of a certain location and/or in trouble and you need somebody to come get you. I said you could purchase insurance, not have the government require it which just becomes a tax. I'm saying pay out of pocket to get rescued. But if the option is available you could...

Of course. Accidents happen. But "education" simply does not work... the only way to make people a little more responsible is to make them more responsible. Unfair accidents and other things will happen but that's the way life is and always has been -- we can't necessarily always legislate...

I think your line of reasoning is not complete. Why is there an assumption that S&R should be treated the same as police and fire department? Why the automatic (and bad) assumption that "the government should rescue me." Why not privatize police and fire departments? That way they do bill you --...

Exactly. And raising taxes to help compensate is not the solution. Neither is "education" - doesn't seem like it's working so waste of money. Solution: you need to be rescued, you pay the bill like a getting towed by a tow truck or going to the ER. And if that's a problem, F&G can contract out...

Cool trip. You didn't make any attempt to descend that small slide (I've heard it was a log flume?) that descends to the Wilderness Trail? I guess it's a little out-of-the-way. I've always seen it from the Bonds etc. And walked by it a few times (you can look right up it) and figured it'd be a...

There's enough water. You're doing a Pemi Loop ~9000' elevation gain so the 250' you have to do to go to Guyot Spring is worth it if you're out of water. Or even the Liberty Spring. There's sometimes a few pee-pools along the way but I'd filter from those. -Dr. Wu