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The ones who really piss me off are the politicians and celebrities who tell us how we need to sacrifice, stop consuming more than what they decide “our share” is, and eat ******* bugs, while they fly around the world as the sole passenger their in luxurious private jets that produce as much CO2...

Great job by the rescuers and especially the injured climber’s partner.

Atlas Range MTN 35, the flotation of Tubbs with the traction of MSR. I prefer my Atlas Aspect 28s to the MSR Lightning Ascent 30s I had, too. 😁

Sounds like I picked a good night to try out my new WM Bristlecone on Boundary Bald. Don’t know if I’ll make it to the summit since I’ll be bushwhacking my way up, but I know a couple good spots with wide open views of the sky down lower. Strangely it’s forecast to be about 10F warmer at the...

I was wondering if melting between seasons and during warm spells didn’t allow for multiple years of ice to mix and homogenize, or whether snow- and ice-dwelling organisms could contribute gases to the atmospheric mix trapped in the ice. You’d probably expect to see oxygen from algae and lichen...

I was going to check after work tonight but the mountain was completely hidden in a huge snow squall. That, and the fact that Bald Mtn Rd is probably very icy made me decide to go tomorrow when I get out of work with the sun still up. One of the deeper spots, about mid-thigh here. Most of the...

There was about 16” of soft at 2300’ on Boundary Bald Mtn on Tuesday, though I have no idea how much is left after the rain and its texture. After work tomorrow I’ll go scout it, to determine which snowshoes I’m bringing Saturday when I camp out to test my new WM Bristlecone.

2 million, 20 million, or 200 million years, the point is that CO2 levels only started to rise in the last couple hundred years or so of our existence as a genus. It’s really only what we’ve done in those couple hundred years that’s relevant to our continued existence. Which I doubt is in...

“Cherry-picking” meaning using a selected set of data, whether or not it’s intended to mislead. It might just be me but I’d probably use records dating back to the Ediacaran to give a nice, long baseline. The period of time that complex life has existed on the planet should be enough to convince...

The length of human existence is irrelevant. If the **** genus had been around 20 million years would it change anything about what’s happening now? 200 million years? Using only the data that makes your point in the strongest possible way is called intellectual dishonesty. I didn’t “ignore”...

Maybe bring down booties to change into while standing around? I have a pair of Western Mountaineering Flash booties that are more like insulated slippers, with only 1/4” of foam in the sole, but my feet are toasty warm at 10F standing or sitting outside in them even with a couple inches of snow...

As I said, going solely by the graph we have a time frame cherry-picked to make a point. Believe it or not, most people are intelligent enough to know when they’re being given cherry-picked data with the intent of making them come to a certain conclusion. Why not graph something like CO2 levels...

Find a cheap pair of insulated snow pants and cut the legs off just below the knee. Hem the tops and sew on cinches, sew in zippers on the outside seams, and rivet fixed biothane foot straps at the bottom if necessary.

The first-world countries had to invent everything from scratch as they went along. The better, cleaner stuff is out there now and technology has made it cheaper in the not very long run. LDCs don’t have to reinvent the wheel. China’s oldest car manufacturer, FAW, didn’t make Model Ts when it...

Solely addressing the graph, why would anyone think the last million years mean anything when the planet has been able to support life for 3.8 billion years? 1M years is what, 0.00026% of the planet’s habitable lifetime thus far? It seems to be a pretty big assumption that the ppm of CO2 that’s...

My only experience with VB was wearing Mickey Mouse boots in the army. I hated them. They were warm but unless you were just standing around your feet would sweat like crazy. You had to change socks regularly and dry out the insides of the boots because they were known to cause conditions like...

I agree! 3 Feb 2018.

I’d say the Alta Vias fit very similarly to my 11W Fugitives. A thin liner sock and thick outer, or just a heavy mountaineering sock, leaves just enough room to wiggle my toes with no pressure on the sides of my feet. They’re insulated with “Gore-Tex Insulated Comfort”, which I’d never heard of...

Sealskinz socks with issue wool socks and jungle boots were very warm in the German winter when I was stationed there from 92-95. Nothing like my Danner Ft. Lewis boots, but good to the mid-teens if moderately active and you didn’t mind a little tingling. Not very good in armored vehicles...

Down to maybe 20F with not too much snow I can wear my uninsulated leather hikers, but I switch to my down booties once camp is set up. Otherwise either my Oboz Bridger 8” 200g, Bridger 10” 400g, or Sorel Conquest 400g. The Conquests are only slightly heavier than the 10” Bridgers and just feel...