Pool Toy Floatilla Declared a Success
(Note: Do not try this at home, we are trained professionals (and possibly slightly nuts))
The guides at Cascade Raft Company (CRC) experimented with some new pool toys this year on their annual Main Payette Pool Toy Floatilla. The tradition has been a part of the CRC community for the past five years, and this year found its largest following. Most pool toys were able to make it down the entire Main Payette successfully, but there were a few sour apples, most notably the lobsters and alligator pool which did not even last through the first rapid.
Now the smart guys have a chance.
Currently the world record for solving a rubics cube is a hair over 7 seconds by Erik Akkersjijk. Not going to lie...it's taken me longer than that to figure out those damn hooks before. Erik is probably going to be pretty popular with the ladies...assuming they can figure out that last name.
Alite Designs
What would you do after graduating from Stanford Graduate school? If you were Sam Homans, Rob Nail, and Tae Kim, you'd design a better chair. The biggest gripe towards camping chairs is that they're bulky, heavy, and not super comfortable. Homans, Nail, and Kim started Alite Designs to combat all of these. Their design, with it's two legs/feet and cozy looking nylon mesh weighs in at one pound even. They'll be available next spring, just in time for backpacking season.
Bad news on K2.
Very bad news from K2.  After looking around it looks like there is one main story but the number dead and missing changes story to story. The New York Times has and article. Link. There is also updates coming from an Irish climber at the K2 base camp. Link.
Keep them in your thoughts.
Via:Â The Goat.
Vibram Releases New FiveFingers
I've had a pair Vibram Fivefinger Sprints for about a year. I wanted something that would allow me to run "barefoot" without getting annoying things embedded in my feet, like heroin needles. Here is just how awesome the FiveFingers are: I just met a guy who is a contractor in Iraq (the kind with a gun, not the kind that builds houses) who likes to where them around "at work." Apparently the insurgents, stunned by your sheer awesomeness, forget to set off the IED's.
