Coming to a Cathlic (or Japanese) school girl near you.
I'm all about things with toes, and I'm all against being able to see socks. I don't know what it is but if I can seem more than a couple millimeters of sock on someone it's to much. Don't even bring up socks with sandals. If I can go a whole winter walking to class through snow in my Chacos you can keep the socks off.
Injinji brings us the EX-Celerator Performance Compression Toesock. A name as long as the sock it represents.
Via: Get Outdoors
Why do I do this to myself?
I asked that question to a gentleman a few hundred feet above Helen Lake on mount Shasta. He did not speak English so she just pointed down the hill and mumbled something in German. I was brutally sick at Helen lake until four in the morning keeping everyone awake. Got a late start because of that and felt pretty decent the rest of the way up. Beautiful day, lots of sun, snow conditions were pretty solid until the afternoon and no wind at the summit. My most painful sunburn is one on my thigh from the car ride home...
I'll try to get some pics and a trip report up later. If you want to do some snow work on a 14k peak without being too technical Shasta's a great one to do it on. We took a guy who had never been past 10k before and he did fine.
I wonder how much SI pays
Little embarrassing my dad knew about this video before me. He walked in with his new copy of SI, had it opened to a pic of Bradt running the falls and told me to go find the video.
Avalanch kills Six in Austrian Alps
Six mountain climbers die in avalanche in Austrian Alps
The group of Czech tourists died as they scaled the 11,500ft Schalfkogel peak near Soelden in the Austrian province of Tirol in stormy weather.
Economy have you down?
Can't afford titanium ten pegs?
Tent Peg Hack
I have used regular tent pegs hundreds of times and have been extremely dissatisfied. A great, simple alternative I've been using the last five years is to wrap or tape up a handful of large screws (8-inch or so) available from any hardware shop. Wood, carriage and tapping screws are slightly heavier than tent pegs, but I've found they slide into the ground more easily, since they have sharper points. They are also cheaper and much easy to find in a pinch. Most importantly, the screws DO NOT BEND! No matter how hard you whack them.
I'm actually not entirely sure what he's saying. Are we using one screw or multiple screwes attached together? I think someons a liiittle desperate for content... and by someone I mean me.
Dang you Rocky I Saw it first... ok maybe I didn't... That's what I get for stealing your blog list.
I’ve always wanted to take a whole Chicken on a back pack trip!
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Doesn't everyone take canned foods on back packing trips? Think about all the luck you're going to have when you strole into that chick camp and pull out a whole canned chicken!
Homestyle Goodness!
Via: Gizmodo
I hope there aren’t humanoid bats down there.
British explorers discover the light at the end of the tunnel... in the world's largest cave
A British caving team believe they have discovered the world's largest cave passage in the heart of the Vietnamese jungle.
The rocky passage is 150metres long and measures a towering 200metres in height - seven times as high as the vaulted ceiling of York Cathedral.