I've used it's predecessor some for sea kayaking. Haven't played with it for whitewater.

Unfortunately most of those need the adjustability of hiking poles, so they won't work well with break down paddles.

In a shipping container hooked to a satellite dish.

Gore-tex and other membranes are hidden behind face and liner fabrics (except for the 2.5 layer constructions where the liner is printed on).

but you can call me Bob.

Yes to the passport card if you live in a boarder state and keep it in your wallet. Also good if your state's drivers license is a common fake (try using a Maine license in Mass...).

I had some 12 and 13 year old campers who had never left the 15 mile long peninsula that we lived on. By the end of the summer I had at least gotten them to New Hampshire, up Katahdin, and were the first ones to see the sun rise in USA one day.

Try a whitewater kayaking shoe like the Astral Buoyancy Brewer. Grippiest thing I've found yet for wet rock, drains and breaths well.

This seems like the perfect place for the story of the Bear of Chimney Pond.

If you can be sure that the plow is not going to come back. Get your parents (if you are 10) or yourself to block it off with a car or something.

For Springs to Summit it's just as fast (maybe even faster for Breck).

Also FYI, the plow drivers aren't allowed to carry tow chains or straps in Park County, but will gladly give you a yank if you've got your own. (I never went outside of the lines, just the windbuff was strong enough to lift my car off the road in one spot, everywhere else was powder)

No, but it is fun getting to the top of a pass (like Hagerman) in a Volvo 960 wagon, and having a couple of gas exploration guys ask about road conditions in their company lifted F350. Their faces when they turn around a couple of miles later (the way in which you came) and head back the direction in which they came…

Some of those things I learned from CO Springs drivers.

At least most Subaru's do. It's a lot more even distribution of force when going around the corner than just standing on the break and waiting for that system to balance things out.

Watch the forecast

There's not enough sunblock for him to deal with the lack of atmosphere up there.

Yes. No. Yes. That was a mistake.

Good to see that despite the fact they are stranding people on Greenland, the prison system does have some standard for cruel and unusual punishment.

The efficiency of movement in climbing/alpinism has gone way up in the last 10 years.