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I always wear the thickest socks Smartwool makes with my boots. I don't have particularly sweaty feet. (all my sweat pours down my forehead!) I've never...

Yeah, we've got a facility on both. The atmospheric observatory on Mauna Loa came long before anything up on Mauna Kea. They do a variety of stuff up there. It's interesting to walk around MLO and...

The ammunition of choice when I was a kid was taconite pellets collected from the railroad tracks. Apparently those taconite trains are pretty leaky.

Yeah, stock up on some replacement blades and screens at the same time. In a couple years you'll have to mail-order them.

Has anybody tried passing the dark hours hunting around for signals with a shortwave radio? :) I should fire mine up again one of these days...

I've never used a blade in my life, since I got that Remington as a present before i had anything resembling a whisker yet. When I lived in Boulder a few years ago there was a barber shop where...

The short answer is yes they work. The long answer is that there is a WIDE range in quality. In the old days you could get a $50 Norelco or Remington and it would do the job fine. My first...

South Point....heh, yeah if you want your windows smashed by the weirdos down there. :D

That hasn't changed. The real reason for that is nothing to do with Saddle Road, which is a perfectly good road, but rather is due to the fact that they don't want their cars driven on the mountain...

Mhhhh...what they're doing to the road is a sore spot with me. Colossal waste of money, straight from the Federal teat. The new road has reduced wilderness access, and only serves people who don't...

Strawman. Might as well condemn boots because they don't make your coffee in the morning. But, uh, what does that have to do with why we wear boots?

Except for invasive species, which should be exterminated on sight.

Um, are you talking about "moonstone" or something else?

They did good by me. I needed a backpack overnight, which is routine on the continent but a really rare occurance in rural Hawai'i. I called up and talked to an actual warm-blooded biped, stressing...

Now there's a lame 'old wives tale', if I've ever heard one.

I should say, the old trails and roads are in place, it's just a matter of creating (legal) access.

That's one for a dawn start. It's best to go when there's still snow cover at the summit caldera, since it smooths over the terrain. However, the sunburn factor is increased 10x. Once you've been...

Hey, this is another good chance to plug the dream of the Mauna Loa Trail System:
http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/hawaii/projects/index.html

Hopefully someday...

Most of the island's roads aren't paved, though the average tourist never gets to the good stuff where you can really use 4WD. 4WD could make it an entirely different experience for the adventurous,...

The summits start out stiff as well, but once it settled into the right shape it wasn't stiff anymore.

Dang, I forgot this forum has the bizarre disability that you can't edit posts. Anyhow, I should clarify that I have the Alico Summits. Also, I hear that the sizes are UK sizes. My main comment is...

OK, I just skimmed over the pissing contest and now I'd like to comment on the boots. I am glad to see that the Alico boots are back in supply. Leather inside, leather outside, and beautiful all...

That would depend entirely on the situation you're headed into.

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After seeing how much smaller and easier down packs I switched, pronto.