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My guess is its not 100% effective. Factor in this loss, the energy to make ice and boil water, and the time I could have spent drinking, and it’s a net loser for me.

Hurley chillin' and Hurley working.
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Indeed. For my part I apologize for any escalation of the debate. It is simply frustrating that people can put extraordinary effort into training a dog and still be held accountable for other owners'...

And here I thought you were moving on -sigh-

Goods solution - it works wonders on the trail too.

Actually, it is you how presuming that your right to 'enjoy the trail without my unleashed dog on it' trumps my right to 'enjoy the trail with my unleashed dog on it'. My position is we can both...

You also have every right to read a book, educate yourself on the way dogs communicate, and get counseling for irrational fears. I would tell you that you should, but unlike you I typically don't...

Fiddleback, you may want to scroll up and read the description of the logical fallacy 'misleading vividness'. If you still choose to leash your dog all of the time go right ahead, but you can't make...

Because feeling threatened and being threatened are not synonymous. Because non-lethal and non-violnt are not synonymous.

In the rare instance you are actually threatened, by all means defend...

As I said, your phobias (and by extension your wife's) are not my problem. If you look back through the thread you will see that my original post was along the lines of 'I go out of my way to...

See, now isn't that a mush better solution than 'I'd happily dispatch you'?

Description of Misleading Vividness

Misleading Vividness is a fallacy in which a very small number of particularly dramatic events are taken to outweigh a significant amount of statistical...

My dog isn't your problem and your phobia isn't my problem.

yeah, someone bought the 'kit' for me as a gift. I wasn't impressed (by the kit, not the gift). About the only useful thing in it was the piece of plastic to keep the mouth open. I couldn't believe...

I would say hello, but apparently we are misanthropes.

Thinly veiled circumstantial argumentum ad hominem - nice.

Darn Tough

For those concerned with weight:

I am willing to bet the water absorbed in a soggy pack weighs more than a pack cover. A typical pack cover weighs 4oz, thats only half a cup of water. Your pack...

I roll it up and synch it down with a cheap nylon strap.

I use a 3 litre bladder and carry a klean kanteen as well. I'd lose it without the bladder. I take frequent small sips especially when ascending. I can't imagine not having it. Perhaps it's mostly...

I found the thermarest stuff sack to be useless. You pretty much have to use a steam roller to get the pad small enough to fit into it. I gave up and bought a couple of nylon straps with clip buckles...

All dogs should be leashed some of the time.
No dog should be leashed all of the time.

And this good one.

Well, I went out and bought the platypus zip zl because I am impatient. It looks superficially the same design as the hydrapak, but it is not really reversible. It has a wide mouth with a zip lock...

It's time to replace my camelbak bladder, which has developed a small leak. One thing that has always frustrated me with it though is how hard it is to dry out. I decided to invent the reversible...