06-03-2006, 09:19 AM
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Steep and CHeap - Black Diamond Pack
Just picked this up on www.steepandcheap.com for 39.76, great deal !
Black Diamond's ultralight Speed alpine pack is constructed from lightweight and tough 210-D SilNylon. The Speed has the perfect capacity and features for traveling light and fast over snow and ice. Designed to be worn climbing, the Speed's narrow profile keeps it away from your arms as you climb. Stripped down to the essentials, the Speed offers firmer padding all around, a removable foam bivy pad, adjustable side ski straps and ice axe holders. The Speed is a hard-core summit pack for speed alpinists and summit mountaineers needing a minimalist rig to make that final push.
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I think this is a killer deal, has everything you need for 1-2 night stay in the backcountry, but remember it has no sleeping bag compartment, so it will have to be strapped below the pack.
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06-03-2006, 04:35 PM
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Can't go wrong with that price, I really just don't need any more packs though... It's a nice minimalist design. Big fricken deal about lack of sleeping bag compartment!?! I never use them anyhow. My summer down bag is about 1/2 the size of those compartments any how...
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06-03-2006, 06:45 PM
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Nice deal. I need another pack like I need another hole in my head.
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06-03-2006, 07:48 PM
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Nice deal. I need another pack like I need another hole in my head.
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You never know when you'll need a whole nother head.
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06-04-2006, 06:02 AM
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While that may be a great pack for the price, I envision you bailing off an easy route and blaming the weight of the pack. Straight up, I have beef. What the **ck right do you have to masquerade around as a person in the know. Do us all a favor and stop being something you're not. Take the fam up, that is perfect excuse for not getting it done.
You are a joke, grow something that might look like a set.
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06-04-2006, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Ispoiler
While that may be a great pack for the price, I envision you bailing off an easy route and blaming the weight of the pack. Straight up, I have beef. What the **ck right do you have to masquerade around as a person in the know. Do us all a favor and stop being something you're not. Take the fam up, that is perfect excuse for not getting it done.
You are a joke, grow something that might look like a set.
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huh? 
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06-04-2006, 09:45 AM
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Huh? I don't get the relevance of that either.
Somebody needs to go get some turns right away...they're Jonesin real bad....
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06-04-2006, 10:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Ispoiler
Take the fam up, that is perfect excuse for not getting it done.
You are a joke, grow something that might look like a set.
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O so now I see where the negative feed back came from, when I posted the pic of chute.
Direct quote from Ispoiler: your a joke, sell your skis
Dont know where the beef is comming from. And I should have to explain why I went up the the bowl with out my skis this time, and you shouldnt have a problem with it, it dosent consern you.
But I will sense you feel so strongly against the fact I didnt bring my skis but my family.
First off, I decided not to bring the skis cause I wanted to spend time with my wife that I usually dont see often cause I work my ass off.
Second, I already hit the bowl early april fools weekend with 2 days of skiing, sorry you missed the TR. I didnt want to be selfish. This was my wife's first time up in the bowl sense she dosent ski and I didnt want to run off for an hour of so and leave her just sitting there.
Third, I may not know everything, but I know enough to keep myself safe, and have commen sense to not do things above my ability, and deciding on a pack is one of them. Sorry you have more expierence than I and you wear it like a badge to knock others who dont.
I never had a problem with you ever, and I'm honestly shocked your pissed I didnt ski the bowl last week. And if its an expierence thing, remember you had to start somewhere too, you wernt born with the knowledge you have today.
Thanks Ispoiler for your words of discouragement.
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06-04-2006, 01:40 PM
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I can be man enough to admit to some alcohol induced flaming and apologies. It was a good find and I should have left it at that.
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06-06-2006, 11:07 AM
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It's been a while since there has been a good flame war on this site...
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06-06-2006, 02:17 PM
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It's been a while since there has been a good flame war on this site...
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Lets start one......Im kinda bored.
Screw YOU JOLLY J and your Cannuck Ways!!!!!
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06-06-2006, 02:57 PM
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Wait! Let me get dressed.
OK. I'm ready.
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06-06-2006, 03:05 PM
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Lets start one......Im kinda bored.
Screw YOU JOLLY J and your Cannuck Ways!!!!!
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Uh oh..... things are gonna get  around here!
Way to defend yourself NTrenT! I think you did the right thing with the fam.... now she has a clue as to why you like TUX so much and will likely let you go more often. I would call that long range planning.  Good deal on that pack.... I thought hard about getting one and say what Sledman says.
Me thinks that Ispoiler hasn't been gettin' it lately... know what I mean? 
Itchin' for a fight but no takers..... a little frustrating, eh?
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06-06-2006, 03:26 PM
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Like a lot of gear, I have more than I need, but not all I want.
I actually had a summit pack made by TNF, (Smaller cube, I think). I found it so bare bones and small, it was hard to use for anything but a summit or side trip. I had bought it for short change to use as a patrol pack, it found a new, more deserving home on E-bay and I had some $$ to feed the Sledhauler-hauler.
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06-06-2006, 04:05 PM
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I'm pissed off, because when I saw "Black Diam....", I was hoping for a deal on some flicklock poles.
NtrentT, what the f***!
....Bored.....
I wouldn't mind having some of what ISpoiler is drinking right now - must be high-test.
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