Whoo Hoo....new gear!

“You purchased a bib, Tango?

Are you really that sloppy when you eat???”

“A note on tango - I should take a page out of her book of friendliness. I was impressed with the ease with which she would strike up a conversation with other folks that were there.”

“Buddur, A smile from me! Yea I bought a bib being around you guys all this time! The drool was getting out of hand. REALLY!! Insulated bib pants, for 17 bucks couldn't pass them up.

Thank you Coop very nice compliment.”

“bibs and a sleevless top...ohh lala you sexy thang!

Miss Opie got mad when i forgot to post my latest gear score.

She got me the new Garmin Geko 301

I'm still playing with it and trying to figure it out.”

“looky what I found, when I woke up....

Yesterday, I went to St Louis to the ball game, I fell asleep, and when I awoke, I was in REI. I was gonna buy a 2 liter platypus, which I talked myself out of and was heading out the door, when I saw a dude leaving with boots with the infamous RED tag...red tag=garage sale stuff...I turned around, bonked myself on the head with the door handle...fell into a swoon...and stumbled onto the garage sale section...There was not much left, a candle lantern without the glass (i have a new glass), a pack towel (never been used) and as I turned to leave, a dude pushed a large laundry basket up in front of me saying OOOPs, we forgot to put this out...I pawed through it and found...are you ready for this???

#1 a mountain Hardware phantom 32 800 down fill bag...store demo...never been used...$100.00 reg 255.00

#2 North Face Boulder 33 tent...store demo...never been used...$99.00 reg 329.00.

When I came to in the car, this gear was in the back of my truck and away I went...

woo hoo...NEW GEAR!!!

The NF tent will replace my old canoe tent that don't keep ya dry, and the bag...well...heck...one can never have too many sleepy bags...nor tents...now I own 7 tents and a 3 sleepy bags and 4 backpacks and loads of other stuff...good times ahead in the new canoe tent.”

“got a pair of $35 toddler's size 8 Nike ACG trail runners at the baby resale store - for $4! too big for baby now, but by the time he can wear 'em he'll be ready to walk with mama.”

“7 TENTS?!!

Damn boy, how do you do it? I have only one of everything except now I have 2 tents (one person and 2 person) and I dont have a lot of gear yet! (no stove or filter, I just always borrow or do with out)”

“got me the north face flight pants for only $80. Regular price $169

they made out of North Faces' Hyvent material. Waterproof and breathable. Zippers on both sides all the way up, so perferct for mounteneering.

ahhh, I think I just found a tick on me....”

“you pull the tick off, I'll suck the venom out, if its in a good location...hehehehe

Free...I'm the Missouri gear slut.”

“$26
goretex pant  so what do you think? like the color? to
bright??
”

“Goretex and Lime Green!

The TT Elders will approve!”

“yeah, and that's not all: only 4 oz! can't go wrong. Now lets hope it really is goretex and 4 oz.”

“Got myself a new fleece- Aircore 200 from lands end...I get a good discount on it cause I sell the damn stuff. Its a new kind of fleece supposed to be really good in snow and rain- extra warm, very compresseble, wont pile in the wash. PLUS they have it sized for petites also so I got one that actually fit (dont other outdoor wear companys understand the concept of petite sizes? SHEESH)”

“I got an 8’x10’ sil-nylon tarp. Can’t wait to try it out.”

“Good buy! I love our siltarp, except when the mosquitos are eatting me alive, lol.”

“"Good buy! I love our siltarp, except when the mosquitos are eatting me alive, lol."

I thought about picking up one of those nets from Binks for next summer. Didn't TBull have one on your last trip? Did it look good?”

“Kohls is selling the Columbia summer hats for $2.25! It's real light nylon on top and mesh on the sides. Quick drying and cool.”

“#10 Dutch oven, for my canoe kitchen collection.”

“Just bought the Marmot Angelfire for the BOSS. It was on sale at REI. Hope she likes it.”

“Nikon D100 with two extra batteries (EN-EL3s).

6.1 megapixels. Oh Yeah!



This camera enables you to get pretty close to slide film emulation too. 8) 8)”

“how do u post pictures with a post?”

“Mat our beloved webmaster doesnt like it when you take up his precious bandwidth with big honkin pictures in the threads....

see the html thread for the how too...”

“i don't have any pictures to post in the threads, i was just curious, cause i didn't see any button on how to upload a picture onto it.”

“Tekdude that has got to weigh a bunch.

nice camara”

“Yeah, it's about the same as my N80 SLR. Except I don't have to carry around all that slide film now. 8)

When you've got it on your harness and you're on mile number 10, it does begin to feel like a brick.”

“ScorchFire -

Having your own website really makes it easiest. With your ISP, you probably have something like a 10MB web space provision. So you could transfer images you want there and then set up image links to display them here as desired. There's a specific HTML statement you place in this message box in order for that image to be displayed from your web site. It goes like this...

[img border="0" src="http://www.digitaldrifter.org/cam.jpg" width="140" height="105"]

Just replace "[" with "<" and "]" with ">". Then, plug in your source reference from your web site. In this instance, it's "http://www.digitaldrifter.org/cam.jpg". This is the URL address normally found in you browser's address bar. You can size the image however you want by declaring a width and height. Or, just leave these blank for original sizing.

This is what that statement does:



Have fun.”

“Wow sounds easy enough, thanks for the tip!”

“goretex cabelas parka jacket on ebay for $15.50.
Thought if it's too heavy for me one of my kids can wear it on a hike.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2860269559&category=15677”

“Nikon D100 gives pictures pretty close to slide film?!?!? With all the gizmos on that thing, it looks like you're getting pretty close to 'photo-god-king!' Pretty impressive!

By 'two extra batteries' do you mean Sears 'Die-Hards?"”

“sheesh, tekdude - i dodn't think it was possible for your pictures to get any better, but i guess they will. wow, that's a heck of a camera.”

“When you turn in on, it's like this finely tuned instrument building to unleash some kind of depth charge. And when you hold it, the testosterone tends to surface. 8)

It's got a tactical caliber kind of look and feel too. And from tinkering around today, it's rather obvious what it's capable of. The photo quality is hand over mouth type of material.”

“Here's a link to a site where a guy reaches for Slide emulation.

Check out these samples.”

“Tarbubble -What a nice thing to say.

If it begins to take the heart out of the images, even though quality improves, it'll be abandoned in a hurry. Sometimes you need to keep things simple.”

“I wouldnt worry about losing the heart of it, Photography is and always will be both art and talent - The gear can only limit what you do with your talent. (god forbid you and pennsy should ever go on a tt trip together :)”

“Woohoo, that's awesome Tek! Congrats on going the digi SLR route. What lenses will you be using with that slick puppy?

How will you be carrying it? I use a LowePro TLZ AW with the chest harness, and it works out quite well.”

“Woohoo at me! I used my REI member 20% coupon and ordered a pair of Koflach Degre plastic mountaineering boots for $204.

Pennsy”

“Uh oH, Look out Presidentials!

ON BELAY...

FALLING!

Using a lightening-quick Munter hitch on his axe driven deep into the snow, sirpete saves Pennsy from certain death... and not a scratch on those new boots!”

“Killer camera Tek. Are you a Nikon dude or is this your first? Are your lenses interchangeable with 35mm? I am looking at the Canon 10D.”

“That Cannon is Sweet I hope the price keeps coming down!”

“They've come out with the 300D already but I haven't heard all good things about it. It's lighter though.”

“Having been a Canon guy, I made the switch to Nikon a few years ago to the N80. For a long time it was a Canon SLR, then I went to point-and-shoot, then Nikon SLR, back to digital point-and-shoot, and now digital SLR. Hmm.. wonder what's next.

The lense mostly in use is a 28mm-120mm Nikkor. There's also a 35mm-80mm lens for less weight.

Here are some more photos I took of the camera: Nikon D100

Photos of my camera. Yeah, I know, something's wrong with me. That's okay though, my kids still love me. 8)”

“By the way, after signing for the camera, the guy at the counter said they were flying off the shelf.

Had a hard finding someone that stocked 'em too.”

“A hard time, that is.”

“Supposedly, the Canon EOS-10D gives you an impressive 650 photos on one Lithium battery. You'd need few compact flash cards for that. Probably compatible with 1GB cards.”

“"Photos of my camera. Yeah, I know, something's wrong with me. That's okay though, my kids still love me. 8)"
tekdude


LOL! It's fun to see someone else super excited about their new gear.”

“Off to REI! I am stopping there on my way to Maine with a shopping list. Lets see;
Gloves
Hat
Down booties
Micro Fleece Shirt
2x Platy.5 liter
Snow Peak Coffee Mug

I'm glad REI is a 2 hour drive away from me.”

“I LOVE Moonstone gear. When I saw this puppy:


http://www.rei.com/online/store/ProductDisplay?storeId=8001&catalogId=40000008001&productId=47671668&parent_category_rn=29442975


.... I couldn't resist. Cool thing...my wife requested that I place my order today, instead of yesterday....GOOD THING! because today, it dropped another 20 bones to it current price.....WOOOO HHHOOOOO



I now have everything I need for hiking.......;)”

“You'll NEVER have everything you need for hiking! **giggle**”

“I know...it's the thing I say to my wife before/after every gear purchase......:)”

“DAGNABBIT!!!

I've been looking for some insulated pants for incamp winter hikes and wound've purchased a pair of these immediately IF they had them in my size. Only S and XL are left...Ugh!

STP had the CIrrus jacket onsale and if I didn't already have a MH Chugach jacket I would've got the Cirrus.”