In reply to restless native:
> Anyone got any shiny new kit ...
Bollocks to shiny new kit! I'm just hoping that my repairs to the old core-shots in my touring skis hold out – mostly.
In lieu of weighing down my pack with shiny new kit, I've started taking pleasure in seeing what sort of inefficiencies I can achieve with stuff that I already own: carrying a full gas-stove-and-coffee-percolator, for example, just to make people jealous when they realise that theirs, from their Thermosses, just isn't the same on the summit.
(Bonus points if anyone has a shiny new Thermos.)
Post edited at 16:54