Trekking LAB

Continuing to grow its collection of purpose-built snowsports outerwear for Fall 2006, ARC’TERYX proudly debuts its new SCORPION Jacket and Pant. Built with a warmer and softer GORE-TEX^® Soft Shell High Loft fabric, the new Scorpion jacket and pant maintain maximum comfort for long on-area days and remain regulated while tracking out every last line on the hill.

Combining the highest level of wind and water protection with superior breathability, the new GORE-TEX^® Soft Shell High Loft fabric combines varying degrees of lofty fleece interior with a soft hand exterior. Offering a conforming performance fit with plenty of mobility, GORE-TEX^® Soft Shell High Loft fabric is warmer to the touch and has a quieter feel than traditional waterproof fabrics, making it a more suitable material for resort riding and skiing.

With classic lift-service styling, some of the essential features of the Scorpion Jacket include:

· Adjustable laminated powder skirt

· Recco^® reflector

· WaterTight™ front, pit and pocket zips

· Laminated die cut Velcro^® cuffs

· No-lift gusseted underarms with laminated pit zips

· Laminated quick dry chin guard

· Storm Hood™

· Two hand pockets

· Two internal stretch pockets with laminated zips

Built with the same GORE-TEX^® Soft Shell High Loft fabric as the jacket, the Scorpion Pant is a loose, jean-style pant designed for on-area riding and skiing. It wears clean and comfortably and features laminated powder cuffs, a laminated Kevlar reinforced instep, Recco^® reflector, two thigh pockets, and two-way WaterTight™ side vents in the men’s model.

For more information, please visit www.arcteryx.com

I’m sorry for my bad English, I’m trying to improve it. How you can see I’ve made some changes on the previous post in order to make it less incomprehensible ( I hope!)

Do you use trekking or hiking poles? Some people use them and some people hate them. Here is a list of cases on which I suggest you to use poles:

1. people who have inferior limbs articulations problems, four legs are better then two
2. on snow, they helps to balance yourself
3. hikes with enough unevenness, to decrease the effort when you climb and to protect your knees on the skids
4. when the backpack is heavy, they take the weight off the knees
5. when you trek, walk on for some days could be hard, poles can helps you!
6. instead of use a wood walking stick, poles are less romantic but more useful.

Again the question: do you use them? Feel free to post your answer.

sei casi in cui usare le bacchette da trekking

I’m bogging for two years but it’s only few days I’m trying to post in English and search information in this language. It’s amazing how many resources about trekking and hiking you can find on internet when you switch language. My last discovery was: The WildeBeat - The audio journal about getting into the wilderness. The last podcast is on my iPod now, this evening while I’m driving to come back at home I’ll hear I’m listening it, I hope it’s spoken slowly!

UPDATE: unfortunately in the podcast there was a registered phone call, was very hard to me understand it, probably  my mistake was to download the last one and not the first one!