Mountain Kilt

The ultimate in trail comfort: chamois-lined, conical waist, durable quick-dry fabric and plenty of pockets compliment our rugged, hiking kilt.

MSRP: $50.00

Usage		Backcountry
	Weight		0 lbs, 5 oz /142 g
	Body		Canyon Cloth™
	Lining		Micro-Chamois™

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“Dr. Franklin is credited by the Boston Journal of Chemistry, March 1883, with the discovery of a sanitary or curative agent called the air bath.”

The Air Bath

Sun-baths, light-baths, and air-baths are collectively referred to by Rikli, Monteuius and others as the atmospheric cure. The literature on the subject is so confused that one often has difficulty in determining which bath is being considered. I have tried to avoid this ambiguity of language.

One cannot take a sun-bath or light-bath without also receiving an air-bath, but the air-bath may be taken in one’s own room, or in the darkness of night. It does not depend on the presence of light. It consists simply in exposing the nude body to the air.

Dr. Trall considered the air-bath as admirable in cases of scrofula, rickets, and other conditions. Rikli declared: “Man is made to live in the open air; therefore when exposed to the action of light, air and sun, he is in his real element. As a natural agent, water takes only an inferior place, above it comes air, whilst light takes precedence over every other natural agent, and is the greatest essential wherever organic life exists. The nervous system which is an inherent principle of our organism is acted upon by light, especially through the skin. The purposes of the air treatment is the strengthening of the skin by restoring its natural functions and vitality and elasticity it has absorbed from its primitive state when directly in contact with the skin.”

Saleeby quotes the French students as saying, “Baths of water are good, baths of air are better, baths of light are best.” This is but a shortening of Rikli’s statement above.

Benjamin Franklin was in the habit of taking air baths each morning in his room. He made some efforts to induce others to adopt the practice and speaks highly of the benefits he derived therefrom. Franklin particularly desired to divest himself of all clothing when doing mental work. Adolph Just, of Germany, also lays great stress on the air-bath.

Air playing over the body may increase metabolism fifty per cent in ten minutes. Thyroid extract, medicine’s only claimed stimulant of metabolism, is said to require a year to accomplish this same thing. An air-bath of twenty minutes duration reduces the hydrogen-ion content of the blood to normal. No drug method known can do this in any length of time.

Dr. Leonard Hill showed that “a high cooling power not only increases the heat production of the body during exposure, but raises the basal metabolism to a higher level. The fire of life is made to burn faster.” Together with Sir Henry Gauvin he made a careful examination of children at the Treloar Hospital, Alton, and Hayling Island, and concluded that the high metabolism, produced equally in pigmented and unpigmented children, was due to the cooling power of the air, and not to radiation.

Halstead attributed the results achieved in bone and glandular tuberculosis solely to fresh air. S. Bangs, who has had much experience with both the air-bath and the sun-bath, believes that the air-bath is the most beneficial of the two. Prof. J. Dollinger (Budapest) says that it is impossible to decide whether open air or sunlight plays the most important role in the healing processes in tuberculosis.

Arringer-Cherkoff says: “All painter’s models, especially those who on account of their fine figures are in constant demand for sittings and consequently are naked the greater part of the day, soon acquire a fresh rosy tint of the skin, their figures improve, and in a few weeks from the time they take up their occupation enjoy far better health than formerly.”

As soon as people realize that sun and air-baths are more important than water-baths, all of our cities will have public sun-parks where the people may go and take their sun and air-baths.

Air baths, accompanied by gymnastic exercise, which are more pleasantly practiced in a state of nudity, will do much to add to the health of everyone. They will also harden one and make him or her more resistant to weather changes. It is a good thing to train oneself to resist an exaggerated dread of cold.

The weak and debilitated person must use due caution in beginning air bathing. Everything must be in proportion to capacity and that of chronic patients or of those troubled with nervous disorders is often very limited. In such cases the first few baths must be short ones. It frequently happens that delicate and sensitive patients . cannot endure more than three minutes at the beginning. Their hyper-sensitiveness must be taken into account and duly respected.

The air bath should be pleasant and if it is taken progressively will prove to be so. Its duration must depend on the temperature and on the condition of the patient. The patient must not be permitted to chill. Should chilling occur, no time should be lost in securing proper warmth.

If blind enthusiasm has caused the beginner to prolong the bath too long, fatigue may be experienced during the day, or discomfort may be pronounced and the patient may suffer from excessive weariness, varied by aches and pains in the head or back, accompanied by slight feverishness.

No time is more convenient for the air bath than immediately upon arising in the morning, while one goes through his or her daily exercises. Air baths a la Franklin may be taken by the vigorous and healthy without the above precautions.

Thousands of people enjoy their daily air bath, even in the most inclement weather. Don’t say “Oh! but they are used to it.” Get used to it! You can then withstand the weather changes with the same ease that they do.

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Idiocity, pure and simple. After the record avalanche dangers of the recents weks . . . the backcountry deaths and accidents from slides and they want to save a little bit of money and close the premier source of avalanche information?

Below is a recent posting from WTA’s online blog called The Signpost.

Posted by Andrew Engelson at Jan 25, 2008 02:40 PM

I meant to blog about a recent Seattle P.I. article on funding cuts to the Northwest Avalanche Center, and I’m just now getting around to it. To sum it up: it’s crazy that the center is possibly faced with closure. Remember, this season is on pace to be Washington’s most deadly avalanche season in modern times. Nationally, too, deaths from avalanches are way up.

The NW Avalanche Center is an absolutely crucial resource for safe winter recreation, whether you cross-country ski, snowshoe, or snowmobile. Its daily reports offer critical advice. With even better funding, it could offer more specific, targeted reports.

What’s on the table isn’t expansion but the possibility it could be shut down. From Tom Paulson’s article, it sounds like the U.S. Forest Service wants to reduce its commitment to the center because of…you guessed it…lack of funds. Last year, the state legislature provided some stopgap funding to keep the center open, but it’s uncertain if additional funds will come through.

Want to keep this essential safety resource? Find and e-mail your state legislators here. Write the regional Forest Service office here. And contact your Congressional representative and senators Cantwell and Murray and urge them to properly fund the U.S. Forest Service and the Northwest Avalanche Center.

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Goldmyer Hot Springs Cabin - Feb 1st, 2008
Photo by the Caretakers
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From a message posted by BAS in the Goldmyer MSN Group:

Our group of 4 made it to the springs over the Feb. 2-3 weekend but not without an extreme test of endurance. We were able to drive a custom lift, 4-wheel drive jeep into the snow zone and within 13 miles of the cabin before having to pull over. We then skied the remainder of the distance through very deep snow. It took 7.5 hours to ski to the river crossing and 6 hours to get back to the car. This trip was epic and more a test of physical endurance than one of “soaking in the springs”. The 4 of us were all experienced skiers with extensive wilderness-backcountry travel experience and in extremely good condition. We each carried enough gear, food and first aid for a multi-day winter trip into the wilderness. Unless you can ski 12 miles with 60+ lbs. of gear on your back, I do not recommend attempting a trip to the springs at this time. There is also enough new (large) windfall across both the lower and upper roads to make driving impossible. To drive there, plan on several days of cutting and clearing just to get to the locked gate.

Scenic is even in worse shape, snow-wise. I spoke with a friend in Skykomish, Wa (12 west of Scenic HS) and he tells me the settled snow base across the valley and at the same elevation as Scenic is 120″ . . . 10ft. Scenic is on the colder, north facing slope, typically getting more snow. Since that conversation things have just gotten worse with five to six feet more snow.

The snow berms along Highway 2 - Image WA-DOT
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The snow berms along Highway 2 are over 8ft high on average. Roofs have collapsed in Skykomish and a report of trees down across power lines.

Stevens Pass was closed earlier today because of avalanches and wind speeds over 100 miles per hour (yeap, hurracaine force winds at the Pass!) The risk remains high. Much of the 2 mi route up to the hot springs traverses cleared slopes with greater than 40deg slopes, the trigger point for avalanche worries. Added the seesaw warming and cooling temperatures and we have all the ingredients for dangerous conditions in the Stevens Pass area and to a lesser-extent on the slopes approaching the hot springs. As I write right now, the Scenic area is experiencing winter blizzard conditions.

Removing a slide near MP 63 - Image WA-DOT

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Until these conditions improve, please stay away from the springs. The risk is not worth it.

For the latest information on Goldmyer Hot Springs you can visit their website or contact Beth at (206) 789-5631.

The latest information on Scenic Hot Springs is posted here.

Goldmyer Hot Springs Cabin
Feb 1st, 2008
Photo by the Caretakers
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From a message posted by BAS in the Goldmyer MSN Group:

The proposed legislation reads (in pertinent part):

Section 2. Section 800.03, Florida Statutes, is amended to
read:

800.03 Exposure of sexual organs.–
(1)(a)1. Except as provided in paragraph (b), a person who
exposes or exhibits his or her It is unlawful to expose or
exhibit one’s sexual organs in public or on the private premises
of another, or so near thereto as to be seen from such private
premises, in a vulgar or indecent manner, or is to be naked in
public except in any place provided or set apart for that
purpose commits . Violation of this section is a misdemeanor of
the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s.
775.083.

2. Any person who violates subparagraph 1. and who has
twice previously been convicted of a violation of subparagraph
1. or s. 800.02(1)(a)1. commits a felony of the third degree,
punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

(b) A person who exposes or exhibits his or her sexual
organs in violation of paragraph (a) on or within 1,000 feet of
the real property comprising:

1. A child care facility, as defined in s. 402.302, that
is in compliance with the signage requirements of s.
893.13(1)(c);

2. A public or private elementary, middle, or secondary
school between the hours of 6 a.m. and 12 midnight; or

3. A state, county, or municipal park, a public beach, a
community center as defined in s. 893.13(1)(c), or a publicly
owned recreational facility at any time

commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in
72 s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.

Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. Red text is my own emphasis.

To quote from the NAC Alert on this same issue last year:

Section 3. Subsection (7) of section 933.18, Florida
Statutes, is amended to read:

901.15 When arrest by officer without warrant is
lawful.–A law enforcement officer may arrest a person without a
warrant when:

(16) There is probable cause to believe that the person
has unlawfully exposed or exhibited his or her sexual organs in
public in violation of s. 800.03.