ARC’TERYX Product Definitions

* Alpha:
Technical focussed high-end items
Goretex hardshell

* Theta:
All Around oriented
Goretex hardshell (Skiing inspired, usally 3 layer Gore) longer cut, powder skirt, waist draw cord and extra chest pockets.

* Beta:
Trimmed down, minimalist
Goretex hardshell (climbing) Cut shorter, with 2 hand pockets

* Fission:
Primaloft Insulated

* Gamma:
Softshell (mostly Polartech Power shield fabric)

* Switchback:
Ultralight Softshell

* Sigma:
Softshell(mostly Gore Windstopper fabric)

* Delta:
Insulation (Mid layer) pieces

* Rho:
Base layers ( synthetic and merino)

* Gothic:
Wool Abbreviations

* SV –Severe– Heavier (tougher) fabric , larger (helmet compatible) hoods
* AR–All Around– usally slightly lighter then SV and more all around features
* LT — Light– Lightweight ,usally XCR ,fewer features
* SL– superlight–Super Lightweight, lightest fabric, minimal pockets or vents
* SK–Ski– only SK item is the Theta SK pants, Great heavy duty bib ski pants
* MX–Mixed– Gamma MX series only, Polartech power shield
* Comp–Composite– Combination of hardshell and softshell
* RT- Rolltop
* M – Mountain
* LS – Long Sleeve
* SS – Short Sleeve

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by arvalond on 2012/01/24  •  Permalink
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About mountaineering

“I wanted always climb as clean as possible. How others climb – it’s their funeral. Nobody has the right to make standards. I’m challanged by the mountains, never seeing mountaineering as a sport.Of course performance is an object, but the own erperience is much more important. Everything’s unfolding and that’s good. In sports, it’s all about “faster, higher, further” – that’s usual But mountaineering has a different nature, it’s living from tradition, out of ethics and romance. Soon also the younger climbers will recognize, that’s not all about technical perfection at climbing – but more about the “How” and the style… I want to feel the nature of the mountains, staying the night at simple cabins and speak with people living in the mountains. I would like to live in the mountains like a simple human marveling to the mountains – I want to eperience about them, not to conquer or win.”

Anderl Heckmair (1906 – 2005)

(I translated the german text on my own – would be happy about every correction from you)

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by arvalond on 2012/01/02  •  Permalink
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confused… being in doubt…

hope my discision was right and gives us a break for a comeback in love :) vs. worry that I loose the love of my live ’cause the ego of both :(

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by arvalond on 2011/12/10  •  Permalink
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dreaming

more than twice the week i’ve dreamt of my dogs… dogs…. or other dogs. a strong connection has been broken away…

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…climbing

went for some routes in the climbing centre after lotsa month. it was great :) live is movement….

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Wanderlust vs. Fernweh

Is it typically german there’s now explanation at de.wikikipedia for the german word “fernweh”?!
Nobody wrote something about this word… this strong feeling until now.

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by arvalond on 2011/11/05  •  Permalink
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Dreaming….

Last night I dreamt about living in finland. I was climbing and hiking :)
I have often a strong desire of wanderlust… cutting the contacts, leaving everything behind to life the only live you have.
But what about my little family and of course my son…

More than two times the week I have dreams about wanderlust….

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Children

“By closing the eyes and slumbering, and consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish and confirm their daily life of routine and habit every where, which still is built on purely illusory foundations. Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.”
H.D. Thoreau

“Indem die Menschen ihre Augen schließen und schlummern und sich von Trugbildern täuschen lassen, stellen sie überall ihr tägliches Leben auf Gewohnheit und Routine ein, und dennoch ist dieses Leben auf reine Illusion gegründet. Die Kinder, die das Leben spielen, erfassen seine wahren Gesetze und Beziehungen besser als Erwachsenen, die es nicht würdig leben können und doch meinen, sie seien weiser durch die Erfahrung, das heißt durch ich Scheitern.”
H.D.Thoreau

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The greek – I LOVE THEM!

What a great idea from the greek government to let the people decide to get the money they throw away! Hope this will break this system down to let something new and better grow up!

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Love

Me and my husky-mix

Arnd & Lugh

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