So what is on your 2011 Christmas wish list?

[rlown]

Some Santa's are AWSOME. congrats! Now you need some stickers for the can..

[fishmonger]

My Santa belongs to the awesome type - he spoiled me with a near new (he does shop for deals, too, I think) pair of alpine touring and winter mountaineering boots, and he even got the size right. What he forgot was to bring some snow, not just in the Sierra, but where I live, too. It has been a ridiculously warm December here and it will continue as far as I can tell from the forecast. The ski hills barely manage to maintain a layer of slush in a place that should have been on average 5F colder over the last 30 days, and 10F colder over the last 7 days.... There were two days with about 1" of snow this year, and that evaporated in a day.

I also got a new foul weather gore tex shell for myself from ebay - down 330 grams from my old ebay jacket. The "alien gekko" color may have been why Santa didn't want to touch it, or why the previous owner let it go unused. It's called the "Beryllium" jacket for a reason, I guess - toxic to the touch