Field notes
Route conditions, gear teardowns and honest accounts of things that did not work. Written by people who use the equipment, not by a marketing department.
The hardest part of retiring a harness is that it still looks fine. Here is what actually determines its life, and how to make the call without guessing.
A jacket that has stopped beading is almost always dirty, not dead. The fix takes about three hours and costs less than twenty dollars.
A November traverse that went from t-shirt to horizontal sleet in about forty minutes. Notes on what we carried, what we used, and what we would change.