pah! Bloody merkins. He's clearly basing his views on a 2-week trip to 'cham, or perhaps a weeks skiing...Or maybe he's just sulking because his lardy gut won't fit into a nice grey buffalo jacket :-)
Even in France, outside of the big skiing areas, gondolas are not that common - try going to the Ecrin, for example.
And then there's the mistaken belief that there are no mountains in Europe outside the Alps - if you want serious, how about some of those Norwegian big walls, or the various big & remote mountain ranges in Eastern Europe.
It's true that in terms of distance from the road-head, Scotland has a way to go before it beats Alaska, but in terms of grimness of weather it's not that far off, and all the helicopters in the world are precicely no use at all when it's blowing 100mph on the tops.
He does have a point that some of the 'continental' gear is a bit on the feeble side, but then exactly the same is true of lots of US kit. And as for the remark about not having clear-view windows in european tents...well, that just about says it all.( I don't need a window to see that it's still raining
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Posted: 08/02/2001 at 14:29
