Pay me enough and I'll do it to.  Then I get to enjoy the wilderness and get paid for it.  Any Voyageur jobs posted in the want ads lately?

Quote from Jamling Tenzing Norgay (father first climbed Everest with Hillary) in Touching My Father's Soul,  "The porters had insisted that the loads weigh no more than thirty kilograms. After we agreed, some of them promptly doubled up their loads, earning a good week's wages in a morning."

starwatcher

Sherpas are ok & very durable.  Portage monkeys are way cheaper.  Will work for peanuts.

Jimbo   

I get it now, you guys don't understand what a sherpa is, and here I thought you all were being a bunch of smart @sses.

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Here is a cheaper one

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It might have been helpful if you had explained in your initial post that there was an electronic meaning for "sherpa".  I do believe it was new to most of us.   

I, too, googled "sherpa" and didn't come up with anything weather-related.

It looks like a neat item.

How does the the anemometer feature work on this device?  I've taken a small, hand-held one on a past trip or two ... it worked, but not well.  It always seemed to register wind speed substantially lower than actual.  Most other sensors (temp, barometer, etc) were already integrated to another device (e.g., GPS, wrist watch) I was already taking.

dd

starwatcher wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2012 at 6:27pm:


Yep... just as my groups are always kidding about using "portage monkeys."

Fellow smartass, Jimbo   

Definition of sherpa from Dictionary.com:

Show Spelled[sher-puh, shur-]  Show IPA
noun, plural -pas, ( especially collectively ) -pa. 
1. a member of a people of Tibetan stock living in the Nepalese Himalayas, who often serve as porters on mountain-climbing expeditions.
2. ( sometimes lowercase ) an expert chosen by a chief executive to assist in preparations for a summit meeting.


At the time we commented, YOU had offered no explanation of what you were referring to.  The above definition reflects common parlance and is about all we were left with.

I'll allow the quality of the rest of the site speak for itself.  It needs no defense from me.  From my perspective, bigpike, your behavior is a bit thin-skinned.  Spend any time at all on this website & you will encounter some good-natured banter.  I'll also stand on our responses (both of us "smart asses") once you clarified matters.  We thanked you for your inputs & welcomed you.

You are still welcome to post but I am not prepared to accept your criticism of website etiquette.  I am not convinced you have enough experience here to know what you are talking about.

Lurk away.

Jimbo   

Yikes, it seemed to be going well after the initial confusion.
Sorry if it was something I said.

bigpike wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2012 at 9:45pm:


Well, if "peace out" means you are not going to read any more posts, you may not see this, but I guess I want to put in my two cents also.

You were NOT trying to contribute when you called members of this site (not sight, but site) smartasses!  Or said that they did not know what a sherpa is.  We do know what a sherpa is, we just didn't happen to know that there is an electronic instrument that is also called by that name.  Your question didn't explain what you were talking about, and we assumed the common usage and definition of the term, a usage and definition, I might point out, that has been around for centuries.

When I first read your question, after my initial desire to try to correct your usage of there/their in the subject line (which I resisted because I didn't want to be a smartass English-teacher type, by the way  ), I wanted to post a reply saying "huh?"

But I figured someone on this site would know what you were talking about, so I waited to see what responses would come.  And, lo and behold, the first few responses were just what I thought--people thought you were talking about a sherpa to carry your packs!  Go figure!

And how do you respond to their ignorance?  By calling names! 

Thank you for posting the link to the gadget and educating us.  It looks like a fine piece of equipment.  Since my husband and I don't even take a GPS, we probably won't rush out and buy one, but I do like electronic gadgets, so it was interesting to read about it.

This isn't a "professional" type of site.  It is a group of friends and acquaintances who post online to share information about canoeing and the canoe country.

You aren't the only one who is insulted by the "attitude" of someone in this thread.  And I don't just lurk here.  When people insult my friends, sometimes I post, too.

bigpike wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2012 at 12:42pm:

Thanks to you.  I was also unsure.

I tend to get existential about the weather when I'm out there.  There's nothing you can do about it.  May as well enjoy what you can.  Two or three times I've cut a trip short because the weather was so miserable.  It must be very miserable, I've stuck it out through hurricanes & tornadoes & snow & half the trip wind-bound. 


Midwinter bickering is best left for Back To Civ forum.  Every day the sun creeps closer and closer to the equator.

bigpike wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2012 at 9:45pm:

I think we tried that.  It was decided to let the moderators keep their original attitudes.

Smartassing flavors character.  Just like that weather you're talking about.

-YB

I don't know if this is true or not but it is kinda funny:
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