Having gone through plantar fasciitis - which sucks - foot wear took on a more important part of my life. These are the most comfortable shoes I own, and I don't even need to put in my Powerstep or other over the counter ortho-support. I will prob only by Dansko shoes for the foreseeable future. That said, there are two negative aspects to the shoes that knock them down a peg. First, they are hot - but I am hopeful that as whatever coating is on them slowly wears off that the leather will breath, as leather is want to do. Secondly, the exterior of the shoes marks up like crazy when you first get them - then the propensity of the shoe to get scuffed ends up being a benefit and they get that nice, comfy shoe look to them, with scuffs that overlap to the point that it is not noticeable that can still work with an oxford for work. Maybe the scuffs disappear as the coating wears off. The end point being that I would definitely buy these shoes again, wo hesitation.

I'm 200 lbs. and 6'2". My arms are, in the words of my financee, freakishly long (not that I drag them on the ground, but I was a keeper in soccer, too). So I'm used to rolling up my sleeves on most of my shirts since they tend to be too short. I was pleasantly surprised that the large Nuptse jacket that I bought was plenty long on the sleeves for me. I like the cut and fit, too. It is shorter than my previous NF jacket, but not so short to be odd. I found the Mountain Hardware Subzero jacket to be oddly short - like riding up on my navel. Could use a few more pockets on the interior - you are given one giant pocket that runs from your nipple to your waist - so glasses, etc. get all jumbled up. Otherwise perfectly fine.

From the Patagonia website - the jacket has 615g (21.7oz) of fill. I haven't bought the jacket so don't want to rate it; I just wanted to share this info. But apparently I have to rate it...so...uh, I think I'll give it a 5 of 5.

Small blade easily clips on pocket and doesn't groin you in the process. Serrated edge only 1.5cm, or about 25% of blade length. Need 2 hands to open effectively - can open w one, but takes concentration to not slice fingers (at least for me, a normal-sized 6'1" guy. Could thus seriously use open assist like the Tiny Tighe (also have that one). Does the job of a easy clip it and forget it knife. Three stars bc of lack of opening assist - I know one of these days I'm going to slice myself playing w the knife...