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Glad the trip was good depsite the baggage blooper!

On the way to Italy our bag of gear didn't make it to our final destination, thank goodness we did . Lucky for us we had a few days until we needed it in the mountains. It was great not having to lug a heavy rolling duffle onto the Vaporatto or throught the streets and steps of Venice after flying all night on a wedding hangover. It was great to see our bag sitting the front desk later that night, I smiled at the thought of the courier lugging that thing from the airport to our hotel.

You can always try to carry on, just be prepared to check it at security or the gate. Pre 9/11 I carryed on an ice ax to Portland. They wouldn't let me do that flying out and I got escorted back to the ticket counter to check it, the security guy carried the ax for me.

As said before 50 lbs domestic, 70 lbs international some places will let you slide others pitch a fit and then charge you. Leaving Lex for Hurricane Ivan last fall the local guy let me slide, coming back from Mobile they gave me no love and charged me for an overweight bag.

They spank you really hard for the extra weight too. I made a total ass of myself at the ticket counter when the atendent wanted to charge me for being 7 pounds over weight on 1 of my pcs of luggage. Without giving it a thought I told her that the airlines should charge passengers by the pound and charge for the total weight of luggage and personal body weight................at the end of my coment I noticed she was at least twice my weight (and she was shorter then me!

Yeah my bag was like 25 lbs over and they charged me 80 something bucks. At least I was able to expense overweight baggage in the other column on my expense report.

But isn't it easier to enter the mile high club if you've got a cam in your bag?

This past weekend, J-Rock and I learned of a new word that you couldn't say at the airport: "CRASHPAD".

Airline Rep: What are these things?
Jared: Crashpads.
Airline Rep: WHA?!?
Karla: For climbing.

Another piece of advice, do not carry dynabolt gold in carry-on bags.

And don't hesitate to shave that full beard unless you like to be "randomly" searched all the time.

squeezindlemmon wrote:This past weekend, J-Rock and I learned of a new word that you couldn't say at the airport: "CRASHPAD".

So how difficult is it to get a crashpad on a plane? I'm coming home from California for the Holidays (read Christmas at home and New Years at Horse Pens with the OSU folks), and I'd like to bring mine with me. Is it worth the effort, and if so, what sort of precautions do y'all recomend for protecting it from baggage handlers? Thanks.

I took my Misty Highlander out to AZ last year and there was no problem. I taped an info sheet that had my name and address on it as a CYA move. I also cinched it tight and tucked all the loose webbing inside of it.

This year is the Magnum. That will be interesting...

We took two pads(1 magnum and 1 metolious), to Font and had very little hassle. Well other than them mislocating our pads and backpacks for a few hours.

I think the solution is.....sadly....drive!

OR I am going out to yosemite and have family in CA. I am going to ship my gear there....yeah it will cost me some pennies but hey I would rather still HAVE my gear and not risk any of the airplane security crap.