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12.15.2005

Climbers want your old gear to aid Pakistan

"....The team of four, aided by famed mountaineer Ed Viesturs of Bainbridge Island, are asking all of us outdoorsy Northwesterners to take a timeout from holiday shopping and do an inventory.

Look in the garage, they suggest, for that extra, still-functional, rarely used car camping or backpacking tent. Check the closets in the spare bedroom for those sleeping bags or Gore-Tex parkas whose colors don't quite rate on the hip scale anymore.

Bundle it all up and drop it off at a local REI (find stores)or climbing gym, and it'll be shipped to Pakistan at year's end to provide direct, possibly lifesaving, relief to earthquake victims....."

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