That four feet sideways is a good reminder that wind does not care how much experience you have. I see the same thing on my drive home, people tailgating at 70 in a downpour like the laws of physics take the day off. A gust or a slick road does not announce itself, it just shows up, so the tag line is smart. We keep a 20 mph limit on picks and shut down at 25, and honestly the days we lose are cheaper than the one we might not walk away from.

My ears are apparently just decorative at this point because I missed the same stuff twice. That dollar figure alone probably paid for the tool ten times over.

Used to roll my eyes at stuff like this. Ziploc bags worked fine for years, right? Then I tried the Nalgene thing on a trip last fall and I gotta admit it beat the bag. Mix stays whole instead of turning into crumbs and dust at the bottom. The quiet part matters too, I had a chipmunk practically climb my leg for a bag of gorp once. Now I just shake some into my hand and keep walking. My old bags are sitting in a drawer somewhere.