I spent the weekend driving back and forth between Salt Lake City and Park City, stuffing my face with food, drooling over various camping/hiking this and thats and meeting the great people that I've been emailing with over the past few years of this Cold Splinters thing. It was an exciting couple of days.One thing I didn't anticipate was the baby/puppy effect that my Vasques (not the Sundowners, but the pair pictured above in their original Ebay glamour shot) were going to have while walking the floor at OR. As much as I really don't want to admit that or even recognize it, it was pretty amazing how many people started conversation with me because of those boots.You'd think that if a pair of boots had such an effect on a group of campers/hikers/guys with kilts/nerds, then maybe a certain company would bring some old models back into their mix...