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Posted by Bill S on March 28, 2008 at 1:15:45 pm EDT
In reply to Stratagies for protecting backpack as checked luggage? posted by WISam on March 25, 2008 at 9:59:22 am EDT

Strange, I have never seen carabiners made from brass ;)

I assume the pack and bag with climbing/rescue gear was checked? Most of the time, my bags do not get opened when checked, but the times they have been were all when I had sharp tools (crampons, ice tools, ice ax) in the bag that got opened. I don't recall ever having the bag with rope, chocks, cams, carabiners, ascenders, belay devices, etc having been opened (I would know even without the note, since I use the locks with the warning indicator). The times with boots have all been returning from abroad by the agriculture people at Customs when they ran the bags through the Xray and spotted the boots, then asked me to open the bag myself.

Nate, in the Anchorage airport, there is a case displaying confiscated items. It includes several varieties of backpacking stove with the fuel container separate - screw-on canister stove tops, Whisperlite, XGK, and some others. There are a number of ulus as well (http://www.ulu.com/aboutulu.htm) - it has always seemed strange to me that these rather vicious Inuit knives/kitchen tools are sold at souvenir shops right there in the airport, between where you leave the check-in counter and shortly before you get to the security checkpoint.

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