Eric B wrote:
> Alan wrote:
> >How about a piton hammer?

> I don't think it's a piton hammer, for two reasons. A piton hammer

SWMBO agrees.  Says she's been there, done that and its not a piton.

> My last piton hammer I acquired in a strange way just last summer. I
> was well up the Canwell Glacier in the Alaska Range
...
> -Eric (just say, there's more than one way to acquire old tools,

I'll just stick to the local garage sales, thanks anyway.
Geez, who would have thought that question would enlighten me about 
the Patagonia shirts my niece keeps sending my way.

Gene