The Osprey Soelden Pro 32 combines our favorite overall airbag system in the Alpride E1 with one of our favorite pack designs. It is super comfortable and solid on the way up and the way down. We loved all but a few very small aspects of its pack design and found it to be one of the more versatile models out there. The avy tools pocket is deep enough for larger shovels and probes, and the Alpride system is rechargeable with a USB wall plug, or it can even charge on two AA batteries in the field. We think the Alpride E1 is currently the best and most advanced system on the market, and this pack is among the most comfortable and best performing on the down. It's a respectable weight and we loved nearly everything about this pack.
Our gripes were minor, but we found the stash pocket wasn't super user-friendly. The compression straps need to be unclipped to unzip the main compartment very far. We also didn't like that the zipper is one-way on the main compartment. Overall, though, we love this pack and found it to be the gold standard.
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While we loved nearly everything about this pack, there were a few things that could be improved upon; most notably, the model's hybrid back panel/clamshell design. The Pro X Women's back-panel access is easy to open and close, but like all back-panel access designs, it is hard to maximize volume or pack very full. Mammut saw this and added a semi-clamshell style opening to the pack, which worked fairly well for packing purposes, but it was still harder to access items deeper in the pack without going in through the back panel.
While skiing with heavier loads for hut-to-hut trips, we loved the Backcountry Access Float 42 2.0 and the Black Diamond JetForce Pro, with their sturdy frames and comfortable shoulder straps.
If you love the wide toebox and 0-drop of the Lone Peak, but want the max cushion of the Hoka Shoes, the Altra Olympus is the pick for you. The Olympus packs a massive 33mm of midsole under your feet, and comes with a Vibram Megagrip outsole. The upper is solid, but not the most secure.
I decided to buy the Salomon Sense Ride 4 which is I believe a good choices for the Camino Portugues. I always use high arch insoles in hiking boots and was wondering if I need to use that also in my new Salomon trailrunners or is the standard insole sufficient enough?
Hi Drew,I walked the Frances and coastal Portuguese in my north face hedgehogs. They served me well. I was looking to update as I purchased those for the Frances in 2018! Tried the altra lone peak and was not a fan. I love hoka, but fear the speedgoats would not hold up for the entire Norte? Any suggestions?
In 1947, at the prompting of Cowboy Jack Patton and Johnny Mercer, ahbez approached Nat King Cole's manager backstage at the Lincoln Theater in Los Angeles, handed him a tattered copy of "Nature Boy", and asked him to show it to Cole. However, his pleas were ignored and a disappointed ahbez left the sheet music of "Nature Boy" with Cole's valet, Otis Pollard.[9] From him, Cole learned of the song and loved it. Cole began playing "Nature Boy" for live audiences, and received much acclaim. Irving Berlin, who was present during one of the performances, offered to buy the track from Cole, but Cole decided to record it himself.[10] He needed permission from ahbez, however, before releasing it as a single, but he was unable to find the songwriter since ahbez had disappeared without providing any contact details.[11] After ahbez was discovered living under the Hollywood Sign, Cole got his permission and recorded the song[9] on August 22, 1947, featuring an orchestra conducted by Frank De Vol, who used strings and flute as instrumentation to capture the "enchanting" aspects of the song.
Instrumentalist Chris Tyle noted that the lyrics are a musical self-portrait of ahbez, with the lines like "There was a boy, A very strange, enchanted boy, They say he wandered very far, Very far, over land and sea". But he believed that it was the song's last line that made it the most poignant: "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, Is just to love and be loved in return".[15] Various interpretations of the line are given by academics, with the eponymous nature boy being a child, advising on love and relationship, or an adult hippie talking about his journey and inner-love. According to author Jeffery P. Dennis, the song presented a homo-romantic theme, with the eponymous nature boy visiting Cole on a "magic day" and explaining that "the greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return".[16] Author Raymond Knapp described the track as a "mystically charged vagabond song" whose lyrics evoked an intense sense of loss and haplessness, with the final line delivering a universal truth, described by Knapp as "indestructible" and "salvaged somehow from the perilous journey of life".[17]
According to Joe Romersa, an engineer/drummer in Los Angeles, to whom ahbez bequeathed master tapes, photos, and final works,[18] ahbez wanted a correction made to the lyrics saying "To be loved in return, is too much of a deal, and there's no deal in love.", and that instead it should read "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love, and be loved." Romersa has stated that, because these lyrics did not fit with the original ending melody, ahbez re-wrote it.[19]
"Nature Boy" has received wide acclaim from critics and contemporary reviewers. Author Ted Gioia noted in his book, The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, that all the musicians "who had created the golden age of American popular song had their quirks and idiosyncrasies, but eden ahbez demands pride and place as the most eccentric of them all". He added that, along with promoting the hippie culture, with "Nature Boy", ahbez and Cole were able to introduce a new era for black artists in white popular music.[30] In his book, Sinatra! the Song is You: A Singer's Art, author Will Friedwald complimented Cole's version, saying that it had been the "startingly fresh" combination of the singer's vocals along with the string section, which had made "Nature Boy" a hit.[20] Stephen Cook from AllMusic said that the song transformed Cole into "one of the most famous and beloved pop singing stars of the postwar years."[31] Billboard noted that such was the popularity of the song that audiences would only stay in theaters to see Cole perform "Nature Boy", and leave once he finished.[32] A 1975 poll by the magazine listed it as the "Greatest All-Round Record" as well as the "Favorite Pop Recording" of the previous years.[33] In 1999, the song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame, a special Grammy Award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance".[34] Novelist Steve Erickson in Los Angeles magazine gave a detailed positive review of the song:
Yiddish theatre composer Herman Yablokoff claimed in his biography, Memoirs of the Yiddish Stage, that the melody to "Nature Boy" was plagiarized from his song "Shvayg mayn harts" ("Hush My Heart"), which he wrote for his play Papirosn (1935).[36] When met with a lawsuit in 1951 for the plagiarization, ahbez first proclaimed his innocence, and telephoned Yablokoff to explain that he "had heard the melody as if angels were singing it... in the California mountains. He offered me $10,000 to withdraw the suit. I said that the money was not important, but I wanted him to admit that the song was geganvet [stolen]; and if he heard angels, they must have bought a copy of my song." Eventually ahbez's lawyers offered to have an out-of-court settlement, offering $25,000 ($260,994 in 2021 dollars[29]) to Yablokoff, which he accepted.[13] Freidwald remarked that "it struck no one as ironic that a song with message of love and peace should come to symbolize how cutthroat the pop music business was becoming".[20]
Miles Davis' recording of "Nature Boy" was used in the film The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999).[72] In the book Music, Movies, Meanings, and Markets: Cinemajazzamatazz, author Morris Holbrook described the song as a "nondiegetic performance", exemplifying the plot development and sexual tension in the scene featuring Matt Damon and Jude Law playing chess, naked, and later in a bathtub scene.[73] The song is performed at a jazz club in the film Angel Eyes, (2001). A version recorded by Jon Hassell on trumpet and Ronu Majumdar on flute is featured on the soundtrack.[74] The writing of "Nature Boy" was the theme of a 2000 Canadian TV film of the same title, directed by Kari Skogland. Callum Keith Rennie played ahbez, writing the song for Cole, played by Terence Carson, after falling in love with a woman named Anna Jacobs, portrayed by Tanya Allen.[75]
The song was a central theme in Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! "Nature Boy" was initially arranged as a techno song with singer David Bowie's vocals, before being sent to the group Massive Attack, whose remix was used in the film's closing credits. Bowie described the rendition as "slinky and mysterious", adding that Robert "3D" Del Naja from the group had "put together a riveting piece of work," and that Bowie was "totally pleased with the end result."[76] Both Bowie's version and Massive Attack's remix appeared on the soundtrack. The version used in Moulin Rouge! was sung by John Leguizamo, as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, during the introductory scenes, as well as by Ewan McGregor's character, Christian.[77] Some of the film's premise was based on the lyrics, in particular the opening lines. The closing lyric, "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return" is used throughout the film.[78] While reviewing Moulin Rouge!, Erickson noted that "[by] itself, ['Nature Boy'] redeems the wonderful idea behind Luhrmann's flawed but often wonderful movie."[35] 2ff7e9595c
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