They are epoxy resin.

From https://www.lecreuset.com/care-and-use.html:

> The black phenolic lid knobs on our Classic range of enameled cast iron are heat-resistant to 390°F / 190°C.

If you pay extra, you can get the same quality metal handles as the Lodge ones have out of the box.

If you're asking about enameled cast iron, Lodge is also BIFL and way cheaper. Also, can go in a hot oven (the L.C. lid handles melt).

When my wife and I go to the backcountry, we often don't have cell service. So, if I go for a trail run away from camp, or she takes the kids out on a raft, we use radios. They're also helpful on super long climbing routes where the parties have to separate.

Wait what? I'm not in to "overland" stuff, and agree that they're generally LARPing. But as a HAM radio enthusiast - one of the dorkiest hobbies - I have to say, I've literally never heard of HAM described as tacticool before.

Hahaha imagine being so pissy about being so wrong.

That's true, that would suck so bad. I have never been turned away - at a minimum I've been able to get a spot at Colchuck - but I can imagine it must happen. In that case, I'd just camp in the dispersed camping area along Icicle Creek and dayhike, but it's not the same.

I forgot to mention to go in on a day early midweek, like Tuesday.

Also, I hadn't considered this for folks living hundreds of miles away.

I've gotten the lottery fewer times than day-of permits. I don't know how to win the lottery, but for day-of permits just be at the ranger station in town bright and early. Upper Snow Lake should be one of your choices. EDIT: on a weekday, especially early, like Monday.

Or they were buying illegal guns. Or in conversation with domestic terrorist groups. Or writing white supremacist rants. Or all of the above. I don't think the FBI will reveal their intelligence gathering specifics.

> The two men were known to authorities, and had been under FBI surveillance for more than a month in late 2021 and early 2022, FBI special agent Mark Tucher said in an affidavit filed in federal court on Tuesday. The agent did not give reasons for that surveillance, but Tucher described himself in the affidavit as an expert in domestic terrorism assigned to the FBI Seattle division's joint terrorism task force.

Source: https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2023-01-03/two-men-arrested-in-attacks-on-washington-state-power-substations

Why would an FBI special agent who is focused on domestic terrorism spend time actively surveilling these persons? The most likely explanation is that they are suspected of domestic terrorism.

Wait what is this about T cells and covid? I saw that long-haulers typically have lower than average T cell memory. I thought that the suggestion was that reduced T cell memory may be part of what causes long-haul covid. Is that backwards? Is the thinking that long-haul covid causes T cells to be amnesiacs?

It looks like a typo.