Dryer,

FWIW, I too have been known to crack open an umbrella on the trail. Here in western Oregon you don't get quite so many snide comments. Especially from October to April.

Jim, of course, is from Bend in central Oregon, where the Chamber of Commerce boasts about their 330 days a year with sunshine. (They know how that drives us western Oregonians up a wall.)

Wind, without a doubt is the Achilles heel of umbrellas. They just don't cope well with it.