Mt. Hardware is better than North Face right now...  their products are better-made, and their customer service is so much better it's not even funny.
North Face used to be really nice stuff, now it's still nice, but not as nice as Marmot, Mt. Hardware, or Arcteryx.
ns ogre crew
Some kid who lived on my floor freshman year came into my room and said. 'I'm never touching the internet again.'
'why?'
'I was bored, and I typed in shiteaters.com, and there is actually a shiteaters.com... and they were eating shit. The internet is sick.'