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Miguel Arboleda (butuki) - BPL Lifetime Member
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All Forum Posts by Miguel Arboleda
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Re: Fabric drains sweat Sounds exactly like the Nikwax pumpliner. |
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Re: The SUL Mindset the weight of all this philosophizing and pontificating is too much to carry in my pack!!! It's fun talking about all this, even on a philosophical level. To me it adds dimension to the prac... |
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Re: mindset LOL! Oh I do, John! But if people are not going to be 100% honest about their gear lists then any talk about "expertise" or reaching some storied goal is just that, "talk". And ... |
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Re: mindset As I stated earlier in the comments, I loved this (and Will's) article. I loved the playfulness and the sheer pleasure in practicing something we all love doing. The sense of looking forward se... |
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Re: Uh, I think you are doing it wrong.... I think they're lightening their lineup into the ultimate ultralight package: "GoNoMore". |
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Re: stupid light Honing the edge of understanding exactly what you need, being ruthless about holding to that, and using skills to push that edge is SUL. Hold on everyone. It seems that now that UL has become ma... |
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Re: Attaching tent pole sleeves to the actual fly I'd like to see you actually sew option B over more than a few inches. It would be maddening! Especially with silnylon. |
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Re: Re: Sleeve Diagrams Option A can be sewn like this. Probably the simplest of the options. Option B can be sewn with a sewing machine like this, but it would take up quite a lot of fabric and be quite heavy. |
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Re: Attaching tent pole sleeves to the actual fly It's much stronger if you put them in at the seams, and also doesn't introduce a weakness into the fabric. You might want to try doing diagram "A" with the edges rolled inward,... |
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Re: The SUL Mindset Two things I love about this article: One, it doesn't come with a gear list. Two, it harkens back to the joyous, free-spirited playfulness of early BPL and UL days. This is what I so love... |
All Reader Reviews by Miguel Arboleda
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Gossamer Gear The One These are comments I made in the forum, just added here for easy reference: I just got back from a three day walk with the One yesterday. It was great, just what I wanted. It's still very much ... |
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ULA Equipment I just received my Arctic Pack yesterday, a pack that I wasn't going to buy at first because of the expense, but after reading other people's reviews and my just not having enough time to make... |
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Mountain Equipment Co-op (Canada) I became a member of MEC in 1992, paying the membership fee and enjoying buying things at great prices and getting very well made gear that you couldn't find anywhere else. Ever since the regul... |
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TarpTent I have three of Henry's creations, the original Squall, the Squall 2, and the Rainbow. All of them have performed wonderfully and have changed the way I go backpacking (along with Glen van Peski a... |
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Mont Bell (well, what do you know, I can't use the word "f*nny pack"!) I've been using MontBell gear since 1977, two years after they started, when I bought my first rain poncho. I still ha... |
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Shires Tarptent Rainbow|
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