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My Locale Pacific North West
About Me Been backpacking, climbing, skiing, fishing, biking , etc. for over thirty years.
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CityMedford
StateOregon
CountryUSA
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Re: Re: Smoking Gun: Skurka's Toilet Paper
I admit that I did bring "back up" toilet paper. The paper I did use, I double bagged and packed out in accordance with LNT principles. Sheesh Kerry! ;-)

In Wilderness Trekking School » Montana Mourning: Reflections on a Wilderness Trekking Trip
October 18, 10:21pm

Re: Re: Re: Class 4!
The plan for the future is to put in place the lessons we learned from this trip to ensure that no one on a WT1 course will ever be put in a class 4 situation again and therefore not need climbing ...

In Wilderness Trekking School » Montana Mourning: Reflections on a Wilderness Trekking Trip
October 16, 2:53pm

Re: Why the split?
Truls, The first group did wait the whole next day. By that evening, we had communicated the plan to meet in Cottonwood Creek. At that point, they turned around and headed back north to meet u...

In Wilderness Trekking School » Montana Mourning: Reflections on a Wilderness Trekking Trip
October 16, 11:57am

Re: Class 4!
Two thoughts on this: for obvious reasons, we did not take pictures of the more treacherous sections. In retrospect, I would have liked to have photographed the section described in the report jus...

In Wilderness Trekking School » Montana Mourning: Reflections on a Wilderness Trekking Trip
October 16, 11:21am

Kerry's Pictures
Kerry, Thanks for your comments. I encourage everyone to check out Kerry's pictures. The captions under each one take the viewer along the progression of the trip. They will be more meanin...

In Wilderness Trekking School » Montana Mourning: Reflections on a Wilderness Trekking Trip
October 15, 3:32pm

Re: Reflections on a Wilderness Trekking Trip
I appreciate Mike's post. He said he takes full responsibility for the way the course unfolded (another testament to his great leadership), but I want to be clear that I fully supported him in...

In Wilderness Trekking School » Montana Mourning: Reflections on a Wilderness Trekking Trip
October 14, 10:09pm

Answers to Some Questions
I’ll try to answer some questions that have been asked in the thread. The route change was determined before the course began, but as said, there were a number of things we could have done t...

In Wilderness Trekking School » Montana Mourning: Reflections on a Wilderness Trekking Trip
October 14, 6:20pm

Instructor Insight
I was the instructor that was with Tom's group. He let me read the article before it was published and, although it is his perspective, I feel like he described our experience pretty well. As...

In Wilderness Trekking School » Montana Mourning: Reflections on a Wilderness Trekking Trip
October 14, 1:25pm

I want the bivy
I'll take the bivy if it isn't already sold.

In Gear Swap » Osprey Pack, Gregory Pack, Bug Bivy
April 23, 2:46pm

Weight Gainer
Thanks for the info. When hiking during the day, I really like drinking Hammer Perpetuem (http://www.hammernutrition.com). It has a great balance of complex carbs, proteins, and fats designed for...

In Food, Hydration, and Nutrition » Weight Gainer
March 23, 4:00pm

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