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Forrest G McCarthy (forrestmccarthy) - BPL Lifetime Member
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Hellbiking in the Lower 48 David - Great read, as always. I do challenge the idea that you need to go to Alaska for a true hellbiking experience. In Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada there are some fantastic (even legal) opportun... |
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Nordic Mountaineering Jonathan - Open your mind. AT gear has its advantages as does Nordic gear. What is best depends on your objective and skill level. What a boring world it would be if we all skied on the same gear i... |
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answers Brian, We used an aluminum turkey pan for all our fires except, for the small fire we made at the confluence with Big Creek where we roasted hot dogs for lunch. This fire was made on a gravel ba... |
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Wolves and Wilderness I am the Public Lands Director for Winter Wildlands Alliance. Our involvement with legally challenging the decision to allow helicopters in the Wilderness Areas was based on protecting the areas w... |
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Thanks everyone! It was a great trip that I hope to do again next winter. You can also watch the video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DApWyDjSEVQ |
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re Michael, I think you missed the point. You don't want to waste body heat by heating the air mattress. That is why it much warmer to have the foamy above. In sub-zero environments having the ... |
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Foamy on top for sleeping on snow Darin, On Denali I played it safe and used a full length 1/2" closed cell. On other winter trips I have been content with a 1/4". I have some 1/4" foam that I got randomly as pack... |
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Air Matress I would like to try the Big Agnes Air mattress. In recent years I have used a similar product made by POE and sold by Alpacka Raft. It is 2/3 length 2.5 inch thick air mattress that weighs 12 ounc... |
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Alcohol vs. Cannister Stove vs. White Gas Roman, If you need to boil two gallons a day, for 30 days, forget alcohol or cartridges and go with a white gas stove. It would be difficult to boil that much water with an alcohol stove and thi... |
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Western Wyoming Wilderness Inventory I am currently working as the Wildlands Organizer for the Wyoming Wilderness Association (wildwyo.org). My big project for this year is to organize an inventory over 1.5 million acres of roadless a... |
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Golite Gust According to the folks at Go-Light The Pinnacle Pack was designed to replace the Gust (now discontinued). It is essentially the same “grocery bag” design with a few extra well spent ounces. Notable ad... |
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Golite Pinnacle Pack According to the folks at Go-Light The Pinnacle Pack was designed to replace the Gust (now discontinued). It is essentially the same “grocery bag” design with a few extra well spent ounces. Notable ad... |
