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All Forum Posts by Richard Gless
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Olive oil in bottles Pakit Gourmet sells small foil pouches of decent quality olive oil. A little pricey, but convenient. |
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MH Pasta Primavera add ins I find you can sometimes improve a MH meal with a few add-ins. For instance, MH Pasta Primavera improves a lot with the addition of some toasted pine nuts and grated parmesan cheese. The MH Spagh... |
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Take the tenkara rod or get a light spin rod? As much as I love to flyfish I often find that on lakes the fish in the Sierras are often 10-30 ft beyond my casting range. You can wait and hope they come in closer or give up and go to a spinnin... |
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Emigrant Wilderness & Mosquitos For what it's worth, I went into Piute Lake from Crabtree on July 10. The mosquitoes weren't bad on the trail. At Piute Lake I camped on the ridge above and South of the Lake and they wer... |
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Trowel? If the ground isn't too recalcitrant, a boot heel (this is one place boots work better than trail runners) or, in the Sierras, a piece of granite can work pretty well most of the time. |
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Rain Gear? +1 on Jason's suggestion. In some areas of the Sierras a 30% chance of rain means you could get really wet and cold as in wind, snow, hail. A lot of stores have DriDucks or an equivalent. |
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Haven/Cobra Combo I don't think there will be too many people doing this. The Haven net tent is considerable lighter that the Cobra inner tent and has substantially more space than the Cobra. I have both and t... |
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1000 Island Lake question In the last week of August 2009 I hiked from Clark Lake down the high trail to Agnew Meadows. I carried extra water because it I thought it would be dry based on the map. As it turned out there w... |
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Sprint Aquatic Shoes Sam, I have a pair of new, never used sprint aquatic men's size 11 as well as a slightly heavier mesh shoe in about the same size. If you're interested, send me a PM, and I can send you... |
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Cooking pasta in high elevations I've had good luck with Barrilla Tortellini using a cozy (as Greg said above). Ronzoni makes a 3 min rotini that also rehydrates well using a cozy. For just about anything, if you have a sto... |
All Reader Reviews by Richard Gless
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ZPacks Hexamid solo tarp and HexaNet Seeing the stars at night is one of my favorite parts of backpacking so I wanted a two wall tent, bug net inner and rain fly outer. My first solo UL tent attempt was a Eureka Solitaire – too hard... |
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ZPacks Hexamid Solo Tarp and HexaNet Seeing the stars at night is one of my favorite parts of backpacking so I wanted a two wall tent, bug net inner and rain fly outer. My first solo UL tent attempt was a Eureka Solitaire – too hard... |
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Snow Peak LiteMax Snow Peak LiteMax Stove I bought a Snow Peak LiteMax this spring (2009) to replace my MSR Pocket Rocket and have been really happy with it, having used it for about 20 days now. Pros: 1. W... |
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Black Diamond Orbit I saw this advertised in Backpacker Magazine (yes, I still subscribe. Every once in a while I find something useful), and thought I’d check it out. I picked it up at REI since I was going on a hike ... |
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Therm-a-Rest Neoair I recently bought size small ThermaRest NeoAir Pads for both my wife and I. We were particularly interested in reducing pack weight while retaining or improving comfort. My wife went from a ThermaRe... |
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Merrell Chameleon Wrap GoreTex XCR About twelve years ago as part of my journey to lighten my backpacking load I went from my second pair of Galibier Mountaineering boots (really heavy) to a pair of relatively lightweight Merrell leath... |
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Backpacking Light Ti Esbit stove I've used my BPL Esbit stove for 2-3 day solo trips for two years now. I think its a great compromise of lightweight and efficiency. You do have to recognize the stove's limitations and use ... |
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Jack's R Better Mt. Rogers Quilt I purchased the Jack's R Better Mt. Rogers Quilt in large part based on the review by Shane above. I'd been looking at the possibility of using a quilt to cut weight for some time, and when J... |
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Therm-A-Rest Pro Lite 3 It's interesting how some products work for some people and not for others. I've tried the TorsoLite and the POE UberLite. They are just too short for me (I'm 5' 11"). On duff ... |
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Zpacks Z1 I have to agree with all of Jonathan's comments. I bought this pack after seeing it mentioned on BPL and checking it out on the web. It only took about a week to arrive after I ordered it. ... |
