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Advice from 1974 Mike, Hamish had a "long-sleeved Damart vest which doubled as a pullover" (Damart was a wicking synthetic), "plus a good shirt with sleeves long enough to cover hands in place of glo... |
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Advice from 1974. "I knew my tent would leak, I knew I'd be hiking wet and I knew my pack would be heavy" The last was partly true for me but not the first two. In 1974 I had a Robert Saunders two s... |
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Advice from 1974 Back in '74 when I was still a novice backpacker in cool weather I wore a cotton string vest with a thin lambswool sweater over it and then, as necessary, a wool/acrylic shirt, a thick wool swe... |
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Lenses for NEX 5 Ed, so far there are only three lenses for the NEX 5 - 16mm, 18-55mm and 18-200mm. I have the 18-55, as that's the zoom range I used most on the Canon 450D. On the PNT last summer I only carrie... |
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Re: Oh, getting close - camera choice Dirk, I've always carried SLRs - film and then digital. I carry one SLR with a mid-range zoom in a padded case slung across my body so it rests above my hip. I've carried a camera like this... |
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Cold Weather Clothing The Wintergreen Northernwear shells are basically heavy-duty windshells - nylon with DWR. They certainly should breathe better than a membrane or coated fabric. I've used Paramo shells in wi... |
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Hogan Goes Mirrorless Interesting feature. I handled all these cameras and chose the Sony NEX 5 because of the good grip, good dynamic range, positionable LCD, tiny body size and weight and APS-C DSLR image quality. I&#... |
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Windshirts under rain jackets As mentioned I have written about and recommended wearing a windshirt under a rain jacket. Last summer on the Pacific Northwest Trail I had nine continuous days of wet weather in the Cascades. I wo... |
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Pacific North West Trail Have a look at the forum on http://www.pnt.org. Masses of info there. I hiked the PNT this summer and found much useful info on changes to the route on the PNT forum. |
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Android phone for tracking in romote areas I used an Android phone on the Pacific Northwest Trail last summer and the GPS worked fine in airplane mode, which I was in most of the time. |
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