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Re: Try Pack Before Buying My current pack is a custom Circuit, but I spent a couple of hours walking around Mountain Crossings at Neels Gap in Georgia with a stock Circuit and all my gear. Before that I bought an Ohm sight-... |
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Re: i pods for dummies Yes, get an actual iPod, probably a Nano. You'll need to install the application iTunes on your computer (they have Windows and Mac versions.) Within iTunes you may "rip" your CDs in... |
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Re: Wide angle m43 lens: Oly 12mm f/2.0 vs Oly 9-18mm f/4.0-5.6 I've got the Panny 14/2.5, which is an under-appreciated lens IMO. It's amazingly light, and image quality is excellent. However, it's not wide enough or flexible enough for general lan... |
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Re: RE: Wind Pants not as popular as wind shirt +1 on Elliot, I always take my wind pants, often as my only long pants, since I wear shorts on the trail year-round. My wife made them for me from the thru-hiker kit, using a standard DWR ripstop. ... |
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Re: new to backpacking. how big of a pack do I need? Not the Hornet 46. Not with your other gear, and not for a beginning backpacker. It's a more specialized piece of kit. Something in the 60-65 liter range, with a real internal frame, less th... |
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Re: Recommend a small pack My daughter's problem was always her waist size -- you could pull the hip belt so the pads met in the middle, and it was still too large. Ugh. The Osprey youth pack seems well made, and cov... |
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Re: TT Double Rainbow I carried a TT Double Rainbow as a solo tent a couple of times. Lots of room, and having two doors/vestibules was great. Not too heavy, either, but it wasn't the best 2-person tent, so I ended ... |
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Re: Not that hard to get up there in weight. "I think a lot of people come in around 25lb base weights" When I first started thinking about cutting some of my gear weight, I was *thrilled* when I got my base weight below 40 pound... |
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Re: 2P 3 Season Tent Recommendations We've used several different lightweight 2-person tents. The absolute winner, hands down, is the Six Moons Designs Lunar Duo. You have to actually sit inside it to believe the interior volume. ... |
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Re: help finding a lightweight, warm bag for my wife My wife went through a lot of expensive bags, including the original MH Phantom 32 (not enough fill) and a Western Mountaineering Ultralite. All the bags she tried have continuous channels which al... |
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Photon Freedom Micro (White) The newest version is the Photon Freedom To The Max, which uses some sort of new technology in the LED that doubles brightness while not using any more battery power. Nice. The Doug Ritter edition ... |
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Marmot Ion I just received my Marmot Ion jacket from Campmor, and I agree with the two most recent posts. I don't think it's sil-nylon, exactly, but my hiking test had water beading up on the inside whil... |
