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Matthew Zion (mzion) - BPL Premium Member
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Re: Personal Hygiene Thru hikers will often go a week or two (sometimes longer) w/o washing clothes or showering. Revel in your filth and wear it as a badge of honor. If you get chafe in your shirt/shorts area a si... |
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Re: Gloves I'll take down mitts on anything in the 20s or colder. Multi-use your arm pits and nuts to keep your hands warm IMO. I use to work outside year round and have never found gloves that will... |
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Re: Weighs less to carry a canister stove long distances? Alcohol weighs less when you allow yourself to resupply fairly often. Filling up your alcohol bottle every 4 days with exactly 4 days worth of alcohol is lighter than buying a full canister and us... |
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Re: Bleach Hypochlorite reacts will react with just about everything. I think a major concern is precipitation of cations you will find in all water sources. While small, these 'filmy' precipitation... |
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Re: Umbrella If you could only have one. I'd get a GoLite Dome Chrome. http://www.euroschirm.com/usa/index.cgi This is the company that makes the umbrella GoLite sells. More colors and they DO hav... |
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Re: Houdini for summer (CO) rain? Using in high winds gets tricky. I think this is where most potential users bail on the concept. I collapse the umbrella a little and point it into the wind as best I can. Obviously, its effecti... |
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Re: Houdini for summer (CO) rain? I'm using a similar windshirt + umbrella combo and I think its more than enough. The rain out here in no way compares to the east coast in terms of quantity. |
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Re: Multi use Use your jacket or sleeping back to insulate the pot while you wait. Multi use FTW. |
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Re: Snow Gonna be what you see in peoples Sierra pictures from the PCT. We got a lot this year so patchy and deep in the shaded places. I don't think you'll necessarily need boots, crampons, or sn... |
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