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jerry adams (retiredjerry) - BPL Lifetime Member

My Locale Oregon and Washington
About Me I started hiking about 45 years ago. My first backpack was 40 years ago. I currently try to do one backpack trip of 5 nights every month (which can be tricky in the winter) 20 to 50 miles. Mostly I stay around Mount Hood, Columbia Gorge, Mount Adams, Goat Rocks, and the Olympic Peninsula. In recent years I have shifted to lightweight - my pack weight without food and water is about 15 lb (7 kg). I make a lot of my own gear - silnylon tarp-tent, bivy, synthetic bag, simple bag style pack. My sleeping pad is a Therm-a-Rest air mattress.
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Stateoregon
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Re: heat-curing
That's what I used - Rustoleum - still good on edges after years Yeah, flame is 1000 F or whatever, pot is maybe 250 F, power is proportional to 4th power of temperature relative to absolute...

In GEAR » Curing High-T paint on Your Pot
April 20, 9:49am
Re: Curing paint in an oven
I painted the bottom of my Ti pot. After years, the center of the bottom has burned off (it's shiny) but there's still paint on the edges of the bottom and up the sides a little. I just l...

In GEAR » Curing High-T paint on Your Pot
April 20, 8:07am
Re: Re: Re: SEAM SEALING???? Tarp tent SS1
Have you used it without sealing? Did it leak? I never seal a tent and have never noticed any leaking. Except, for example, where I had a velcro tie-down. With seams, the water just flows...

In GEAR » SEAM SEALING???? Tarp tent SS1
April 19, 5:17pm
Re: SEAM SEALING???? Tarp tent SS1
Use masking tape to make neat edge? Definitely OCD

In GEAR » SEAM SEALING???? Tarp tent SS1
April 19, 11:11am
Re: Initial Test Results
How hot did the water get in the never boiled cases? What are the units of time to boil, seconds? Why did trial 6 take shorter time, but burned 2 more g of fuel, seems like that would take lo...

In Make Your Own Gear » Frankenstein Cookkit Returns: New Lid, New Windscreen, More Better Testing
April 19, 11:05am
Re: Stove system comparison
"It seems that the trick is that Jetboil keeps the flame closer to the pot, smaller and contained within heat exchanger." That's what I think may be the case The old MSR heat ex...

In GEAR » Stove system comparison
April 19, 8:14am
Re: finding someone else's rope: take it down or leave it up?
Leave rope - just my opinion Maybe someone put it there and expects it for return. If you remove it they'll be stranded. Maybe officials put it up.

In General Lightweight Backpacking Discussion » Stream crossing horror stories
April 18, 10:54pm
Re: cheap butane canisters
Okay 30 F not so good. 40 F should be okay. I was using it last year at something like that.

In GEAR » Refilling Gas Canisters
April 18, 2:12pm
Re: +1 beater gear
I wear "REI" fleece vest my wife got from Goodwill My previous fleece vest died because the zipper quit working - came unzipped in the middle. I could have replaced zipper but it was ...

In GEAR » Fleece reconsidered
April 18, 10:13am
Re: Re: Re: Tabata training
Good points, Nick I forgot to put a emoticon when I called you an old person incapable of new ideas. But the best humour has a grain of truth to it. Exercise is not effective in that most o...

In General Lightweight Backpacking Discussion » The Truth About Exercise M. Mosley
April 18, 10:10am

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