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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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Re: iHome mini speaker
Yeah - boom box in wilderness is obnoxious to other people but a low volume speaker that no one else hears is not a problem if you're camped right next to a bunch of other people that don...

In GEAR » Backpacking mini speaker
May 13, 11:05am
Re: Backpacking mini speaker
What is the source of your music? I usually take a radio, mostly listen to people talking but sometimes music. Some radios have speakers like C Crane has several, like the CC Pocket. I'v...

In GEAR » Backpacking mini speaker
May 13, 7:32am
Re: Re: Re: Balls and Sunshine Ripped-off on the CDT!!
yeah, right, people used to leave their doors unlocked, very romantic... lots of cases in history where someone had some food or water cached, someone else came along and stole it knowing that i...

In General Lightweight Backpacking Discussion » Balls and Sunshine Ripped-off on the CDT!!
May 12, 9:52pm
Re: Balls and Sunshine Ripped-off on the CDT!!
"It's about the demise of civilization..." Way overblowing this I remember a time when black people were hung because they looked at a white woman and women couldn't vote. ...

In General Lightweight Backpacking Discussion » Balls and Sunshine Ripped-off on the CDT!!
May 12, 8:49pm
Re: re: winter backpacking
If you were living in Minnesota - okay, you got a point You who live in Southern California have no winter, but any low areas are probably crowded with people and nice areas for backpacking get ...

In GEAR » Sawyer Squeeze Filter Bag Failure
May 12, 10:18am
Re: Re: Hard water and backflushing.
"I also run diluted bleach through the filter (per Sawyer protocol) at the end of the season." There's your problem Don't end season You have to just keep using it year-r...

In GEAR » Sawyer Squeeze Filter Bag Failure
May 12, 7:49am
Re: Olympic Coast Trail Shuttle Questions
http://www.goallpoints.com/ has been mentioned before - google "olympic shuttle site:backpackinglight.com" kind of expensive 3rd beach to oil city isn't as far as Ozette to Rialta

In Pre-Trip Planning » Olympic Coast Trail Shuttle Questions
May 11, 8:00pm
Re: Re: wet
If it's an intermittent rain, or a drizzle, then I'll stay pretty dry in hard shell. If it's fairly cool. Need to be able to unzip front and have it be a bit baggy so there's as m...

In GEAR » 5 oz Hardshell?
May 08, 11:31am
Re: Re: Re: Re: Backpacking Thermometer
If you put it on hipbelt it will be effected by body temp. Inside pack will be way off. Weather stations have like a reflective roof to provide shade, lots of air flow on all sides, doesn't...

In GEAR » Is there a reliable backpackign thermometer out there?
May 08, 11:24am
Re: attack
ULer can run faster than the "heavy" camper who will get eaten distracting bear from ULer - unless there are two bears

In General Lightweight Backpacking Discussion » Guy on reddit talks about his Grizzy bear attack where he was blinded...
May 08, 10:19am

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