BPL Community Profile
a b (Ice-axe) - BPL Guest
|
|
|
You cannot send this user a personal message (PM) because they have not specified a PM email address yet.
All Forum Posts by a b
Showing 171 - 180 of 581
|
Page: 1
...9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
...59
![]() |
Same here I carried a Light my Fire fire steel for a time. I found the same thing Brett. While trying to light a fellow hikers alky stove, I found i had to swirl the alcohol around until some spilled out an... |
||
![]() |
Scurvy "They determined that their rations... consisted of biscuits, pemmican, butter, sugar, chocolate, cereals and raisins, and.. pony meat" Complex Carbohydrate(Biscuits), Fat and Protein(... |
||
![]() |
Re: Re Wagner I mean c'mon! Siegfried, the man without fear, slays the dragon, drinks the dragons blodd and hears the song of nature, AND gets the girl! It makes up for all the Sarah McClachlan songs I l... |
||
![]() |
OMG Nate Wagner The Ring of Niebelung (or whatever). I still hear that Vedic Opera stuff when i come upon some crazy vista. |
||
![]() |
Above treeline without a canister "d) how hard is it to "hang" when above the tree line? Never been to the Winds, but it certainly appears as though we'll be spending a great deal of time away from good hanging s... |
||
![]() |
. . |
||
![]() |
As fast as the slowest person Group travel is Vastly different than solo travel.. obviously. Less obvious is the way in which different people manifest stress. The trick of being a good leader is to know when a person is &quo... |
||
![]() |
Regional Support Eric, I am thinking about that too. I have two decades of hiking experience in Northern Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy in particular. I live three hours away from those environs. In the past i have t... |
||
![]() |
Uh.. bring your Wife Why not bring your wife? Perhaps a romantic vacation after the GGG on the way home to the "Redwood Curtain" You know, Napa is beautiful AND unpopulated that time of year. Actually, d... |
||
![]() |
A society of one. Potential hazards of solo travel are innumerable. The rewards of solitude are likewise beyond numerical expression. Something happens when you are alone in "lonely" country that is di... |
All Reader Reviews by a b
Showing 1 - 5 of 5
|
Page: 1
![]() |
Bear Paw Wilderness Designs Minimalist 1 (Bug Bivy) I used the a Bear Paw Wilderness Designs Minimalist 1 bug bivy every night of my Appalachian Trail thru hike. While there weren't many bugs flying around in mid March when I started, the fully enc... |
||
![]() |
MLD Patrol Shelter Solo Spectralite Wtih beak The Mountain Laurel Designs Patrol shelter in translucent green Spectralight (Cuben fiber) is, by far, my favorite single piece of gear after 2180 miles and 98 days on my Appalachian Trail thru hike. ... |
||
![]() |
Mountain Laurel Designs Mountain Laurel Designs has proven to me that durability and light weight can co-exist in the universe. Fittingly, my first introduction to MLD occured on the Pacific Crest Trail when a fellow hiker... |
||
![]() |
Mountain Laurel Designs Spirit Quilt 30 This is my initial review of the Mountain Laurel Designs Spirit Quilt 30 size regular. Weight as measured 19 ounces. Loft as measured 1 & 3/4 inches. I had found that I used my sleeping bag open ... |
||
![]() |
Mountain Laurel Designs Exodus It was on the Pacific Crest Trail in Sept of 2009 near the end of my thru hike when I first saw another hiker(Lint) using an MLD Exodus frameless pack. Upon examining the craftsmanship of the pack, an... |

