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Richard Gless (rgless) - BPL Lifetime Member
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All Forum Posts by Richard Gless
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New Stock @ BPL Some of the gift cards are very attractively priced, like the $1000 card for $50. I'd buy several but it looks too good to be true. LOL |
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Sierra Creeks Great snow pictures Jack. Here's some of an unnamed creek under Hawksbeak Peak just outside the Yosemite border. I think the local name is Rainbow Canyon. Creek under Hawksbeak Peak ... |
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Sierra Creeks Minaret Creek |
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Lightweight Backpacking Long Ago and Now A lot of it is about innovation around materials and how to use them. My first attempt to "lighten up" was to get a magnesium frame instead of aluminum on my first CampTrails pack. Then... |
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Suggestions for 70-90 mile trip My wife and I did the length of the Wind Rivers many years ago - Little Sandy to Green River Lake - totally awesome and possible better than the southern section of the JMT IMHO. Of course we had ... |
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Best Gear of 2009 My favorite gear for 2009: 1. Tim Marshall custom tent - 2.3 lbs total for a cozy tent, fly, poles, and stakes for two people. http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/t... |
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THE 2ND ANNUAL POINT REYES BAY AREA BPL TRIP Ken, Yes, I plan on being there. It's on my calendar. Sent you a PM. Richard |
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UL Creatures We watched this fly/wasp dig a tunnel, presumable to lay eggs, at our campsite at Bonnie Lake just North of Dorothy Lake Pass on the Northern border of Yosemite. |
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UL Creatures California Coral King Snake - not venomous - near Rancheria Creek May 2009. |
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Piute Lake - Gem Lake Loop - Emmigrant Wilderness 24-25 Oct 2009 This trip was an attempt to squeeze in one last hike before putting away the backpacking gear for the winter. The weather forecast was for highs of 60°F and lows of 38°F, which is well within th... |
All Reader Reviews by Richard Gless
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ZPacks Hexamid solo tarp and HexaNet Seeing the stars at night is one of my favorite parts of backpacking so I wanted a two wall tent, bug net inner and rain fly outer. My first solo UL tent attempt was a Eureka Solitaire – too hard... |
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ZPacks Hexamid Solo Tarp and HexaNet Seeing the stars at night is one of my favorite parts of backpacking so I wanted a two wall tent, bug net inner and rain fly outer. My first solo UL tent attempt was a Eureka Solitaire – too hard... |
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Snow Peak LiteMax Snow Peak LiteMax Stove I bought a Snow Peak LiteMax this spring (2009) to replace my MSR Pocket Rocket and have been really happy with it, having used it for about 20 days now. Pros: 1. W... |
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Black Diamond Orbit I saw this advertised in Backpacker Magazine (yes, I still subscribe. Every once in a while I find something useful), and thought I’d check it out. I picked it up at REI since I was going on a hike ... |
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Therm-a-Rest Neoair I recently bought size small ThermaRest NeoAir Pads for both my wife and I. We were particularly interested in reducing pack weight while retaining or improving comfort. My wife went from a ThermaRe... |
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Merrell Chameleon Wrap GoreTex XCR About twelve years ago as part of my journey to lighten my backpacking load I went from my second pair of Galibier Mountaineering boots (really heavy) to a pair of relatively lightweight Merrell leath... |
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Backpacking Light Ti Esbit stove I've used my BPL Esbit stove for 2-3 day solo trips for two years now. I think its a great compromise of lightweight and efficiency. You do have to recognize the stove's limitations and use ... |
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Jack's R Better Mt. Rogers Quilt I purchased the Jack's R Better Mt. Rogers Quilt in large part based on the review by Shane above. I'd been looking at the possibility of using a quilt to cut weight for some time, and when J... |
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Therm-A-Rest Pro Lite 3 It's interesting how some products work for some people and not for others. I've tried the TorsoLite and the POE UberLite. They are just too short for me (I'm 5' 11"). On duff ... |
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Zpacks Z1 I have to agree with all of Jonathan's comments. I bought this pack after seeing it mentioned on BPL and checking it out on the web. It only took about a week to arrive after I ordered it. ... |
