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David Thomas (DavidinKenai) - BPL Premium Member

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Cloth beats goo
>"When I get paid on Friday, I'm sinking $100 immediately into a sun shirt, sun gloves, and a neck gaiter." If money is tight, go for a very wide-brimmed hat and something like ...

In GEAR » Skin Cancer Scare
March 26, 2:37pm
Re: Skin Cancer Scare
I've had five skin cancers carved off and while I'm a Celt who grew up in California, they didn't pop up until I unknowingly drank high arsenic water for a year. Then I got them all 2-...

In GEAR » Skin Cancer Scare
March 26, 12:37am
Re: Re: Re: Re: "Most important gear item"
I hear you that you know you what to get back into backpacking. A quality sleeping pad is the easiest decision. Sure, people will pick nits, but an inflatable around 10-12 ounces, R=2 to 3 for...

In GEAR » Most important gear item
March 25, 7:52pm
Re: Short Weekend Trips from the Bay Area with A Dog
I was going to propose the East Bay Regional Parks as offering short trips including some around lakes but when I checked their website, http://www.ebparks.org/activities/camping/backpacking#1 ...

In General Lightweight Backpacking Discussion » Short Weekend Trips from the Bay Area with A Dog
March 25, 3:14pm
Re: canisters
>"On the objections to canisters based on the supposed problem of recycling the container... Are they really that much better than alcohol or other liquids that come in a plastic bottle or ...

In GEAR » Starting to doubt using my alcohol stove for cannister
March 25, 10:21am
Re: New lightest material
>"Sounds like it is a rigid structure capable of supporting thousand of times it's weight." Yes. But thousands of times its weight is a few grams. When I've seen it propos...

In GEAR » New lightest material
March 25, 10:13am
Drop the subatomic particles and step away from the car
>"my PhD is in theoretical physics. . . . You definitely don't want me working on your car." I hiked with a theoretical physicist at Berkeley and each time he went to CERN it fa...

In GEAR » New lightest material
March 25, 10:10am
Re: Rechargeable GPS
>"Fortunately, being in Australia (mostly)" Ah, well then, go for the solar. But where I said "hike north", hike south with the sun at your back. >"did someone...

In GEAR » Rechargeable GPS
March 25, 9:59am
Re: Re: Re: cannisters
Jerry: They are steel, not aluminum. I just checked 20-year-old MSR, 10-year-old MSR, last year's MSR and some Coleman canisters with a magnet and they were all steel. I wish they were alumin...

In GEAR » Starting to doubt using my alcohol stove for cannister
March 25, 9:53am
Clever Canister Concept
In my last post, I mentioned how I weigh all canister types on a gram scale before and after use so I can assess their contents by weight. I've been kicking around two other techniques: The...

In GEAR » Starting to doubt using my alcohol stove for cannister
March 25, 9:44am

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