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Dan Durston (dandydan) - BPL Premium Member
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All Forum Posts by Dan Durston
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packrafting brooks range Inspiring video. Thanks. |
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BMWO - Rides Nice to hear you're coming down. There's been a little chatter on shuttles but nothing concrete so far. It seems like there's quite a few people who'll be wanting rides. With the... |
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Inner A solo inner provides excellent vestibule space, which you lose with a double inner unless you take Doug's suggestion and only half set it up. I'd look at ways to accommodate your dog w... |
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McD's I know I shouldn't take chaff talk too seriously, but the amount of bad science behind stories like that has gotta be frustrating for McD's. People unintentionally dehydrate these thin burg... |
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ULA packs I recently went with a ULA Catalyst in waterproof cuben hybrid fabric for use as a larger volume packrafting pack. I've been very happy with that. Pics and more info here: http://www.backpac... |
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Packraft Route Planning As mentioned, having an idea of the decent rates for a watercourse is valuable. Using a topo map is a good way to do this, but Google Earth also provides another neat tool. Using the ruler funct... |
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DuoMid Inner While not related to solid walls, there's some info here on making a solo inner for a DuoMid. You may be able to contact the OP and get the Google Sketchup file and then modified it for your us... |
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MSR Shift I picked up some MSR Shift snowshoes recently. With size 9 shoes, the Shifts work well. If your shoes are too big then the toe box is too wide to fit through the cut out in the snowshoe as the ... |
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WCT "With the wife and 2 kids, there is over $600 in required fees and a lot of bureaucracy to hike the WCT. I have a really hard time swallowing that." Yeah its pretty nuts. That's the ... |
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Birds Peeing Birds have a 'cloaca', which is a butt hole and urine hole merged into one. So birds have urine, which goes into a nice little storage chamber near the cloaca and then once a bird is flying... |
All Reader Reviews by Dan Durston
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Spark-Lite Fire Starter (Survival Gear - BPL Gear Shop) I have this kit and the FireLite Mini kit. This sparker is a bit lighter than the FireLite Mini but I don't trust this sparker 100% like I do the FireLite. This sparker doesn't work well wh... |
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BPL FireLite Firestarter I love this FireLite Mini. It's the only thing that I 100% trust to start a fire. With a mini Bic you can run out of gas, be at too high of an altitude, get it wet or get it oily. Matches can ... |
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Hyperlight Mtn Gear Echo I I wasn't sure where to put this review as the Echo I can be used as either a tarp or a double wall tent. OVERVIEW I've given the Echo I five stars because it's quality construct... |
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Golite 2006 Reed Pants I've got the original Reed pants (4oz in a size medium) and they are prefect rain pants for UL hiking. They've been adequately durable, totally waterproof and light. I don't want ankle zip... |
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Marmot Essence I'll be the first one to give this jacket 5 stars. Marmot has made a number of changes to this jacket over the years so criticisms of the earlier models are no longer relevant. My Essence is t... |
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Baladeo 22 Grams Knife This knife is a brilliant design. Every part of it is functional and the result is a lot of knife for just 22g (or 24.3g as mine as actually weighs). When I opened the (very nice) box and first played... |
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Nite ize S-Biner After using another small biner that failed due to a poor design, I switched the Nite Ize Size 1 biner for bear bagging this summer. I use one of these to clip to my 1.4mm spectra cord to my food sack... |
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Mountain Laurel Designs Revelation I really like my 2009 MLD Revelation pack. The 1.5oz cuben is great. I think it will last a very long time provided I don't take any good falls on rocky slopes. With some bungie cordage, MLD s... |
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Granite Gear Uberlight CTF3 Drysack I bought two of these Uberlight drysacks, a green 7L one for my GoLite Ultra 20 quilt and a orange 10L one for my wife's 15F rated 800FP MEC Merlin sleeping bag. The claimed weights for these d... |
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Petzl e+LITE I really like the e+Lite. It's surprisingly bright and I appreciate the red light functionality in the tent. On high, this light is nearly as bright as my Tikka yet it weighs 1/3rd and has additio... |
