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Mary D (hikinggranny) - BPL Lifetime Member
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2 week backpack trip in North Cascades A couple of items: First, check the Holden bus schedules; per reports from others, I understand they are limited this summer because of the mine mitigation. Second, if you do nothing else, defi... |
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Balls and Sunshine Ripped-off on the CDT As I understand it, that's not an area of the New Mexico desert where anyone except thru or section hikers would be hiking through--it's not a scenic area where weekenders might be (it wasn... |
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Balls and Sunshine Ripped-off on the CDT Timeline (per the online journals): Cache placed by their friend Beacon: April 24 Cache discovered missing by Balls and Sunshine: April 26 The word is already out among CDT hikers (I've s... |
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Lightest/Most packable 2 person shelter? John Abela did a study last year--results here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkDBpEtGkJYodGF3dE0zeW41bC0yZEUxQlZURm5vLXc#gid=0 |
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CB3/Cloudburst 3 Initial impressions The important part: Does the dog fit inside? It looks a lot roomier than the Rainshadow! Thanks for the preview! |
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How to lighten my cook kit?" Unless you really enjoy cooking from scratch out in the wild, consider doing your gourmet cooking at home and dehydrating it, or getting supermarket foods that need no more than 6-7 minutes to cook... |
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Which ULA pack when you need more volume? +2 on checking out the SMD Starlite. With the "optional" (mandatory, IMHO) stays it will support at least 35 lbs. comfortably. And it's plenty roomy (too big for me). It's a po... |
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Pasayten Wilderness Boundary Trail in the Pasayten Wilderness. 90 miles end to end (Iron Gate to the PCT) plus (I think) 30 miles south on the PCT to hike out. Requires very long car shuttle or drop-off/pickup betwe... |
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Gossamer Gear - The One? As of late September 2012: I spoke with Grant at the ALDHA meeting. He says that spinnaker fabric is definitely dead and that they are investigating several new fabrics. There are also continuin... |
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Critter Tracks On and Around Nick Eaton Ridge A lot of those nocturnal green eyes turn out to be deer or various other animals. At least that's what I've found when I focused my headlamp directly on the source of the eyes. I remember... |
All Reader Reviews by Mary D
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Thermarest Neo-Air I purchased a short NeoAir in late May of 2009 from REI (using the 20% off coupon, which made it a less exorbitant purchase). The prospect of an air mat that was considerably lighter than my POE Insu... |
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Gossamer Gear ThinLight insulation pad 1/8" approx. 2 oz. So far I have found several uses for the 1/8" GG Thinlight pad: (1) Dog sleeping pad (cut to 36" long). It's just right for my 80-lb. dog who sleeps curled up in a ball. He's ... |
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Potable Aqua Iodine Drinking Water Germicidal Tablets I used these back in the mid-1980's to disinfect drinking water (that's about all that was available then other than filters or boiling). After one month, using them only on weekends, I broke... |
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Big Agnes Pumphouse Multi-Use Dry Sack and Pad Pump I purchased a Big Agnes Pumphouse soon after they came on the market in the summer of 2007. It is advertised on the BA web site as a "...pad pump, dry sack, stuff sack, pillow, water carrier, ba... |
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Sea to Summit Ultra-Sil Dry Sack In the past, I've read in a number of places (including Jim Wood's excellent article on "Keeping Your Critical Gear Dry") that these sacks have failed the submersion test. This prob... |
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Pacific Outdoor Products Insul Mat Max-Thermo My POE Insulmat Max Thermo (now the Ether Thermo, but I got the old model on closeout) just finished its second backpacking season. I'm in my early 70's so these old bones and joints ain... |
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Big Agnes Clearview I know that this pad is supposedly the same thickness as my POE InsulMat Max Thermo (now the Ether Thermo). However, it has more tubes, which seem to make it effectively thinner. The Clearview has t... |
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SteriPen Adventurer My big complaint with the Steripen Adventurer is that I could not work the switch! It's fine for those with big strong hands (the kind who regularly open jars for their SO), but not for me (I can... |
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Six Moon Designs Lunar Solo I bought a Six Moon Designs Lunar Solo (e) in June of 2007 and used it through two backpacking seasons. First of all, I need to point out that my Labrador retriever backpacks with me (he's part... |
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Backcountrygear.com I am a relatively recent convert to lightweight backpacking (I didn't know all this wonderful stuff existed--you'd never know it from a trip through REI or by reading Backpacker) and this is m... |
