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TarpTent MOMENT I have a TarpTent Moment and it's even better than my former TT Contrail, especially in windy situations. Search for Moment threads and you'll see why it is so popular. The design is so ... |
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SOF Command Actually many special operations soldiers can buy any civilian shelters they want. I think THAT is the question: What shelters do SOF operators usually buy on the civilian market for long rang... |
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Cozy Looks like a good shelter BUT, will it shelter against bugssssss? I prefer its "vestibule" entrance for cooking in the rain to the TT Sublite that has no protection for the entrance wh... |
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metal fabric V.S. Spectra fabric... hmmmm... I dunno, Spectra, from which the Ursack Minor is made, CAN be cut (with shears) and rodent teeth are extremely sharp (and usually cut with a shearing motion of tooth against tooth). For anoth... |
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30" Lightnings I own 30" Lightning Ascents B/C, as a backcountry skier, I know that snowshoes do not give the flotatioin of skis. And 30" 'shoes are not enough longer that they will cause any manuve... |
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FATwood You can buy some "fatwood" which ia a kind ov pine wood that has a VERY high amount of flammable resin naturally inside teh wood. I think this would be good tinder and still pass the TSA ... |
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Tarps & me Nick, I'm sure your Spinn Twinn 8'X10" tarp works great. I had a urethane coated 8"X10" tarp for a few years before I could afford a tent. While I never got wet I did get ... |
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Another Scarp 2 advantage Ben has laid out the rationale for the weather for using tents with mesh inner tents or ripstop fabric inner tents. The TT Scarp 2 has the option of EITHER a mesh or ripstop inner tent. When ... |
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YIKES! AArrggghh! MSR Lightnings breaking REGULARLY??? Say it ain't so! Hopefully MSR has fixed this problem by now with better materials. And bindings breaking regularly?! I bought a Lightning ... |
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Brunton remote canister WINTERIZED adaptation Roger, Yes, your article was the one I was thinking about. I should have been more specific and referred to it. Your heat sink strip/clamp and flow reduction rod are the heart of this adaptat... |
All Reader Reviews by Eric Blumensaadt
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Allen and Mike's Backcountry Ski Book "Allen & Mike's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book" is the very best book on teh eop I have ever read - and I've read most of them in the last 40 years of backcountry skiing and ca... |
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REI Kimtah Recently got the REI Kimtah eVent parka and on a Ruby Mountains, Nevada backpack found it to be as good a wind jacket as it is a rain parka. The sale price was $159.95 which is 30% off the regular ... |
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Eddie Bauer Down Sweater I purchased an Eddie Bauer Down Sweater (their term) on sale this summer for $89. It was reviewed by Will Riveted in his extensive articles of light down jackets and got a favorable, "middle-o... |
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Thermarest Trail Pro Regular I won my Trail Pro regular at a Sierra Club Outings leaders training seminar, otherwise I would not have spent the money B/C I seldom car camp. But now I have an alternative for a winter ski camping m... |
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Brunton Crux I bought the Brunton Flex because of its wider burner ring for better heat distribution so I wouldn't get a hot spot on the bottom of my pot when cooking. I was not aware that there was a Brunt... |
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tarptent moment I give the Moment a "5" because I feel it is currently the best solo single wall tent design. It has great quality, innovative design and excellent attention to detail. My previous solo ... |
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Carbelas GORE-TEX® PacLite® Rainy River Parka Cabela's Rainy River GTX PacLite parka (and pants) are THE bargain in good quality, lightweight, breathable rainwear at the 2010 regular $99. price. The Taslanized fabric is a matte finish, unlike... |
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Vargo Triad XE The XE version of Vargo's Triad is an improvement in several ways. 1. After I complained of the original removable alcohol burner being too small the company owner responded by making it larger... |
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Brunton Flex This is the newer version of the Prumus/Brunton Crux canister-top stove and appears to have corrected faults reported by Crux owners. First the number of fold-out pot supports has increased from 3... |
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Thermarest Neo-Air I purchased a Regular (72") Neo-Air mattress from REI in April of '09. In backyard "camp" testing at 40 F I found it to be definitely more comfortable than either my lightweight ... |
