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Mary D (hikinggranny) - BPL Lifetime Member
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Best pack that weighs around 1 LB? +2!!! The pack must fit you and must fit--and support--your gear. If, as you state, you're still "slimming" your gear, you'd be better off not to replace your current pack unt... |
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hunting to lighten pack load by eating meat? At least for rats, you don't need a hunting license, something that can be extremely expensive if you're not a resident of the state in which you're hunting! That's especially true... |
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Teton Wilderness Googling came up with lots of trip reports, some probably worth looking at. We have all become so spoiled with detailed guidebooks these days that we seem to have forgotten the era (not all that... |
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How important is pack weight to your overall experience? Thanks to a combination of old age and past injuries, for me, it's go lightweight or don't go at all! The other consideration is that the lighter my gear, the longer I can stay out (i.e. t... |
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2-Person Shelters TSW - Looking for feedback for my next in-depth article!" MB, why do you need to split the tent? Person A carries the tent and Person B carries the equivalent weight of other community gear, or of Person A's gear. If you want everything split, then... |
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What Worked It sounds as though your gear got well tested! I'd love to hear about both trips! |
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Sleeping bag opinions for super cold sleepers." Thanks, Tom, I forgot about vapor barriers! I find a vapor barrier really useful on below-freezing nights to keep body moisture from getting into my sleeping bag. That's one reason I have non... |
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How cold can you go with this gear? I was OK in camp with the equivalent of that in the low 20's with modest wind. The jacket was a Montbell Thermawrap rather than down. However, I was also wearing a fleece balaclava, a Smartwo... |
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Wind River Range Weather I just heard from guidebook author Nancy Pallister who has been in the Winds for over 6 weeks. It has been an unusually mild and dry summer in the Winds. Whether this abnormal weather continues i... |
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Sawyer Squeeze Bob, mine also came with the syringe. Are you sure yours wasn't omitted from the box due to a packing error? |
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... |
