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Re: Fire starter idea If you take the top 1 inch of a road / safety flare and cut it off, that's exactly what you get. You could dip the whole thing in wax for waterproofing or put it in a 35mm film canister (anyone st... |
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Cuben source? Bill, where did you get the Cuben material from, and what was the ~ price? Thanks, Mike |
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Re: Re: Re: Re: UL no longer matters.. Off all the places I've hiked (exo-urban) and willing to bet all the places you've hiked, I can't think of any where this would be a net positive, just from the width of trails and rocks in the roa... |
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Re: UL no longer matters..till you have to charge the battery... I rode one of these last month. It was pretty impressive. I expect that you don't want to outrun the battery in the hinterland, otherwise being 12 miles away with a dead $5K, 120 lbs unit might t... |
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Re: What's a good headlamp for night hiking? A small phillips, plus good close up eyesight. You also need to make sure you notice how the LED lays in there with respect to + and - terminals. |
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Re: What's a good headlamp for night hiking? I would consider the Princeton Tec EOS and the Photon Freedom. The Freedom weighs as close to 0 as you can get, you can get 8 - 10 hours our of a set of batteries. I've seen a hiker with 2 of the... |
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Re: Re: Re: Sleeping with food Wow, you're reminding me of two incidents the same night 5 years in northern Arizona. "Everyone else" had their food outside their tents in bags, save the occupants of 1 tent and 1 shelter. Bot... |
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3 gm, 9" Titanium bike spokes: What to use for? I just acquired numerous slightly "non-straight" titanium bicycle spokes, they're pretty stiff, weigh 3 grams each and are 9 " long, 1/16" diameter, with a 90 degree bend 1/4" from the end. Holdin... |
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Re: BSA Ryan, what's the chance you have a package we could start circulating to various districts and councils? That might be another way to try to provide more lightweight visibility. MikeB |
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Re: Early Winter Trip We do this a couple of times a year from the Phoenix area, where sub freezing weather is unusual, to Flagstaff, where 0 to teens are pretty common. Not many in our troop have bags good to 0,(typi... |
All Reader Reviews by Mike Barney
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MSR Pocket Rocket This is a pretty basic stove that is simple to operate. It's lightweight and reasonably efficient. We used 3 of these on a 10 day hike with 10 people and they worked well. The stove is reas... |
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Light My Fire Spork I like the LMF Spork, but it's almost too flexible. I can agree with many if not most of the comments above, and have had one break. When you use it to stir something very hot, it gets soft and ... |
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Garmin Rino 120 GPS and FRS / GMRS Radio Great Idea, lacking implementation.The premis of the Rino family is that it would be great to know where others are via GPS location. Great Idea. This is accomplished by using FRS radio frequencies i... |
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Marmot Helium (long) I had this bag for a short period, but really liked it. It's so warm, that it was almost too warm for me above freezing, but a very comfortable bag overall. It fits me (6'1") well a... |
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Atkinson's Chick-O-Stick Crunchy Peanut Butter & Coconut Candy I really like the "Chick'O's", they do pack significant energy in a small package, and the taste is very good. They don't break as easy as some, and have a similar texture in h... |
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Jolt Gum I guess if I was going to give this a really fair shake I'd have consumed the whole pack. Unfortunately or fortunately 1/2 a piece was more than enough. The taste isn't there, and I do have ... |
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Big Agnes We had a short term need for a bag and pad we could use at Philmont, and the Scout was on a budget. We looked around and called Big Agnes. They had a demo bag come in the next day, and they called b... |
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WalMart Walmart really does have nice people in their outdoors department at our local establishment, who know a lot about the Coleman lanterns and stoves and shotguns / rifles and ammo and really try to hel... |
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Tarptent Cloudburst The Cloudburst 2 was my first tent from Tarptent. I like the design, and it holds up well in rain and wind. It sleeps 2 comfortably and sets up pretty easily with as few as 3 stakes. It weight a ha... |
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Sling-Light Chair w/ body and kneck rest I purchased 2 of these initially for a 2 week hike. In the store, it seemed like a pretty good idea during a quick checkout. It's less than 2 lbs, so one of the lighter camp chairs available. It do... |
