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Benen Huntley (benen) - BPL Lifetime Member

My Locale South Australia
About Me I'm new to backpacking but love camping, rock climbing and the outdoors.
CityHighbury
StateSouth Australia
My PDF Gear ListBasic Gear List (summer and winter)

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All Forum Posts by Benen Huntley

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New dehydrator
Hey all, I bought a dehydrator the other day and tried some tomatoes and banana. The banana was sliced and cherry tomatoes halved. The book said about 8 hours for banana and 8 for semi of 12 for ...

In Food, Hydration, and Nutrition » New dehydrator
November 02, 3:51am
Carbon table
Very cool! does it pack down small?

In Make Your Own Gear » [share] Carbon table
October 28, 5:49am
Advice on primary three
I know exactly what you are going through as this is all fairly new to me also. I recently purchased an alcohol stove and 1.3l pot which significantly dropped our base weight and bulk of gear. Unfo...

In Gear Lists » Advise on primary 3
October 27, 7:57am
MSR
I use the MSR needle stakes because they came with my tent. I also have a few groundhog stakes for soft soil. They're both bomb proof. Why is everyone using shepherds hook stakes? Is it just th...

In GEAR » Titanium Tent Stakes
October 25, 4:04am
Pot and Pack
Most of it looks pretty good to me except your pack and your pot :)

In Gear Lists » My First Lightweight List--Please Critique
October 24, 4:37pm
Convertible Pants
Deleted. I'll keep my ideas to myself :)

In GEAR » I need a couple new pairs of Pants for this Spring & Summer...
October 24, 3:59pm
Sub Zero
Check out the Mountain Hardwear Sub Zero SL Parka. I have the jacket and love it. Is nice looking and ridiculously warm. I have s fair bit of MH gear and highly rate it all for quality, last and lo...

In GEAR » looking for down jacket
October 23, 4:38pm
Nice
Nice job getting a new pack! MLD make some very nice looking packs.

In GEAR » MLD Newt - First impressions
October 23, 8:15am
Hoser
The hosed comes in a 3L. Moosejaw were sold out when I purchased my other stuff though so I had to get a 2L

In GEAR » water reservoir for gravity filter
October 21, 5:35am
Interesting topic
That's a very interesting topic you've brought up there. I'd be interested to see what people have to say about it. Synthetic never seems an option because of it's poor compressibil...

In GEAR » Synthetics should have caught or surpassed down by now!! Try harder
October 21, 5:30am

All Reader Reviews by Benen Huntley

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Hermits Hut
I just purchased two WM Ultralite bags from HH and they arrived today. I got an email to say when they were shipped and the shipped free from America to Australia. Couldn't be happier.

In 1 - COMPANIES (Customer Service)
March 31, 6:36am
Western Mountaineering The Company
As was previously said. I also live in Australia and they will not allow american retailers to sell to us. Ridiculous. I was surprised that I managed to purchase 2 sleeping bags from hermitshut which ...

In 1 - COMPANIES (Customer Service)
March 23, 7:37pm