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Re: North Cascades - Summer Overall looks like a nice list. Styrofoam cup --- I have no experience, but wonder how well that will hold up. I like a plastic gatorade bottle as a sort of backup water bottle and for flavored... |
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Re: Beginner needs gear list advice for solo PCT section hike One other somewhat random thought, based on this comment: "Hopefully I will have gained some much needed experience with multiple overnighters between now and then." I'm leading a... |
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Re: Beginner needs gear list advice for solo PCT section hike It is indeed a pretty well-walked 75 miles. Navigation shouldn't be too bad, but any trail offers opportunities to go the wrong way, so I hope you have some land navigation (map, compass) expe... |
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Re: Boil in Bag Second that on Sarbar's book, plus she's got a new book coming out, hopefully soon. In addition you can probably find some other recipes that are adaptable to this easy form of prepara... |
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VVR and MTR? I did MTR rather than VVR last year; I heard a lot of good things about VVR, and if/when doing it again I'll go there to try it out. I picked MTR because it took a lot less time ... leave the ... |
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Re: Thru-Hikes + Food Allergies = Conundrum Per previous posts, you'll want to mail more packages than the average thru-hiker; it's do-able, but more important for you to have a reliable person at home doing your logistics, mailing t... |
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Re: Do hiking poles build upper body muscle? I thru-hiked the PCT last year and used trekking poles always. About a month into the trip I looked in the mirror after taking a shower in a motel room and was a bit shocked at how scrawny my uppe... |
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Re: Poncho/Bivy in the sierra's? If indeed the bivy isn't breathable, one issue you might have to deal with is insects, depending on exactly when you're there --- if the bivy isn't a credible place to spend your time t... |
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Re: PCT or AT first? "The PCT is completely doable as a first thru-hike." Agreed. The PCT is the only long hike I've done; I live in the West so it was a natural for me, but it was the one I really wa... |
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GPS, food "Any GPS recommendations?" If you get one with pre-loaded maps, check out the scale --- a friend doing the CDT this year got the Garmin Colorado and it has preloaded maps, but at 1:100... |
All Reader Reviews by Brian Lewis
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Ursack Minor The "Ursack Minor" is quite distinct from the traditional Ursack, in that it's not meant to be bear proof (or "resistant" or whatever). Instead, Ursack says it's "for... |
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Golite Force I use Golite shoes because the toe-box is shaped a lot more like the front of an actual human foot. More specifically, most trail runners or other shoes give me problems due to bunionettes (little to... |
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Montbell Thermawrap jacket For 3-season backpacking, my thermawrap jacket is my sole insulation layer, coupled in some limited cases with a thermawrap vest. It's just a fantastic piece of clothing in terms of both weight ... |
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Montbell Thermawrap Vest I have a size medium Thermawrap jacket and a size large Thermawrap vest; I probably should have reversed those to be able to layer the vest under the jacket rather than over, but it actually works fin... |
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Thermarest Neo-Air Like Dylan Carlson, I also used a Neo-Air (size regular for me) on a thru-hike. My thru-hike was of the Appalachian Trail, starting in late February (2010), so a lot of snow and cold weather in the f... |
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REI REI Peak UL Compact Hiking Poles I too had something over 3000 miles on my pair --- the majority of that thru-hiking the PCT in 2008 plus a variety of much shorter trips. I started my AT thru-hike with them (early in 2010), but just... |
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Memory-Map Navigator This is actually a comparison of two product alternatives for putting topographic software on a Windows Mobile platform smartphone with a true GPS. The 4/5 rating is for one of those, Memory-Map Navi... |
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Golite Versa Force Let me start by saying that my rating of '4' is tentative until I've done more miles in these. But as I found nothing useful in searching for reviews of currently-available Golite footwe... |
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ULA Axis Crampon I'm hoping to thru-hike the PCT next year, and one of many equipment issues for me was the question of whether to use crampons or not in the Sierras. I also do day hikes in "shoulder" s... |
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Western Mountaineering SummerLite I agree --- the summerlite is excellent. I frankly don't trust any individual evaluation of a sleeping bag temperature rating (32F in this case); so many things affect this, including not only th... |
