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Richard Gless (rgless) - BPL Lifetime Member
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All Forum Posts by Richard Gless
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FS: NF Elephant Foot, InsulMat Torso sized pad, Thermo-Lite 2.0 Bivvy Sack, NF winter pants, miscellaneous Items for sale. PayPal (gift) only. Price includes shipping CONUS Send me a PM if you're interested. North Face Down Elephant's Foot half bag. This is a climber's "half bag&quo... |
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Coupling two NeoAirs together I attach two small NeoAirs together for my wife and I with a couple of loops of 1/2 inch webbing. The loops make a figure eight around the pads, one at one end and a second at the other end. If y... |
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Oh Man! I forgot my _______ again! For some reason I can't remember we traditionally ask "Did you bring the toilet paper? Did you bring the matches?" before we start the car on every trip. I don't remember why, b... |
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Fishing the PCT My experience is that seriously supplementing your food by fishing on the JMT doesn't work. I did the JMT many years ago when the fishing was better. We tried to supplement our food by fishin... |
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Lesser known spots in high volume areas I've always had really good luck using the following quidelines: 1. Anyplace with no established trail to it. 2. Anyplace where the trail is really steep or rugged. 3. In general, a... |
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Wildflowers in California Henry Coe has great wildflowers in the spring. With 3-5 days you could tour most of the park. |
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TP Burning Konrad, I understand your point. By the time my ziplocs get to be "detritus" bags they have been used and reused at least 2-3 times. How do you dispose of your plastic bags and other... |
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Packing out I've had rangers tell me that I shouldn't/can't burn my TP since the hot ashes from it might blow out of the firepit and start a fire. I find that if I have each day's TP in a smal... |
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Alter Ego backpacking gear update William, I think you are doing a pretty gutsy thing trying to start up this business. I agree the web site could use a lot of improvement, and there are lot of good suggestions in this thread. ... |
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GGG IV survey - comments Great pictures. It looks like it was a good trip. There is an additional overflow parking lot about a half mile down the road from the overflow lot you show. The ranger opens it up on busy wee... |
All Reader Reviews by Richard Gless
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ZPacks Hexamid solo tarp and HexaNet Seeing the stars at night is one of my favorite parts of backpacking so I wanted a two wall tent, bug net inner and rain fly outer. My first solo UL tent attempt was a Eureka Solitaire – too hard... |
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ZPacks Hexamid Solo Tarp and HexaNet Seeing the stars at night is one of my favorite parts of backpacking so I wanted a two wall tent, bug net inner and rain fly outer. My first solo UL tent attempt was a Eureka Solitaire – too hard... |
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Snow Peak LiteMax Snow Peak LiteMax Stove I bought a Snow Peak LiteMax this spring (2009) to replace my MSR Pocket Rocket and have been really happy with it, having used it for about 20 days now. Pros: 1. W... |
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Black Diamond Orbit I saw this advertised in Backpacker Magazine (yes, I still subscribe. Every once in a while I find something useful), and thought I’d check it out. I picked it up at REI since I was going on a hike ... |
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Therm-a-Rest Neoair I recently bought size small ThermaRest NeoAir Pads for both my wife and I. We were particularly interested in reducing pack weight while retaining or improving comfort. My wife went from a ThermaRe... |
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Merrell Chameleon Wrap GoreTex XCR About twelve years ago as part of my journey to lighten my backpacking load I went from my second pair of Galibier Mountaineering boots (really heavy) to a pair of relatively lightweight Merrell leath... |
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Backpacking Light Ti Esbit stove I've used my BPL Esbit stove for 2-3 day solo trips for two years now. I think its a great compromise of lightweight and efficiency. You do have to recognize the stove's limitations and use ... |
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Jack's R Better Mt. Rogers Quilt I purchased the Jack's R Better Mt. Rogers Quilt in large part based on the review by Shane above. I'd been looking at the possibility of using a quilt to cut weight for some time, and when J... |
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Therm-A-Rest Pro Lite 3 It's interesting how some products work for some people and not for others. I've tried the TorsoLite and the POE UberLite. They are just too short for me (I'm 5' 11"). On duff ... |
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Zpacks Z1 I have to agree with all of Jonathan's comments. I bought this pack after seeing it mentioned on BPL and checking it out on the web. It only took about a week to arrive after I ordered it. ... |
