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Ryan Jordan (ryan) - BPL Staff
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All Forum Posts by Ryan Jordan
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Safe Tramping & Big Boots The NZ culture of big boots for safe tramping is a funny one. There is a similar culture here in the Western US mountains during the winter when you're off trail, with or w/o snowshoes. But ... |
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Forum Policy Update etc. Hello all, I am leaving now for the Wilderness Trekking School course in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness, but will be back online next week. Here's what we have been looking at: 1. Bec... |
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joint pain / zero drop Mark -- I concur. When I first started wearing zero drop shoes, I experienced quite a bit of calf pain high in the calf, where the tops of my calves attached to the back of the knee. But the pain r... |
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Alpacka Dry Suit Things are just getting cold up here so I'm now switched out of my rainwear and splash suits and am packrafting with dry suits again. Alpacka sent one to us for review, and I had the chance to ... |
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Cold Weather Packrafting - Hand & Feet Solutions When I'm packrafting, I usually opt for a shoe that drains well above all else (like the Salomon Tech Amphib). If I'm trekking any meaningful distances, then I just wear the shoe that I lik... |
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BPL Forum Posting Policy Revision in Light of Recent SPAM Attacks In recent days, backpackinglight.com, along with forums across the internet during the same time, has been hit with an automated forum spam attack from newly upgraded spamming software that is beco... |
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RX100 Filter Adapter @Kirt - An adapter from Jens Färber (faerberj@gmail.com). It's a simple machined plastic ring with double sided tape that sticks right onto the camera front. It's "weightless" (!... |
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Re: Re: Anaconda-Pintler & Sony RX100 @Tony - The RX100 offers remarkable image quality for its weight. The photos here don't do it justice. Something weird happens when the photos were published online at BPL and I can't fi... |
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Anaconda-Pintler Thanks for all of your kind comments. Words and even pictures can't convey what I feel about this place. It's incredible, and reminds me of Alaska. The spaces here are very big. |
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Re: Re: Re: Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness: Photo Essay @regultr: I don't have a food list, but there was nothing unusual here. The usual snacks for daytime (dry meat, cheese, chocolate, nuts), cereals with freeze dried fruit/nuts/cream for breakfas... |
All Reader Reviews by Ryan Jordan
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Jolt Gum You guys are rookies. Look at the times at which you are posting. I consumed four pieces of Jolt two hours ago and look at me, still going strong at 2 am. There is a weird flavor to it, but I ca... |
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Mike Clelland! GOO Energy Gel I've used Mike's, and made my own per his recipe. It's nasty. The color, I mean. Like a pukey green. But then again, that may very well provide some of its social appeal when hiking or skiing in... |
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Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) OK, I'm partial. I grew up in Seattle. For a kid who dreamed about the wilds endlessly, my Dad taking my family from our home in the burbs to Capitol Hill was a real treat for me. I have fond me... |
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Complete Walker by Colin Fletcher If you love to WALK and you haven't read this book then you are (1) not only missing out on a rite of passage that qualifies you to even claim that you're a backpacker, (2) but also ignoring what may ... |
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Black Diamond Winter Bivy I have a few Epic bivies, one from Oware, one from BD (Lightsabre) and one from Bibler (this one, the Winter Bivy). They are both great in the summer, especially in rainy weather, where the Epic treat... |
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ULA Equipment I've known Brian Frankle for a few years. Recently, Brian made backpacks for us for the Arctic 1000 expedition. He was very attentive to our feedback, delivered on time, made adjustments as needed, an... |
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Six Moon Designs Essence Welllll, I must say, I think PJ did a fine review above, but if you're looking for additional reading insight, I don't think I can follow up. I feel like the local coffee shop guitar player with a bad... |
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ULA Equipment Relay I love the Relay. It's my favorite pack for multi-day mountain running because it's so small (tucks into the lumbar) and shaped so well (hourglass) for running. Improvements could be made by adding... |
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Montrail Vitesse This is my go-to shoe for all of my longer unsupported/no resupply treks where I absolutely cannot have a shoe fail en route. I've worn through about six pair of Vitesse now, all of them had more t... |
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Inov8 Mudclaw O'330 Far and away my absolute favorite light shoe for what the Brit's call "fell running" but what I might call "tundra" trekking. It's great in soft ground (tundra, mud) but abysmal on trails and slickroc... |
