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Re: Tents: speed set-up contest
Franco: exactly that tent, set up exactly that way (quick job on the photo search!). We were highly motivated and had tweaked our performance each night for 2 weeks. She was the best camping...

In Philosophy & Technique » Tents: speed set-up contest
March 07, 6:25pm
Re: Tents: speed set-up contest
Good idea! 20 years ago in an Interior Alaska trip, we were using a 3-pole Jansport Yellowstone free-standing dome. And for fun, and motivated by the squitters, we'd time ourselves. Got do...

In Philosophy & Technique » Tents: speed set-up contest
March 07, 3:30pm
Re: Wide mouth bottles
Dougie: Good tip. I've been bumming that I didn't set aside more wide-mouthed Evian bottles before they went narrow-mouth. As an occasional caver and a frequent road-tripper, a Steripen i...

In GEAR » Wide mouth bottles
March 07, 3:24pm
SciFi
>"It's a water filter combined with a thigh master! Two - Two - Two products in one!" Like Ken commented early on: The Stillsuits from Frank Herbert's "Dune" - swe...

In GEAR » "New product that radically shifts how backpackers approach field hydration"
March 07, 3:19pm
Re: Sports equpment in the overhead?
I'm with you Eric. Poaching overhead space on your way to the back of the bus puts your luggage at risk of (me) placing it in the aisle (and therefore it being gate checked at the last minute).

In General Lightweight Backpacking Discussion » TSA to allow pocketknives, some sports equipment
March 07, 1:50am
Or just metal rods.
It doesn't even have to be bimtallic in the traditional sense of two alloys continuously bonded to each other. Simply two metal rods triangulated with a narrow base would, if allowed to pivot, ...

In Editor's Roundtable » Thermal Feedback in Upright Canister Stoves
March 07, 1:45am
Re: Re: The Chemical Engineer gets pedantic. And no one is surprised.
>:"Fair question. I was including the requirement to heat the fuel up from, say, 20 C to wherever it boils." Got it. While for fuels gaseous at ambient temps (propane, often butane...

In Editor's Roundtable » Thermal Feedback in Upright Canister Stoves
March 06, 3:55pm
The Chemical Engineer gets pedantic. And no one is surprised.
I like the article and the helpful overview it gives. I did however tweak on the sentence, "The higher the boiling point, the more energy is needed to vaporise the fuel." and not just b...

In Editor's Roundtable » Thermal Feedback in Upright Canister Stoves
March 06, 10:53am
Re: Thermal Feedback
>"I'm a stove user, not a designer, but could you make some sort of a hybrid approach to preheat the feed tube? I'm thinking of a small cup that would hold 10-15 ml of alcohol that ...

In Editor's Roundtable » Thermal Feedback in Upright Canister Stoves
March 06, 9:57am
Re: Re: Re: Best tea with no caffeine for the Sierras?
>"The indiginous people say it helps them with altitude. " Not naming names, but someone I know spent time in Bolivia. When they weren't providing medical care, they'd hike...

In Food, Hydration, and Nutrition » Best tea with no caffeine for the Sierras?
March 05, 11:19pm

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