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Bruce Tolley (btolley) - BPL Premium Member
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All Forum Posts by Bruce Tolley
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Cracked fingers from snow camping On winter trips any longer than an overnight, my skin on my fingers has started to crack and sometimes bleed. I gave up the use of alcohol based hand sanitizers, which mitigated 50% of the prob... |
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Source of balm containers I am looking to replace some of the small balm containers like the BPL store used to sell. Does anyone have an online source they can point me too? |
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Philmont Tents Odd Number of Boys To follow Youth Protection and PSR guidelines, no Scout is supposed to be in a tent by himself. So your odd Scout can be in a tent with two other Scouts. You could probably fit 4 or 5 scouts in... |
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+1 for Marmot and MH Down bags I own the MH Phantom and use it for snow camping in the Sierra Nevada mtns. I think the 0 degree rating is fairly accurate because I am a cold sleeper and I have slept warm in it on many nights dow... |
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bush buddy vs solo stove Since the SoloStove is not pretending to be a BushBuddy, it is not an issue of counterfeiting. But it is a case of copying, and if there is intellectual property and or invention(s) in the BB desi... |
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MH Direkt 2 4 season tent The new Mountain Hardware 4 season tent at 2 lbs 8 oz l(25 sq feet) looks almost too light to be true for a 4 season tent. From descriptions on the web, it appears to be double walled. Compare t... |
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Pot question. Short wide, tall skinny Are you cooking in the pot or just heating water? If the former, the short, wide pot works better for me. If just heating water, you are better off with the lightest pot you can afford. Tita... |
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PossumDown Gloves To the original poster, there are are no possum down gloves available on the site listed. |
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Possum Down Yes. I have been looking for a backup pair. |
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Dropping my Atmos 65 To the original poster, if you like everything but the weight, there is the Atmos 50 liter. :)) This would force you to reduce your kit a bit, keep all the features you like, and shave a pound ... |
All Reader Reviews by Bruce Tolley
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Big Agnes Sting Ridge 2 My usual solo snow camping shelter is a MLD duo mid with bivy sack. But last year I started doing base camping so I started looking for an affordable, relatively lightweight 4 season tent. After exa... |
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Black Diamond Ultra Distance The new BD poles need to be praised for applying design principle of avalanche probes to hiking poles to create a lightweight, foldable pole. The 120cm carbon fiber pole has a manufacturer's claim... |
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Arc'Teryx Gamma LT pants I bought these pants because out of the pletora of sub 16 oz. softshell pants on the market, they were about the only model that seemed to come with multiple zippered pockets (3), a built in belt, and... |
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Lightweight Backpacking and Camping by Ryan Jordan et al. I found Lightweight Backpacking and Camping for $24.95 in REI before I discovered the web site, so cannot fault it for repeating material on the web site. I had already read Ray Jardine's books so... |
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ULA Equipment After much comparative shopping, I bought a Relay Pack from ULA. It arrived only a few days after placing the order. After four short trips, the haul loop ripped out. I wrote a short email to ULA (... |
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Suunto Vector I bought this watch primarily as a watch and as an aid to navigation. More specically, my goal was to possess for a trek in the Rocky Mtns of New Mexico to have a compass to discretely double check b... |
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Osprey Aether 60 While other reviewers have noted that this pack is not truly lightweight, some of that extra weight is due to features that come in handy for winter treks. This pack has shovel pocket that you can act... |
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Hilleberg Akto The Hilleberg Akto is a relatively lightweight, one-person, double-walled hoop tent weighing in at a minimum 2 lbs. 14 oz., packed 3 lbs. 5 oz. (manuf claimed weights). I bought this tent for solo hik... |
