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Miguel Arboleda
(butuki) - MLife

Locale: Kanto Plain, Japan
Arctic 1000 Gear List and Evaluations on 09/20/2006 10:15:35 MDT Print View

Have to ask again, is an article about what was used, how gear worked, and photos of the trip in the Arctic 1000 still in the works? Three months have already gone by. Now, I know that retouching the photos would probably take the longest to get through, but surely a good gear list might be offered a little sooner?

Hoping for something before the snows start blowing!
Ben 2 World
(ben2world) - MLife

Locale: So Cal
Re: Arctic 1000 Gear List and Evaluations on 09/20/2006 10:44:53 MDT Print View

Maybe their lawyers are holding it up??? :)

Edited by ben2world on 09/20/2006 10:45:27 MDT.
Jeroen Wesselman
(jeroenman) - F

Locale: Europe
Arctic 1000 Gear List and Evaluations on 09/25/2006 06:12:01 MDT Print View

I am still hoping for the (long awaited) update myself. I just returned from Scotland and bought the TGO magazines of September and October and the both had a feature on the Artic 1000 trip with photo's and stories and gear evaluations. I was a bit surprised to see this in a British magazine first.
As a dedicated folower of the Artic 1000 expedition I am a bit dissapointed that we have to wait so long for updates and then it appears in a British magazine first (which i think is hardly available in the US).
I gave up looking at the Arctic 1000 site for updates.
John Shannon
(jshann) - F

Locale: Texas
Re: Arctic 1000 Gear List and Evaluations on 09/25/2006 07:39:34 MDT Print View

Yes, very surprising we'd hear about it in a British magazine before anything is available to subscribers to either the US magazine or this site.
Miguel Arboleda
(butuki) - MLife

Locale: Kanto Plain, Japan
Re: Arctic 1000 Gear List and Evaluations on 09/25/2006 08:50:59 MDT Print View

Surprising and just a bit insulting. Quite a number of people religiously kept up with what was going on, including some people who were sponsors of the trip. Sometimes I feel that being a paying member of the BPL community means simply being a gear guinea pig and nothing else. Really too bad.
J R
(RavenUL) - F
Re: Re: Arctic 1000 Gear List and Evaluations on 09/25/2006 09:30:11 MDT Print View

Is anyone really surprised?

Seems like par for the BPL course.

But keep the faith because eventually someone from "staff" will finally lower themselvs to respond to the little peoples clamor with something vague and condescending like "Calm down, breathe, we hear you. We are working on it. Here, eat some cake."
Dale Wambaugh
(dwambaugh) - M

Locale: Pacific Northwest
Re: Re: Arctic 1000 Gear List and Evaluations on 09/25/2006 13:56:47 MDT Print View

Mr. Tang said, "Maybe their lawyers are holding it up??? "

Naw, stepped in a hole and turned an ankle.
Andy Dixon
(sideshowandy) - F
Artic1000 in TGO on 09/25/2006 15:11:53 MDT Print View

don't worry if you can't get a copy of TGO - the features simply fleshed out what has already appeared here and on artic1000, no new information was published in TGO.