Lightweight Backpacking News: Digest No. 2

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Oct 22, 2014 at 8:14 am #1322018

Stephanie Jordan
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@maia
Locale: Rocky Mountains

Companion forum thread to:

Lightweight Backpacking News: Digest No. 2

Oct 22, 2014 at 12:18 pm #2143571

Damien Tougas
BPL Member

@dtougas

Regarding the Wild trailer… I guess Hollywood has to exaggerate for dramatic effect, but man, that thing is enormous!

Oct 22, 2014 at 2:42 pm #2143613

Barry Cuthbert
BPL Member

@nzbazza
Locale: New Zealand

According to Outside magazine, Cheryl Strayed still has some of the gear she used on her trip along the PCT, and it appears the movie production crew made an effort to be authentic.

It is a huge pack!

article here

Oct 23, 2014 at 12:42 pm #2143837

Tony Wong
BPL Member

@valshar
Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

Anyone have any thoughts or experience with the 8 oz hammock???

Sounds intriguing for a bit of campsite luxury.

Tony

Oct 23, 2014 at 12:57 pm #2143838

BlackHatGuy
Spectator

@sleeping
Locale: The Cascades

Arrowhead Equipment has had a hammock chair for quite some time now: http://www.arrowhead-equipment.com/store/p446/Bushman_Hammock_Chair.html (no weight listed though).

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the embedded video, which we've always been told that this site wasn't capable of doing.

Oct 23, 2014 at 5:15 pm #2143888

Rex Sanders
BPL Member

@rex

Arrowhead's Bushman Hammock Chair weighs 300 g (10.5 oz) in the lighter 1.1 oz fabric according to the review linked off the web page.

Embedded videos, audios, and other web features are allowed for feature articles, not for comment posts like this one. I included several MP3 files in my voice recorder article.

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