Brothers and Sisters, may we have an AMEN! ?

[Eric Blumensaadt]

An AMEN! for:

1. Dyneema tents
2. carbon fiber hiking poles
3. DWR down treatment
4. Gore-Tex, eVent and other (fairly) good WPB laminates
5. Topo GPS devices
6. Rescue Beacon devices
7. digital cameras, especially in cell phones
8. LED bulbs and Lithium batteries
9. light hiking shoes (& boots)
10. comfortable synthetic clothes
11. (some) freeze dried foods
12. backpacking cottage industries
13. short trails, medium trails and long trails and the people who made them and those who maintain them
14. the many environmental organizations that fight daily to help us keep our natural world
15. patient spouses and partners that put up with our “Magnificent Obsession”
16. all the medicines that many need to “maintain” and enjoy backpacking (2 Ibuprofen + 1 Alleve = “IBELIEVE”)
17. The brave politicians who try to keep our natural habitat from exploitation
18. websites like BPL that keep us connected

And any other backpacking related things you would like to give thanks for.

 

[Diane “Piper” Soini]

Good weather and lots of flowers

[John Mc]

AMEN to trail angels!  When your hot, cold, tired, hungry, miserable, or sore…..nothing beats rounding a trail and seeing a trail angel.

[Bruce Tolley]

The Wilderness Act of 1964 which protects over 9 million acres of federal land.

[J R]

Hallelujah, I have seen the “light”.

Add: ziploc bags, pocket-sized water filters, 950fp down, 7d silnylon, titanium.

[Kevin Buggie]

+1 to public lands

[Tallgrass]

The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, signed into law by President Jimmy Carter, that protected over 157,000,000 acres (63,535,645 ha).

The Eastern Wilderness Areas Act of 1975, signed into law by President Gerald Ford, that protected 207,000 acres (84,000 ha) of eastern wilderness.

[Winston W]

1) all the awesome national parks our country has at only $80 per yr membership

2) all the technical fabrics now available to diy’ers by the yard

3) all the cool cottage companies innovating new gear

4) all the fun myog stuff

5) this online community and others to share stories, knowledge, experiences and buy/sell gear so we can experiment

6) that every mountain range and valley is viewable sight is only a spec of many, endless exploration and adventures available

[Gary Dunckel]

That I bought my lifetime “old guy” Nat’l Park pass for just $15 (they have lost a lot of cash on me). So cheap that I bought 2 – one that I keep in my truck, and the other in my MYOG cuben ‘wallet’.

[Eric Blumensaadt]

Gary,

Sadly I can’t find my $15. “Golden Eagle” Nat’l. Parks admission card. I think some unscrupulous car dealer worker took it from my car’s console.

[William N]

First, let me add my Amen! (I’ve been to China, Japan, the UK, Scotland and Ireland. China and Japan have some pretty spectacular places, and Scotland is really wonderful, but when people say, “Have you ever seen anything so magnificent?” I just agree and appreciate, but can’t keep from thinking about… well, it is a very long list.

I paid $80 for my lifetime old codgers NP Pass and yeah I worry about losing it, or someone seeing the senior and knowing it’s forever and cracking my car window to steal it. Of course I’ve never once seen a ranger looking in a car to see if the card is there.

And Amen! for wool. I grew up in Michigan with cotton as the only option. Pantyhose and baggies on my feet made ice fishing less like hanging out with Robert Scott. Wool doesn’t stink. I thanked every sheep I saw in Dorset on Wessex Ridge Trail until there were people around giving me odd looks.

[Diane “Piper” Soini]

Amen for this:

And this:

[AK Granola]

For good friends that love to hike with me! For the still vast spaces in my home state that allow unlimited adventuring. For lighter packs that help make it possible. For today’s conservationists who are still keeping public land protected. For mosquitoes that pollinate wild blueberries and feed songbirds, frogs and dragonflies. Will anyone else join me in appreciating mosquitoes? For Deet.

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