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Five weeks in Scotland
Jim and I are planning our next big hike - five weeks in Scotland. I'm sharing our info in case it's useful to others, and in case there are Scottish Hill experts...
5th Annual Gathering of Gear Geeks 2013: Henry Coe State Park, California
BPLers Gathering of Gear Geeks: Henry Coe State Park January 25-27th, 2013 Corral Trail Head to Manzanita Point Group Campsites 2.7 Miles Approx. Manzanita Point Camptsite Elevation 2,270 Ft. Daytime Temps: 60F...
Plains/desert in the fall/winter bikepacking list
Here is my set-up from a 4 day trip in western North Dakota in mid October. Expected conditions: High 55-80, record 90, low 35-50, record 25. Rain on 25% of the days....
Yosemite's Cathedral Range October 4-7, 2012
Dates: October 4-7, 2012 Location: Yosemite NP Trailhead: Cathedral Lakes Temperature: Low 20s to low 60s October 4 - After putting in a full day at the office, Mark and his brother...
Sierra High Route – The Trip of a Lifetime
For the last two years I had planned to backpack the complete Sierra High Route. I had read the Roper book, visualized his descriptions along the Skurka maps and day-dreamed quite often...
More than being "light". The beauty of simplicity.
I like going light, or SUL, not only to save my knees and have the general sense of physical freedom but I'm discovering that it's the simpleness of it that I'm just...
Sheperd’s Pass to Whitney Portal: A Variation on the standard JMT route (8/19/2011 to 8/29/2011)
I try and get to the Sierra every year for an extended backpacking trip. I have never done the JMT in its entirety although it is on my list of things to...
Test
I try and get to the Sierra every year for an extended backpacking trip. I have never done the JMT in its entirety although it is on my list of things to...
If you could only have one backpack......
What would it be. This would be as a carry on and for doing something like the AT, as well as for just bumming around the world. Lets say you could take...
Gear Primer for Newbies
Hey all, This year I've started building up my first set of gear. I'm a single, full-time student on a budget. I've been camping my whole life, but never backpacking. I have...
How often backpacking?
I'm curious: how many times do your troops backpack each year? I have a friend whose son is in a troop that's scheduled 1 backpacking trip in the last 3 years, and...
Alone in a vast Alaskan wilderness, seven teens fend off a grizzly bear—then try to stay alive
">> There are a couple of a saves each year in Alaska from SPOT alone, whereas there rarely more than one fatal bear attack a year << I don't understand your rationale....
Water bottle--cook pot--water treatment vessel
I'm looking for something that will do all 3. I'm picturing a SP 700 mug with a screw top or something like a mason jar made from aluminum or titanium. I have...
Are you "packing" while you are packing?
"Can we all just stop trying to explain why guns are or are not a good idea for other people ?!?" Ah, Ben, what you are witnessing here is a Clash of...
Friendly expertise on camping. Please READ!!
I remember when walking into a big REI storm was fun and you were excited to see what they had, but now I typically dart in for some Esbit, a pair of...
No love for Eco gear?
Just like everything else in this whole "green movement" they try to guilt trip us into buying something we don't want so they can look enviormentally responsible. Oh and don't get so...
Running pack for unsupported trips
I'm hoping that some of you who have done the JMT unsupported or similar things can tell me what pack you wore and why. I'm planning to head up to Vermont and...
New pack please help new to UL
I'm wanting to get back into backpacking I'm 30 weigh 165 and just did a 30 mile loop in the great burn proposed wilderness with my old pack. I carried way too...
trying to understand backpacking light
Hi, I'm a newcomer to these forums, and have been reading the gear lists with both interest and some confusion. I haven't been backpacking much in the last 10 years, but want...
Suggestions
So I'm trying to plan a 3 day trip for my brother in law who has never been backpacking before and his son who has never been backpacking before. I was thinking...
