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Please critique the safety aspects of my setup for cooking in the tent
Heading to New Zealand with a new tent and a new stove...looking for feedback on how safe my proposed system for cooking under the outer (fly) is. Seems well-ventilated to me, but...
Please critique the safety aspects of my setup for cooking in the tent
Heading to New Zealand with a new tent and a new stove...looking for feedback on how safe my proposed system for cooking under the outer (fly) is. Seems well-ventilated to me, but...
Please critique the safety aspects of my setup for cooking in the tent
Heading to New Zealand with a new tent and a new stove...looking for feedback on how safe my proposed system for cooking under the outer (fly) is. Seems well-ventilated to me, but...
Abbreviations
What are the following abbreviations? (1) 3 mil plastic sheeting (2) tent floor with 1,800 mm polyurethane coating (3) Breathability: 15,000 g/square meter/24 hours mil/mm= milimeter; 1 millimeter= approx 1/25 inch g=grams...
Rest Periods When Hiking
I'm interested in how other hikers time & manage their rest periods during the day. It's something I've not come to terms with yet. Ray Jardine in "Beyond Backpacking" chapter on "Supercharging...
Garmin inReach Mini
Garmin is releasing a smaller and slightly cheaper inReach called the inReach Mini: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/592606 https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/05/garmin-inreach-mini-satellite-tracker-in-depth-review.html Garmin lists the weight at both 3.5 oz and 4.23 oz (depending on where you look on...
winter in NY
That's another one of the great things about Harriman - 46,600 acres with hunting only in relatively small areas west of Rt 17! >I don't quite have the gear (yet) for real...
Northville-Placid Trail: From Past to Present
I started backpacking because of a dog. He was a big red dog of questionable descent, what the locals called a “Rock” (mixed breed Rottweiler). I had rescued him off the streets...
Ultralight Food Locker: Grizzly Bear || IGBC TEST VIDEO
.Ultralight Food Locker: Grizzly Bear || IGBC TEST VIDEO . Adotec Gear Products Bear Safety . Now if only it would get approved from Sierras/John Muir Trail.. Reasons some areas don't...
Altitude Sickness
I just got back from the Sierra where I had my rear handed to me in the form of altitude sickness. I usually have little more than a slight headache at 10-12K, ...
Our natiohal parks---by the Guardian
We've come to appreciate the perspective that the Guardian gives on many stories, and this one really hit home. It's an excellent discussion of the issues we face moving forward with our...
Testing Lab for Nutritional Supplements?
see next post ... Back story - When you take a statin it reduces your cholesterol production but it also reduces your ability to produce co-enzyme Q10 (and other cellular "building blocks")....
The new king of windshirts (by an unlikely candidate)
why not simply do the coffeefilter test if no one else can test it like Richard does? That would help much more in my eyes than a very subjective training test which...
Cooking fresh tortillas and pupusas on the trail
Fresh hot tortillas are one of my favorite things, but I never thought my comal, the traditional metal plate for cooking them over a fire or burner, made sense to carry in...
electrolyte supplements---capsules in particular--how many?
"OTOH, the guy who's drinking 10+ liters of water/day would be taking in a lot of potassium." For the guy who drinks 10 liters of water a day in all but the...
Food storage bags
Okay, so I know the usual recommended way is to prepackage everything into ziplocs and just add water. Living in Europe where backcountry means you pass a village once a day instead...
Simple Squares
I'm always looking for tasty 'bars' to use backpacking. Since most of my trips aren't long (usually 1-2 nights), I'm not too concerned about calorie per weight and such, I just want...
Surrounded by coyotes need help
Stay, if they wanted to get you (hint they probably don't) they'd get you just as easily hiking out. I'm no expert but a bunch of coyotes yapping around does not sound...
Jetboil Sol Review -- Complete
I've posted a few things leading up to this, but I've now completed my review of the Jetboil Sol.The new Jetboil Sol The new Jetboil Sol features a smaller, lighter pot in...
disposable ultralight water bladder
So I just had this idea to make a water bladder from something like polycro... but I wanted to test the idea without wasting all that time. I happened to see an...
