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Good Chocolate Milk
I like to drink a cup or a two of hot chocolate every night on the trip. Right now I use Nestle hot chocolate mix from Costco and its okay and is...
Done with stoves, no more
I have never heard of something like that tom. That sounds amazing. I think it could be very useful for living off the grid so you don't have to use as much...
I'm so confused re: daily calorie requirements
I've read perhaps 30 posts and a number of outside resources and confess to being very confused as I attempt to compute approximate daily calorie requirements. I tend to either starve or...
Sawyer Squeeze Water Filter
> Nice set up, Kristin! Thanks - it makes it REALLY easy. I just stand or sit comfortably, hold the dirty bag up with one hand, and squeeze. Gravity does a wee...
Pots and lids
Not a new topic by any means, but I'm looking for help. I've been using my Snow Peak 600 mug for a pot and a tin can bottom for a lid. The...
Multi-Vitamin for a long distance trek?
I probably should have added that I have no opinion about the link I posted. Laurie, Thanks for the helpful data! For the record I am expecting but I not pregnant. I...
New PCT 2011 gear list
Hey everyone, Ive been MIA for a year or so over hear in South Korea. Im going to give the PCT a go this summer and I was looking for a critique...
Weekender Gear List
After ~15 years without camping (much less backpacking), this year I did some car camping. On a day-hike on the CT during one such trip, I bumped into Gary who was thru-hiking....
School me… Alcohol Stoves
I'm currently using the Brunton Raptor for my cooking needs. I keep it pretty simple. I boil water and everything else doesn't require cooking. At 5 oz for the stove and 8...
steripens
i use a aquamira frontier pro with antigravity gear bag, but am looking into a steripen. are there bottles out there that are lighter than nagelene that would accomodate the prefilter? i...
Solid fuel users
I'd like to do a survey of who uses what kind of solid fuel (Esbit, Coghlan's, etc...), and what sort of volumes of water are you heating? I have personally found Coghlan's...
To slot an HX pot to restore factory burner to pot height or not?
I have recently acquired a Fire Maple FMC-XK6 HX pot (the slightly more than 1 liter pot that is essentially the same as the Olicamp 1 liter HX pot) in an attempt...
MYOG: SUL Remote Inverted Canister Winter Stove Update
Roger Caffin shows how to solve a fuel vaporisation process failure in his SUL remote inverted canister stove.
A Winter Water Challenge
Ice augar can weigh ~7lbs .....Not a backpackers "tool". The ice screws I mentioned before should be <200 g each. Maybe replace one hiking pole with an ice pike pole...
100 miles of adventure across the Bob!
Tom M sent me a proposed route a couple of months ago on caltopo link- basically a route that went from Montana Hwy 200 to Hwy 2 (bordering Glacier). Â We revised it...
Calling all fuel canister engineers!
Sorry guys, the weather forecast got busted. Â When I woke up Thursday in Fairbanks and all morning as we drilled (pushed, actually) four soil borings, my weather app said the cold front...
Heat Exchanger pots
"that makes sense – a cozy around the entire pot would be even better" And that is part of the efficient of the JetBoil - that enough heat is extracted from the...
Lightweight Bike Packs and Resources?
Hi there, I thought about doing a lightweight mountainbiking tour this summer, 2-3 days. Does anyone know some lightweight/ultralight bike pack resources? Or general sites on this topic with suggestions, etc? Thanks...
WEST MICHIGAN HIKERS LOKKING FOR SOMEONE TO HIKE WITH
My name is Thomas Hooker. I am a 56 year old family man looking for a fellow West Michigan hiking enthusiast to enjoy hiking with. I fell in love with the most...
James Peak Wilderness, CO Tour
I took a much needed 2 night solo trip this past weekend and saw quite a bit of different landscapes and animals. Here is my planned route. I started at the East...
