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What are your favorite FBC meals?
I'm looking for some suggestions for freezer-bag meals for my JMT hike next month. I have the book and have gone through the trailcooking.com website, but of course want to glean from...
What are your favorite FBC meals?
I'm looking for some suggestions for freezer-bag meals for my JMT hike next month. I have the book and have gone through the trailcooking.com website, but of course want to glean from...
What are your favorite FBC meals?
I'm looking for some suggestions for freezer-bag meals for my JMT hike next month. I have the book and have gone through the trailcooking.com website, but of course want to glean from...
Important Lesson’s You’ve Learned the Hard Way
Some of you may have read my trip report about my Pine Mountain trip. If so, you saw that I had learned a LOT the hard way on that trip. It got...
Diatoms clogging Sawer water filter
Just spent awhile in the Hoover and Yosemite wilderness. Despite being very clear, the lakes rapidly clogged all our squeeze filters requiring constant back flow cleaning and with mediocre results. One of...
Expedition food
Hi, I am planning a ski tour and looking for some advice with food. The tour is through fairly remote terrain and I will need to carry 12 days' worth of food...
cold quinoa / stoveless quinoa
hey all i'm thinking of going stoveless for an upcoming trip and was wondering if anyone has found a purveyor of quinoa that rehydrates adequately in cold water. i don't have a dehydrator,...
Midwest Gear List - Spring / Summer 2012
I'm pretty new to hiking, did a few weeklong trips last year and am planning on the same this year but with a lighter pack as much as possible. I'm down to...
Second stove choices...
I currently have and use a Coleman F1 ultralight canister stove - I got a great deal on a new one on Ebay and based on reviews here it seemed like a...
Titanium JetBoil - The Sol Ti
JetBoil are launching a titanium PCS system, the Sol Ti Premium Cooking System! Its priced at $149:95 and is due this spring. Weight 8.5 oz (240 g) * system weight does not...
The Effect of Cold on Gas Canisters
Companion forum thread to:The Effect of Cold on Gas Canisters Just wanted to add my voice in saying I thought this was a fantastic article, deciphering and explaining something that affects anyone...
4 day loop at Lake Mead
Background Each year my wife and I camp at Lake Mead for two weeks. We spend Christmas and New Year’s day with her family. I usually make time for a backpacking trip...
Multi Climate Sleeping Bags
I have not been camping or backpacking for many years, and have been thinking about getting back into it. I've just started researching gear. As I live in an apartment I have...
Lightweight Food and Nutrition (LEGACY POSTS FROM OLD FORUMS)
To open commentary on this topic, please refer to the following article by BackpackingLight.com Editor-in-Chief, Carol Crooker:Backpacking Food List: Protein-Powered Food for Sustained Energy Carol, This little gem caught my eye: "a...
Hiking with Reynaud's (cold extremities due to poor blood circulation)
As the season gets colder I'm looking for a way to alleviate Reynaud's in a backpacking friendly manner. Reportedly, the typical solution of just wearing warm mitts does not help, as blood...
Trolls?
What's up with the insane and inane gear questions lately? Am I just getting old or has the site been invaded by the lazy, or worse, jokers? I am looking for socks....
Beginners Gear List
I have a feeling I'm probably going to take a bit of criticism for some of my choices, but having started collecting backpacking equipment only a few months ago, and trying to...
Welding Blanket Under Alcohol Stove for Winter Conditions
> Delmar, your chart doesn't make good sense, because there is no continuous scale along the bottom axis. A bar chart would have been better. --B.G.-- Bob, using line-type graphics for categorical...
I need help adding weight
Here's my basic list: http://www.geargrams.com/list?id=10937 All of my trips follow that model. I typically hike sections of the AT. The lowest temperatures I hike in reach the twenties (but that's rare.) I...
Fire Maple FMS-118 Inverted Canister Sputter
My wonderful wife recently got me a Fire Maple FMS-118 for my birthday. (She knows I like to play with odd gear). For those not familiar with this stove it adds a...
