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some input on my current gear list please
i've been slowly getting some new gear to added to my old stuff so that i can do a 1-2 250 mile backpacking trips next summer, along with shorter weekend trips that...
UL Solar Battery Chargers
Check out www.solarworld.com for tiny light and cheap solar panels and chargers including one for button batteries ($13/.3 oz) and one that does 2, 3, or 4 AA or AAA's ($25/ 1.5oz)....
Gear List for family backpack: Mom, Boy (9), and Girl (5)
I’d welcome ideas regarding the following gear list and regarding backpacking with kids in general. My story is as follows: after many years of occasional recreational backpacking, starting at age 12 with...
Survival situations?
In your collective years of wilderness travel, in what emergencies have you been involved? Not stories you've heard, not things that have happened to people you know. What's happened to you or...
Stealth Camping
Companion forum thread to: Stealth Camping Learn how to stealth camp through minimizing your impact, concealing your camp and preserving solitude. Thank-You Ryan! I love reading your threads. Great read, lots of...
LightBench: A Laboratory Testing Procotol for Comparing the Performance of Flashlights and Headlamps
In this technical brief, we quantitatively evaluate the performance of lights considering brightness, battery life, and weight into an objective Lightbench Index.
LED headlamps, flashlights
Two places I've found excellent prices on lightweight headlamps and flashlights are www dot meritline dot com and www dot goldengadgets dot com. It is interesting that the high end stores get...
Great headlamps at Costco
We bought two a couple of weeks ago and went back to get more for our kids. 19.99 for two including the batteries. They are very, very bright @450 lumes. I...
Outdoor Gear and Disaster Preparedness
The recent flood in Boulder had me thinking: Being an outdoors person works well for disaster preparedness. Anyway..here's some random thoughts I had. May be of interest to some: http://www.pmags.com/outdoor-gear-and-disaster-preparedness (Yeah..I'm being...
Costco 3 headlamps for $7.99 (after coupon)
Saw a coupon in my Costco coupon book today for a 3 pack of headlamps. $9.99, with $2 coupon becomes $7.99. I didn't see them in my Costco in Delaware today, but...
Inward pull waist belt straps?
I have two packs with waist belts straps that pull inward. They are SO much easier to adjust than older, outward-pull straps. In fact I like 'em so much I even got...
SteriPEN batteries
Thinking about light headlamps recently got me also thinking about SteriPEN batteries, so I emailed them: Most of the SteriPEN units take 2x C123 batteries. Please verify that those units can also...
Worldwide Gear Manufacturers
In the interest of offering a selection of gear manufactures that will satisfy everyone I put together a list of gear manufacturers (that more or less cater to UL) from around the...
New High-Powered, Lightweight LED Headlamps from Princeton Tec, Petzl, and Black Diamond (Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2004)
New trends in headlamps: more efficiency out of high powered LED’s, some very nice usability features, and one company that fixes a bug but calls it an upgrade and design improvement instead:...
rechargeable batteries in Petzl headlamps?
so, I hear Petzl headlamps shouldn't be used with lithium batteries. are the Energizer NiMh rechargeable AAA's fine? Sure, just think you are going to get any where near the lenth of...
NiZn rechargeable batteries for headlamps and digi cameras?
Did a google search. Can't believe there's only one reference as of yet to NiZn rechargeable batteries on backpackinglight.com, and what's more I'm the one who mentioned them. Well since this is...
Princeton Tec Byte blem headlamps *cheap*
Sierra Trading Post has some Princeton Tec Byte factory blems on sale for $9.95. I got a couple and can't find anything wrong with them. 1.4oz on my scale without the batteries...
Pinchot Trail - PA
I hiked a post-Christmas 1-nighter with my brother-in-law Loc along the Pinchot Trail in PA's Lackawanna State Forest (near Scranton, PA). The Whole trail is a ~23 miles figure-8 loop, but we...
Do rechargeable lithium-ion batteries lose charge in the cold?
https://youtu.be/efDTP5SEdlo?si=ZRKxSyvmRAL5g6oj In my research of headlamps (I get obsessive and have ~70 pages of notes/reviews/test results), idle drain seems to have been reduced to inconsequential level in the most recent models. For...
STATE OF THE MARKET REPORT: LED Headlamps (2007)
Companion forum thread to:STATE OF THE MARKET REPORT: LED Headlamps (2007)
