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Spring, fall, bears North of Neals Gap are definitely interested in packs and tents year round. Chased one away from the tent 3 times only to wake up with the bear a few inches away from my face...

IMHO Yes, they are. Only pad I have slept comfortably on without having to wake up with hip and shoulder pains all night long. I love mine. In really cold weather you may still want to put a thin...

I hadn't heard anything but recommendations to use lithium batteries since they last so much longer. I wrote Princeton Tec and here's their response about using lithium batteries in an Aurora.
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The place I play tennis at started a contest for us as individuals, not teams, and called it The Biggest Loser. Last Saturday was 2 months for me and I am down 34 pounds and 6 inches off of my...

The Chrysalis is a little heavier than I prefer for a 1 man tent. The MSR tent you linked to looks to be of very similar design to the Canyonlands tent that The North Face made a few years ago. ...

It's not very far in from Neels Gap (a little more than 3 miles), but one of my favorite spots on the AT in Georgia is tenting at Rock Spring Gap. Good water source a couple hundred yards up the...

All that'll do is get you a trailname...:D

Based on previous years you should expect temperatures to get down close to 0 F for a couple of nights. Probably below freezing for quite a few nights into the next month and a half. There will be...

I've cooked under the vestibule with a canister stove. I've eaten foods that don't require cooking a lot more times than I have cooked under the vestibule though, and I have cooked out in the rain...

You should have come on down a few hundred yards. The winds howled in the tree tops but we were pretty protected by the rhododendron and just plain being down as much as you can get in Three Forks. ...

Congrats on doing the thru this year. My wife and I may be up on Springer Sunday around mid day. I'll be looking for you to give you a good sendoff.

Hiking Blood Mountain Southbound more than makes up for the approach trail.

Traffic during Octoberfest is horrendous, can take 2-3 hours just to get the last couple of miles into the couple of blocks of town. Lots to see and do as long as you enjoy drinking beer, moving to...

I love doing this section of the trail, hope you have a blast!! By a week do you mean a 5 day week, a 7 day week, or are you using both weekends and taking 9 days? If 5 days then IMO you are biting...

I spent this past weekend (Mar 2-4) on the trail around Springer. Saturday night it got down into the teens with a wind that sounded like a jet engine sitting in the top of the trees. I was going...

Most of your list seems weight conscious. I have a Bora 80 but haven't used it since I got my hands on a ULA P2 about 4 years ago. I keep it to let my friends without gear use when they go with me....

You don't have to make your own alcohol stove. If that's all that is stopping you they are very inexpensive at www.antigravitygear.com and I saw demo's today of their stoves at Amicalola State Park....

That's not a lot of calories per day. I haven't researched to add up what you might consume on a typical day, but I think you should. I think you will be feeling very drained of energy after a few...

Sounds like it might be Three Forks or Justis Creek to me. Three Forks has a beautiful spot for camping and small waterfall nearby. It's just over 4 miles in though. Justis Creek is 13 or 14 miles...

It's been a few years but the US govt made the manufacturers take the filters off of the market that also had the chemical treatment to purify the water. Back in the timeframe you bought your...

If memory serves me the best information I found was at backpackinglight and had been written by Dr. Ryan Jordan. It's been several years so forgive if I have the name wrong. Positive about the...

I was 240 pounds before I lost a bunch of it this year. Couldn't get a decent night's sleep on a 1" pad due to pain in hips and shoulders. Switched to a Big Agnes Dual Core Insulated 2.5 inch and...

I failed to mention in my earlier post that you need to wait the full time indicated by Aqua Mira, Aqua Pure (Iodine based methods), or pretty much any of the purification methods before you add...

I second the silnylon bag. Years ago I used a nylon bag and kept everything in ziplocs inside it. With a heavy dew or the slightest rain it was inevitable that anything other than a store bought...

I heard about Frogg Toggs several years ago and ordered the pants and jacket. I didn't like the noise they made, and liked even less the wet back. My shirt typically gets wet on my back due to the...