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    Brooks Range Mountaineering

    I'm looking for someone who has information to offer about the Brooks Range Mountaineering down bags. Specifically the "Drift 0" down bag. I can't find a review anywhere. The bags are typically the...
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    Thanks Zippy. Your insight gives me a good idea...

    Thanks Zippy. Your insight gives me a good idea of what the place may be like. I will give em a call.
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    Free State Hiker Hostel

    You'd think after a decade Id've learned how to search this site oy vey!

    I'm hearing from a semi reliable source that the spring has dried up at Ensign Cowall Shelter, big surprise right. Anyway,...
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    Heet burned more efficient for me (in a Trangia...

    Heet burned more efficient for me (in a Trangia stove). Though it's hard to say because I'd mix and match denatured with Heet in my fuel bottle. Whichever was available along the way would end up in...
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    I hiked with a guy who gave up his shelter for an...

    I hiked with a guy who gave up his shelter for an umbrella. No kidding. He'd wait out summer thunder bumpers with his umbrella after building a huge campfire. After the bumper rolled thru he'd build...
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    Saw this from a dude I'm subbed to on YT ...

    Saw this from a dude I'm subbed to on YT

    http://youtu.be/p3FdRQ885S4
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    I hiked a while without a sleeping bag. A bunch...

    I hiked a while without a sleeping bag. A bunch of us thru hikers posted them ahead in Erwin. I had a silk liner though. All being said the weight savings only added up to a few gulps of carried...
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    I never saw a bear in the dead of winter anywhere...

    I never saw a bear in the dead of winter anywhere in the Maine backcountry. I've hiked the 100 mile in December twice, once when I was 15. It was brutal, but I'd do it again.
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    If by accessibility you mean car then yes you are...

    If by accessibility you mean car then yes you are right. Unless of course the road is flooded, or made impassible by mud, or there is any amount of snow on the ground.
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    When the paper companies don't plan to farm trees...

    When the paper companies don't plan to farm trees along their roads for a certain amount of time they pull the bridges, and culverts. A tote road that the trail crosses in the 100 mile may not see...
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    Depends really. As a long distance winter hiker I...

    Depends really. As a long distance winter hiker I once went 33 days without seeing a single human being on trail, not a one. More times than I could ever count, a week or two would go by on trail...
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    Get real dude. I'd rather have a "destroyed" NF...

    Get real dude. I'd rather have a "destroyed" NF any day (which is your over fantasized opinion) than live under the kind of hardcore governmental rule of law you get a woody thinking about. You...
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    That statement in itself is sad, however it does...

    That statement in itself is sad, however it does hold water. If it was "just as easy" then maybe "Joe bag o' donuts" wouldn't be so pissed off in the system.
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    When you tell a blue collar working class guy to...

    When you tell a blue collar working class guy to "get off my [their] ass and do something about it" do you NOT expect to strike a nerve? I mean seriously, you expect that person to bow out? The fact...
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    Anyone who tells me to "get off my ass and do...

    Anyone who tells me to "get off my ass and do something about it", then tells me in the same breath that they are "not accusing you [me] of anything" deserves zero respect from me. I won't even ask...
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    Did you stand by and do nothing? Or did you put...

    Did you stand by and do nothing? Or did you put forth an effort to stop this behavior?
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    Sadly, I have to agree. But it goes beyond that...

    Sadly, I have to agree. But it goes beyond that with "Government involvement". The entire housing bubble was a government ploy. Give someone cable TV, a toaster oven, and a house. That person will...
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    That's hilarious! As many Americans that want to...

    That's hilarious! As many Americans that want to can collect Food Stamps. 25 million, 35 million, 50 million...But step out on trail and "scree" will report you. Get real dude. You think everyone...
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    March 1st 2013 is on a weekend. That weekend...

    March 1st 2013 is on a weekend. That weekend their should be about 150 hikers starting off from Springer with intentions to hike to Maine. I'm not sure you understand just how full the woods will...
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    Honestly the thing I missed most was central heating. All of my hikes were thru winter, which involved reaching Springer in spring. Save one hike where I reached Springer mid February, I would dream...
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    Inspirational event. I don't know what to say but...

    Inspirational event. I don't know what to say but that. See you in the mountains.
  22. These bags rarely go on sale. And by rarely I...

    These bags rarely go on sale. And by rarely I mean almost never. Until they start outsourcing these bags to China don't expect to find a Western Mountaineering bag sale that will save you more than...
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    Poll: Like losing the AT a mile from the lean-to, on a...

    Like losing the AT a mile from the lean-to, on a night hike, in an early november freezing cold rain storm, without a tarp. Who needs LSD when you can get that good ole hypothermia high for free.
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    Here's an old picture of "the family from the...

    Here's an old picture of "the family from the north" from when we were leaving Partnership shelter just a couple days after Christmas 01'. The Sisters are pictured as well. The sisters and I, along...
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    Krazy Glue bandaids hand sanitizer. ...That's...

    Krazy Glue
    bandaids
    hand sanitizer.
    ...That's really it.
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