Yes! You can sleep with it in. You just take it out 2 times in a 24 hour period (or more if your flow is really heavy), empty the blood and rinse/clean it and put it back in...super great! I...
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Yes! You can sleep with it in. You just take it out 2 times in a 24 hour period (or more if your flow is really heavy), empty the blood and rinse/clean it and put it back in...super great! I...
I found out about The Keeper in 2000 and the Pstyle in 2012. Both of these low-tech innovations for women have had a dramatic and positive effect on my life.:banana
I usually have a fly in my hiking pants; so I can still easily leave my pack on by just unzipping. When I wear shorts with no fly, I leave my pack on but undo my hipbelt. I then lower the pants...
Ditto about the abundance of water on the AT! However, I was also able to use my Diva Cup on the CDT in areas with very little water by being a little more creative and planning better...important...
I'm just the optimistic type...
This was usually true for me, too. But some women need to empty it more frequently. On super heavy flow days, I sometimes had to change it every 6 to 8 hours (still only 3 or 4 times in 24 hours...
It looks like he last posted on Trail Forums on the 20th... Maybe he's out on a training hike?
I used the Keeper in 2000 for my thru-hike and never went back to tampons. I used that same Keeper until 2010 when I got a Diva Cup. Once you get the procedure down it's super easy (and obviously...
Ditto on the seamseal dots on the floor...works great, adds no bulk.
A nice all around pocket-sized camera is the Canon SX260. It has a good cmos sensor and a 20X optical zoom. Its picture quality isn't rated as high as the S110, but it's much less expensive and has...
How to use the pstyle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilum5Rp5Elo
Where to purchase one: http://thepstyle.com/?gclid=CLLwp8eCqLUCFQSpnQodAiEA_Q
It really is a great device. I've used mine...
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When I was a little girl we would travel to Bristol, TN for family reunions. Often the family would drive up to Roan Mt for a picnic, and we would run down the trail exploring the woods. My Daddy...
I was just trying to clarify that Goat Haunt was on the Highline Trail. Fiddlehead's comment made it sound like Chief Mtn and Goat Haunt were the same place-- "goat haunch or whatever they call it...
Goat Haunt is the terminus along the Highline Trail; Chief Mountain is the alternate terminus at the border crossing.
I remember being disappointed when we realized that the Highline Trail was...
I don't think anyone was implying that we need to force diversity on the trail. But I do believe most hikers are willing to share the wilderness with others, and it would benefit us all if more...
It's difficult to know that you want something if you don't really know that it exists (or even if you do know that it exists but don't really know what it is or how it might relate to you). I think...
I worked at a wilderness program with adjudicated teenagers (i.e. "hoods in the woods") for 11 years. Approximately 80% of our students were poor, inner-city African Americans who had had extremely...
It can also be really warm...just depends.
MJW155, the AT has so many road crossings that it's possible to day-hike the entire thing (even though it's possible, most hikers would probably rather backpack some of the longer/harder roadless...
While this may have been both unpleasant and unexpected for you, it doesn't mean "the trail sucked." It simply means that the way you chose to interpret your experience led you to perceive that the...
We headed southbound late in July of 2000, and we encountered many of the early NOBO finishers. Every one of them asked me some version of "Do you have a trail name?", and I would answer "not yet." ...
I've had good experiences with my Micro Spikes on hard packed snow and on ice on both the AT and the CDT. Helps get a grip when there's little else to rely on! Of course, my trekking poles are even...
It was a very cold -15 degrees F on the AT camping at Roan High Bluff (NC/TN border) in January 2000. Later that year on my SOBO thru-hike it was -8 degrees F at Gooch Gap Shelter (GA) on the AT in...
TYPO correction from above post: ...and what we'd do if either wanted or needed to leave the trail....