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I had very good luck with the Dr. Scholls "computer selected/fitted" insoles (half insoles, really). However, they are around $50.00 and I am not too happy with that aspect.

I used them in a sort...

I wouldn't hesitate to spray the bug screen with permethrin. For the most part, I would not choose to spray the canopy or the waterproof fly. No real reason for that, however.

Others have...

Energy useful to muscles is generally considered to be glucose from blood sugars resulting from the digestion of carbohydrates and/or the ketone bodies resulting from the digestion of fatty acids...

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It is the name of the game to find discrepancies with lists online. Food product manufacturers will change the ingredients from time to time, for example. When it comes to natural foods,...

The original nutritional data for the 7500 Plus foods is at

http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=18879



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You can find useful information at several places, or at least when I looked I did. I found a file "Calories per oz 7500 plus foods.pdf" and also an excel .XLS version of it. I still have the files,...

What aspect of "Strength to Weight" ratio is important? Compression, shear, torsion, tension .... ?

I couldn't have said it more tastelessly.... for the second time.

I was objecting to your lack of taste.

It seems permanent.

If you have naturally warm arms, or dold tolerant arms, the vest can be a good lightweight insulation layer. Certainly, if your arms are easily cold, avoid the vest.

so the definite answer is ...

If you have a problem with more or less the top two or one of the horizontal down tubes, you could imagine getting some more down and getting it inserted into those tubes or down channels.

There...

There is no reason why you have to make the whole thing out of "stretchy" fabric. You might not want the stretchy stuff around your feet, or you might not want the stretchy stuff up on your chest at...

AHA !! The Hanger Is Here !

I was wondering when a hanger would drop into this discussion and brag about the hanging solution, and that whatever isn't hanging is just nonsense.

This...

So, it seems to be true that adding insulation can't help but make it warmer but if you wear too much [insulation] into your bag so that you sweat, you may find yourself cold.........

You might...

I'm embarrassed that I mentally wrote off small vents as a foolish mistaken approach in the past.

There are some inflatable "Travel Pillows" that you can find. I disliked the ones I was able to get.

You can always put leaves or grass inside a stuff sack if you are wearing all of your clothes,...

Nice to see this old tet again. I used to see some of the local Bou Scout troops camping in these or set up on parade floats for some of the summer parades. By the time I was in Boy Scouts, these...

The whole thing is so light that setting it up and getting it lit in a wind can be a problem.

I put a small rock inside under those conditions to keep it from being blown over while getting it set...

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I made one from a satiny weight of polyester for my 2007 AT hike. However, I didn't take it since I made a RayWay quilt instead and was trying hard to keep the weight down.

I still have it, so if...

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Dow Corning sells silicone inks for screen printing and they may well work for silnylon as I have some silnylon stuff sacks with printing on them, and some silicone items with printing.
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The raw energy density of petroleum and cellulose based fuels is much higher than the energy density of any battery. Typically, a battery works with just the energy of changing the orbital parameters...

I made a Ray=Way quilt from his materials in 1997 for an AT hike. I departed Springer Mt April 15 and encountered light snow. I was warm till I got to Gatlinburg where I traded off the quilt for my...

Sorry, but Old Man Out knows what he is talking about. [rhymes]

The weight of a metal object depends on the product of the volume of the material multiplied by the density times the gravity term....

It is easy to make a titanium pot which is more resistant to burning food on the hot spots. Just make the pot thicker (and of course heavier).

If you made a stainless steel pot sufficiently thin,...