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Wool layers - sorry autocorrect on my phone.

Sobo starting early June. I hear some nights get cold in the mountains and I’m very sensitive to cold. I figure the Woolf too and bottom layer would...

For educational purposes Im Wondering how you repurposed the; hopefully reused, or then recycled all the scraped candle wax. Or did you just...

you might have a better chance if you post on the facebook group for 2023 thru hikers

It got to minus 23 F at my house at 1400 feet about 7 miles north of Mt Washington, I have seen -35 F in the past but normally its far less windy. It...

Merrel Moabs work great out west as the rocks are normally rougher so they get plenty of traction. On some of the rocks on the AT that are smooth, as...

Back in the pre-LED flashlight/headlamps days, when all lights were incandescent, and thus quickly drained batteries, candles were a way of getting a...

For a thru hike? Where and when? Is some of that for sleep?

What kind of season are you looking at? For me, here's where I'm at for "unworn clothing", including rain gear, for a multi-night trip: Winter -...

Bump. both still available

Forecasters say the coldest wind chill ever has been recorded in the continental US as an Arctic cold snap freezes a swathe of North America. The...

Thanks for posting peakbagger. Its reported that Mt. Washington tied or broke the wind chill record last night: "The wind chill — what the...

Thanks Leo...those are good points. I didn't think of explaining this earlier but now I realize I should have: my riding will be on a dual sport...

Something I learned long ago... don't worry about the temperature but the WIND. I've climbed Mt Washington quite a few times in the winter and the...

Agreed, I was more envisioning the mess made by taper candles used without proper holders. I've scraped a lot of wax off of shelter floors over the...

So does anyone else have this in their head after reading the thread title? :D

Is the past, the valleys nearby have gotten down to the 40 below and when I first moved up here in 1987 there would usually be two or three stretches...

That is nuts. Let’s not go there!

I've been glancing at the higher summits forecast occasionally over the last few days. It really is awe inspiring right now. I'm incredibly...

I've travelled by motorcycle months on end, 100.000km total. Whenever I was in need of a down bag (and yes, I did a few trips in winter), I found...

A tea light candle with something around it isn't likely to generate any wax or significant fire danger.

Thanks for the info. One among many good things about Western Mountaineering is they make some bags as right or left zip. I want a right zip and...

My experience with motorcycle camping is not recent, but I've always been attentive to size of packed materials. Were it my choice, in conditions...

Ditto the above. There's a greater temperature gradient across the down insulation. The outside gets colder than the synthetic bag. So more dew forms...

Condensation on the outside of the bag is just standard, it happens every time as long as the temperature drop between inside and outside, plus the...

Back in the day before LED headlamps, every shelter was stocked with at least several wine bottle "candle holders." A must when hiking in the fall.