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- Sleeping Layer
- Mid-March Start Clothing - Need Advice
- Another 2017 AT Gear List
- cell phone power
- Suunto Ambit 2
- Zpacks Arc Zip in cuben vs Zpacks Arc Haul in dyneema?
- Switching My Cooking Gear?
- MLD Gear Weights - What Did Yours Weigh?
- Stansport Self Inflating Pad?
- ~2" diameter x ~13" packed sleeping pads
- A warmer layer
- Cup\Mug with a 3" \ 76mm internal diameter?
- Down jacket sizing and fit - tall and skinny
- Changing: Smart Wool to Darn Tough
- Shopping for my first rain gear (first non military) and need some help
- Sleeping bag, compression bag?
- Any pros or cons with Cabela's socks?
- Footwear on the AT
- Side sleeper pillow options
- Ultra-Sil Dry Sack... isn't
- Any Experience with the Big Agnes Double Z Sleeping Pad? Will I freeze?
- Your First Undestructable Pair Of Hiking Boots (Lightweight, High Friction)
- Gloves? Yes, no, maybe?
- AT Thru-hike Gear List 2018
- Sleeping Bag Advice
- Osprey sizing... wild
- Ul toilet paper?
- Kelty Tuck 20
- Kelty Tuck 20
- Marmot Ion vs Western Mountaineering Ultralite 20F bags
- Anyone use the S2S bug pyramid inner net?
- Removable pack D ring?? Where can I get one?
- How do you carry your large smart phone, camera etc....need access without removing p
- 10F zPacks + 30F Enlightened Equipment = <0F System?
- Good external battery that will last me six days on the trail
- Thru-Hike Fuel Canister Resupply
- I'm becoming a gram weenie
- Jet Boil
- Trip report
- Photographers?
- Backpack: Osprey Kyte vs. Ariel ???
- I need to drop weight in the sleeping bag department...
- Video: Appalachian Ultralight Custom Cuben Fiber Backpack
- Poo shovels
- Running out of time for a sleeping pad!
- Tarptent Customer Service
- Which Chacos?
- Good Cell Phone (prefferably Android) For Use while Backpacking
- How Do You Pack Your Tent?
- Guthook's Guides apps news and updates
- HDPE and Ohm 2.0
- Arc'teryx Norvam SL
- Average initial gear $$$ investment
- Golf gloves for hiking?
- Roll it all up in one?
- Anti-chaffing GOO, what's it to YOU?
- Bear bags
- Piecing together a hydration system...
- Borah bivy users?? Argon vs cuben???
- Name Brand zero, Cheapo Brand one, Confusing?
- Sleeping bags w/pad sleeves
- In search of a sleeping bag
- Punching a few holes on Tyvek of my tent footprint:
- WTB Altra Stone Guard Inserts
- Recommendations for add-on hip belt pouches
- Ursack S29 AllWhite is...ALL white
- Another gear list, NOBO '17
- Ultralight gear for 2017
- Looking for Feedback on Footwear
- Zelph Starlyte 3 Proto Test Report
- lightest weight stuff sack or compression sack for sleeping bag
- CT 2017 Gear List
- July Colorado Trail Gear List 2017
- Galaxy S7 vs S7 Active
- Prioritizing gear changes
- Best inexpensive gear scale......
- SMD guylines
- REI Magma 10
- Not Ultralight, but not Ultraexpensive, 12lb for around $300.
- How is NeoAir Xlite (Reg) folded for repacking?
- Anker or Goal Zero solar... or both?!?
- Packable bag for kid?
- Lantern/dome light for tent?
- High Sierra?
- Cascade Carbon Fiber Trecking poles @ Costco.. $29
- packin up the air mattress
- OR Helium or Patagonia Torrentshell?
- 43 Brands with lifetime warranty...
- Are you counting your steps?
- Western Mountaineering Megalite
- Rethinking cooking gear.
- Moving from Lonepeak 2.5's to 3.0's
- Tent Help
- yet another pack weight thread
- 2 Person Quilt
- Versa Flow Light-Weight Water Filter System - 80%off on Amazon
- New Sawyer filters?
- Thermarest z-rest
- New Quilt question 10D or 20D
- Down jacket losing its down fibers
- Hard Shell Recommendations
- REI has some fantastic deals right now
- Another reason to buy from our great cottage mfg such as Ron at MLD....Top this for s
- GPS recommendations
- Warmer pad warmer bag
- What's your favorite piece of equipment or gadget?
- Does lowering your light source while night hiking help depth perception?
- March Trowel Madness Time is Now!
- Klymit Static V2
- My absolute nightmare experience with John Stultz and bearpaw wilderness designs!
- Speedlaces
- 32 Degree Rain Jacket at Costco
- Darn Tough on Massdrop
- Gear List For April 14th Start Please Critique
- My experience with the trail shoe: Saucony Excursion Trl 9
- self-poofing fabric
- Zpacks is on point.
- Filter + water purification?
- Sleeping Bags
- BA Fly Creek UL1 or 2 ?
- Altra after market footbeds
- 50+\~ 60 miles late next week in SNP suggestions?
- Puffy---with hood or not?
- Gear Recommendations for The Whites
- Ultralight Portable Charger Options
- waterproof stuff sack experiences
- JetBoil MicroMo
- Anyone try out the new LaSportiva Akyra?
- Altra Olympus 2.0 have a beefier toe guard? Any users?
- pot cozy materials
- Does Sierra Trading Post ever give site wide coupon codes anymore?
- bleach bottle
- Ice ball on gaiter straps?
- Bivy users.....need advice
- water bottle hydration tubes
- Trekking Poles, Shocks or rigid?
- REI Helio 55 equivalent?
- Valandre Lafayette sleeping bag
- Heads up....online rei has Altra Olympus 2.0 under $75.00
- I love hydration packs! Source Tactical Commander 10L Hydration Cargo Pack
- 20% off @ shoes.com....enter SHOESDOTCOM
- hiking socks: Darn Tough vs Smartwool vs....
- Noisy Osprey Atmos 65 AG
- Goretex socks or neoprene/Seal Skin socks
- Curious ... Help ID old TNF Pack
- Nikwax TX.direct wash in as spray on.
- Who actually uses trekking pole wrist straps???
- Lighting ?
- Sea to Summit Aeros Ultra Light Pillow Failure
- Now 30% off all shoes @ shoes.com!!! All Altra models..
- Is it normal for shoulder straps to constantly loosen while hiking?
- MSR Hubba Hubba (or another suggestion??)
- Pole tips.
- power pack
- Anyone use nail polish remover on cotton balls for fire starter
- Used boot replacements
- Fuel stove and wind screen....bad idea?
- My gear...open to suggestions...
- Pure Outdoor IS Olicamp!!
- Steel Toed Hiking Boots
- Looking for new smaller pack
- Trail Running Shoes for Wet Conditions
- inline water bladder filter ?
- Perimeter Netting
- FISKARS 1st Aid Scissors
- Trail runner selection advice
- Footprints
- Chest Pouch
- Durable Eyewear
- Klymit Static V Luxe $44.50 - Amazon Prime Day
- Evernew bladder failures?
- General purpose backpacking gloves
- Tyvek
- VBL advice
- Uses for a not-so-dry bag?
- Zero or low-drop shoes
- Sock Protectors as Gaiters
- LL bean microlight 2
- Lightweight external battery pack For iPhone 5
- Helio Pressure Showers
- Klymit Insulated Static V Lite sleeping pad @ Massdrop
- Satellite SOS (SPOT or InReach) use experience?
- opsak in your ursak?
- How I'll Seek Your Help
- Salomon SensiFit Ortholite Mens Hiking Shoes
- Sponsorships
- New ULA proton pack
- Dry Bags
- What to do with old equipment?
- Campfire "Solar" Power
- Reebok All Terrain Freedom trail runners
- hiking shoes for wide feet
- Borah dimma bivy
- bear canister
- Army Issue Self Inflating Sleeping Pad
- Making a bivy
- Arc'teryx Atom LT Insulated Hoodie vs. Puffy
- 15 or 30 Degree Bag for AT in Spring?
- Need trekking pole recommendation
- Seek Outside Unaweep
- Katadyn BeFree vs Sawyer Mini water filter
- ZPacks only making 3 temp bags now?
- How do you ruggedize your phone for the trail?
- Best hiking stove for boat use?
- tech on trail
- Need some 3 person Tent Ideas
- Coghlans Odor Proof Storage Bags
- WM sleeping bags comes with signatures of seamstresses.
- Lowa Renegade Hiking Boots
- Black Diamond Icon headlamp strap too loose
- Few questions for you MLD Burn users....
- Osprey hydration bladder
- Alas Poor Thermarest
- Gear Shakedowns. . .do you do that in this forum?
- New Zpacks rain jacket
- Gear Shakedown Please! Here is my gear list`
- Help with gear list
- Costco down throw
- Starting over
- Origin of Cuben Fiber in Backpacking Gear
- Winter boots
- 7.2 lb gear list/shakedown
- EE quilts on sale now....
- Cuben Fiber vs. Sil Nylon water absorption Test Results
- Anker PowerCore 5000?
- George Washington's Tent
- Filter promises to let you drink from almost any water source — even urine
- Dont forget EE sale starts today
- Custom or commercial orthotic - to stiffen sole?
- Katabatic Palisade 30 degree quilt
- Rain Jacket
- Hyperlite....
- Ultralight (.23 oz.) knife
- Pure Gold
- Recycling or repurpose ideas for my trashed Montbell UL down parka.....
- Cold-weather base level shirt - can't do Merino. What else?
- Dwr coating, is it working....
- Deep winter bag
- GPS Locator Recommendations
- Sub 30 degree BUDGET SYSTEM
- Dam Tough Sleeping Bag
- Big Agnes - Still great customer serevice
- Insulated Boots?
- Best Traction devices for AT winter hike through Smokies.
- Sleeping pants that aren't "tights"?
- Air mattress patch kit recommendations
- Stuffing down into gear with holes
- Hammock Gear Burrow 20 Long term review
- Alcohol Stove Discussion (technical info heavy post)
- I need boot recommendation...read why