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Pink, i live in SoCal and i also happen to be a woman. depending on where you go out here, it can get pretty cold at night any time of year. i have a SubKilo and while i definitely agree that the...

thanks, brian. i've never bought more than 13 yards in one color at a time, so i was unaware of the headache that the end user might get from large quantities off-tube. the things i don't know...

ask them to ship it to you OFF of a bolt - just folded up in a box. i can just pop in and buy it from their warehouse, but others have had theirs shipped to them and lo and behold it was rolled up...

i've bought at least 30 yards of 2nd-quality silnylon from Noah Lamport. some of it was 2nds because the bolt had been damaged near the selvage edge, but they just sent me a couple extra yards to...

i used to work for a language services company, we did translation & interpretation. the old hands would tell me that translation relied heavily on context & implicit intent. if you speak more than...

we use a mummy-type bag zipped into a homemade fleece doubler. we sleep on the doubler and the bag lays on top of us like a blanket. i don't think we've ever used this system down to freezing...

how well does it compress? we might have to be walking around with huge rolls of areogel strapped onto our packs.

i have had nothing but success with making bean soups at home, dehydrating them and reconstituting them on the trail. if you include beef in the soup, shredded beef works even better than ground. ...

If we were magically able to do it this year, the Rainshadow would be our choice.

i'm not picking on Chris when i say this, but i hear these rumours occasionally myself and i really doubt the boxes will get removed. this would require a horse crew to disassemble them and pack...

how much do they want?

ohhhhhhh yes. ordered it from amazon before it even came out. i was frustrated that it was light on technique & planning, but that just means i have to re-read it and look a little harder for that...

i have a friend whose son could walk 10 miles by age 5. she started taking him out at 6 months. in my case, in 2006 i'll have a 3.5 year old and a little bit over a 1-year-old. 15 mpd is not the...

too bad they only carry about 75 pounds each (including the saddle & pannier weight). you'd need a pretty big string to carry all that. but for somebody like me, who has small kids that can't walk...

actually, llamas don't have hooves at all. they have two toe pads (think of a cat paw) and two claws on each foot. they are much, much less destructive than horses - some studies equate their...

i don't have any experience with East Coast bears, but i have plenty of experience with California bears. The Sierra Nevada bears are insatiable, food-stealing monsters, but stealth techniques work...

we have used this system at over 10,000 feet in September, when i can be fairly certain the temperatures dropped below 50 overnight. we didn't even set up our tarp. we were just fine.

i know...

top bag - a synthetic bag of their choice. bottom - a zip-in doubler like this one:


http://www.functionaldesign.net/about.htm

they offer a winter-weight and a summer-weight doubler, but...

no, no, not Tin Man. i really don't think they're the same person. The guy i'm looking for wasn't in business, he just sent the stoves out for free and asked for a donation if you could afford it. ...

i don't even know if i have his name right - he comes online every once in a while and offers free pop-can stoves to hikers who can't make their own. back in spring 2003 he sent me one (my attempts...

if i'm not going to be alone, i sometimes carry one of those mini decks of cards. if we go with a certain friend, we bring mini Uno. we've got some crazy rules and so our Uno games get very busy.

i tested the keen newport H2's for backpackgeartest.org. i had a pretty bad time with them. rather than attempt to summarize it, i'll give you a link to my reports:

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when i jacked up my knees several years ago, poles made hiking possible again. of course, mine were so swollen and sore that i hobbled around on crutches for a while. my knees are much better now...

can you comfortably wear thick socks with flip-flops? we wear fleece socks in camp; seems like that sock wedgie would be unpleasant.

Waldies are too bulky for our tastes, but we may try them. being west-coasters they aren't very common in our circles. the reason i asked here is because i had seen them discussed by L-D hikers but...