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As far as sizing goes have you been using other quilts? The small from Tim is 46" tapering to 34". I'm 5' 8" with size 12 feet and I prefer 50" -> 40", 48" -> 38" works also. I weigh about 160lb....

This is one of my favorite shelters. I stayed in December of 2006 on my thru hike. I got in early and lounged around reading a scifi short story book I found. During the night I woke up to pee and...

Towards the end of my winter thru I was carrying over 6000 calories per day and still losing weight. I was averaging 25 miles per day during the last month (Feb). The cold made eating significantly...

Another option is the Golite Mesa trail shorts with a 5" inseam. Size medium weighs 118g.

I thru hiked southbound from Sept '06 to Feb '07. Then on Oct 8, 2007 I climbed Katahdin again and started south. I had good weather until I got south of Stratton. During the stretch between...

Yes, that is the Rainbow Family of Living Light. Basically hippies that live on the road. and meet up around the country to live in the woods for a while. They usually panhandle and dumpster dive...

I might see you, I am planning on starting feb 12 or 13 from Springer to Damascus (26 days).

I put my trip together in four days!
(I've been waiting for the unemployment checks for 16 weeks now...

What part of the AT is that? It looks like where the trail crosses rt 23 near Great Barrington MA

I own both the Lightsabre and a Bibler bivy with the toddtex fabric. I purchased both for winter use in snow. The lightsabre is very roomy for a bivy, but the poles are just a fancy way to keep the...

My thru hike photo folder is just under 1gb with almost 350 files. Remember too that most modern cameras will take high resolution video as well which eats up much more space than pictures alone.

I have a Vapor Trail, and love it. The sweaty back does suck sometimes. I have tried the Virga from GG which has a fabric backpanel and a sleeping pad is to be used for form and support. My back...

My main pack right now is a Granite Gear Vapor Trail with about 2800 miles on it. Pack still works great but is looking pretty worn. Not sure what to get next, I am considering ULA though. I love...

I currently use and am very happy with the size of a Prolite 3 short (14.6oz). At 5'8" while using a seperate pillow (3L platypus wrapped in raingear) my knees are padded while side sleeping. I use...

I do own other options for shelter. I have not been on the mid state trail at all yet, but I hike on the Metacomet Monadnock trail a couple times per week which is within a couple miles of my house....

The bivy and tarp work well for me. Shelters are almost always empty, so I take advantage of those when they are around.

No, a little over 12lb on my last trip, and I have identified ten items which could save me a total of 2lb's (for a thousand dollars). Maybe the gear list I posted is a little hard to read.

All the items in my last post are weighed correctly, but some of the totals may be a couple grams off. Here is my misc bag which I have termed stuff sack Bravo.

495g so far...

Alpha stuff sack...

Here is my latest gear list. This is the list I used for a 16 day end to end of the Long Trail in October '08. It is about four pounds lighter than the gear list I used for my winter AT thru in...

The 10lb cutoff is just a number, but a pack that feels light on your back is very real. After each of my trips I make notes about what worked and what could be improved. I am always striving to...

A good start, but the weight lies in the attention to detail. If you want a legitimate sub 10lb base load then you need to include everything. That way you can really see what you have and start...

I met Jason in November of '07. We were both hiking south and stayed at the same shelter several times through MA and CT. He shared stories of his adventures on the paddling trip earlier that...

I have the OR Zealot. My size medium weighs 208g (7.4oz) on my scale. I just finished using the jacket on a LT end to end hike. My solution to the zipper is to always keep it connected and just...

I am starting an end to end of the Long Trail on Tuesday and am in need of a shuttle from the bus station to the northern terminus of the LT.

Hopefully somebody will come through, I have money to...

I've used the Katahdin Hiker Pro and the Aquamira Frontier Pro, now I happily use aquamira drops. The hiker pro was great except for two broken handle, cracked input port, and clogging the filter. ...

Easy one! Take the Greyhound to Springfield, MA, then take the Bonanza Bus from Springfield to Pittsfield, then take BRTA local bus from Pittsfield to Lee, then transfer to Great Barrington. Ride...