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Regardless of what camera you pick, consider an ultra pod. Awesome when you are alone or want to do some low light long shutter speeds. Much lighter than the gorilla pod.

DO NOT UNDERSETIMATE THE ACCUMULATION OF WEIGHT! OUNCES MATTER - LOTS.

Now you can carry more, or less, but at the end of the day, no one ever advocates for carrying heavier stuff. I remember...

The meds help, but they are part of the solution. If it were me, I'd concentrate on my sleeping pad and pay forward a few ounces to make the night's recovery more effective. Bottom line, as we old...

Go to a thrift store and get two graphite shaft golf clubs about the same length. Take a hacksaw and cut off the club head leaving some of the metal hosel. Put a trekking pole cap (Recommend Black...

I did a double boil in the jet boil. Put the pasta in with the water and bring to a boil. Turn off and wait about five minutes with the lid on and out of the wind. Fire up the Jet Boil and get it...

+1 on not just going to the store.

I'd start by reading some folks trail journals and then see what's working for them. There are MANY ways to get there. Some points that are almost universal:...

I found it hard to get into and out of when things turned muddy, especially when I had to get up in the middle of the night to go pee.

Some condensation issues, but I think it was more of the...

Compliance is often easier than seeking exception. However, in this day and age, is there any real issue with making the privy ADA compliant. I know the design helped me out, and I do appreciate...

Just keep walking about 200 yards past the shelters and pitch your tent, grab your cook gear and walk back to the shelter, get water, make dinner, enjoy the company, then head out for a night of...

I'd look at two cameras. A full DSLR featured Cannon G15 or the older G12 and pair it with a small external flash and remote shutter release (only a few grams and relatively cheap). I'd also go for...

GSI dualist family of nesting pots seem to fit the bill give or take 100ml or so.

+1 on the Solong 6. My only complaint is that it's all the same color and can make for a few seconds of having to flip stuff around because it's upside down or twisted up in a ball. Other than...

I went through with the bubble last year and the shelters were way full with lots of overflowing folks. Sometimes it was hard to even find a spot to pitch a tent. Wanting to minimize impact, I...

I left Springer about that time with a Marmot Helium 15. I was cold a few nights, and hot a few others. The only real issue I had was when it got warmer, there was little in the way of between. I...

I'll second Fontana. Just know the post office has strange hours. The store has plenty of calories, but a box makes it easier to plan the 6-8 days through the park.
I found Neel's Gap to be...

Don't just go to the stadiums, go up and DOWN in curves where each step is different than the one before. I remember disussing the best way to prepare and it ultimately was going to an apartment...

I had a fly creek I and didn't like it after about ten nights. The exit was difficult if the ground was muddy and you had to put your shoes on before you exited. I could not keep the fly taught...

I keep coming back to the issue that any solution is going to take some sort of funding. I'd like to see the ATC impose a nominal ($25-40) annual use permit fee. I get that it would be difficult to...

I have a SoLong 6 that I used to replace a Big Agnes Fly Creek 1. It has so much more room. I used a tyvek sheet under my pad, but not under the whole tent. I figured it cut down on the mud and...

Some suggestions:
- Use a semi-permanant tarp or GI GP tent type shelter to make a "shelter overflow" for the shelters between Springer and GSMNP for the bubble season. Could easily double the...

If I thought it would work, I'd be out buying a snow shovel tomorrow. Burr it's cold and windy here in VA. Turned the unit downstairs from Cool to heat this morning; but the upstairs unit is...

For me, I realized that the only three animals I was really concerned with were bears, snakes, and mice. Then to realize that the mice were interested in the shelter, the bears were in town raiding...

It's a very interesting topic. I think hard data will be difficult to come by. Doesn't make it impossible, but makes it difficult. To me, the big medical problems are one's feet and knees in the...

I used a large duffel and then ditched it. I've also seen them wrapped in a sheet and bound up with twine or light rope.

I second the flick-locks. I use Easton or the Leki flicks. It's just easier to adjust so I adjust when necessary. Poles for me are essential. For every one time they are in the way, there is...