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Backpacker Magazine gave this an editor's choice award. Anyone used one, seen one, know someone that has one... ? Thoughts? Solar rechargeable headlamp

After much debate on water bottles I finally made the switch to Siggs. I made the switch just as I left to spend 9 days in Canada winter camping. I was pretty apprehensive about how the bottles would work, but I had been thinking about the switch for quite a while. My main concerns with...

How long does it take you to adjust to the increased diet of a camping trip? I experience this on most trips I go on: The first few days I stuff my face and am super full. Then on about the 4th or 5th day something happens and I get super hungry and can't eat enough. Does this happen to...

Leave No Trace. What do you think about it? I took a LNT master educator course 5 or 6 years ago. Since then I've gone through different phases of LNT followership. For a long time I was super-LNT an annoyed all of my camping buddies. Don't touch that rock! No fires! Walk in the CENTER of...

Does anybody know what kind of material is used for the pot cozy that comes as part of the Backpacker's Pantry Outback Oven? Any ideas where one might purchase such material?

What are your opinions on plastic boots and snowshoes? What would your prefered footwear combinations be for the following scenario? Ten days of winter camping where temps should be expected to as low as -10 or lower. Distance covered will be a minimum of 10 miles snowshoeing and pulling a...

Alright, so this is sort of an extension on the "worst case scenario" thread and also some fodder for a course in which I'm studying judgment. Here's the scenario: You're leading a group of people on a two week trip in the mountains. There are ten people altogether. This could just be a...

I spent most of the past month in the Western states. First was a two week Wilderness Education Association course in the Weminuche Wilderness in Colorado. Six days after I returned home from that I drove to Arizona, making a few stops along the way. :) Colorado photos are here. Road trip...

On Tuesday a friend and I are leaving to drive to Arizona. We've got quite the trip mapped out, camping reservations made along the way and a friend in the Tetons to show us around. What we don't have, is a plan for Canyonlands. We'll be in Arches the two nights before, mostly because I...

I'm thinking about getting a couple of those fancy-shmancy Sigg bottles to replace my aging Nalgenes. Has anyone used these in winter? Are my lips going to be instantly frostbitten when they touch the alluminum bottle? Will my water freeze faster than in a lexan bottle?

Earlier this month I purchased a Mountain Hardwear Hammerhead 2. My initial reaction at the store was that at 7 pounds it was waaay too heavy. But, the guy did a good job of selling me on it's features. I used the tent for a week in Arizona and then this weekend for 2 nights. I frickin love...

As I'm packing to head to Arizona for a week of school and camping I notice that my singlewall tent has more small holes than I care to try and patch with duct tape. It's going in the trash; and I'm not taking the 9 pound four-season tent for just me. I need a new tent, fast! The tent...

Alright, so I'll be honest, the whole "sorry for posting something that might not have been seen as quality discussion content" crap makes me nauseated. Come on, the nuts and bolts gear head convos can only be sustained for so long, so the fluff makes for nice interludes. And hey, a lot can be...

This weekend I had my first experience with going through ice in the winter. I'm curious about why. This weekend a friend and I camped near a lake quite far from any main roads. We planned to cross a frozen lake then up a channel and across another lake. We had heard that someone went...

Went for a snowshoe hike today and must have walked right through a bear neighborhood! There were trees EVERYWHERE with claw marks up them. I've seen bear marks up trees before but not like this! Must have been a bear tree fort up there some where!

You're winter camping for 2 nights. There's 2 solid feet of snow on the ground. You've seen fox, rabbit, coyote and squirrel tracks relatively near your campsite (casual wonderings not scoping your site out). There are no camp robbing birds in the area. DO YOU.... A- Hang a bear bag or use...

3 years ago I took a Wilderness Education Association Wilderness Steward Program course as a student at Northern Michigan University. Since then I graduated, moved to Mass, moved back to MI and am now teaching at NMU. NMU now currently offers a winter stewardship course which also includes ice...

Alright, this is killing me. I've been searching all of the stadard weather sites, doing all kinds of searches and generally going crazy trying to find out if there is any snow in Wawa, Candada. Does anyone know of weather websites that tell you how much snow is on the ground? Is there such a...

I've got a few questions which I'm sure someone can answer for me. 1st, will the pump from a whisperlite international work with a regular whisperlite stove? I seem to recall hearing that it wouldn't, but now I can't remember. I'd like to take the int. pump as a backup on a twelve day trip at...

Guessing bottled oxygen would be mandatory.... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_on_sc/saturn_moon