You have a world of good information here. Everybody's contributions are useful, but there's no single way you could implement them all, so you may discover a hybrid set-up that will be quite...
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You have a world of good information here. Everybody's contributions are useful, but there's no single way you could implement them all, so you may discover a hybrid set-up that will be quite...
When you take a newbie backpacking (either dog or human), know what you need to know and do what you need to do, and you'll all have a great time. If you go solo, you have fewer creatures to be...
I suggest you try LinnvilleGorge.net.
There's an economy choice, too. The two types of straps I've used that are most compact when stored are (1) expensive kevlar 2" straps, which are nice and thin, very strong, but bunch up around the...
When I bought my house, it came with five hybrid poplars in the yard, about 5" in diameter. They must have been planted less than five years before, and they weren't quite strong enough to hold up...
Getting perilously close to wisdom:rolleyes: there, Bill.
I forget the adhesive transfer tape I used for my early "cuben fiber" tarps. I think it may have been VHB 9460. The tape in your picture is 3M's 468 adhesive transfer tape. I bet the 9485 tape that...
I've been using a Nalgene bottle lately, and after a week or so of putting it in a plastic bag in case of leaks, I now don't bother with the bag. Also, my PBH has a slightly larger foot end where I...
Chappy is the winner of the aerogel insoles. Congratulations!
As promised, I sent a small donation to the Friends of Grayson Highlands State Park because I wasn't there to donate by buying raffle tickets. I couldn't find a mailing address for the Friends, so I...
Temps in the high single digits here in West Virginia, and I slept warm in the hammock all night, but there was almost no wind, so probably nothing like you folks had at Grayson. Will mail my...
This stay-at-home resolved to sleep out in the hammock every night that that you brave souls are encamped at Grayson, and I did okay earlier in the week and last night, but just now I found my tarp...
Good luck, all. I'm bailing - likely snowstorm here to shovel and sundry other excuses. Be safe, and have fun.
I had to refresh my memory of where Sugarlands Overlook was.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vastateparksstaff/36196722070
Based on this, I won't make a decision until Thursday afternoon and travel...
Here are the pics I promised.
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The bivy section covers my head and attaches to the insulated Bridge Pod with zippers. Here it is shown with the top vent open. I tested it closed last...
Have spent the last two weeks getting ready for this trip, working on gear and sleeping outside most nights. After last night, I feel like I have already done it. Stacking two top quilts inside the...
Thanks to Marci and others who have warned about the weather. If you live within 200 miles or so, tonight is a good night to be testing your gear at home. Last night I was comfortable here in West...
I'll have a 5 gal. Igloo cooler full of spring water for general consumption. Some of that can go in a kettle on the fire, but I don't have a big pot with a tight fitting lid. One lesson learned at a...
Adding Aerogel Insoles to your boots makes a difference, too. You still need something else between your feet and the ground, as bonsaihiker suggests. I prefer to use my Altra trail runners year...
Looks like a whole forest of tiny trees down there, doesn't it? :rolleyes:
And a CO detector! (Another voice in me - the risk taker - says, "Aren't we going to light it at sundown, not sunup?" Glad Hickery's in charge of this.)
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What's a Mt. Rogers hang without a few...
All waterproof fabrics block outgoing moisture, just like incoming. The variables affecting condensation are (1) climate, and (2) you.
I knew the shoulder extensions of the Speer Segmented Pad Extender worked great, but I never appreciated the flexibility afforded by the knee extensions. There are legions of side-sleepers who would...
Reading over these posts, I think HoosierT is the one I believe. His experience seems to be closest to mine - using an old Electrolux vacuum cleaner and filling the wand with down from a bag on a...
The Mt. Rogers winter hang at Grayson Highlands SP is coming up Jan. 18th-21st. If you're not outfitted for winter camping yet, you could still come up for a day visit to meet people and see other...
Also me. many more characters, etc.
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Looks fantastic, so far! Great choice of materials and design choices. As you go along, fill us in on how you're doing the bottom layer (overall size and differential chamber width). Don't forget...
We don't know how he does it, but it's the truth! :rolleyes:
Marius, thanks. The videos look very good. I have a long history with my dogs, and I'm still learning. As this thread is from 14 years ago, and a number of the early posts sounded insightful, it...
Thanks, grubster. It sounds like just the thing I was looking for.
I'm taking my trail-building walk-behind tractor to Owenton, KY for some service and a set of caterpillar tracks, and I need to get there 9-ish, so I need a place to hang the night before. My old...
Not to mention "new innovations"... :rolleyes: Some of the old innovations, that is, DIY experiments that sometimes became commercial products, but often didn't, shouldn't be ignored. Look for the...
I don't subscribe to anything, but I know quality when I see it, so now I do. Thanks.
I've been doing something like that, with a word document that's content is "°F" but cmc4free has just won me over to the ALT universe. :)
Next day update: 13° F. this morning; slept nice and warm. The white fabric draped over the spreader bar in the picture above is "Zorb". I draped it over my head last night and it seems to have...
We had a couple of nights above 50° F. last week, and I had to vent the corners of my fitted UQ for the PBH to keep from sweating. (The UQ can keep me warm down to 32° F.) Finally, a colder night -...
I was a kid in the fifties, and we had two hammocks from the army surplus store, a jungle hammock like the one pictured and a heavy white canvas hammock (navy). I used the jungle hammock on family...
Looks like you cut bench trails on steeper hillsides than I do. There's a rotary plow model that swivels to cut one way or the other, but it's too expensive and too heavy me. Wish I had a mechanized...
They are mountain bike trails in Watoga State Park. It's early days - only a third of the proposed 5 miles of trail are done after two years, so I'll get to nap there for some time yet. As last...
Can't do without my Peoples Bridge Hammock when building mountain bike trails. 3 or 4 hours of muscling rocks out of the ground with my walk-behind tractor and rotary plow followed by a nice long...
Great photos, Tim!
Leave out (actually, fill in) the elipsis: "..."
It's less true of hammocks than mattresses, because the hammock UQ wraps around you some. (That's true of bridge hammocks, too, but maybe not as much as GE.) The amount that an UQ breathes is a...
Otter and Slugbait are the ones to follow. I have recycled down vests as hats by marking the pattern pieces on the vest, pushing the down away from the line, and stitching the outline. Cut away the...
Useful. Any of them tending toward oval?
If your son's hammock is a simple gathered end, you may be able to simulate a shorter hammock for testing by tying a knot in the hammock fabric at one end and attaching a suspension with a lark's...
Don't encourage him. He'll start thinking he's "holier than thou..." :mellow:
I managed to burn a hole in my silpoly tarp while modifying it, and didn't notice it until I had set it up. My "temporary" field repair was a piece of packing tape on the outside and another one on...
Good response. An alternative to pinning is to "spot weld" with a pencil-type soldering iron, working on a glass or metal surface. Of course, burning your fingers isn't much better than getting...
For a hammock, try breathable, uncoated 1.9 oz. (may be called 70 d. ) ripstop nylon. Use an iron to press the first fold, then again for the second. Then pin the seam every 12" or so. Then sew,...