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ZPacks accessories sell some pretty nifty lightweight gear for hiking and backpacking.
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ZPacks accessories sell some pretty nifty lightweight gear for hiking and backpacking.
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Colin Fletcher Obituary, June 19, 2007, New York Times Chris Townsend Outdoors on Colin Fletcher Thousand Mile Summer Revisited http://colinfletcher.com/memorabilia/ Article from Adventure Journal, May, 2018 Brief interview on “River” Discover more from Phil's Phieldnotes Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email. Type your email… Subscribe
Hubba Hubba NX (2019) $299 from Enwild (formerly Backcountry Edge) This was a really good price on a pretty much state of the art tent. It’s not super light, but I thought I’d give it a try. If I want to go really light and am confident in the weather, I’ll just use my bivy….
It’s taken me a few years to figure this out. I’ve had a cheap old tarp in the past which I’ve almost never used; then, before my John Muir Trail hike I picked up a ultra-light Sil-Tarp (below) which was marginally effective but I still never really got the hang of pinning it down in…
After my somewhat unfortunate experience with water on my Shumard backcountry trip, I reconsidered my hydration options and decided to look into upgrading. Not only the technology/materials of the reservoirs themselves, but also strategy. E.g. is it wise to store critical water in a single point of failure reservoir, or spread it out in several…
Here are some of the tents I’ve used: First tent I ever owned started out as a loaner from a friend of Dad’s. Not mine, but similar to this one I found on eBay. Discover more from Phil's Phieldnotes Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email. Type your email… Subscribe
The “History of Gear Project” site is remarkable! This guy has, crudely in some respects, patched together an interesting series of pages and links on the historical roots of most backcountry gear and gear companies today. A lot of this information is not easily found even with today’s wide-reaching search algorithms. From the origins of…