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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2020 17:56:27 GMT -8
I really envy you Reuben...........you always have the COOLEST ideas. Have you ever thought of starting your own You Tube channel?
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Post by almostthere on May 14, 2020 8:03:22 GMT -8
• Firestarter – two mini bics stored separately, cotton balls, petroleum jelly
• Safety pins - in the first aid kit
• LED light on a biner as a backup to the headlamp
• Sewing kit – single needle (floss from the hygiene kit makes thread in an emergency) • Duct tape around a bottle • Rite in the Rain notebook/pen, for taking notes in a medical emergency
• Tenacious tape
• 10 oz Anker battery
• Pad repair kit
I have seen a single broken tent pole in decades of backpacking. A friend had to jump on her tent when the wind pulled all the stakes free and started to blow it away - one of the poles snapped. She had the sleeve and duct-taped it in place for the duration of the trip.
The Anker recharges the phone, the In Reach, and often other people's phones when their solar panel fails to adequately do so. It lasts a week even with nightly recharging, can charge two devices at a time. When eventually it stops holding as much of a charge another one will be worth purchasing.
I've sewn up pants with dental floss. Tenacious tape has done wonders for hydration bladder leaks, random holes in things, that tear in the tent netting... I've never had headlamp batteries die on me and hardly ever use one on trips, so stopped carrying around extra batteries for it.
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Post by rangewalker on May 24, 2020 19:33:48 GMT -8
Tenacious tape has done wonders for hydration bladder leaks, random holes in things, that tear in the tent netting... I've never had headlamp batteries die on me and hardly ever use one on trips, so stopped carrying around extra batteries for it.
When gram frettering, the spare batteries are often the first thing to go. Tenacious tape is the new dope. And a 10K mAH battery is the second.
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Post by hikerjer on May 26, 2020 19:02:47 GMT -8
I’ve often pondered the issue of pad repair materials. Initially it makes sense. However, on the couple of occasions I’ve punctured my sleeping pad, I had one heck of a time finding the hole even in the bathtub when I got home. I would think it’d be really tough in the field although, admittedly, I’ve never tried. But if you can’t find the hole, it would seem a patch kit is useless. Therefore, I seldom carry one. If my pad leaks, l’ll use it anyway relying on the scant comfort it provides deflated. Better than nothing.
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Post by rebeccad on May 26, 2020 21:21:27 GMT -8
hikerjer, when we have had holes bad enough to let us down more than once a night, we've been able to find them through immersion in a lake. Anything slower than that and I can't find them at home. Locating the leak: Ansel Adams Wilderness, 2016. That water was COLD!
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Post by zeke on May 27, 2020 3:42:11 GMT -8
rebeccad LOL I notice who is in the water, and who is just taking the pictures.
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Post by almostthere on May 27, 2020 6:48:33 GMT -8
I’ve often pondered the issue of pad repair materials. Initially it makes sense. However, on the couple of occasions I’ve punctured my sleeping pad, I had one heck of a time finding the hole even in the bathtub when I got home. I would think it’d be really tough in the field although, admittedly, I’ve never tried. But if you can’t find the hole, it would seem a patch kit is useless. Therefore, I seldom carry one. If my pad leaks, l’ll use it anyway relying on the scant comfort it provides deflated. Better than nothing.
We've had to repair a pad once on a five day trip. Spent a few hours in the stream "thermarest surfing" and patched it. Of course the trip went south on the third day for other reasons, but it wasn't because of the pad.... it was one of those "I'm going back because I have a bad knee" where we lost someone in the first few miles, followed by "I didn't bring warm clothes and now it's snowing so I'm staying in the tent for hours in the middle of the day." At that point we opted for early bailout.
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Post by rebeccad on May 27, 2020 8:00:59 GMT -8
rebeccad LOL I notice who is in the water, and who is just taking the pictures. Oh, it’s even better. It was Eldest Son’s pad. And you don’t see HIM in the water, do you?
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Post by cweston on May 27, 2020 8:21:12 GMT -8
Oh, it’s even better. It was Eldest Son’s pad. And you don’t see HIM in the water, do you? My oldest son (my most frequent hiking partner) *will not* go in cold water. He'd rather stink. He's always been skinny, so I guess it makes sense that the cold goes right through him. Last summer we did a pretty dicey crossing of N Fork Bull Lake Creek in the Winds, near its source, in a spot we thought we could rock hop but that turned out not to be possible. So it turned into a very tricky ford, but not much more than knee deep. On the return later that day, I headed toward a place upstream where the river was broad and flat and very wide, which seemed like an obviously better alternative to me, if a little deeper. But he literally pleaded for the rapids: you could tell that he half expected to die if he had to wade that wider, deeper spot. (To be fair, the water was flowing straight out of glaciers--it was seriously, seriously cold.) So we crossed at the rapids again.
He's pushing 30 now and finally starting to get a little meat on his bones.
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Post by johntpenca on May 27, 2020 9:57:03 GMT -8
Actually, I do, now you mention it. It's in with the tent stakes. Though, like Zeke, I've never broken a pole--bent one, yes, but never broken. Me too. The repair stick stays in the stake bag.
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