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Like with any other sort of tech product where the users might be a bit more demanding, discerning of their new toy - lots of manufacturers in the marketplace have no knowledge of what they are selling or why their in house buyer picked that one, or that one, or... they just want to leverage...

My take on outdoor illumination, "go big or go home!" This is a 7800 (tested) lumen 12 XP-G led headlamp powered by three high amp Li-ion batteries. (3 of these will jump start your car) Set on high, it's unsafe in non-expert hands*. On low Moonlight mode it's soft, gentle, lovely light @...

I appreciate the reply. On two homemade shelters I had been using "Kover Klamps"* and "Framemaker Clamps" which work w wood or metal tubing but they have the disadvantage of being not quite right for my needs (heavy along w the very heavy metal tubing I sourced locally) and almost impossible to...

How are you stopping the extension/movement/angle of the adjusters? I know you probably have a sewn foot that the floor poles fit into that locate position but thinking that when go to set up with verticals, rafters and ridge pieces...it is all just going to naturally want to fall over in...

Having owned one Ford, one Chevy of similar vintage for business and being in charge of a 10 unit fleet of service vehicles for another job...it's a crap shoot to me and I do emphasize 'crap' (these would all be bought new, post 2008 vintage). Spotty quality, marginal reliability, limited...

For someone who just wants to fool around with the idea of a folding box oven before committing big dollars...the old standby Coleman is worthy !! of your troubles and your dollars. Around $30, WallyWorld frequently has them for a few dollars less. Amazing what you can cook, hold, bake if you...

When I was a strapping lad growing up in CA's Sierra Mtns, my father and his friend had an aluminum hand truck that the nose plate had been cut down and a shaped piece of wood to help locate the hull of the canoe...the long length of the truck enabled good tie solid tie down and often this...

Now that is something! And nicely done too - love the Baker style option. Something I have hemmed about (to anyone who would listen, ask the wife!) for years, but the various frame mutations I had for my medium sized wall tent left me thinking one homemade not so great hybrid frame was...

We'd been to the Portage and Exit glaciers on the road down to Seward many times over the years... I don't know or pretend to know the real science behind man's involvement in global warming but I can tell you that in several years time, almost annual visits over 35 years, those several glaciers...

Outstanding pics, thanks for sharing. My first thought on that science support boat, is what a tub and all the slab sides, subsequent windage and high superstructure...it must roll and roll in those big seas that you experience coming and going to the continent.

LEDs are just flat wonderful lights to have in camp, on the trail, put in, take out, setting up, etc. Black Diamond makes some similar to this and Goal Zero has a great line of lights w varying lumen levels. Plus there are now more LED camp lanterns promising huge outputs in a hundred...

I never did buy that tape, but have used shoe goop and black gorilla tape, what was at hand... This past fall I made the wife, for our October campout in the ADKs a cozy of both CCF and reflectix for her french press coffee maker, plus I got her a (just for her) nice insulated cup to go with...

JoeO, don't know where you are but you'll see some cold weather posts and trip opportunities on this site courtesy of Robin's new winter section. WinterTrekking is a forum that many folks with ice running in their veins belong to both in the USA and Canada (and even AUS and Finland). ADK...

Solas tape reportedly has the brightest reflective give back...USCG makes it so! Found at any boat store, marine supply or online supply like West Marine, etc. Sometimes your local hardware store will have several grades/colors/sizes and places like auto parts stores, usually have it too, as...

I am laughing a bit at myself...I had posted a thread on WT forum about -59F reported up on the Salcha River and wondered aloud how you were doing since I hadn't read anything online from you in a bit...but I got the forum wrong! In any case, hope you all enjoyed your cold snap up there in...

Anyone who enjoys a good old book but doesn't have a decent second hand bookstore anywhere close (and rejects Amazon as the supplier of record) try ABE Books, they seem to operate as a consortium for finding and shipping second hand books of nearly any vintage and interest (seemingly from 100's+...

Yes, please do share lots of pics! Sounds like a huge amount of fun...there is at least one other CT poster here who does period reenacting...

Now you are talking... bunch of CT forum members have been at this sort of thing recently...

This is like talking brands of canoes, or even bannock, toss it out there, watch it flash & explode and then run away...! Everyone has their favorite brands, good and bad experiences... I will throw out one little story of mine. After having to 'prove' to the fleet manager what and why brand*...

Couple of doors over at work, there is a new Colorado or GMC midsize...did I see correctly on the sticker (left in place, but I am not admiring it, guy, I am inwardly laughing, crying...) about $48K??!! The old Toyota of my younger years has been replaced by one that still sits strange (for...