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Two pots, one for heating water and one for use with food is what I usually bring. Am very happy with the GSI Halulite 1.8L tea kettle which has been a great upgrade from a basic pot for heating water for hot drinks and such. Have an assortment of stainless steel and aluminum cook pots, but...

You can buy plastic disks with carpeting, somewhat along the line of what Yohawk posted, which are designed for putting under things like sofa legs to protect hardwood floors. I use those with a roll-a-cot when luxury camping, though had to tape some less slippery material to the plastic to...

How hot does it need to get to start softening? One of my brothers once had one of those very cheap dome tents with a plastic floor. The seam between the tent floor and wall needed some sealer and not having seam sealer handy my brother figured he'd try sealing it with hot glue since it was a...

A couple of my Thermarest stuff sacks developed that very sticky but not smelly condition. I tried soaking in a warm concentrated solution of Tide detergent. I think one I just washed that way which significantly reduced the sticky feel and then after drying coated with talcum powder to take...

I'm in the process of attempting gelcoat repair on my placid flashfire, trying to follow instructions provided by Placid Boatworks: https://youtu.be/ljlghfoDwyA Hard to tell from the pictures, but if the underlying fabric on your canoe is not broken and it is just gelcoat chipped off then...

Somewhere on one of the canoeing forums I read that turning a delta shape hull (like the Advantage) is a matter of skidding the stern rather than drawing the bow into a new direction. Focusing on skidding the stern around rather than trying to move the bow made a big difference for me in...

One of my favorite discontinued items is the Lafuma Maxi Pop-up Butterfly chair. For awhile Lafuma had discontinued the aluminum frame ones and substituted a steel frame which was a little heavier. Now they don't list either of these. The pair I have are aluminum frame. Light weight, very...

This statement from S-Tech isn't quite accurate. They seem to have switched units from one sentence to the next so that comparing the quoted numbers is meaningless. The numbers in the first sentence appear to be giving relative density (to air), not an actual density value. The density value...