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Sarah Timms is a hiker. And Media Relations Officer for Breakthrough Breast Cancer in the U.K.
As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month they’ve partnered with Merrell. For every pair of Siren Breeze hiking shoes sold, a percentage goes to charity.
Shopping via breakthroughbreastcancer.org helps the cause.
In 2011 I wear nothing but Merrell shoes on the trail.
A JAPANESE COMPANY HAS come up with a new way to charge your mobile phone after a natural disaster or in the great outdoors – by heating a pot of water over a campfire. …
$A284.55
Thank Colin Lorback for the link.
I NEVER take any of these products on the trail, … yet I refuse to toss them out.
Intervention, please.
disused Hiking gear, a set on Flickr.
… new micro-site video channel and the premise of a video series we’re launching this fall. The first one, on climbing Kings Peak in Utah, debuted today. See the video below + check out the “Fast & Light” channel in full here. …
Click PLAY or watch it on Vimeo.
Fantastic editing.
At the Expedition Idaho Adventure Race, Director Dave Adlard was surprised (and impressed) to hear that Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers carried a pack-raft:
… For Idaho, we got more serious about our “flotation devices,” and we brought pack-rafts from Alpacka. The company makes a line of small, packable rafts that weigh as little as 3.5 pounds. But for Idaho, Alpacka built our team prototype rafts that were even smaller and lighter. The one-off “Ghost” model pack-rafts weighed an incredible 2.1 pounds each, and they rolled up small. …
Here’s how Pack-rafts inflate, are carried … and what happens when you get dumped into the river.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
NOW … If I only had the money to buy a 2lb Pack-raft. That one — when released — is likely to cost about $1000.
Myriam Guillot and Jacky Boisset from France are Adventure Racers. Here’s their home made, minimalist 4-person tent used for emergency shelter from weather and bugs.
Click PLAY or see it on YouTube.
They just might need this protection at the World Championships in Tasmania, starting Oct. 31st, 2011.
It weighs less than 1Kg (2lb 2oz). Jacky plans to further reduce weight by switching from aluminum poles to carbon fibre.
For information, contact Jacky via myriametjacky.com
I’ve decided on the Princeton Tec Byte Headlamp. $20 cheap. Claims 35 Lumens. 2.25oz including the easily replaceable 2 AAA batteries.
Read the Gear Junkie review.
_____ original post from Aug. 10th:
The other day I was mocked by Adventure Racers for calling my wimpy Petzl a “headlamp”:
… only good for reading in the tent!
Actually, that’s all I use a headlamp for while on the trail.
Any recommendations for something with more lumens? Something (still lightweight) that would be useful in scrambling mountainsides in the dark?
Here are some recommendations from Backpacker in 2010:
Lightest & Cheapest
Coast LED Lenser Micro HeadlampSteady Burner
Mammut Lucido TXlite HeadlampBest Light Quality
Petzl Tikka Plus 2 HeadlampBrightest
Black Diamond Spot HeadlampBest All-Around
Princeton Tec Remix Headlampdetails on Backpacker
Warren suggests the SoLite 150. $179 !!
For cycling he’s very happy with the Light & Motion Vis 360 Front and Rear Helmet Bike Light System.
I saw this on TrailsNet.com.
… It is like a ski – snowboard – skateboard version of the Ridekick. Whereas the Ridekick is a self-propulsion system for bikes, the Skizee does the same thing for skis. …
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
details and links – name
… I’d find some way to run over myself. 🙂
CONGRATS to Tim Park and Jim Maidment from (nearby) Kimberley, B.C. on bringing this fun product.
I used (and very much appreciated) a set of Z-Poles the other day. Dave Adlard let me try them out.
Long a critic of hiking canes, I think I’m finally won over to getting a set.
Backpacker calls this version the “best carbon poles we’ve ever tested“.
Editors’ Choice 2011: Black Diamond Ultra Distance Z-Poles (VIDEO review)
$189 is the cost of the best all-around adventure pack on the market right now.
I got mine yesterday from Mike Kloser himself. He packed it for me. Adjusted it for me. … And then made me chase him around the mountains of north Idaho for 12hrs continuous to test it.
The pack did great. I’m a wee bit exhausted.
AS-1 REVIEW by Nathan Fa’avae
I have spent in excess of 1000-days in the mountains and back country with a pack on my back, either racing, working or just pure adventure.
The AS-1 is by far the most comfortable and functional and pack I have used, a true testament to technology and innovation.
A major requirement I have is any pack I’m going to carry especially through an epic expedition race, needs to be lightweight yet still robust, the AS-1 meets both those needs.
My favourite aspect of the AS-1 is the 5-course menu of features, exceptionally convenient, multiple and productive functionality.
The AS-1 pack performs at the highest level, right where I aim to be when competing.
I used the AS-1 pack at the 2010 Adventure Racing World Championships, after 104-hours with the pack on my back, after it carried my gear, food and liquid for over 500-miles, I couldn’t fault it.
There are too many features to list. Watch the video on the site if you might be interested in getting one for yourself.
For pure hiking I’ll stick with my minimalist Granite Gear inflatable frame pack, but for any trip requiring “toys”, I’ll be using the AS-1.
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