Best hikes, treks, tramps in the world.
I’m adding this to my standard kit. It’s a no brainer.
THOMAS W. GAUPERAA:
… Apart from keeping the mosquito hordes at bay, it is a great pillow (the mesh is surprisingly comfortable next to the skin) when stuffed with your puffy layer. It is also a very good prefilter, much better than the bandana, and a very functional stuff sack. Some of you may be worried about the durability, but it is better than expected when made out of high quality noseeum mesh. …
(via Hiking in Finland)
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)
