Written on my phone from wherever I camp, cleaned up when I get home. Real trips, real mileage, and the gear that either earned its spot or lost it.
Boils half a liter in about four and a half minutes. The door latch sticks when it is hot, which is exactly when you want a door to open.
Flow rate is holding after silty desert water. The freeze test comes next. That is what kills most of these.
Warm to thirty eight so far and packs down to nothing. Loft after a wet week is the real question.
the pool below the second falls, day threeFour days solo up a rainforest valley. Nineteen crossings, one crawled log, and the bargain gaiters did not make it home.
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the fire was for company, not heatNinety degrees at noon, thirty four at 2 a.m. The desert runs the most honest gear test I know.
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mile 31, wind from the northwest all dayForty two miles of black sand and wind, two tide gates, one whale, and a pack that graduated with honors.
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above the deck at 6,400 feetChasing a cloud inversion up a ridge, three nights above the deck, and a bargain dry bag that did not make it home.
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