Archive | November, 2010

MYOG: Caldera Cone Cozies

These instructions were contributed by regular sectionhiker.com reader Ken "Drip Dry" Holder. The cozies were co-developed by Ken and Lee "Revlee" Fields, shown above. A Cozy System for Freezer Bag Cooking My hiking buddy (Revlee) and I went through about 5 renditions of this design before we hit on something that really seemed to work [...]

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Osprey Talon 44 Backpack Review

Talon 44 Overview At 2 lb. 6 oz. (1.09 kg) and 2600 cubic inches (42 L) of capacity,  the Talon 44 (S/M) is a lightweight multi-sport backpack, well sized for fast and light weekend backpacking trips. An internal frame provides excellent load transfer to the hips and the top loading main compartments provides sufficient capacity [...]

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Reader Poll: Backpack Rain Covers

Zpacks.com Cuben Pack Cover I'm doing a little market research for myself and I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions. Please leave a comment below with your responses. Do you use a rain cover for your backpack? If not, could you leave a comment and briefly explain why not? If you [...]

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South Peak, Mt Moosilauke

My winter hiking partner and I drove back up to Mt Moosilauke this weekend for a go at the South Peak (4,523 ft), which is also on the Trailwright’s 72 peakbagging list. The weather was a lot more winter-like on this hike with a dusting of snow at the base of the mountain and about [...]

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REI Flash 65 Backpack

The REI Flash 65 is a big backpack with 65 liters or about 4000 cubic (3966) inches of carrying capacity, but it is very lightweight. Fully configured it only weighs 3 lbs 2 oz in a size medium, but you can remove its floating top pocket and internal frame sheet to drop it’s base weight [...]

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My Feet Grew &^#$@!)*~

Mostly Asolo Boots I switched to Trail Runners this year for all of my 3 season hiking. It was transformative and while I'm cautiously on the fence about using them for winter backpacking and mountaineering, I'm willing to do some experimenting there. My feet however, may never be the same. I think they grew larger [...]

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Mt Jim and Moosilauke’s Subpeaks

Mt Moosilauke and Mt Blue I've just started another peak-bagging list called the Trailwright's 72 which includes all of the White Mountain 4,000 footers as well as many of their subordinate sub-peaks. However, it's a lot stricter, and effectively limits the number of peaks you can bag to one per day, requiring a lot more [...]

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Yin Yoga

I suffer from chronic IT-band tightness. It tends to flare up after 75 miles of hiking and climbing, which limits my long distance hiking range to about 5 days. I know that many of you suffer from it as well. Over the years, yoga and yoga-inspired stretches have proven to be the most effective way [...]

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