Good luck GreenPete. I am about your age and have hiked all my life. I have hiked a few trails in the region but never a full section of the AT. Now that my daughter lives within a couple of hours or...
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Good luck GreenPete. I am about your age and have hiked all my life. I have hiked a few trails in the region but never a full section of the AT. Now that my daughter lives within a couple of hours or...
I've been known to do things with my equipment that some people will not consider. But if it were my pack, in decreasing order of seriousness I would:
(1) Take the pack to a seamstress and have her...
This is not a good weekend to be hiking the southern 100 miles of the Pinhoti.
1) It's bone dry.
2) There is a large forest fire burning from Adams Gap to the Clairmont area.
3) This is the...
High cholesterol and hypertension are rampant in my family regardless of diet or exercise. I have been taking Vytorin (Vitorin is a misspelling) for many years. I have tried other cholesterol drugs...
If you pack a full sized Bic, that will trump the need for saturated balls every time, even during the wettest of conditions.
The Bic is always ready for as many reuses as needed. Just grip...
I'll bet she went by the name "Trailhead"...:o
Is this how threads become "sticky"? :-?
Y'all have fun this weekend. Bring your mud scrapers!
Let me know if I can be of assistance to anyone hiking the Northern half of the Pinhoti. My teenage daughter and I day hike there occasionally, so we just might be in the area if assistance is...
Seriously - Anyone know where I could get one of these? I think this might be just the thing to get my young nephews to finally spend a night in the outdoors. 18754Yeah, I know, not exactly a...
I appears to me that the packaging might be as much as half of the weight. You could repackage almost everything in there, save a lot of weight and it would take up less space as well. Places that...
Is it a pair of those $25 Snow Peak chopsticks?
Hey clash, jsut curious. How'd you get that trail name?
Be sure and take a zero day and go to Gatlinburg. Stay at the Gatlinburg Inn and ask the Civil War era widow that owns the place to let you stay in the room that "Rocky Top" was written in. At...
I had the same problem last summer with my Thermarest. I tried the tub method, but it required pressure to actually leak.
Here's what I did: I blew the pad up hard, and had my kid sit on it in a...
1) I can't believe no one has mentioned this, but NOC has built a very nice store in Gatlinburg. The place is expensive, but it's a beautiful store. Probably won't be there in 5 years, so go see it....
Darn Lone Wolf. I was so hoping that the term had something to do with the Marshall Tucker Band. In 1982 they put out an album called "Tuckerized". Pretty close, huh?
"From Spartanburg, South...
I fixed a similar leak on mine with a pointed soldering iron tip. Just melted it closed.
Works on cracked hard plastics too if you have a flat tip instead of a pointed one.
I used to live in Atlanta. Unless you know exactly where you are going, don't explore the neighborhoods surrounding the airport. It's not any worse than any other major airport neighborhood, but...
It would be a great job for work-release convicts. Especially the ones that are slightly crazy, but not too dangerous. Slap an ankle bracelet on em’, and hand them a shovel and a backpack. Except...
Sounds like a good plan Mattie.
And don't forget that you can look up med interactions and things like that too.
Didn't you start a thread about clubbing animals for food? You could...
I think there's nothing cooler than a live instrument in the middle of nowhere. What I would give if I could play something...anything! I've tried, but it's just not in my skill set.
A couple...
Some hikers take a luxury item or two regardless of the weight penalty. For me, a tiny ham radio, my phone (Droid X) and my iPod are always with me. They’re non-negotiable. Reread my trail name if...
I work with a man in his late thirties. He hiked the entire AT when he was about your age and still talks about it to this day. How often do we get a chance to do something that inspires us years...
As for the car, there are places around here that will rent you a car by the month (Rent-A-Wreck) for only $150 or so per month. That's less than almost any repair. Sell the car and rent one of...