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I will be up in Baxter between June 28th and July 8th. Im gonna bring along my pack and a positive attitude. Probably some other things as well. My plan is to bang out 25 mile days at the start, then...

Must size up at least 1 to 1.5. I dunno why. This pair I have now have the insoles that came with em. I wear a pair of injinji toe socks with a thin darn tough running sock over the top. I rarely get...

I like shoes with lots of grip and fairly thick soles that relieve the punishment of sharp rocks. I use La Sportiva Mutants at the moment but they arent for everyone. Awesome grip. Dry quickly.

Its open. It will be open tomorrow. Water all over the place up there.

Seems like no amount of planning is ever going to get me on the trail. Always something pushing my start date later and later. I was just reading that the rivers are usually still high and the bugs...

Because I think I want to join THAT bubble. I have to leave later than I wanted to but is June 15th still considered early?

You should sleep more on a boat. I got the best sleep of my life living on a boat. Water slapping against the hull all night. As for backpacking or camping in general a boring book will usually put...

I wouldn't leave my gear unattended just about anywhere! I had all but a tent stolen up in Alaska. It made for a bad situation I would do anything to not repeat. Its the 1% that ruin it for the 99%....

Icebreaker 150 wt. Merino Shorts. 5 inch inseam.

North Face Torpedo Stretch Pants and my hiker boots.

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Sorry to hear about your Sciatic issues. I had sciatic pain really bad for close to 3 years. At one point I wanted my leg to be cut off to stop the pain. Mine started on the lower left side of my...

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Looks good to me. I bet that tea sends cancer cells into hiding and makes a great antioxidant. I drink Rhodiola & Gynostemma 20:1 extracts and if you work with it for a week or so its amazing. Non...

Thanks folks.

Im gonna keep my eyes open for a EE 30 degree quilt. Im not leaving until May. Lots of good ideas, even having 2 different quilts. I can just layer up if it gets that chilly. Done a...

Thats a great looking patch job! Good luck on your thu hike! Next time you may actually want to look at what you buy before you start throwing insults around at people you dont know.

If there were...

So your saying you didn't even look at the tent when you got it? You just sent it back to LHG and paid her to fix it? And then there were lots of patches in it when you got it back. And a hole in the...

Sorry Dishonest????

How big were these other holes you speak of? If you noticed all these other holes then why not just contact me and give me a heads up? Would have been glad to refund you....

The ECWES 3 L3 Fleece looks just like a Mountain Hardware Monkey Man Fleece. The L4 Wind jacket looks pretty nice also at 12.99 Nylon Spandex. If you really hate the colors you could always buy a box...

Normal.... you know... A can of sardines and a few fingers of scotch. Thats when men were men. Could you imagine Lewis and Clark eating pop-tarts and fruit roll ups?

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Ive been off of my day hikes for a couple weeks now because my big toenail turned black and thought it was gonna fall off. its getting better now.

Powdered Milk.....Yum! Cant hardly wait!

A Poptart? Really? I never understood the concept of Poptarts as a breakfast. Its not really a food as much as processed chemicals made to look like food.

But we like what we like. Im 45 and still...

Im never struggling for calories. Hek I am 60 lbs overweight probably. Maybe thats why I never feel like stopping to eat. I dont really know. There's a name for it when your body switches from...

For me it would be a couple bags of cheap oatmeal, a banana, a large pot of hot herbal tea, followed by a couple hand fulls of granola mix with chocolate and about as much water as I could top off...

Over the course of a usual 10-15 miles I take pee breaks so Im not dehydrated. This goes for hiking when its in the 80s or most recently when it was like 10 degrees at the same distance.

Of course not. Im not advocating not eating or drinking while hiking. I always carry water and a bag of trail mix or something but never seem to even want it.

But then again, Ive never done a thru...