[cdt-l] Tent pick for the CDT?
jonathan at phlumf.com
jonathan at phlumf.com
Mon Jan 15 17:18:00 CST 2007
Be sure to pick up some foam ear plugs... that fabric is really noisy stuff!
-Jonathan
> <html><div style='background-color:'><P>Shaggy,</P>
> <P>I just bought a Gassamer Gear/Tarptent Squall. It's pretty huge. Made
> of spinnaker--supposed to be pretty darn waterproof. <A
> href="http://www.gossamergear.com/cgi-bin/gossamergear/Squall_Classic.html">http://www.gossamergear.com/cgi-bin/gossamergear/Squall_Classic.html</A><BR><BR>Miss
> you!</P>Treehugger<BR><BR><BR>
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> From: <I>cdt-l-request at backcountry.net</I><BR>Reply-To:
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> <I>cdt-l at backcountry.net</I><BR>Subject: <I>cdt-l Digest, Vol 39, Issue
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> pick for the CDT? (Andrew Rivers)<BR>> 2. RE for sale (Adam
> Bradley)<BR>> 3.
> News from the Gila (Mike DiLorenzo)<BR>> 4. Re: Soaking Food Instead of
> Cooking (Heidrun Kessler)<BR>> 5. Re: Tent pick for the CDT? (Kenneth
> E.
> Baldrey)<BR>><BR>><BR>>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>><BR>>Message:
> 1<BR>>Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:14:01 -0500<BR>>From: "Andrew
> Rivers" <funkwithoutjunk at gmail.com><BR>>Subject: [cdt-l] Tent
> pick for the CDT?<BR>>To:
> cdt-l at backcountry.net<BR>>Message-ID:<BR>>
> <6fb4bfb50701131814r31e0e413oa0c039cb40713607 at mail.gmail.com><BR>>Content-Type:
> text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<BR>><BR>> Just a
> couple weeks ago I decided to do it, to hit the CDT<BR>>this year with
> the F-Yeah troop. I can not wait. I wish the best to<BR>>everyone on
> the CDT this year!<BR>> I'm looking into a new tent, wondering what has
> worked in the<BR>>past
> and what hasnt worked. I myself spent a Summer in CO, and know<BR>>what
> happens in CO at night in the Summer. Its a beautiful thing
> when<BR>>your in a cozy tent, and the rain and thunder pound the ground
> beneath<BR>>you, the lightning lights up the sky. Its amazing.<BR>>
> But the tent I had in 2003 in CO was a Kelty Clark, which was
> a<BR>>great tent, but I have outgrown it, now that I'm 6'4" its hard to
> find<BR>>a tent thats not too cozy! It was also heavier than I want to
> carry<BR>>now.<BR>> On the PCT last Summer (from Mexico to Tahoe), I
> carried a heavy<BR>>mountain hardware tent. I need something lighter
> now. Everyone loved<BR>>the tarptents on the PCT but how well do they
> do in the rain?<BR>> Any reccomendations would be great. Thanks much!!!
> --Shaggy
> Sticks,<BR>><BR>><BR>>------------------------------<BR>><BR>>Message:
> 2<BR>>Date:
> Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:54:36 -0800 (PST)<BR>>From: Adam Bradley
> <tooloouk79852 at yahoo.com><BR>>Subject: [cdt-l] RE for
> sale<BR>>To: pct2006 at yahoogroups.com<BR>>Cc:
> cdt-l at backcountry.net<BR>>Message-ID:
> <437187.61529.qm at web90405.mail.mud.yahoo.com><BR>>Content-Type:
> text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1<BR>><BR>>For
> Sale:<BR>><BR>>?Mountain Laurel Designs Soul Bivy
> 125.00<BR>>?Swiss Gear trekking poles 20.00?no shock/black/
> w<BR>>cork grip<BR>>?Lunar Solo(w/heavy floor) 150.00<BR>>?2 X
> essence packs One 50.00 the other 60.00<BR>>?Garmont Vegan size 12
> 40.00<BR>>?Montrail Masai size 13 30.00 (new in box)<BR>>Timex Helix
> 30.00<BR>>Ridgerest ? 10.00<BR>>Keychain LED 2.00 (new in
> box)<BR>>Therma Rest Guidelite (full size) 20.00<BR>>Granite Gear
> Virga (hip belt cut off) 20.00<BR>>Hennesy Hammock Ultralite Backpacker
> A-Sym
> 90.00<BR>>Leatherman Micra 10.00<BR>>2X Large Polycryo Groundcloth
> 3.00 (new in box)<BR>>Omni Seal Map Case 11x15 2.00<BR>><BR>>?All
> products used but in excellent shape. I am<BR>>able?to provide photos
> etc. ?None of these prices<BR>>include the shipping. If you
> are?interested email me<BR>>your zip code and I can give you a?price
> including<BR>>shipping. I also use paypal. There will also be
> a<BR>>small addition of the Paypal fee. Won't be?shipping<BR>>out of
> US so sorry ??Thanks
> Adam?<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>>____________________________________________________________________________________<BR>>Don't
> get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast<BR>>with the Yahoo!
> Search weather
> shortcut.<BR>>http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather<BR>><BR>><BR>>------------------------------<BR>><BR>>Message:
> 3<BR>>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:44:05 +0000<BR>>From: Mike DiLorenzo
> <dilorenz at hotmail.com><BR>>Subject: [cdt-l] News from the
> Gila<BR>>To: <cdt-l at backcountry.net><BR>>Message-ID:
> <BAY114-W2E04690F0F9F8C0231629C2B50 at phx.gbl><BR>>Content-Type:
> text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<BR>><BR>><BR>>Camper Rescued in
> N.M. After a Month<BR>><BR>>By THE ASSOCIATED
> PRESS<BR>>Published: January 14, 2007<BR>><BR>>Filed at 9:08 p.m.
> ET<BR>><BR>>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A camper who became stranded
> nearly five weeks ago in a national forest because she could not cross a
> swollen river was rescued Sunday, more than two weeks after the search for
> her was called off.<BR>><BR>>A New Mexico National Guard crew waded
> across the icy Gila River to rescue a dehydrated and weak Carolyn Dorn of
> South Carolina, who entered the Gila National
> Forest alone on Dec. 6 for a two-week camping trip.<BR>><BR>>Two
> brothers found her Friday evening while hiking, said search and rescue
> coordinator Frankie Benoist of Silver City.<BR>><BR>>''They were
> walking along the river and heard a call for help,'' she said. ''They
> would not have seen her if she had not called out. By that time she was
> very weak. She is extremely lucky.''<BR>><BR>>Dorn was too weak to
> cross the river, so the brothers left food, water and wood for a fire and
> went for help, Benoist said. It took them a day to hike out and contact
> rescuers, who called in the National Guard.<BR>><BR>>''We needed a
> large helicopter ... one with night vision and a hoist, and we also needed
> a medic on board because of her condition,'' Benoist
> said.<BR>><BR>>Dorn was hospitalized in Silver City and should be
> fine, Benoist said. Her condition was
> unavailable.<BR>><BR>>Dorn, who travels often to Silver City, had
> planned to camp for two weeks. But five days into her trip, it rained and
> snowed and the Gila River rose, trapping her, Benoist
> said.<BR>><BR>>''The river got big, as she put it, so she did not
> want to cross it again,'' Benoist said. ''It had become too dangerous and
> also she did not want to get her clothes wet and get hypothermic. By the
> time the river went down, she had run out of food and was starting to get
> weak.''<BR>><BR>>Dorn had a tent, a sleeping bag and enough food and
> water for two weeks. After she became stuck, she drank from the river,
> kept warm by building fires and ''used very little energy,'' Benoist
> said.<BR>><BR>>Temperatures have dropped into the low teens
> overnight in recent weeks, according to the National Weather
> Service.<BR>><BR>>Dorn's car was spotted 2 1/2 weeks after
> she left and reported to authorities. Benoist said her group conducted an
> intensive search, ''but we never considered that she traveled so far''
> into the forest.<BR>><BR>>The search began Dec. 24 and ended Dec.
> 26. On the third day, after a large group of searchers with all-terrain
> vehicles, dogs and horses failed to find any clues, the search was called
> off, Benoist said.<BR>><BR>>The National Guard used coordinates
> provided by the hikers to fly to Dorn's camp 20 miles northeast of Silver
> City, said Chief Warrant Officer Dave Burrell.<BR>><BR>>The crew
> headed out Saturday night, but bad weather grounded the helicopter for
> about five hours in Las Cruces, Burrell said. The crew reached the forest
> about 5:30 a.m. Sunday and used night vision goggles to spot Dorn's camp
> near the river in a steep ravine, Burrell said.<BR>><BR>>He could
> not land the helicopter on her
> side of the river, so the crew lowered a medic, Staff Sgt. Greg Holmes,
> into her camp.<BR>><BR>>Burrell then found a place to land across
> the river.<BR>><BR>>Burrell, Holmes, Sgt. Ian Weigner and Maj. John
> Fishburn carried Dorn across the knee-deep river while a second pilot,
> Chief Warrant Officer Race Baker, waited. They then flew to Silver City
> with Dorn, who was dehydrated and hypothermic, Burrell
> said.<BR>>_________________________________________________________________<BR>>Get
> into the holiday spirit, chat with Santa on
> Messenger.<BR>>http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/santabot/default.aspx?locale=en-us<BR>><BR>>------------------------------<BR>><BR>>Message:
> 4<BR>>Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:19:07 -0800<BR>>From: "Heidrun
> Kessler" <Xkanuck at hotmail.com><BR>>Subject: Re: [cdt-l] Soaking
> Food Instead of Cooking<BR>>To:
> <cdt-l at backcountry.net><BR>>Message-ID:
> <BAY114-DAV107E296FF5B36B2F6768A1AEB50 at phx.gbl><BR>>Content-Type:
> text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<BR>><BR>>Re Francis Tapon
> query<BR>><BR>>Sorry to be so late in responding to the thread (just
> got off a 2 week Wilderness First Responder course)<BR>>Re the soaking
> time, for couscous: it is less than one hour. On Te Araroa, in New
> Zealand, besides the couscous, I ate cold instant potatoes. Since I
> brought along a variety of my own spice mixes and other concoctions such
> as dried fruits for the breakfasts, peanut hearts, coconut chunks and
> dehydrated fish (doesn't need soaking), it wasn't nearly as dull as it
> sounds. I would recommend you simply buy stuff and experiment ~~go with
> whatever appeals to your palate. I once cooked up a huge mash of brown
> & white rice, 6 different kinds of beans including black bean,
> added some spices and then dehydrated the whole mess and came up with
> something that resembled "dirt"( which is what I named it) that can be
> eaten dry or soaked~and it weights practically nothing. I always carry
> some of it as my emergency backup now. Try dehydrating canned jellied
> cranberry if you like chewy sweets that serve a dual purpose. Have
> fun!<BR>><BR>>Not too sure about that peanut butter jar cooker
> though...<BR>><BR>>Heidrun<BR>>-------------- next part
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> 5<BR>>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:53:51 -0700<BR>>From: "Kenneth E.
> Baldrey" <keneb at adaes.com><BR>>Subject: Re: [cdt-l] Tent pick for
> the CDT?<BR>>To:
> <cdt-l at backcountry.net><BR>>Message-ID:
> <2A831A09D23FA04B8AF6C9DE3014B15D064227 at adaesex.ADA-ES><BR>>Content-Type:
> text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<BR>><BR>>We're not too equipment
> oriented on this list, probably just about any<BR>>ultralight tarptent
> or lightweight backpacking tent will work for the<BR>>CDT. My personal
> favorite has been a Stephenson Warmlite with a big<BR>>awning I added
> for a couple of ounces.<BR>><BR>>-----Original
> Message-----<BR>>From:
> cdt-l-bounces at backcountry.net<BR>>[mailto:cdt-l-bounces at backcountry.net]
> On Behalf Of Andrew Rivers<BR>>Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 7:14
> PM<BR>>To: cdt-l at backcountry.net<BR>>Subject: [cdt-l] Tent pick for
> the CDT?<BR>><BR>> Just a couple weeks ago I decided to do it, to
> hit the CDT this<BR>>year with the F-Yeah troop. I can not wait. I wish
> the best to
> everyone<BR>>on the CDT this year!<BR>> I'm looking into a new tent,
> wondering what has worked in the past<BR>>and what hasnt worked. I
> myself spent a Summer in CO, and know what<BR>>happens in CO at night
> in the Summer. Its a beautiful thing when your in<BR>>a cozy tent, and
> the rain and thunder pound the ground beneath you, the<BR>>lightning
> lights up the sky. Its amazing.<BR>> But the tent I had in 2003 in CO
> was a Kelty Clark, which was a great<BR>>tent, but I have outgrown it,
> now that I'm 6'4" its hard to find a tent<BR>>thats not too cozy! It
> was also heavier than I want to carry now.<BR>> On the PCT last Summer
> (from Mexico to Tahoe), I carried a heavy<BR>>mountain hardware tent. I
> need something lighter now. Everyone loved the<BR>>tarptents on the PCT
> but how well do they do in the rain?<BR>> Any reccomendations would be
> great. Thanks
> much!!! --Shaggy
> Sticks,<BR>>_______________________________________________<BR>>cdt-l
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