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If it's cold enough you can count on snow cover and the ground and water to be frozen, Steger mukluks are hard to beat. Nothing else as warm will be so light.
I was skeptical when I ordered mine (Quetico Talls), and the look takes some getting...
How do you have them laced?
Start with the lace looped through the protector (a.k.a. kiltie tassel), with the loop in front, ends behind. Lay the protector into the boot, between the bottom eyelets. Pull each end through the first eyelet on the boot. Go in from behind, and come out the top...
I've got a pair of Hoffman's Pro Series Outback's (with the ankle strap) that I've had for 8 years or so. I ordered direct over the phone, because I had asked for some custom changes, which Hoffman were happy to do.
When I was on the phone with them, they told me the Pro series/thins tend to...
I have a recurring problem with SAK's and multi-tools: whenever I find a "Goldilocks" tool in the range, they discontinue it!
Case in point: by far the most ideal SAK I've found is the 74mm Executive. Enough bigger than the 58mm knives to be more useful, but still disappears in a pocket like...
MSR has made good liquid fuel stoves for many years. The problem with them is that they haven't updated them in many years. You see guys on forums like this that are quick to tout how great their stove has been working for the past 30 years. The point that gets missed is that for someone who...
Good old fashioned coal is starting to become available again in some places for use in tent stoves with higher energy density than wood. Certainly not common, but out there if you look for it. There might be some options there, if you can find a good way to package and transport it. I don't...
Hi JP100,
I like how you listed your units. I work with a Kiwi expat and some Dutch guys, and we joke about mixed units all the time. At work we sometimes buy NZ exports, but we rarely ship to or travel there, otherwise I'd try to help.
For a canvas tent in high winds, the Springbar design...
Old thread, but I can answer the OP's question.
Snowtrekker uses a custom 7 oz/sq. yard canvas that is exclusive to them and David Ellis Canvas. I've handed and slept under that canvas; it is very high quality and tightly woven. They also use Easton aluminum tubing for their frame. Both...
I don't have any experience with the specific shelters you're asking about, but I do have experience in the Boundary Waters. I've been there every year for the past 10, some years 2 trips per year. The past 2 years, I've been on October trips, but never with a stove. I've been in with groups...
That MSR Sweetwater SiltStopper works fantastic. I bought one when I bought a pump filter about a decade ago. My cousin bought the same pump but didn't get a prefilter. Using them basically side by side, my pump's cartridge lasted twice as long as his.
Now sadly they've been discontinued for...
If you watch the bicycle websites, it sounds like funding for some bicycle trail projects was included in some of the spending spree bills passed at the federal level over the last couple of years. Some was "greenway stimulus," and some was just earmarks for specific projects. There appeared...
Considering that ice fishing season is in full swing right now, I assume the OP has already bought something. However, I've done plenty of cooking and melting snow in ice fishing hub houses, so I'll share my thoughts.
I definitely agree that you want a liquid fuel stove for ice fishing...
You're clearly way more up to date than me.
We were last looking at fly-in in 2019, but ended up paddling out and portaging the Grand Portage instead. Obviously we all know what happened after that.
We had rented canoes from Canadian Border Outfitters (who does/did fly-in outfitting) on...
I was talking exhaust side, where the turbine is transferring energy from the hot exhaust flow. More heat is better there, until the materials can't handle it.
Intercooler is after the compressor, on the intake side. There you want the increased pressure, but the engine can't handle too much...
Sure, you can only flow so much volume of air through a turbine housing, but if you heat the air and raise its pressure, it spins the turbine wheel faster, which spins the compressor wheel faster, which feeds the engine more, making more heat, and so on. In a diesel, if you back off the pedal...