Camping and Backpacking GEAR thread

Well... Here's your photos. A caption with each...

Site #36 from the road. Nice big space. Good job! (Bike not included!)


Your very own bear box. Standard issue. Use it! Rangers will confiscate any food left out. Depending on which division, you just say sorry. Others will fine you!


Side view of #36, and your dining room AKA picnic tables. Nice roomy space, no immediate neighbors.



And probably my fave, the view from the dining room. Yes, that's Half Dome!

 

Holy shit you're the best! I was hoping for at least a partial Half Dome view, and I've got one! Thanks a ton!

 

http://bfy.tw/5oTY

 

Do you live in Yosemite NP? Jelly for sure. My grandparents live in Oakhurst.

I like camping in Toulome Meadows when in Yosemite, or Lodgepole when in Sequoia.

 

Just outside and west of Oakhurst. My husband works for NPS and I volunteer for just about everything. I happened to be in Yose today for SAR Short Haul training (helitack off El Cap!)

 

Yep member there too

 

I never heard of a Beckett hitch, looked it up, I knew it as a sheet bend.

 

While the two are similar they are not the same.

 

I've always understood a Sheet bend to involve two free/loose rope ends and a Becket hitch to involve one rope and one fixed eye loop, either rigid or flexible.
Could be wrong, though. Been about 15 years since my last Boy Scout meeting, lol

 

Just ordered an ALPS Mountaineering Taurus 2 Outfitter Tent for solo (maybe dogs) backcountry canoe trips. I've had really good luck with the Taurus 5 version of same make/model on truck camping & bird hunting trips. I've been very impressed with the quality & value of their products.

http://www.amazon.com/ALPS-Mountaineering-Taurus-Outfitter-Tent/dp/B00UOAT91M

 

3.4 oz for two straps that I left full length (12 ft, with the short end/ratchet removed, so call it 10 ft).

They're poly and haven't stretched yet.

The only difference I can see is that they're 1" the whole way instead of two different widths...and they were $3.

 

By the way, if you guys weren't a sailor, in Scouts, or if it's been a while, do yourself a favor and learn the bowline. I get more mileage out of that knot than any other. It absolutely won't slip, but it's easy to undo. It takes up relatively little rope to tie, and does the job every time. I can even tie it one handed, thanks to a one-arm leader we had in our troop. The only downside to a bowline is that it's not adjustable after it's tied.

I hang out with a lot of good 'old boy farmer-types and it's fun to watch them tie 5 redundant overhand knots to, say, tie a paddlefish up to a boat. A couple inches of paracord and 10 seconds and I have full confidence that 65 lb fish isn't going anywhere.

But knot discussion is probably better kept out of the gear thread. It's its own topic for sure.

 

Nonsense. Knots go with gear like jam on toast.

 

yea they do. If you don't know your knots you'll end up on the ground with all your gear on the road behind you

 

This may not mean much to most of you but this is the one day I wait so eagerly for!! Loading up and ready to roll in the morning! GoPro charging and ready to get some clips of the ride!

 

All I can think of Chief Brody in Jaws learning to tie a bowline. Best I could find...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOXCtLB5Ksk

 

For all of you who Backpack, what sort of dehydrated food do you pack?

Do you dehydrate your own or buy the prepackaged sodium bombs....ie Mountain House, Backpackers Pantry, etc?

 

Mountain House here but not brand bound if backpackers pantry is on sale I'll pick some up

 

I do my own. I can't stand the taste of that prepackaged crap!

 

Both, ish. I'll bring my own dried stuff and also a couple of packs of Mountain House in case I don't have any luck fishing.