Gear talk

Can anyone recommend a brand of trail shoe for wide feet?

Um - my wife and I always travel with our tramping packs, with no problems, and what we do is:- 1. Not go through the USA, especially Los Angeles - too stressful! 2. Get all the straps ...

If anyone has a decent amount of skill at fabricating things you might want to look into the eCHS system that tetkoba created. You have to piece together how to make it from the various videos ...

See my review of etrex 20 and mr purples topo map for it: http://zoneblue.org/cms/page.php?view=etrex-20-review You dont need to buy maps for it, as the free ones are excellent.

Im rather young and have no knee issues etc, but I started using poles and notice Im falling over less, downhill sections are less treacherous, and my knees get less jarred etc. Im alk for them ...

I have the Tararua map from these guys and it seems ok but I only carry it as backup and print off the required map area from http://www.topomap.co.nz/ This allows me to have the route ...

Yes. How many Wayno….. :-)

The zpacks guy used his own design tent. Here's the link: http://zpacks.com/shelter/altaplex.shtml It sounds as though he had no regrets with his choice of model. We have a relatively flimsy tent (Montbell Hexagon) and this means ...

Good find, thats the stuff

These are the guys: http://www.altberg.co.uk/product/jungle-microlite-mod-brown/ Would be perfect is the mesh was a bit more breathable. But alas, can't have everything. Can always use a pin to make more breathable ;)

Cuban? Besides the obvious durability issues with nz bush, make sure you get some ear plugs and forget about using the stuff for hunting.. rustle rustle rustle haha

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Thank you all very much for your help. I will have a go at putting it up tomorrow and let you know if I have any more questions.

Hilleberg Enan: 870g is the "minimum" weight, which does not include pegs, spare pole section or other repair materials. (I presume it does include the attached guy lines, though they do not explicitly say so.) The ...

My brother has that one but he's away on a trip at the moment.

I use one of these chargers, yes they are not cheap but you can charge 1, 2 3, or 4 at a time and that can be a combination of AA & AAA. It has ...

Hmm. Boot lottery time again. My last Meindl Engadin (Makalu with leather lining) fell apart this weekend. Started to fail at about 40 days, and died around 60. That's all off track work, probably 50% ...

All of the central Westland country about the Cropp's distance from the main divide can get very heavy rain. Thankfully on my Cropp trips I've missed torrential rain though back in 75 on arrival at ...

are they actually lighter? Theve been around for a long time but Ive always considered them a gimic

No worries - I've lost one of mine as well for the same reason. They're very easy to thread back through if yours do turn up.

I suppose that's right, trout in particular have a notoriously weird diet. It would have to be dead mice that fall into the water, I don't some trout launching itself kamikaze fashion at some mouse ...

Thanks all for your comments

Surely that would only be an issue with Arc'teryx pants? :-)

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I jotted a few thoughts about the Garmin Etrex 20 GPS with NZ topo data here: http://zoneblue.org/cms/page.php?view=etrex-20-review If you are thinking about talking the leap into mapping gps's for tramping use, then this writeup might help....