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Thanks for these comments! The pump and stove are almost brand new. AND when I heard the 'pop' i'm pretty sure it was not even screwed into the fuel bottle. (I was unsuccessfully trying to twist the plunger out while wearing mittens). I'll dig into it and check out those o-rings. And maybe...

yeah i know about that - i didn't have any leak issues though.

Hi I camped out Saturday and Sunday nights off Goose Eye in Maine, in some pretty cold conditions, and my (one-year-old!) Whisperlight was pretty exasperating to deal with. Here's the big question: why does my pump whimp out when it gets really cold? Sometimes when it gets bitterly cold, the...

I usually do the compromise "ditch/branches/tarp" method described above. Mine are generally pretty half-assed. Sometimes I'll dig into a snowbank a bit too (though not too far, lest the thing collapse on me). I'd like to try a gadget like the grandshelters.com block builder but have never...

So, now that I'm a real person with a 'sensible' job and a small child, I really don't do nearly the amount of outdoorsy stuff that I used to. But I still go out of my way to do a winter trip, camping in snowshelters, usually in the little nugget of the WMNF that sticks into Maine, or somewhere...

I recently lost a 'spike through an incompetent effort to strap it to the side of my pack. I felt like a moron when I realized that I only had one spike (having never even put them on my feet on a trip that turned out to have very deep snow). I had been worried I'd have to buy a whole new...

oh - and as one who now spends all my time staring at a computer, Andrew has me beat!

I met this guy on my AT thru hike in 2002. We hiked together for a day or so before he blew by me in Vermont. He was hustling to do the whole trail in just the amount of time his Duke summer vacation gave him - in fact he had to be back early because he said he'd been selected for some sort of...

plus - there are a LOT of moose up there. I found a big fresh antler lying in the mud up there a few years ago in May. If it's mate was there, I'd have packed them out and mounted them on the hood of my car ....

interesting - i will take any info you can give on the mini climate of that region. when i worked at Sunday River, I noticed that if I got the Bethel, ME temp from weather.gov, they actually gave me the temp in Berlin, and it was always a good bit colder than at Sunday River. I've done winter...

Don't you need to build in extra days for this? I always thought they closed the gates to Baxter Park in winter, and you needed at least a day or a day and a half to even hike to the trailhead.

rocked an avy shovel. much of this bivying/trenching/snowsheltering is based in a disinclincation to haul a tent around. though i wonder if much weight/space is saved in actuality.

massive quantities of oatmeal in the morning. also, frozen peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I made at home, granola bars, frozen donuts, cliff bars (kept in an inside pocket, near skin, because they're hard as a hockey puck when frozen), cup-a-soup, and lipton noodles. I think that's it. Need...

the trip reports got me thinking about this - so I'm re-posting here to this busier forum to see what the collective thinking is. My hypothesis is this: to a certain degree, it's easier to stay warm in the outdoors when it's really cold (like 0 or below). You don't sweat nearly as much, sweat...

thanks. i know this is unorthodox, but in some ways, I think it's a lot easier to stay warm on a winter camping when it's really cold. You don't sweat nearly as much, sweat seems to wick away faster, and I also think that it dries faster too. The snow doesn't get you as wet either - I crawled...

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This hike on Caribou, near Evans Notch, was designed to get me out in the recent wave of cold air we had. Parked Sunday evening at the spot on Route 113 where the plowing ends (on the north side). The temp on the bank in Gorham read 8 below at about 8 pm. Spent about 1.5 hours road walking on...

Does anyone know of a place I can get one XL Microspike? I lost one this week on a hike on Caribou Mountain never Evans Notch (fyi, if you go, you don't need microspikes! Snowshoes are fine!). Does anyone have a single for any reason? Since I'm sitting here in the snow waiting for a train that...

did you take them up to vermont to do this? I have some Tubbs snowshoes I got in like 02. I hate them. They would be OK with less sucky bindings, and I later learned that this particular binding design was so unpopular that Tubbs was replacing them for free for awhile. However, I asked way...