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Hello, I'm still an inexperienced backpacker and I'm struggling to find the right sleeping pad.

To recap, for my first trip I went with a super cheap (like 25€) and lightweight pad from Amazon, and it absolutely sucked. It was so thin it was like sleeping on the ground, and I slept 2 hours total.

Then, for my most recent trip to Slovenia I got a camping inflatable mattress, heavy as hell (2kg) but 15cm thick. Slept super well with it, but, weight apart, in the mountains at 10-15°C I was feeling a bit uncomfortable since it has zero insulation.

I started researching, and most youtube videos suggest stuff like the thermarest neoloft, which not going to lie looks amazing but the 250€ price tag is heavy. So, what mattress would you suggest that is comfortable, decently priced and a tiny bit insulated? I know you can't have it all, but I don't need crazy R values as I don't plan of ever going under 5-0°C for the current time being.

What are your suggestions? Thanks!

Hello, I would love to backpack scotland's highland, and I'd wish to see it orange like in sone pictures I see.

However, I've read online that october is an incredibly rainy month, and so I was wandering if the last week of September would be any different, both colour and rain wise.

Thank you for your help :)

Hello, in 6 months I'll start my master's thesis work and I have to come up with an enantioselective synthesis for both isomers of a tetrahydroisoquinoline, chiral on C1.

My plan was to make the dihydroisoquinoline and asymmetrically reduce the imine. I've been searching literature, and it looks like it's done either with a ruthenium Ts-DPEN complex or catalytic hydrogenation with chiral iridium complexes.

Is there any reason I'm not seeing for not using BINAL? It reduces ketones so I would expect it to work on imines, and it's much cheaper. Poor ee with this substrate? Am I missing something?

Hello, in about 6 months I'll start my master's thesis work, and I have to come up with an enantioselective synthesis for both isomers of a tetrahydroisoquinoline, chiral at C1.

My plan was to make the dihydroisoquinoline and asymmetrically reduce the imine. I've searched the literature and it looks like it's done with a ruthenium Ts-DPEN complex or catalytic hydrogenation with a chiral iridium complex.

Is there a reason BINAL-H can't be used? It reduces ketones so I would expect it to work with imines, and since it's much cheaper I was wondering what the drawbacks are, poor ee with that substrate? Thanks!

Hi, I've seen from various sources on the internet (this subreddit included) that there's a bus from Matehuala to Real De catorce by Senda group. However, no trace of it on their website.

Could someone tell me at which hours the bus leaves from Matehuala and from Real De Catorce? Or alternatively where to find timetables for busses inside SLP.

Thanks a lot!