u/wetrocke

How long (give or take) does it take a glacier to form an alpine cirque?

How is this estimated?

Among products rated about 40F, there is a 2-3 oz average weight advantage held by quilts over sleeping bags. This increases to 5 oz for 20 F products and further widends at lower ratings.

The info is from AI, after asking it series of questions. It's based (plausibly) on data from about half-dozen makers.

It sounds reasonable, and includes (?) an ounce or two for headgear, in cases of hoodless products.

Personally, I might use a quilt in hot weather. If cold, zippers, draft tubes and collars for me!

[note: mods at UL declined this post]

So Ray Jardine says, on his current web site, that categorically, quilts are lighter than sleeping bags at comparable temp ratings. In his influential 1999 book "Beyond Backpacking," he backed up this assertion with added detail.

Mr. Jardine currently sells a kit for a 50F-rated syth quilt listed at 1.5 pounds. Enlightened Equipment sells a syth 50F quilt that lists at about 14 oz. Possibly, the EE product has less loft than RJ's.

But regardless, comparing several of the "best" (most costly) current brands of (down) quilts and sleeping bags (with zippers) don't seem to bear out Jadine's assumptions.

Feathered Freinds:
Hummingbird 30F bag: 601.01gr
Flicker 30F quilt: 635.029 grms

Western Mountaineering
Monolite 38F bag: 368.544 gr
Nanolite 38F quilt: 371.379 gr

Sea to Summit
Spark 45F bag: 362.874 gr
Ember 45F quilt: 422.408 gr

At least among these three, "apples-to-apples" comparisons, bags are somehow lighter than quilts.

Quilts in warm weather look more comfortable than bag in warm weather, assuming they're on a clean surface like tent floor or ground sheet. But "save weight with a quilt" might be wrong?

[note: mods at UL declined this]

So Ray Jardine says, on his current web site, that categorically, quilts are lighter than sleeping bags at comparable temp ratings. In his influential 1999 book "Beyond Backpacking," he backed up this assertion with added detail.

Mr. Jardine currently sells a kit for a 50F-rated syth quilt listed at 1.5 pounds. Enlightened Equipment sells a syth 50F quilt that lists at about 14 oz. Possibly, the EE product has less loft than RJ's.

But regardless, comparing several of the "best" (most costly) current brands of (down) quilts and sleeping bags (with zippers) don't seem to bear out Jadine's assumptions.

Feathered Freinds:
Hummingbird 30F bag: 601.01gr
Flicker 30F quilt: 635.029 grms

Western Mountaineering
Monolite 38F bag: 368.544 gr
Nanolite 38F quilt: 371.379 gr

Sea to Summit
Spark 45F bag: 362.874 gr
Ember 45F quilt: 422.408 gr

At least among these three, "apples-to-apples" comparisons, bags are somehow lighter than quilts.

Quilts in warm weather look more comfortable than bag in warm weather, assuming they're on a clean surface like tent floor or ground sheet. But "save weight with a quilt" might be wrong?

If this post gets deleted I'll understand but i have a couple of questions & here goes:

I fish very regularly (cnr mainly) in six (actually 8!) states that are mostly pretty close together ( new england & etc). Sometimes I buy "out-of-state" licenses, & sometimes not.

Usually, my fishing is very casual and brief, frequently amounting to 15 minutes on a roadside while traveling & focused on other matters.

Almost never at "destination" fishing zones and have never (in many years!) had game warden ask for a license. Twice a local police officer made me move my car citing parking. 'Though eager to have me leave a zillion-dollar estate neighborhood & knew I was there for fish, checked drivers license but did not ask for a fishing license.

So, has anybody seen local LE "doing" state game laws? And how often are state game officers encountered?

Aventik co. recently emailed me and said they'd send me a free tenkara rod to "test." (That I barely know how to fish is beside the point.)

The email included links to some interesting Aventik gear & I said sure. They replied with a link to where I can buy Aventik stuff.

I'm not going to engage more with them on this. Has anyone received similar emails and actually gotten anything free?

The company's products are fine and am deeply skeptical of paying more than maybe $50 for any Tenkara rod. I own two Aventik tenkara rods, like them, and may soon buy a third, thanks to the "free" offer.

It doesn't even bother me if Aventik's customer service and marketing departments consists entirely & soley of a chatbot with poor English skills. But I don't wanna miss out.

About a year ago, I contacted them concerning section replacements on their tenkara rods (can't be done, I guess). A similar circular & idiotic correspondence ensued.

This is a HYPOTHETICAL question, but who would get the money?

I dimly remember that when mutal banks (owned by depositors) get acquired, it's slightly a scandal in that the "owners" get burned.

Maybe a business-lawyer type has an opinion? Given the supremacy of "property rights" in USA, I assume that with enough lawyers, REI could (hypothetically be sold, but dunno. I don't expect it will happen.

Maybe am somehow wrong, but looking at Western Mountaineering and Feathered Freinds, comparable bags and quilts for each brand seem to show no weight difference. If anything, the quilts are heavier by a few grams.

But among typical reasons offered to prefer quilt is their alleged lighter weight, vs sleeping bag.

Did anybody ever succeed in influencing a state trout stocking program? How?

Here in a small, northeastern state X, where state is fairly active with trout stocking.

At least half of the stocked creeks in my part of state (not pennsylvania) don't support trout after July.

So, there's this other creek that's BETTER than that half, but not stocked. I think I wrote to local TU a while ago.

I'm shopping mainly for ease of travel, backpacking and frankly, also concealment in "multi-state" situations. So I'm looking for something that collapses to shortest-available length.

Aventik seems to have reduced the number of sections (by one) on its 9-foot rods. This makes its collapsed length longer. For my purposes I am undecided on length.

The 9-footer I have is fine for brooks ( my interest). But I'm considering going to 7, & even thought of six feet.

About 1980 an acquaintence acquired a very nice Bianchi road bike. About this time I became aware of Italian dominance in aspects of bike-making. His bike seemed to fit this idea fine.

Twenty years later in a rush, I bought a discontinued model of Bianchi, a road bike, for girlfriend. I later realized this item was considerably down-market. Bad experience.

Nice older models, but sometime after 1980, like campagnolo, they lost their way.

Seem well-proven in roughest weather, sometimes preferred over dome tents. Am wondering how much of their virtues are purely generic, vs defined by brand, materials & etc. Tunnel tents have a storied past, starting maybe in 1950s. (Gerry tunnel tents of early 60s).

Hillenberg brand today seems by far most mentioned. Nallo 2-p is 2 kilos $1,030.

Warmlite, makes a 2-p tunnel tent, about 1.5k $1,300. Design is from 1960s.

Black Diamond "Mission" 2-p 3.9k $1,300. Design is recent.

Naturehike Daban 2-p 1.5 k $139. Generic- looking & probably, not a bad tent!

In a raging antarctic storm, I'd pick the Black Diamond tent. Fortunately that won't happen.

In "reality," the Naturehike, if any of them, looks plausible. Naturehike and black diamond, in many ways companies that are "poles apart," are both relatively transparent regarding their tent materials.

Hillenberg and Warmlight both use "secret sauce" language about their materials, making apples-to-apples needlessly difficult.

Verlen Kruger, who paddled 100,000+ miles, used a single-bladed paddle.

If it's so good, why not much more common? Certainly he "knew" what he was up to and had choice of paddles.

His boat design I guess is a "covered canoe" that may accomodate kneeling. But has kayak-like seat, I think...(not sure).

But double seems more secure, because one or other blade is always effectively in a brace. [An instructor once explained theory, if any blade is in the water you can't (or shouldn't need to) flip.]

Skiing x-c here since 1971-72 winter. Always on old waxed skis. Purely from necessity this past season, I mostly used somebody's old pair of fishscales. Not at all as bad as imagined!

So very roughly guessing, 20% of the maybe 40-50 days that I skied on the fishscales, waxables would have been significantly better. [On 6.5% (??IDK) of days, the fishscales were "better."]

If I switched to "skin skis," would these guesstimates be unchanged?