>I’d personally want a warmer bag than 30% at that time of year. I’m thinking about one of those Enlightened Equipment Accomplice quilts, but I’m not sure if 20 is low enough…or 10. Our current quilt is a Thermarest Vela rated 32F, which I don’t think is gonna cut it ..read more

Piezo elements should last, theoretically, a hundred or more years.  For example, here is a video where engineers tested a common backyard grill ignitor.  After 110,000 ignitions, the spring broke.  They replaced it, and the piezo kept working.  Ultimately, the testers gave up trying to make it fail.    A backyard grill ignitor doesn’t go in and out of storage, move around, and deal with the rigors of backpacking use, but if the lighter on your stove fails, it has to be a design flaw, alteration of the unit through use, or a manufacturing issue.  For a c ..read more

At one point in time Roger determined the Boss canisters were 70 propane and 30 butane. That would make them ideal for brave souls going hammock hanging in -30 degree temps..think “Shug” Sean Emery ..read more

A loop back to South Lake over two nights seems hard to conjure. The good news is that the area  around Dusy basin is spectacular. You could easily keep yourself entertained day hiking for two days. I’d  personally want a warmer bag than 30% at that time of year ..read more

We’re saving most of the info for the launch, but the first version is a woven fabric, doublewall. So yes it would have a separate inner and fly ..read more

For general summer use in the west I have a 30F comfort rated bag. As a rule thru September (which this could be called) I bring that. But I would also be able to switch to my shoulder season setup if the forecast is unseasonably cold You can day hike over Thunderbolt Col and back via Knapsack. Moderate off trail stuff Or bag a peak. Mt Sill is a 14er and arguably the simplest of the big ones in the Palisade group. A medium to tough day from Dusy, depending on your background ..read more

Hey Now.  Really helpful to hear from those with experience. Thanks AK and Herman. I’m pretty sure I know the experts suggest 3 sets of clothes, 100 yard LNT triangle, and bear can.  Im happy to do that and I want to know something from those with experience.  And please keep the summer education sessions going! I do the same on trial when I can ..read more

Cost of manufacturing the canister to withstand the pressure is what caused the American company to withdraw it from the market. ;) Curiosity impels me: where (URL) does this information come from? I would love to know. I can imagine that this might be so, but every other canister vendor has had to deal with those costs, and has done so successfully. Of course, if mfr A can spread those costs over 1,000,000 canisters while mfr B has to spread those costs over just 10,000 canisters, I can see that B might have a problem. Cheers ..read more

Dan, will the X-Dome have an inner that is separated from the fly or integrated to the fly ..read more

researching this important question further :) in the picture above it says butane/propane mix – so that’s probably not pure propane but in the video dan-y posted on page 4, when he put the canister in the freezer and let it reach temp, then took it out and put a stove on it, it ran just fine.  freezers are 0F.  even isobutane has a boiling point of 11F so there must be a lot of propane in the canister it’s just that that canister doesn’t look as sturdy as the standard one pound propane bottles.  That makes me question that it’s really 100% propane. I wonder what one of the Boss ..read more