High Mountain Lake Patrol

A Fobus? I thought you MT folks wouldn't wear anything but leather!!!!

Say, you're probably not too far from my friends at Shiloh in Big Timber. Everytime I stop in there, it costs me more money!!!

Thanks for sharing! I'll be in your neck of the woods in a couple weeks.
 
thanks gents

cheftothestars said:
So what does your job entail?
Are you just looking for whatever seems out of the ordinary?
I didnt see communication gear, do you go solo?

Stunning area you work in!
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basically hoping to influence compliance w/ licensing and regulations- I'm happy to report the handful of folks I checked all had licenses and were well within their limits of fish

definitely looking for out of the ordinary- unfortunately there are a few who are bent on robbing all of us of our resources :(

solo- communications are nightmare, I'm going to be looking into a SPOT or something along those lines

http://www.findmespot.com/en/index.php?cid=102



kgd said:
Fantastic, thanks for sharing! I'm impressed at your self discipline on the 4-d food supply.
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the pack choice definitely forced my hand there :D I actually ate pretty good, breakfast was granola w/ powdered whole milk and dehydrated blueberries and a couple of nutragrain bars (coffee of course :)), I ate two mojo bars a day for snacks, lunches are pictured above and suppers were 2 serving size dehydrated meals- nothing extravagant to be sure, but not too bad either
 
Quirt said:
A Fobus? I thought you MT folks wouldn't wear anything but leather!!!!

Say, you're probably not too far from my friends at Shiloh in Big Timber. Everytime I stop in there, it costs me more money!!!

Thanks for sharing! I'll be in your neck of the woods in a couple weeks.
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Fobus is only for backpacking; leather is the order for all other duties :)

Shiloh is a great outfit- super nice folks who build super nice rifles (wish I could afford one :D)
 
You are a fortunate man indeed.
Thanks for sharing.
Seeing the doc tomorrow about knee pain.
Afraid my hiking days may be over.
Makes posts like yours really appreciated.
Thanks again.
 
Lazydog1 said:
You are a fortunate man indeed.
Thanks for sharing.
Seeing the doc tomorrow about knee pain.
Afraid my hiking days may be over.
Makes posts like yours really appreciated.
Thanks again.
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blessed indeed- no doubt

best of luck w/ your knee; if works it out that you can still hike I'd definitely recommend looking into trekking poles. I ordered a set for my wife a couple of years ago as she suffered from knee pain when hiking (especially long downhill stretches)- they helped her immensely. she let me try hers out on a trip and within a couple of hours I was sold and ordered a set for myself- they definitely save some wear/tear on the knees (and you can see above- pretty handy for setting up a shelter too :))
 
One more question.

Can you run through your kitchen

list the items and where you got them.

Is there a homemade lid on the snowpeak or a commercial one.
Either way its a great little set up.

Trekking poles look very handy too with the tarp!
 
cheftothestars said:
One more question.

Can you run through your kitchen

list the items and where you got them.

Is there a homemade lid on the snowpeak or a commercial one.
Either way its a great little set up.

Trekking poles look very handy too with the tarp!
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certainly :)

it's a SP 450 mug, SP small spork, the lid is made by fourdogstoves he doesn't have them on his site (he makes them for other pots/mugs too), but will soon

the stove is also a new stove from fourdog- he'll be getting it up his site soon as well- it's called the "mini cooker"

it comes w/ a small stand, a esbit holder and a alcohol tray (I've never used alcohol, for cooking anyways :D)- the windscreen w/ the addition of two stakes will burn wood as well- everything is constructed out of titanium

in the small 450 I could nest the winscreen, the pot stand, esbit holder, 6 esbit tabs, spork and mini bic, put the lid on and secured it w/ a rubber band

the entire kitchen (minus the esbit tabs which weigh 0.5 oz each) weighs 5.9 oz

couple more pics of the set

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I would burn esbit in the evening and then I would blow out the remaining- in the morning I'd remove the pot stand and just use the windscreen w/ stakes- light the remaining esbit and then add wood to boil water for my coffee

worked pretty slick

burning esbit here

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^ the trip was about 40 miles (w/ several big elevation gains/drops :))
 
Nice set-up and beautiful country. I see you have a Patagonia Houdini jacket, just picked-up one myself, a great piece for the lightweight enthusiast. Not a robust jacket, but fine for generally decent weather conditions.
 
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