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  1. Kmrtnsn

    Sad End to This Cautionary Tale, As Folks Start to Head Back Out Into the Wilds, Pls Be Careful

    You know what’s at the end of Gold Valley Road? A spring.
  2. Kmrtnsn

    Sad End to This Cautionary Tale, As Folks Start to Head Back Out Into the Wilds, Pls Be Careful

    It was NOT sensible in any meaning of the term. How about you take a look at that valley on Google Earth and follow the terrain down to Mormon Point?
  3. Kmrtnsn

    Building a Plywood Deck Plate in the Back of your JKU

    Very nice! Great electrical hide! Did you retain any access to the under for storage and any plan to extend over the folded seat?
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    JKU Trail Kitchen build....

    Curious why you didn’t use the three-way 8020 corner brackets?
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    Sad End to This Cautionary Tale, As Folks Start to Head Back Out Into the Wilds, Pls Be Careful

    “Water the one thing all life needs. Living or being in the desert you need to consume much more water then you would near the high humidity areas in the world. Yesterday our humidity at out house was 12% in the afternoon. With living working and playing in these conditions you need to have a...
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    Potable Water Can?

    This thread. https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/pressurized-scepter-jerry-can-faucet-and-shower.76944/page-2
  7. Kmrtnsn

    Sad End to This Cautionary Tale, As Folks Start to Head Back Out Into the Wilds, Pls Be Careful

    None. Besides, too big, too heavy, too limited in use.
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    Sad End to This Cautionary Tale, As Folks Start to Head Back Out Into the Wilds, Pls Be Careful

    Pelican makes some small battery powered strobes geared around diving that are nice and inexpensive. I’d also check Streamlight and Surefire. Search “helmet strobe Velcro” and you should get some results for a few different compact strobes too. Cheap, tiny, micro-lite...
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    Sad End to This Cautionary Tale, As Folks Start to Head Back Out Into the Wilds, Pls Be Careful

    Here’s the Nat Geo map. Compare the depictions of the Willow Creek Trail, Gold Valley and Gold Valley Road between the three.
  10. Kmrtnsn

    Tire Air Compressor?????

    An ARB twin has been mounted under my hood, getting the job done for seven and a half years.
  11. Kmrtnsn

    Potable Water Can?

    the are two Scepter 20L containers, the military version and the civilian version that is trapazoid shaped. If buying Scepter, buy the military cans (2 for $80 on Amazon) And search the forum here for modifying a cap for pressurization. If you‘re cheap, the Reliance 7Gal containers sold at REI...
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    Sad End to This Cautionary Tale, As Folks Start to Head Back Out Into the Wilds, Pls Be Careful

    Go to the link I posted a few pages back and zoom in to get a real idea of the topography! The first map I posted was from the Harrison map of Death Valley, the $9.95 maps commonly sold at REI. Somewhere around here I have a Nat Geo map, like the ones sold at the Parks gift shops. When I...
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    Sad End to This Cautionary Tale, As Folks Start to Head Back Out Into the Wilds, Pls Be Careful

    I recently got the most up to date version of the California Gazetteer from DeLorme, this is what it shows,
  14. Kmrtnsn

    Costco (WaterPORT) 8 gal / 30 L water tank -- pressurizable, rooftop-mountable -- $280

    Somewhere around here is a great thread on modifying and pressurizing the caps of the 20L Sceptre water cans.
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    Sad End to This Cautionary Tale, As Folks Start to Head Back Out Into the Wilds, Pls Be Careful

    having spent a bit of my life sitting in the open door of a helicopter or pressed against a bubble window looking down at things there two things that fit in a pack, take little room, and make finding you so much easier. One is modern version of the old panel marker. ITS Tactical makes some...
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    Sad End to This Cautionary Tale, As Folks Start to Head Back Out Into the Wilds, Pls Be Careful

    One thing I have learned is that looking up at terrain is always deceptive, with false summits, a poor understanding of actual distance, etc. looking down from up high presents the same problems. Even the best detailed topo maps omit things like rock outcroppings, deep cuts, and the true...
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