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Come out to one of our things and I'll stick a light meter in front of them and score some numbers. I've got a pair of cheap-&-stinky 16-LED cubes on my JK right now and still haven't measured the output.

Hiking to me means established trails like the BMT, AT, Graveyard Fields, things in the national parks and off the BRP. Rocky and often muddy. My backpack is a an Osprey Kestral 38 and rarely exceeds 20 pounds. And a long day for me is 15 miles ---- 5-10 is normal. There are big differences...

We hit the rockiest steepest trails we could find over the long weekend and I'm very happy with these. I got them soaking wet, muddy, and subjected them to sharp rocks and steep slippery scrud. No problems at all. Tossed them in the laundry when we got home last night, good as new and ready to...

Looks interesting. My experience with boots that use EVA for the midsole is that it won't hold up to my bulk. At 6'5" and a solid 240 pounds, I usually tear it apart quickly. EVA likes you to be 160 or less. But Danner might use better EVA than Merrell/Keen/Lowa, etc. And it doesn't seem to...

I agree. REI dude is who steered me to the minimalist shoes I use most of the time; I never would've tried them without his advice. As for you though, give the Keen Durand a try. They're much wider than most other boots, tough, supportive. They're what I wear when I need that degree of boot.

Just got a pair of New Balance MT10v4 trail runners from REI for $56 (half price). All they had left was size 14 ---- for once it worked out for old bigfoot... They fit great. We'll be hiking this weekend and I should be able to put 30 or 40 miles on them between beerfests at the campfire...

I'm in my mid-50s, 6'5" @ 240 pounds, and have an athletic build. If I were to wear those Power Ranger pants in the last couple of posts I'd look like some some sort of super hero wannabe. It's bad enough that most of our "outdoor" gear makes us look like park rangers ---- that I can live with...

Wow. Contact them and show them ------ they've been very responsive with all of our input so far. I'm sure they'd like to know how that happened.

I'm not wearing anything that's not a legal Scrabble word. So that leaves Snickers.

Shovels make great wampum sticks. A good axe does too. I like lights, btw... ...bit of a flashahaulic.

Makes it easier to find that wampum stick you got in there.

Cool, Matt. And since you actually work in EMS (seems like half our group is either LEO, EMS, or military), you can give us some pointers.

I think that one of you guys with better skills should tweak the photo. Give her a really long tongue or something. Have Harry Potter (or Scott Brady) grabbing that extended arm...

I took part in an ARES exercise recently where the scenario was a complete dispatch coms failure in the county. They set me up as the dispatcher in the EOC, used a runner from the 911 call center, and I dispatched to our repeater and then via mountain-top relays to our two most remote fire...

Cool carts. Pricey but they really look like they're designed to work. I was checking some of them out on the website and something about one of the photos didn't look right. Or maybe it looked too right... Are my eyes off or does this kid have two right feet?

I bet jscherb could build one of these. But better. I'd like to hear from him about the viability of a kit.

I don't care one way or the other if it's "tacticool", hippy, native American, or what-have-you..... I need a boot that fits, first and foremost. Then I'd like it to be flexible so that I have clutch and ground feel. And durable. I haven't seen any other Danner boot that has a wide toe-box...

Danner only makes one boot that remotely interests me. http://www.danner.com/catalogsearch/result/?sortId=relevance&q=tachyon Everything else is clunky.

Much better price too. The more expensive version is probably better though....

Ha. I just got off the phone with a very pleasant Scottish woman from LEMS. I had ordered a pair of the Boulder Boots in all leather: https://www.lemsshoes.com/mens-boulder-boot-leather-russet/ They had a sale... I ordered the 48 and it doesn't fit. Dang. The Mariner II in a 48 fits...