new fun!!!!

msr miniworks water filter
marmot 'never winter' 30 degree down bag
or snowline mitts
sierra designs portable attic for sirius tent
msr 4l dromlite bag

the water filter is super-easy to use & maintain. no tools required. i was relieved to get to the end of the instruction manual in only 6 tiny pages! it works really fast too. screwed it onto a nalgene, had it full in less than a minute. tested the new bag 2 nights ago when the low was 31. maybe if i hadn't been on a second-story porch it would have been nicer but my face was really cold all night. the rest of me was warm inside the bag but i came back inside at 2am. i'd say the bag was perfect. weighs under 2 lbs, compresses to probably half the size of my winter bag and is gonna be a good friend in the desert....
this weekend i'm going up to the whites. the ringer. probably solo unless j wants to go too. won't be taking the new bag! hopefully i'll get snowed on. yesiree.


"Too bad they don’t know that the struggle of the twenty-first century started here, a tiny creek in Death Valley." - erik gauger on pupfish in death valley