http://www.backpackgeartest.org/
Excellent reviews and tests of hydration systems, packs, stoves, filters, etc, etc. Worth a bookamrk, IMHO
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How someone who hands out fare cards from behind a piece of bulletproof glass is worth $55k a year is beyond me. Nonetheless, NYC mass transit is at a standstill until they get their labor problems taken care of. How do you suppose folks are commuting? I was there for the last strike and remember seeing trucks full of people paying money just for a ride across the Brooklyn Bridge. Moral: if youre dependent on someone else for your transport, you are at their mercy.
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Im telling ya, a couple zip ties, some paracord, and a small roll of duct tape in you rbag turns you into McGyver…zipties (aka ‘cable ties’) are cheap, tough and damn handy. Stick a few in the bag and a few in the glovebox. You wont regret it.
Zipt ties & duck tape = 20’th (or is that 21’st?) century baling wire & chewing gum. 🙂
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had to walk that bridge to get back and to work, even in the winter. the bus didn’t run that way, and the cabbies charged double fare, back in the 30’s. how wimpy new yorkers are these days.
throw in some hot glue stiks and a bic lighter to complete your kit.
merry xmas, ho ho ho !
When a one bedroom apartment rents for about 1,500 a month, 55K/year does not go very far.
You can’t be MacGyver without the Swiss Army Knife. And gum, gotta have gum.
Zip-ties are the buisness–I’ve even used them to add a layer of chicken wire on top of a chain-link fence, and they actually worked really well (if ugly).
The only thing I would add is that they break much easier in sub freezing weather. Only an occasional problem in Texas but not Montana….
I would suggest that Super glue or JB-Weld would be good to add as well.
And 550 cord, usaully wrapped around something like a ruck frame.