Eric & Dani Siegel's Family Website
Our Camping Equipment (with reviews)
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| Packs | REI Mercury (Eric's pack) Kelty Coyote (Dani's pack) REI Comet (Josiah's pack) Camelback Hydration Pack (Josiah's old pack) |
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| Tents |
Sierra Designs Sirius 3 (trashed) |
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| Other Shelters | Integral Designs Siltarp 8'x5' | We got this to use as a kitchen shelter during bad weather. Fortunately, we haven't had to use it yet. I chose this tarp because it can be pitched using our trekking poles as supports. Also makes a nice lighweight emergency shelter. |
| Sleeping Bags | We started off with the 2 coleman fleece liners. They are great for warm weather and they also unzip all the way to become big blankets. In our quest to get something a little more cozy for when it gets chilly at night, we got the 2 North Face Allegheny bags, which are good down to 40 degrees. Like the Colemans, the Allegheny bags unzip all the way to form big blankets for when it's really warm out there. |
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| Sleeping Pads | Yeah, this thing is a monster weighing in at just over 10 pounds, but it's so darn comfortable. The best thing about this mattress is that it's thick enough to cover up any rocks or roots that might make for a bumpy night. It is heavy, though, and we've been thinking about swapping it for a few light Therma-Rest pads instead. | |
| Blankets | Eagle Creek Comfort Travel Blanket | This is Josiah's warm weather blanket. What's nice is that it also doubles as an extra pillow by folding up into itself. |
| Seating | 2 GCI Outdoor Packseats |
We started off with the 2 pack seats and the tri-lite stool. However, to save weight we got 3 of the Thern-a-Rest seats. As it turned out, the Therm-a-Rest seats proved to be much more versatile and useful than the stools. The stools that we got, however, are of good quality and I would totally reccomend them to anyone looking for a camping stool. |
| Stoves | Jetboil Personal Cooking System
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The Jetboil personal system has proved to be the most useful stove for us. It can pretty much do everything we need. It boils 1 cup of water in 1 minute. The Jetboil group system is for cooking larger meals, and is just as cool. The Snow Peak Giga Power stove is great, and we would use it for more traditional cooking needs, such as cooking some fish or something. Ditto for the MST Pocket Rocket. All of thes stoves have piezo ignition systems (which is very handy) except for the the MSR. All of these stoves use the isobutane fuel canisters, which run around $4 a piece and last for quite a long time. |
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| Dry bags & cases | Pelican 1020 Case OR Hydroseal Dry Sack #3 |
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| Hygene | ||
| Tools & Knives | ||
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| GPS & Navigation | Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx | The Garmin 60Csx is totally badass. We got the additional software that has maps of the national parks, so now we have detailed mappings of all trails, campsites, elevation and just about anything else you can think of. The city software is cool as hell too. Not only do you get detailed streetp maps of all U.S cities, but it even shows you restaurants, gas stations, malls and ton of other stuff. I little expensive, but definately worth the extra money. |
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