[pct-l] LED Hiking Lights, Etc.

Tortoise Tortoise73 at charter.net
Sun Dec 24 16:48:26 CST 2006


the 98.6, keeping your ass alive has directions on making your own 
tinder using big cotton balls and half saturating them with petroleum 
jelly (vaseline).

----------
Tortoise

<> He who finishes last, wins! <>

I switched to Mac OSX rather than fight Windows
Using Mozilla Thunderbird  http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Hiker97 at aol.com wrote:
> A couple of other things I found at  MoonTrail.com that might interest you.  
> They have super light headlamp  coming in at 1.6 ounces with batteries.  See 
> _www.moontrail.com/accessrs/a-hd_lmp/pt_scout.php_ 
> (http://www.moontrail.com/accessrs/a-hd_lmp/pt_scout.php) .   It is the Princeton Scout Headlamp.  They 
> also have some outstanding  pictures of it.  In the narrative it says the LED 
> bulbs last around 10,000  hours.  I did not know that.  REI.com has it as item 
> number  736938.  If you did not use  the strap, the lamp weighs 1 ounce.  You 
> can just clip it on your clothes,  etc.  
>  
> For you folks in the sub  atomic Extreme Ultra Light crowd, I recommend the 
> Princeton  Tec Pilot LED Light.  REI.com item number 715190.   It comes in at 
> .28 ounces or around 9 grams.
>  
> Also,  MoonTrail.com have some emergency tinder to start a fire at  
> w_ww.moontrail.com/accessrs/a-emerg/fire_starter.html_ 
> (http://www.moontrail.com/accessrs/a-emerg/fire_starter.html) .   It is super light at .1 ounce or about 3 
> grams per unit of starter.  I  guess it could be a good thing to have in your 
> emergency kit.
>  
> Speaking of fire, they also have  the Essential Gear Windmill and Delta 
> lighters at super light weights.  See  them too.  I like the bright orange colors, 
> but they are on back  order.  Again, the pictures they have are outstanding of 
> the product  items.
>  
> Your pal, Switchback 
> _______________________________________________
> pct-l mailing list
> pct-l at backcountry.net
> unsubscribe or change options:
> http://mailman.hack.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l
> 



More information about the Pct-L mailing list