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Getting back from a backpacking trip – taking care of your gear

11th June 2016 by Gilad Nachmani

Getting back from a backpacking trip - taking care of your gear

You had a great trip: 3, 4, 10 days out and about getting wet, muddy, wet again, dry with caked mud or dust – normal life on the trail. All that use and abuse (which is exactly what gear is made for) comes with a price tag: it can really ruin your gear. Taking care […]

Filed Under: Gear, Skills Tagged With: Backpacking gear, Cleaning, Gear Maintainance, Maintainance, Outdoors gear

How to fix a simple broken stitch in your gear

18th March 2015 by Gilad Nachmani

A stitsch break on my The North Face Powersretch gloves

When it comes to outdoors gear, there are two main schools of thought: 1. Buy cheap and replace when somethingĀ breaks – very common approach with lightweight gear seekers or when the level of interest in the outdoor recreation is unclear. Here gear is measured in how many days of use you can get from it; […]

Filed Under: Skills Tagged With: Gear Maintainance, Gloves, overcast stitch, Powerstretch, single hitch, The North Face

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